I’m 64 years old, I first heard of them when I was 18. I was told that they weren’t a real band, so I never checked them out until recently. I was misinformed, they were great!
@@robertlange1772 David Bowie certainly thought they were a real band: David Bowie wrote about FANNY in Rolling Stone Magazine - 12/29/99: “One of the most important female bands in American rock has been buried without a trace. And that is Fanny. They were one of the finest fucking rock bands of their time, in about 1973. They were extraordinary: They wrote everything, they played like motherfuckers, they were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody’s ever mentioned them. They’re as important as anybody else who’s ever been, ever; it just wasn’t their time. Revivify Fanny. And I will feel that my work is done.”
Mick Ronson, of about the same time, was not a technical guitar player but everything he played came alive. He had that special touch. This guitar player, she has the same ability, she’s amazing.
Although they never got the respect they deserved, this band absolutely rocked. Great musicians and vocalists, and I believe they were ahead of their time.
I was at Birmingham University in 1971 when Fanny played at the Union, what may even have been their first UK gig. They were setting up and rehearsing just as lectures finished, and people were drawn from all over the campus by this incredible bluesy hard rock sound. Nobody had ever heard of them, and they were quite happy to let everyone watch their rehearsal; the music was all that mattered. Needless to say, I came back for the show, and was just blown away. One image is etched indelibly on my brain half a century later - June Millington standing there in stylish ordinary clothes, just playing astoundingly fast, fluid slide guitar with sine waves running down her beautiful hair. Hell, they were all equally good. I recall that for a subsequent tour, June seemed unhappy about attempts by the management to glam them up, with more revealing, sparkly outfits. Fanny didn't need that crap, but perceptions of show-biz appeal prevailed. Perhaps that's one reason why Fanny withdrew from touring. A great loss, but it's wonderful to see them here on TH-cam.
Nobody ever said they were not talented but when your going up against other bands who mine a similar vein in a pre MTV world you needed to sound unique.
I love the drummer-she's super cool! Love her long hair! Super talented! :) I was little little in 1971 - I never heard of this group even when I was older- wow, unreal! Kim
I've got an audition to be a classic rock DJ on a local station, and I promise you all now, if I get the gig, our town is going to be hearing Fanny regularly. Especially Blind Alley.
I've been listening to Fanny on TH-cam. This song in particular, "You're the One", shows their mastery. They project power, excitement, and an infectious style all their own. I love it!
A quote from David Bowie about Fanny: "One of the most important female bands in American rock has been buried without a trace. And that is Fanny. They were one of the finest... rock bands of their time, in about 1973. They were extraordinary... they're as important as anybody else who's ever been, ever; it just wasn't their time. Revivify Fanny. And I will feel that my work is done." (From a 1999 interview with Rolling Stone.)
Here's my question...and keep in mind that David Bowie is my God and my favorite artist, so I mean absolutely no disrespect...but this quote is from 1999, when he still toured. If he felt that Fanny needed to be revived and heard by new audiences, why didn't he get them to reunite and take them on tour with him, where they could play in front of thousands every night?
@@BrianScottHarris who knows, maybe he looked into it and found they had gone on to other activities and didn't wish to reunite -- anything is possible. I remember Fanny, if only from their one single Ain't That Peculiar.
I can't understand growing up in the 60's and 70's I never heard of Fanny.. Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin , Cher.... this band is so GREAT!!!
Its such a shame that a lot of us have never discovered these incredibly talented and awesome ladies until recently. Better late than never I guess! I wish they were more well known because they deserve to be inducted. Spread the Fanny love! 🌻🎸
You read my mind. I'm an 80s kid and thought I had a fairly decent grip of the golden music of the 60s & 70s, but then TH-cam in its divine wisdom suggested Fanny last year and I was blown away. I need to catch up! The two songs here are phenomenal.
