Psychedelic Criticism
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| Jimmy Page and Keith Richards |
Hard rock is male. It’s aggressive. And people who like rock love me because my voice is the voice of rock. I love hard rock…
Keith Richards is the founding father, as Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, of a lot of this hard core stuff. Now, in the 70s I didn’t particularly like Heavy Metal, but I feel that Heavy Metal is preserving the rock impulse. And the rock impulse is always a breaker of taboos.
So I love the bad boy image of rock, and I think the aggression of rock is everywhere in my work. What I’m doing essentially is a kind of lead guitar work. Okay. I think I’m the first great lead guitarist as a woman, but I’m using words, and not the instrument.
And I was heavily influenced by acid rock—that searing, cutting sound of the lead guitar. So people, again, who like rock love me. People who like soft, woman’s music hate me. They think “Oh, she’s sooo obnoxious.” But what I have is simply the obnoxiousness and brazenness of rock!
Bob Costas Interview
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