february's in artists
Galvanized Three Chicks and a Rogue
With Dahlia behind the mike and the bass, Lori rocking the guitar, Lori T. manning the drums, and Rob Rogue on keyboards, Galvanized, originally named for Ikea shelving units, is ready to blow your mind. Catch them on one of their many gigs downtown, but meanwhile you can listen to an MP3 of their song fix8tor.
in-nyc club editor Gabrielle Cyr recently was able to ask the band a few questions.
Gabrielle: How did the band get together?
Dahlia: I had just finished an art project and was searching for a new activity to occupy my time and my thoughts.
Lori P: A friend of mine said, "Hey, these girls are starting a band, you should join." I had just started playing and thought there was no chance in hell they'd want to talk to me. Then, I found out everyone else was just starting, too.
Lori T: March of 2000, one of my friends was involved with planning Lady Fest East. She knew Galvanized was looking for a drummer and knew that I was a drummer. I went to one of the rehearsals and we clicked. I remember being utterly surprised at how comfortable I felt with the band and with the music. I was really nervous about playing with new people but it wasn't an issue at all.
Rob: I met GALVANIZED through a mutual friend of ours from a band I was in earlier this year. I heard them pack the house at Acme one night and got a personal show at Gordon's recording studio. Dahlia called me up after seeing me perform with Unisex Salon and asked me if I knew any keyboardists that might want to join her band. I jumped at the chance to join and that's how I got sucked into this whole adventure.
Gabrielle: Can you tell me a little about your musical influences?
Dahlia: The first album of note, the only early one really worth speaking of, I found sophomore year of high school. It was Bauhaus' Burning from The Inside. That was quickly followed by the Cure and Joy Division, Coil and Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy and the Sisters of Mercy. I didn't leave that plentiful vein until sophomore year of college, where I realized that my punk rock DC roots had created a fondness for punk that I hadn't grown out of. My college years left me with a mix of Bikini Kill and Sheep on Drugs, Siouxsie and Screeching Weasel. Where am I now? Somewhere in between it all, with Elastica and Ladytron, and Placebo and PJ Harvey, Garbage and Nirvana, with a hell of a lot of the old stuff lingering for good measure.
Lori T: When I could buy music of my own it was Babes in Toyland, Nirvana, Hole, NIN, White Zombie, Bikini Kill. Two words: teen angst. But since I realized I was a dyke, of course Ani Difranco got thrown in (her old drummer Andy Stochansky fucking rocks). Sleater-Kinney and The Cure also got me through high school.
Lori P: I started listening to whatever my brother did, since he blared it through the house every day. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Police, U2, Aerosmith, Van Halen. I was in chorus from 7th grade on up. I listened to the radio or records constantly. I remember the day MTV was born - I loved it. All that '80s pop was like crack. I fell deeply in love with Bowie, the Clash, the Cure, Sex Pistols, PIL, Smiths, New Order, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Oasis, Blur. Nirvana saved us all from a really bad time in rock, I think. I fell into industrial for a while and got into a lot of dark/nasty stuff like Ministry and NIN. I was a "raver" (heh) in the early '90s, and there are many DJs close to my heart- Moby, Oakenfold, Fatboy, Chemical Brothers. I'm very into Bjork, Tori, Jeff Buckley, Alanis, Chris Cornell- their voices all amaze me. I love old funk you can dance to and lately there's a whole mess of hip-hop I love. Alicia Keys and Nikka Costa make me crazy. I like all kinds of stuff, don't get me started.
Rob: I've gone through so many phases of musical taste. I went through the typical junior high Beavis and Butthead album oriented rock phase a la Rush, Triumph, Yes, followed by my jazz phase, then my R&B phase, then my film music phase, followed by my Seal/Annie Lennox/Peter Gabriel phase before finally getting into the current electro, 80s, goth scene that I find myself in right now.
Gabrielle: Any parting words for our In-NYC.com readers?
Lori T: I would just like to say that every time I leave rehearsal I am impressed by what the band has come up with. We're always working on new stuff and Dahlia, Rob and Lori P. never cease to inspire and impress me!
Lori P: I never would have played guitar much, let alone amped in front of people, if it wasn't for Dahlia telling me, "we can do this, let's just do it." It makes me wish I'd started much sooner. The girl's got serious moxie, and it rubs off on all of us. Rob is amazing, we're all so glad he came around - we always said if a boy infiltrated the band, he'd have to be really cool. And he is. Lori T. has the power of ten Lori T's. And I think we're all far too sexy and serious to go anywhere but up. So there.
Rob: My answer would be for us to create endless amounts of fun, creative music, plenty of fans, and commercial success can't be all bad. My future plans, goals, outlooks? Be happy, play with chicks for the rest of my life, make lots of money. That sounds like a nice life to me.
Dahlia: I want to be a superstar. I want to play rock arenas. I want sold out European tours. I want to be a household name. I want my music to make people think. I want to inspire women to get on stage and rock. I want to fill the void of female rockers. I want more women on stage, in short skirts and high heels, playing guitar and shouting. I want to create music just as interesting as men's music that isn't judged as women's music but as good music.
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