I do agree: the "manpower" is melting away .. when listening to those power-female *rockband* out of the 70 tees .. Oh, wow, it's unbelievalble, but must be appreachiated purely .. **
@@JuneEsWorld OH!!!!! JEAN drove me UTTERLY insane for 3 nights in southern NH in 1971 (or 1973?) - my hair was down to my butt, and she kept smiling at me - but I was too shy to come up & say hi..... MUCH love from France, where I live now.....
@@Foxswoop the first three are incredible; due to production issues Mothers Pride and R&R Survivors didn't quite do as well. If you go to Fannyrocks.com (run by Alice) there are interviews with each one of them and they openly discuss what was going on at the time. They were on the road during the production of Mothers Pride so they had to leave it in the hands of Todd Rundgren who added stuff they didn't like (think "Penny Lane" piccolo trumpet solo); he actually locked them out of the studio so he could rush through production and get on with his business of Utopia, which is where his priorities were, and then June and Alice had left the band by the time R&R Survivors came out. Oh well... it is what it is, and they were and ARE still a great band and just put out Fanny Walks The Earth in March 2018.
6:07-6:39 - Nickey Barclay breaks it down and steps up the intensity several notches. Sometimes I think she was the real powerhouse in this band (a bit like Jon Lord in Deep Purple).
+badcoach2000 Very loud. Very awesome! After all of these years I can't remember if this was late 72 or early 73. I do remember that it was a Friday evening and it took me almost all day to get to Dusseldorf from my army base east of Stuttgart. I had to get special permission from my sergeant to take that day off. He was a cool guy.
I saw a clip of Fanny playing in the 70s on some TV clip show in the 80s - it must have been Best of Beat Club. I thought they were incredible, but not only could I not find their records anywhere, I couldn't even find a mention of them anywhere in any rock history book. I began to think I'd imagined them, but then in the early 00s people began to talk about them on the internet, and I got the Reprise boxed set. So glad that they are finally being given even a tiny bit of their due.
This was always one of my favorite Fanny tunes I didn't realize they were so unknown always have liked Fanny and I'm A 46 year-old dude raised on Chili Peppers and gnr
Ahead of their time, and lack of original material . Sad cuz they rock hard ! its nice to see yall are diggn it like me . Rocknroll will never die. What we need is sum more fannys !
What do you mean lack of original material? Did you hear all 4 albums, including the one produced by Todd Rundgren?? MOSTLY original material! June (guitar)
I am so stoked to find this! I almost forgot about them but heard a song and I was so excited to have my daughter hear it. They were not given proper credit or airtime, if so they would be Women rock icons and in my opinion they ARE. I had their album in the early 70's and wore it out. these two songs had so much meaning for me and still do. I will be returning to listen often, Thank you for providing us this
Selena, go to www.ima.org, we set up a non-profit for women and girls in music - go to the concerts and programming pulldowns! Also, Just wanted to tell you, if you didn't know, that Jean had a stroke and is in recovery ... I set up a Go Fund Me account so if you would like to donate and share (please do!) please include a note - so healing! - and go to www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go THANKS!!! And Happy Thanksgiving ... :)) xx
selena martinez: I don’t get it...they should have filled the airwaves back then with everyone else during the 70's. Maybe it was as Joan Jett has said so many times: girls just weren’t accepted into the business back then. It took the Runaways another decade to be accepted. And if it hadn’t been for Kenny Laguna believing in Joan, they wouldn’t have made it either. Nuts! I just found out about them and I graduated in 75...
So many talking about how little known they are but at least June Millington (the sing leader) is still active, she has the same face and the same hair, just white instead of black, and she still rocks...
I saw Fanny this same time period, they opened for Spirit at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. They were fantastic and blew everyone away in the audience, Brits and Yanks!!! Groups from the U.S. that weren't heard of in Britain were invited to perform on The Old Grey Whistle Test which was a LIVE show! If you liked them on TOGWT, you were gonna like them better live in concert. They didn't disappoint. It was a California kinda evening, wine, Lebanese Blonde, and California rock!!! GOOD TIMES!!!!
