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Pagan Babies were a short-lived American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed by Kat Bjelland and Courtney Love c. late 1985. Bjelland, who later became the frontwoman for the successful rock band, Babes in Toyland, and Love, who later became the frontwoman of the successful alternative rock band Hole, had already been members in an unsuccessful project, Sugar Babydoll, who were based in Portland, Oregon and played a similar musical style to the Pagan Babies. The band only lasted a few months, and only in their career played two shows at house parties, which were described as little more than "hanging out and having fun." ==History== The band formed c. late 1985 and like all Bjelland/Love incarnations was formed by both Kat Bjelland and Courtney Love. Love sang main vocals while Bjelland focused on lead guitar and backing vocals. Soon after their formation, the duo recruited Janis Tanaka to play bass, and through Tanaka found a drummer/pianist, Deirdre Schletter. The band soon began rehearsing in friends' bedrooms, and played numerous covers and some originals during their jam sessions. Love and Bjelland's shared apartment in San Francisco became the Pagan Babies' rehearsal space. It was here that they recorded a demo tape in December 1985. Aside from the band's four main songs, "I See Nothing," "Colder Than Me," "My Angels" and "All Roads Lead to" were also written, though only may have been embyronic lyrics written by Love. The band then began performing live shows, although only lasted long enough to play two. The first show was in a friend's bedroom where they played electric versions of their songs, as opposed to the second show, where they played in a friend's living room with acoustic guitars. It was later described that both shows, and the rehearsals, were just about "getting together and screwing off". During their post-show period, Bjelland then began writing songs inspired by hardcore punk band Frightwig — some of which would later become Babes in Toyland songs — a band introduced to Bjelland by Tanaka's boyfriend at the time. Love, who was determined to conserve the band's new wave and dream pop-inspired sound, was not impressed with the new material and subsequently, an internal feud developed within the band. The night Love left the band, she was noted as saying "you're never going to get anywhere playing that punk rock noise."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bernadine.eu.pn/paganbabies.htm )〕 After Love's departure, the band disbanded and the remaining members became the short-lived Italian Whorenuns. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pagan Babies (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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