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WHISKEY DICK & THE HARD-ONS
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[happy hour set w/]
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Mary Timony
by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com
ofEx Hex
Mary Timony laughingly dismisses the suggestion that she was a pioneer in indie rock, as one of the first—and most prolific – singer, songwriter and guitarists to front successful bands and sing about relevant things. “I’m just a musician,” says the former frontwoman for Helium and Wild Flag. “And I like to play music.” Timony, starting with her first hometown band Autoclave (Washington, D.C.’s all-woman punk powerhouse) has long been associated with the Riot Grrrl movement. Strictly speaking it means: Girls with guitars, making music that matters. Songs that say something. “I happened to grow up in D.C. during the hardcore D.C. era, and that was like a super male scene,” Timony tells Connect. “I always felt that the
Riot Grrrl stuff was really a reaction against the hardcore scene that was so much about male energy. Teenage male energy in the ‘80s. “I just feel like punk music in the ‘70s was not really as gender-limited, but ‘80s hardcore was just a supermale scene. Especially in D.C. When I was in high school, going to see hardcore shows, it was kind of a boys’ club feeling. Also because they were all young kids, and kids are clique-y and
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DAMON & THE SHITKICKERS
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Ex Hex, from left: Laura Harris, Betsy Wright and Mary Timony.
just crappy to each other. There were hardly any girls in bands.” For a young woman whose family was well-off enough to send her to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, banging heads at Fugazi and Bikini Kill shows was intoxicating. She had found her niche. Still, “I studied classical guitar when I was in high school,” Timony says, “and in college I did one year of classical guitar. Then I studied English. And I took jazz, too. Yeah, I was like a music nerd. “But I was also friends with hardcore kids, so I was going to see the punk shows. And I was always kind of confused about how the two could mix for me, ‘cause I felt like a super nerd compared to my friends. Eventually it all got kinda settled down in