Some of their lack of success falls to their manager; Roy Silver. He was the one pushing for the glam and the outfits. What he WASN'T doing was pushing their music on radio. You know how the Raiders got their **ONLY** #1 hit? Paul Revere hopped on his motorcycle and for MONTHS drove around the continental US of A pushing the single to rock radio DJ's. As HUGE as a group that the Raiders were; "Indian Reservation" is their ONLY #1 hit partially in part to Uncle Paul Revere.
Don't forget we're talking the early to mid 1970s when this band was around. I think there were still too many chauvinists not willing to give them the respect they deserved. Until the GO-GOs in the early '80s, almost no all-women bands made it big.
Yeah, Joan Jett/The Runaways struggled a decade later, finally releasing Cherry Bomb in 79. She said they were hated by most men because rock was still a man's world. So you can imagine what Fanny had to deal with in 1970, on. What a bunch of BS!
So incredibly satisfying to hear and see the reverence and passion given to the Buffalo Springfield song "Special Care". These women found the soul in this song and truly made it theirs. Priceless.
For whatever reason TH-cam decided to show me Fanny. Thank you Fanny for your great music. I'm a former singer, guitar and bass player. I would have loved to cover your music, as we covered a lot of 70s bands over the years.
The TH-cam gods just blessed me with this today. And I haven't even been listening to rock on TH-cam lately. Lots of recent comments on vids of Fanny, so many have been getting the news flash.
@@7and7and7is I like the first side of their 1972 album. I honestly believe they didn't become huge because the producers took the rawness out when they made the studio albums. Live, they were incredible. The studio tracks were turned into candy.
@@joecebu2791 You nailed it. When the band was in control they did excellent, but when they got big time and things were turned over the the "pros'", that's when it started falling apart.
I am 60 years old, this is the first time I've ever heard of them. How could I have missed them, I like them alot.
Try Blind Alley live ;-) m.th-cam.com/video/SftgE1vfwbk/w-d-xo.html
I’m 64 years old, I first heard of them when I was 18. I was told that they weren’t a real band, so I never checked them out until recently. I was misinformed, they were great!
@@robertlange1772 David Bowie certainly thought they were a real band:
David Bowie wrote about FANNY in Rolling Stone Magazine - 12/29/99:
“One of the most important female bands in American rock has been buried without a trace. And that is Fanny. They were one of the finest fucking rock bands of their time, in about 1973. They were extraordinary: They wrote everything, they played like motherfuckers, they were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody’s ever mentioned them. They’re as important as anybody else who’s ever been, ever; it just wasn’t their time. Revivify Fanny. And I will feel that my work is done.”
Same here.
@@Sherdelunebang on! They had a couple of things going against them (producer promotion, a couple of years out of current fashion)but Bowie saw it.
Mick Ronson, of about the same time, was not a technical guitar player but everything he played came alive. He had that special touch. This guitar player, she has the same ability, she’s amazing.
Although they never got the respect they deserved, this band absolutely rocked. Great musicians and vocalists, and I believe they were ahead of their time.
Very much so…sleater kinney was equally talented and got tons of respect and they were the critics darlings. Just wasn’t meant to be
They are getting it now. 😊
I was at Birmingham University in 1971 when Fanny played at the Union, what may even have been their first UK gig. They were setting up and rehearsing just as lectures finished, and people were drawn from all over the campus by this incredible bluesy hard rock sound. Nobody had ever heard of them, and they were quite happy to let everyone watch their rehearsal; the music was all that mattered.
Needless to say, I came back for the show, and was just blown away. One image is etched indelibly on my brain half a century later - June Millington standing there in stylish ordinary clothes, just playing astoundingly fast, fluid slide guitar with sine waves running down her beautiful hair. Hell, they were all equally good.
I recall that for a subsequent tour, June seemed unhappy about attempts by the management to glam them up, with more revealing, sparkly outfits. Fanny didn't need that crap, but perceptions of show-biz appeal prevailed. Perhaps that's one reason why Fanny withdrew from touring. A great loss, but it's wonderful to see them here on TH-cam.
