I recently learned of some exciting news. I will be receiving a Spirit of Silver Lake Music Pioneer Award at the Silver Lake Film Festival in May. Here's the blurb from the website:
2007 Silver Lake Film Festival Spirit of Silver Lake Music Pioneer Award - Alice Bag
Saturday, May 5, 2007- Jensen Rec Center Studios. In recognition of her continued challenges to the male-dominated worlds of punk and rock, Silver Lake Film Festival is honored to present Alice with the 2007 Music Pioneer Award.
It's amazing how a simple appeal to my vanity could convince me to go against my better judgement. All they had to do was dangle a shiny "award" in front of me and I just started walking towards it, like a burro towards a carrot. Yes, I will be performing a mini-set with Lysa Flores and some guest musicians. The set will include songs from some of my past bands, including one or two Bags' songs. This is the first time that I'll be doing any Bags' songs in over 20 years because they are giving me an award after all and one does not receive awards every day. My only request was that they move my venue from Spaceland (which is 21 and over) to an all-ages venue. If I'm going to break my own rule about not performing Bags songs, I'd rather do it for an audience who might actually enjoy it than a potentially disinterested audience of older club goers who've seen it all before. Not to say Spacelanders are jaded, but no one ever dances there. Not even Keith Morris.
30 years ago, who would have imagined that John Doe, Keith Morris and Alice Bag would be getting awards for being upstanding citizens and role models? I guess you can add punk rockers to the list of things which get respectable if they last enough, right alongside politicians, ugly buildings and whores.
5 comments:
Congratulations Alice and that is so great that you held out for an all-ages venue. I can't wait!!!
Hi. When I read from your Blog that you would be at the Silver Lake Film Festival performing, I looked at their website and saw that it was more than just that; the award is well deserved and LONG overdue! I haven't been able to figure out how to buy a ticket from the website for this particular event, but I'm going in person to their office this weekend and getting my ticket! I can't wait to see you back on stage. Again, congradulations! -Louis Jacinto
Yay, can't wait to see you, it's been a long time since you were out, congrats on the award, going to be a nice trip, huh? Have a wonderful trip to France. Love ya, A.
Hey, remember that "Punk Rock Quincy" episode circa 1981? I remember Quincy lecturing the kids about how the hippies "worked their butts off" to make the world a better place, but of course the hippies weren't looked at that way at the time (see for example Didion's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"), and now I here people talking about the old punks the same way. Well, I guess it's true of some of them.
I can't believe you're actually going to do a Bags song...Finally! You're the best!!!!
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