Report: More Mothers Are Starting Garage Bands

[matcom]

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School is over, dinner's been cleared, everyone's homework is done, and Suzie Riddle is anxious to get to the garage to practice with her band. When her five friends show up, she plugs in her amp and they run through a ditty called "Pick Up Your Socks."

A song about a teenager with a nagging mom? Actually, Ms. Riddle is the nagging mom, and her bandmates are also fortysomething mothers. The 42-year-old librarian put together the band, Frump, with women she knew from church and her local Montessori school, and now it's a hit on the Dallas community-event circuit with a punk version of "Mommies Are People" (sung by Marlo Thomas in the '70s) and a song called "Vasectomy."

There's a new wave of garage bands featuring Mom on guitar, Mom on drums and, on lead vocals... Mom. In Westchester County, N.Y., Housewives on Prozac has recorded two live albums and has a song called "Eat Your Damn Spaghetti." San Francisco's Placenta (formerly known as the Lactators) rages against deadbeat dads. Moms even have their own festival: Last month, MotherLode Trio of Garrison, N.Y., and other bands were showcased at a three-day arts festival in New York called Mamapalooza.

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[Wickerman]

1. Your MOTHER rocks harder than you, dude

I love it!

[Quahog]

2. I LOVE this!

As an old rocker dad who regularly embarrasses his kids with his guitar hystrionics, I am STOKED to see the moms getting on the band bus!

"Eat Your Damn Spaghetti." That is just too cool.

[MissMillie]

3. MotherLode Trio

I LOVE IT!!!!

[Pithlet]

4. That's great!

I can think of some other song of my own very quickly.

"Put that down!"
"Quit pulling his hair"
"No, you can't put your shoe in the oven"

[Squeech]

5. Yeah!

One of my colleagues, not even as old as I, got to play a mixer at some ritzy private school, and observed all the young whippersnappers looking at him quizzically. So he went up to the microphone and said, "Yes, it's your worst nightmare-- your dad has a rock band!"

[tigereye]

6. all right!

I was going to call my band Tired Old Parents, or The Hags.

nothing like we boomers... or we old punks!

[Squeech]

7. Just call me Boomer Bassist

Another friend of mine wanted to start a band called BABOOM. It was an acronym: "Bunch A Burned Out Old Men."

[ChickMagic]

10. My brother in law

is the drummer in a band called "Baboon". Okay, back to the topic.

[SarahB]

8. Not in my neighborhood.

I wish there were other moms like this. They're all boring. :boring:

[tigereye]

11. deep inside them no doubt is a strong desire to rock,

SB. Or do you live in a Stepford Wives nieghborhood? Shudder. I have seen a few of those in my travels.

[FatSlob]

9. Are they MILFs?

Lechery...

[tigereye]

12. hey hey hey!

actually I heard an actor use that term on Jay Leno. I made the mistake of googling it... boy was that a mistake. Yuk.