@danlefou
Thanx for the pictures from your past.
God these girls were extremely talented musicians !!!
Nobody ever said they were not talented but when your going up against other bands who mine a similar vein in a pre MTV world you needed to sound unique.
I love the drummer-she's super cool! Love her long hair! Super talented! :) I was little little in 1971 - I never heard of this group even when I was older- wow, unreal! Kim
I found them yesterday. They are brilliant.
I've got an audition to be a classic rock DJ on a local station, and I promise you all now, if I get the gig, our town is going to be hearing Fanny regularly. Especially Blind Alley.
Update?
Terribly underrated. Hope u got the gig. Let us know please.❤
This Band is Awesome
I've been listening to Fanny on TH-cam. This song in particular, "You're the One", shows their mastery. They project power, excitement, and an infectious style all their own. I love it!
I recently discovered these guys ;) Incredible!!!!
A quote from David Bowie about Fanny:
"One of the most important female bands in American rock has been buried without a trace. And that is Fanny. They were one of the finest... rock bands of their time, in about 1973. They were extraordinary... they're as important as anybody else who's ever been, ever; it just wasn't their time. Revivify Fanny. And I will feel that my work is done."
(From a 1999 interview with Rolling Stone.)
great quote, and that's the great thing about youtube, without preserving these video's they really would have "been buried without a trace."
Man, I was just thinking that - who buried this band?
And that was the great thing about Bowie...he really cared about the art...he lobbied MTV hard to play black videos
Here's my question...and keep in mind that David Bowie is my God and my favorite artist, so I mean absolutely no disrespect...but this quote is from 1999, when he still toured. If he felt that Fanny needed to be revived and heard by new audiences, why didn't he get them to reunite and take them on tour with him, where they could play in front of thousands every night?
@@BrianScottHarris who knows, maybe he looked into it and found they had gone on to other activities and didn't wish to reunite -- anything is possible. I remember Fanny, if only from their one single Ain't That Peculiar.
This Mohawk and Marine combat veteran from the right love's great music
Roger, THAT!
Oooh Fanny, keep on chooglin' all time..! Wonderful ladies I'm earin' your voices even when I have a rude awakening.❤A gift.🎁(from Jujuy,Argentina)
Jean is an amazing bass player
Very talented women
Best female band ever
One of the Best Band Ever...
Possibly best band ever. These ladies are awesome
Probably among the best musicians at that time ! Fosho ??
@@nelsapagensvensson2122 among the best musicians of the 70s?
Yup. Spot on,
Such a great band, four very very talented musicians
Music is Music...these pioneers were among the best to ever do it!
I can't understand growing up in the 60's and 70's I never heard of Fanny.. Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin , Cher.... this band is so GREAT!!!
I should have heard of this band WAY before 2020.
Thank goodness these short clips survived.
Thank you for posting this.
This is what TH-cam is for. How would you have seen this in the 1980's , 90's? You wouldn't have.
Just amazingly good.
why did God hide these women from me, all these years until now
Brilliant!
Its such a shame that a lot of us have never discovered these incredibly talented and awesome ladies until recently. Better late than never I guess! I wish they were more well known because they deserve to be inducted.
Spread the Fanny love! 🌻🎸
Hey, thanks
You read my mind. I'm an 80s kid and thought I had a fairly decent grip of the golden music of the 60s & 70s, but then TH-cam in its divine wisdom suggested Fanny last year and I was blown away. I need to catch up! The two songs here are phenomenal.
No doubt!!! Grateful for my Brazilian Deadhead Sistah, @Elaine Oliveira for turning me on to them in 2021🤘💯🔥💘
I do agree: the "manpower" is melting away .. when listening to those power-female *rockband* out of the 70 tees .. Oh, wow, it's unbelievalble, but must be appreachiated purely .. **
@@JuneEsWorld OH!!!!! JEAN drove me UTTERLY insane for 3 nights in southern NH in 1971 (or 1973?) - my hair was down to my butt, and she kept smiling at me - but I was too shy to come up & say hi..... MUCH love from France, where I live now.....
