hey all you haters. i've never been one to be called a feminist, but if you're a girl and you walk into a big guitar store, you will soon find out that the people who work there pay you a whole lot less attention and certainly give you a lot less respect.
and i did a ladies rock camp this summer, which was a fundraiser for the girls rock camp, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. a lot of times you just need to do something like that to see kind of how easy it is to write a song, because the whole process just sounds intimidating. our camp was one weekend - met on a friday, wrote a song on saturday, played a concert on sunday, and it totally ruled. i met a drummer there who is in my band now, which i never would have had the guts to start if i hadn't gone to that camp. the empowerment thing isn't about "i can't believe i'm a girl and i'm doing this - i rock," it's just more of the doing something for yourself aspect that's empowering. i only started playing bass in march and i actually have a band now. i'm still in disbelief.
here's the article in the ny metro about my camp weekend this past summer.
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/artic...rock/3705.html
i'll continue to support the girls rock thing because it's something i wish would have been around when i was little, because i can't do a damn thing with the gymnastics i learned.