The documentary included footage of early shows by Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, and interviews with Beat Happening and Nirvana. In her first year at Evergreen, Tucker made a documentary about women in music. That's it for me - I'm going in a band, right now.'" The result was the band Heavens to Betsy. …For young women to be doing that, basically teenagers on stage, to be taking that kind of stance, that kind of power, was blowing people's minds. It was February 14, 1991.It was the first time I'd seen feminism translated into an emotional language. Tucker said, "I was 18 when I went to a show that Bratmobile and Bikini Kill played. She was also exposed to the music scene in Olympia. In 1990, Tucker attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she studied film, political economy, and social change. Her first concert was to see the band X in Eugene around 1987. Her other musical influences include the Soundtrack from The Wizard of Oz, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' I Love Rock 'N' Roll, The B52's, Pat Benatar's Get Nervous, Television's Marquee Moon, and Bikini Kill. Tucker says she "grew up on the Beatles" but that "her mind was completely blown" when she heard R.E.M.'s album Murmur when she was eleven. In high school in Eugene, Oregon, she was in a band with friends called This That. She began studying piano when she was twelve. Her father is also a folk singer and musician. There, her father was a college professor and her mother was a medical technician. Tucker was born in State College, Pennsylvania and spent her childhood in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Įntertainment Weekly writes, "Corin Tucker’s place in rock history is already set in stone, and her work in the riot grrrl era is pretty much peerless, thanks to the muscular guitar style, otherworldly wail, and knack for punchy, pounding three-minute blasts she brought to such great heights with riot queens Sleater-Kinney." Rolling Stone called her “a punk-rock heroine." In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Tucker at number 155 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Tucker is also a member of the alternative rock supergroup Filthy Friends, and previously recorded with the indie rock group Heavens to Betsy and The Corin Tucker Band. But it was found money, so I had no regrets.Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. In retrospect, the MusicMaster amp would have been the wiser acquisition, with DVD-Audio dying a relatively quick death not too many years later that DV29 was decidedly not the best $3k I ever spent in audio. I bought the HeadMaster and an Arcam FMJ DV29 DVD-Audio player, both of which I still have. Once back in NY I did what any card carrying audiophile would do and visited my local dealer to see what looked/sounded good. I put a $20 bill in a $5 slot machine right after walking in, and hit "Max Bet" which was 4 lines x $5 = a $20 pull. We decided to go to the casino to end the night as it was right next door to the Hilton we were staying in. It was 2am local time, 3am NY time (I had flown in that morning) and already been out to dinner with clients, then to the Sunday Night Football game between the Saints and Panthers at the Superdome. The story of my acquiring the HeadMaster preamp began in the then newly opened Harrah's Casino in New Orleans. What a great amp that MusicMaster, a real keeper. If you can live with tubes and a little less power I'd still go that route. If it must be SS - the Sugden A21 is the bomb. The AN OTO SE I bought over the A21a for around the same price too and I don t think there is much of a horserace here (again if 8-10 watts is enough). So I probably give the slight edge in sound to the A21a but at $2k more money it is less justifiable IMO and perhaps with better tubes than stock the LM 211IA may sound better. I like the ambiance and richness in the voice band on the LM amp but the Sugden has a more neutral sound throughout. Although this is better here but not better there sort of thing. Not that having been said there are some tube amps that I now prefer to the Sugden A21a, The Audio Note I-Zero I reviewed is $2400 (the new Sugden is $3500) so if you can live with 9 watts per channel I think it is a better sounding amplifier. In fact the A21a was my go to recommendation for amps under $3k. Why? Because it sounds great and once you start paying considerably more for an amplifier then Tube amps take over as sounding much better than SS. The A21a is probably the only Solid State amplifier that I would consider buying.
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