Good is good, doesn't matter if it's 1971 or 2021....well done, ladies!
Thank you Greg!!
Hey thats my line...bUT YOU AINT LYIN bro....Good is Good...Music is the eternal language...of love....
For real, Mark. Fanny is really groovy in a far out way ✌️
Never get tired of listening to Fanny.
Wish they had made it big! I'm an 80s baby with discerning muaical tastes across many genres...this group was 🔥!
Bass and drums are excellent...the vocals too, very tight band indeed
The organ....?????
@@youdontsay2181then I'd say better the guitar
Their cover of "Special Care" should be an all-time rock standard - what an awesome song!
Damn! These Girls have some Chops. I had never heard of them. Stumbled across these videos on TH-cam. I'm just flabbergasted by them.
The greatest band you never heard?
Absolutely great never heard of them till today
Neither had I, a mate put me onto them, said he bought all of their 4 albums recently but can't past the first one, they are so good.
@@Foxswoop :)
@@Foxswoop the first three are incredible; due to production issues Mothers Pride and R&R Survivors didn't quite do as well. If you go to Fannyrocks.com (run by Alice) there are interviews with each one of them and they openly discuss what was going on at the time. They were on the road during the production of Mothers Pride so they had to leave it in the hands of Todd Rundgren who added stuff they didn't like (think "Penny Lane" piccolo trumpet solo); he actually locked them out of the studio so he could rush through production and get on with his business of Utopia, which is where his priorities were, and then June and Alice had left the band by the time R&R Survivors came out. Oh well... it is what it is, and they were and ARE still a great band and just put out Fanny Walks The Earth in March 2018.
Same here. Now I'm going through all videos I can find.
@@mikenelson3338it's addicting isn't it? Just can't get enough, I'm in the same spot, lol!
Such a good song.
They are all talented.
Simply terrific.
I saw Fanny at the Fillmore East in 1971 and then again at the legendary Max's kansas city in NYC. An excellent band.
And hard-working!:))
@dwill123
Envy you
@@JuneEsWorld lol
Fanny is definitely the best all-female rock band of all times and one of our all-time-favourites! Just love 'em so much!
What a drum&bass !!!!!!!!!! 👌
Special Care. SOME of their power comes thru on this one! Gives me the goosebumps!
This is great, and is probably the best thing I've saw all month; and I love seeing women play Rock N Roll, especially the bass.
Thank you. June
These girls were bad ass especially the sista on the keys...she kills it!!
6:07-6:39 - Nickey Barclay breaks it down and steps up the intensity several notches. Sometimes I think she was the real powerhouse in this band (a bit like Jon Lord in Deep Purple).
Nickey is the real piano man.
It sad that she didn't get along with June especially and to less extent the other 2 members.
@@vinceschauf9437 Just saw a 2019 Interview with the Drummer. She said that Nickey was part Genius and part Psychopath! She was serious. Lol
This band totes blows my mind!! They're so fucking good and I totally missed them back in the day! Sorry about that, I can assure you.
I was big fan back in the 70's. They played good, sang good, looked good.
never heard of this band, i;m from this era. Excellent sound, great songs, attractive members.
I saw Fanny in Dusseldorf Germany opening for Slade. All I can say is 'Thanks for over 40 years of rock and roll thrills.
+Pudgyv You saw Fanny and Slade? How loud was Slade the night you saw them and what year was that? Too cool! These girls were way ahead of their time.
+badcoach2000 Very loud. Very awesome! After all of these years I can't remember if this was late 72 or early 73. I do remember that it was a Friday evening and it took me almost all day to get to Dusseldorf from my army base east of Stuttgart. I had to get special permission from my sergeant to take that day off. He was a cool guy.
@@pudgyv5223
Did you ever think of becoming one of their groupies???
@@MrJohnnyDistortion An interesting thought now but seeing how I was unlikely to meet one of them, much less date one, the answer is no.
