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Former Lovedoll Abby Travis releases second solo album 20 October 2000
But then you might not expect her friends to join in the Steven Sondheimesque vocal fun either: drummer Stephen Perkins (Janes Addiction, Porno For Pyros), DJ Bonebrake (X), Petra Hayden (That Dog), guitarist Frank Infante (Blondie)... or for the LP to be mixed by the likes of Geza X (Black Flag, The Dead Kennedys, Redd Kross), Chris Goss (Queens Of The Stone Age, The Flys, Masters Of Reality), and Bryan Davis. But they did and it was. Abby Travis began her twisted and twisting musical trajectory at age 16 in the all-girl semi-fictional LA band The Lovedolls—assembled to feature in the 1984 film Desperate Teenage Lovedolls. Five years ago, playing bass in Beck’s touring band, she also joined Elastica during their debut US tour when Annie Holland quit. Travis has played with KMFDM, The Meat Puppets, Botanica, Vanessa Paradis, and many other artists. She co-wrote the KMFDM song Waste, cited by Littleton Colorado high-school mass murderers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris as a favorite. Travis, shocked by the connection of her song to the tragedy, told the LA Weekly last year “I just freaked out... I called Sascha [of KMFDM]. He said it had been the worst day of his life. Then he said, 'This isn’t really about us. It’s about the people who were injured and killed.'” She went on to tell the Weekly about the sadly ironic origin of Waste. “The concept for the song was inspired by my friend Joe Cole, who was murdered about 10 years ago [by fatal gunshot wounds]. He was this really funny guy who would always say 'Oh, that’s so wasty.'...” Travis dedicated her 1999 song Sunday Is The Day For Love to the Denver, Colorado United Way charity’s Healing Fund, which provides teen counciling and other services. That song is now available on CD on the new album. If you purchase the new album before 5 November from Travis’s Web site she’ll autograph it. She requests that everyone who downloads Sunday Is The Day For Love contribute US$5 to the Healing Fund. | Abby Travis | | Soundtrack CD - Desperate Teenage Lovedolls | | Sunday Is The Day For Love (MP3) | | United Way Denver/Healing Fund | | bio | | discography | | CD | | top of page | |
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