Devotion #7

I’m under a bit of deadline duress this week. But in the meantime, the title of this medley should sum things up pretty well.

The Who
“A Quick One (While He’s Away)”
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus



Where would we be without The Who?

For one thing, we might not have a lot of bands that came between them and The Donnas. I first learned of The Donnas while working at a now-defunct punk/ska/hardcore record distributor back in the late 90s, when they were just starting out on Lookout! Records (also home to a young Green Day). After catching them live at the Double Door last Saturday, I was impressed with how far the girls have come since their early days. They spent a bit of time on Atlantic before recently starting their own Purple Feather label, which was definitely a good move, considering how, at their core, they’re still representative of a movement that made “DIY” something of a household term. Plus, they probably saved themselves from being turned into a quartet of Avril Lavignes.



The horror.

The Donnas – "Give Me What I Want" – Bitchin’ (Purple Feather 2007)