You are so welcome. June (guitarist:)) xx
I saw a clip of Fanny playing in the 70s on some TV clip show in the 80s - it must have been Best of Beat Club. I thought they were incredible, but not only could I not find their records anywhere, I couldn't even find a mention of them anywhere in any rock history book. I began to think I'd imagined them, but then in the early 00s people began to talk about them on the internet, and I got the Reprise boxed set. So glad that they are finally being given even a tiny bit of their due.
I love them so much!!!!!!
A very talented, very intense and I dare to say, very important group!
they were inspiring for all girls back in the 70s and are still not recognised for their amazing talent...oh to be a boy!!!!
fucking brilliant, never heard of them before today, found this by luck
This was always one of my favorite Fanny tunes I didn't realize they were so unknown always have liked Fanny and I'm A 46 year-old dude raised on Chili Peppers and gnr
❤️ you’re so good! to think i almost missed experiencing your beauty and your music early on and up until today! i am grateful i found you Fanny ❤️
As much as hear them, more enchanted
Such an underrated band!
This is the best new old band I’d never heard of.
I adore this band. I'm so glad to find videos of them. I agree with David Bowie: it's a crying shame that they're not famous.
freekin' A!!
these girls did really ROCKED!
wow!
Ahead of their time, and lack of original material . Sad cuz
they rock hard ! its nice to see yall are diggn it like me .
Rocknroll will never die.
What we need is sum more fannys !
Four albums, ain't bad...plus a brand new album as Fanny Walked the Earth.
I liked the Spice Girls 😖🤣🤣🤣😖
What do you mean lack of original material? Did you hear all 4 albums, including the one produced by Todd Rundgren?? MOSTLY original material! June (guitar)
This band is fantastic.
They've got it ALL! MUSICAL, CHARISMATIC...AND ROCK!!!!
I'm a new, big, fan!!!!
Me too fuzz box i miss that sound
They're pro's on their instruments and they rock!
Never heard of them before finding on youtube today by accident..they are a amazing find!!
Fantastic !!! Tremendous!!!
Jean great vocals and great bass lines so adorable wow , I would give my love to you in a heartbeat ♥️♥️♥️💥
Chills and tears
I am so stoked to find this! I almost forgot about them but heard a song and I was so excited to have my daughter hear it. They were not given proper credit or airtime, if so they would be Women rock icons and in my opinion they ARE. I had their album in the early 70's and wore it out. these two songs had so much meaning for me and still do. I will be returning to listen often, Thank you for providing us this
Selena, go to www.ima.org, we set up a non-profit for women and girls in music - go to the concerts and programming pulldowns! Also, Just wanted to tell you, if you didn't know, that Jean had a stroke and is in recovery ... I set up a Go Fund Me account so if you would like to donate and share (please do!) please include a note - so healing! - and go to www.gofundme.com/jean-millington-go THANKS!!! And Happy Thanksgiving ... :)) xx
selena martinez: I don’t get it...they should have filled the airwaves back then with everyone else during the 70's. Maybe it was as Joan Jett has said so many times: girls just weren’t accepted into the business back then. It took the Runaways another decade to be accepted. And if it hadn’t been for Kenny Laguna believing in Joan, they wouldn’t have made it either. Nuts! I just found out about them and I graduated in 75...
So good! Can’t get enough of this band!
@@richarddennie8413 Thanks Dennis! June
2 real sisters who totally rock the guitars and mic!!
legendary sound still great in 2017!!! rock on sistahs....
The most talented band you've never heard of.
I love that the drummer kept her old blue Ludwig floor tom as part of her newer kit ....
Now this is Freaking Rock n Roll
WOW. Amazing. So glad ive discovered them!
LIKEWISE!
Man I miss the 70's. I was one of the very few people who had heard of Fanny among my friends. So many great memories.
the harmonies early on...chills
Герлы таланты без сомнения. Играют в живую. Laik. Лайк
I was a teenager in the 70 s. A record collecter our local music stores or dept stores never sold fanny albums. Or I would have bought some
This is great, I just randomly typed "fanny" into the search and great music appears before me.
