Why aren there more punk rock chicks on Warped?
It’s a good question. There was one band called ShiraGirl. Last year, they couldn’t get on the tour so they took out a stage of their own they built onto a truck and they played anyway. [Warped promoter] Kevin Lyman was so impressed with that, he had them on one of the stages this year. It’s incremental, like anything else. If you told me 30 years after the Runaways there still wouldn’t be women in rock ‘n’ roll, I would have thought you’d be crazy. It’s frustrating because people ask me why, and I don’t have a good answer beyond the usual prejudices. There’s still a lot of resistance. The girls are out there. They’re in any city you go to. You do covers of “ACDC” and “Androgynous.” What about bisexuality interests you so much? I think sometimes people get rigid in their roles. I think I’m speaking to that. “ACDC” is by the Sweet. I came across it again about a year ago. It’s great and we live in a girls-gone-wild world at this point, so I thought it was a fun thing to try, just to pus
