Wicked Dyke

This track was recorded as a one day live studio session around 1991-2. During this session we recorded around 6 tracks. Each track only took 1 or 2 takes. Half of the lyrics weren't written, so had to be more or less improvised on the spot. The songs were only very loosely arranged. The song features:

ex-Lunachicks drummer Becky Wreck on drums
Sophie Stievet played bass
Noriko on guitar
Meg Lee Chin (me) on vox
Julian Standen was the engineer/producer

Sophie and I paid for Becky's plane ticket to come out to London to play with us on a big UK TV show, I think it was called "The Tube", but I don't remember. At any rate, it got canceled at the last minute so never really happened anyway.

Anyhow, Sophie was working in a greasy cafe for cab drivers and I was working as a barmaid in a pub. In England this means you get less than minimum wage and NO tips! So the plane tickets were a big deal for us.

My dear old friend from San Francisco had just left the Lunachicks and I jumped at the opportunity to have her play with us. (Becky Wreck and Martin Atkins are my two favorite drummers that I have ever had the pleasure to play with. I am grateful for having ever played with either of them!). Our guitarist Stephanie Pitsas had just ditched us and on top of that, we got dumped from our production deal with Beethoven Street Studios. This was all after the big high of having come back from the former Soviet Union. So we were pretty low down in the deep dumpity dumps...

Becky arrived at Heathrow Airport with the normal level of chaos, unpredictability and frantic exhuberance she brings to everything. When we got on the tube, she announced in her loud American voice , her pleasure at having got through customs with her drugs...

Sophie and I braced ourselves for a long ride....

To be continued.

Meg Lee Chin