Hahahahaha !!!!!!
Wrong kind of site for that type of search, yet so right.
That will teach you ....
Only a fanny would do that 😂
Estou impressionado. Brasil🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏👏👏👏
Jean is so cool on bass.
Fanny was "hidden gold" -band for many......
Wonderful. Still love their music. Enjoy them as much now as when I saw them at the Whisky-a-go-go
Phx missed out on this. We'd a loved it.
I love all the counterpoint going on between the piano, bass and guitar. 👍👍👍
Letting that hallow body sing and everyone else keeps their pace. This band hits all their marks.
This band Express that for they are one. (Love)
So many talking about how little known they are but at least June Millington (the sing leader) is
still active, she has the same face and the same hair, just white instead of black, and she still rocks...
I and my cat appreciates this. I'm serious my cat listens to music and reacts to rock particularly, i'm studying that now .
It's a shame they never made a live album. They were so much heavier than their records.
Never herd of them came across them by accident looking at other videos can't believe how good they were
I saw Fanny this same time period, they opened for Spirit at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. They were fantastic and blew everyone away in the audience, Brits and Yanks!!! Groups from the U.S. that weren't heard of in Britain were invited to perform on The Old Grey Whistle Test which was a LIVE show! If you liked them on TOGWT, you were gonna like them better live in concert. They didn't disappoint. It was a California kinda evening, wine, Lebanese Blonde, and California rock!!! GOOD TIMES!!!!
did Lebanese blond come from California? News to moi.
Once you create something really great and original it lives forever. Thanks God there's TH-cam. Thank you girls for your passion and talent.
What a shame they got buried by record companies looking for miniskirts...
Some of their lack of success falls to their manager; Roy Silver. He was the one pushing for the glam and the outfits. What he WASN'T doing was pushing their music on radio. You know how the Raiders got their **ONLY** #1 hit? Paul Revere hopped on his motorcycle and for MONTHS drove around the continental US of A pushing the single to rock radio DJ's. As HUGE as a group that the Raiders were; "Indian Reservation" is their ONLY #1 hit partially in part to Uncle Paul Revere.
Don't forget we're talking the early to mid 1970s when this band was around. I think there were still too many chauvinists not willing to give them the respect they deserved. Until the GO-GOs in the early '80s, almost no all-women bands made it big.
You are SO right. June (guitarist:))
Yep. And that's a shame. They are fantastic. This is great music.
Yeah, Joan Jett/The Runaways struggled a decade later, finally releasing Cherry Bomb in 79. She said they were hated by most men because rock was still a man's world. So you can imagine what Fanny had to deal with in 1970, on. What a bunch of BS!
@@JuneEsWorld I love Fanny's music. Y'all were ahead of your time. First saw it on a BBC video, Girl In a Band SO GOOD
@@BCTGuitarPlayer A lot better than Joan or the Runaways no comparison.
cant stop watching this vid brill
What a fantastic band, brilliant.
So incredibly satisfying to hear and see the reverence and passion given to the Buffalo Springfield song "Special Care". These women found the soul in this song and truly made it theirs. Priceless.
For whatever reason TH-cam decided to show me Fanny. Thank you Fanny for your great music. I'm a former singer, guitar and bass player. I would have loved to cover your music, as we covered a lot of 70s bands over the years.
I'm glad i was just exposed to them too!!
Ya lol me too
The TH-cam gods just blessed me with this today. And I haven't even been listening to rock on TH-cam lately. Lots of recent comments on vids of Fanny, so many have been getting the news flash.
@@7and7and7is I like the first side of their 1972 album. I honestly believe they didn't become huge because the producers took the rawness out when they made the studio albums. Live, they were incredible. The studio tracks were turned into candy.
@@joecebu2791 You nailed it. When the band was in control they did excellent, but when they got big time and things were turned over the the "pros'", that's when it started falling apart.