Jules Shear wrote this one, in the voice of a man trying to puzzle out his girlfriend (“if she knew what she wants, I’d be giving it to her”). They sing a chorus of “I Fought the Law,” segue into “If She Knew What She Wants.” We decided to become The Bangles and keep singing four-part harmonies. This never happened before! This is a very good sign. And much to our surprise, as soon as we started to sing, it came out in four-part harmony. On a cold January night way back in 1981, in California, this great state, in the garage of my parents’ house in Los Angeles, we met for the very first time there, in this garage…So we’re sitting around trying to get to know each other…we decided to sing some old songs from the Sixties we like. Peterson’s guitar is the sole accompaniment, apart from snaps and claps and stomps. “Snap your fingers! clap your hands! stomp your feet!” Vicki Peterson exhorts the audience, which, as the papers often report, is greatly composed of teenage girls. Midway through the set, they do a regular bit: The Herstory of The Bangles. Even the vocals, always their core strength, are frayed. The second of September 1989, at the Redwood Amphitheatre in Santa Clara, California. “It’s just an overall feeling I get sometimes.” I don’t want to belittle that in any way.” No, our label didn’t force “Eternal Flame” down our throats-I wrote “Eternal Flame.” “People kind of lump us and then push us to the side: ‘Oh yeah, they’re an all-girl band, isn’t that cute.’ …We have a tremendous number of Bangles fans out there who really appreciate what we do. No, we do write our songs, and those we cover are by songwriters we like. She’s said variations on this for nearly ten years. And it’s sort of annoying, to be honest.” We’re like in the strange all-girl-band category. “People can’t really view us in the same breath as Guns ‘n’ Roses or U2 or even female artists like Suzanne Vega and Tracy Chapman. “We’re lumped into some kind of weird category,” she tells the reporter, Steve Appleford. She’s asked about The Bangles more precisely, as she often is, she’s asked What The Bangles Are. Her band, which got a #1 hit earlier in the year, is cracking apart. Late August 1989: Susanna Hoffs sits in a hotel room in Kansas City, doing a phone interview.
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