#Kathy Valentine

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The Go-Go's (c. 1984)

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“Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.” (David Guterson): the late Marilyn Dean & Kathy Valentine, drummer & guitarist of The Violators, Austin's 1st (?) punk band, here at Randy's Rodeo for The Sex Pistols show in San Antonio on Jan. 8, 1978, as captured by Tom McMahon.

austinchronicle.com/ :"When The Violators and the Skunks invade Raul's, fourteen days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar…", [before a crowd of no more than maybe 50 or 60, since a 100 was a big crowd at Raul's at those first shows.] "The Violators were very young kids," says [The Skunks'] Blackmon. "Marilyn was like 16, Kathy was 16, Carla was probably 21. Jesse was probably the best musician in that band, off the top of my head. Carla was good. They were just kids playing fast English punk music. Those were our influences at that time." "It was mainly people who didn't seem to know what to make of cute girls playing guitars and drums," remembers Valentine. "More than the music, it was the fact that we were female that they had no reference for. The only females in Austin doing this played fiddle – Marcia Ball was the only real musician in a band. Everybody else played fiddle or sang or were folk people." "…More than anything, it was the shock of the new. The Violators were mostly young, attractive women playing loud, fast, Sex Pistols-meets-Ramones punk. And they were doing this in a Tejano bar on the Drag, in a town musically ruled by Cosmic Cowboys and white bluesmen. Everything was changing. You either changed with it, or you opposed it. There was no room for the lukewarm…."

Marilyn & Kathy met in high school & quickly became best friends, the teen kind that does everything together: as Kathy Valentine recalls, they started bands, went to clubs, met boys and dreamt of big things in life, even moved out to LA together in 1978 but as it so often happens in life, they drifted apart after a falling out. Kathy later went on to play bass in The Go-Go's and sadly Marylin Dean passed away in recent years.

Photo & info via Tim Stegall's 'Austin Punk Chronicles' at austinchronicle.com.

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And they say we’re in a swag recession…

The Mountain Goats with Kathy Valentine

[rnurder-one]

I called her Kellogg. Like the cereal. I always give nicknames to people I love. Kellogg sugar frosted flake. I worked hard at deciding what to wear onstage. Kellogg threw on a tee shirt and jeans and was instant rock star. 24/7 she was instant rock star. She never, ever looked like she should be doing something else other than ripping on guitar.

Kathy Valentine, from Kelly's memoir.

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The Go-Go's photographed by Annie Leibovitz on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, August 5th 1982.

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Bass players: Kim Gordon, D’arcy Wretzky, Gail Ann Dorsey, Kim Deal, Carol Kaye, Kathy Valentine, Sean Yseult, Tal Wilkenfeld and Rhonda Smith.

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Janette Beckman (British b. 1959, lives and works in New York), The Go-Go’s, Los Angeles, 1980. Archival pigment print. 

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Sparkstember Day 12:

What if the collab of Cool Places and Lucky Me, Lucky You had blossomed into a full-on Go-Go's/Sparks collaborative LP??

Ladies and gentlemen-- I give you-- G·G·S!

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@realginaschock On this Day: March 6, 1982 our @officialgogos debut album Beauty and the Beat hit number 1 and stayed there 6 weeks 

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The Go Go’s

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Happy Birthday to Kathy Valentine, songwriter, guitarist, bass player, for The Textones, The Blue Bonnets and The Delphines, but best known as a member of the legendary Go-Go’s. Born in the rock 1/7/1959. KathyValentine

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Kathy Valentine , Charlotte Caffey & Jane Wiedlin

[izzylimon]

Look, I love dark and disturbing music, I also like energetic, vibrant, colorful, pop rock music from the 80´s, just give it a listen and don´t judge me!! 😂🤣 🤘★🎸🎧⋆｡ °⋆🌈📀 ♬ ₊.🎧⋆☾⋆⁺₊🎸🔥🎶✮⋆˙🤘★🎸🎧⋆｡ °⋆🌈📀 ♬

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Go-Go’s - Beauty and the Beat (1981)

Forty-three years ago today, on July 14, 1981, the debut album by the Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat, was released. Supported by its two hit singles—“We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed,” that hit number 2 and number 20, respectively—the Go-Go’s debut was a monster success. The album reached the top spot for both albums and cassettes on the Billboard chart in March of 1982, where it stayed for the next six weeks. Selling more than two million copies, it is not only one of the most successful debuts of all time, but also one of the best albums of the 80s and a cornerstone of American new wave.

[rnurder-one]

From All I Ever Wanted (2020) by Kathy Valentine:

Kelly moved in with me. We could match each other pint for pint, smoke for smoke, snort for snort. I had the sturdy resilience of European peasant stock, and Kelly was an Amazon. She had long fingers, forearms, femurs, tibiasas if all the bones between her joints had been given an extra stretch for good measure. Returning from a night out, arms around each other's shoulders and holding each other up, we would crash into my apartment, collapsing on the floor or sofa. Kelly possessed an androgynous, effortless sexuality. She would look at you with sleepy eyes, screened by long swooshes of bangs, and a feline indifference, making her even more appealing. One plastered night, we lunged at each other and made out until the laughing made us stop. I figured if I couldn't ditch my hetero preferences to have wild, drunken sex with Kelly Johnson, I probably should stick with guys.

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The Go Go's - Belinda Carlisle