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"Vicki's rock hero," Sue Bangle explains, "is Susan Cowsill. When she saw Susan Cowsill hittin' that tambourine on The Ed Sullivan Show. she said. 'I'm gonna be in a band' "
"'I can do that!' " Vicki Bangle remember exclaiming. "'She's no older than I am: .. "That's what The Partridge family was based on, for sure." Sue says. "'I'm gonna pick up a tambourine and learn to play.'"
But. Vicki adds Quickly, " I said, 'To hell with that. I'm gonna pick up a guitarand learn to play.'"
The Bangles, America's most refreshing new group, have already upstaged Misses Cowsill and Partridge with their just-released record, the groovy Bangles. A five-song disk, it's on the Fau Ity label. but it's anything but faulty.
The Bangles are Sue (Susanna). Vicki. Debbi, and Annette, and the newest Bangle. They're all girls. as you may have noticed, and their ages range from 20 to 25. What you may not have known is that they play all their own instruments, and we'd say they play them very well. Sue and Vicki write most of the hot Bangle originals, and teem up with Debbi for the most sensational harmonies outside of the phenomenal vocal group the Mamas and the Papas.
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Some more of the Bangles' fave raves are Bob Dylan, Yardbir s, early Stones, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell. Creedence and early Rod Stewart (Annette's best bets), Byrds and "all the electric folk stuff." A recent date at a Sunset Strip club, heavily attended by the local heavy media, saw them playing the Seeds' "Pushin' Too Hard," Simon and Garfunkel's " A Hazy Shade of Winter," and the fast-rising new single by Love, " 7 and 7 Is." In the audience that night were a couple Cowsills, as well as members of future stars the Blasters, Circle Jerks and Go-Go's.
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