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Revolution Without Guns Part 1

by Burning Bush

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If you were going to compile a list of "forerunners of the Riot Grrrl movement," it'd be a pretty short list, even for one spanning twenty-some years. Poly Styrene...The Slits... Au Pairs... The Raincoats...Bush Tetras and...oh yes, don'tcha despair, Phoenix, you do have one band to add to this elite list.....Burning Bush!

They were poppy, they were punky but always kicking ass with a sense of purpose. Thomascyne Ryther (guitar, vocals), Denise Tanguay (bass, vocals) and Audrey Creed (drums) came together in 1987 and pretty much stood alone for all their time in this music scene.

While there maybe a tendency to overemphasize the political bent of the band (after all their band name could be interpreted as a wish to burn then-sitting President George Herbert Walker Bush in effigy), Denise argues, "I think (politics) is only one facet of who were are. All of us have always been opinionated in certain areas and that's shaped the lyrics. Mostly they're song about friendships and personal relationships, it's not just one side of everything."

According to Thomascyne, now living in Portland, "Revolution Without Guns" was very much influenced by the fall of the Berlin wall which occurred one month after my daughter was born. I was really blown away and caught up in the sight of it and of people taking bricks and pieces of it away. I was overjoyed by how much people want a good and free life and how the force of that want brought down a wall that had existed my entire life, seemingly impregnable, now a symbol of how we must open our eyes for possibility to become real. And for once no shots were fired."

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released January 17, 2015
Recorded at Chaos Recording Studios in Phoenix by Johnny Belluzzi

Thomascyne Ryther (guitar, vocals), Denise Tanguay (bass, vocals) and Audrey Creed (drums)

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