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Originally Posted by Gailh
IIt's funny but I never think of her as a trail blazer. Probably because she makes so little fuss herself.
Gail
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I know! It's strange. Here she was, playing heavy rock in the early seventies, part of a band that opened for the likes of Deep Purple and Savoy Brown, and people rarely acknowledge it.
I remember VH1 (was it VH1?) did its 100 most inluential women in rock. Christine was like 71 or something. I thought What! Outside of singers, women had virtually no place in rock before her. She also wrote her own songs--something few women did before, Carol King and Bonnie Bramlet being notable exceptions.
But she wasn't merely a singer-songwriter, or a chick singer, she was a band member. And a great player, too.