Janet Weiss has a giphy now
6Meh has a relentless appetite for topics lately, so I thought, “What does the internet need more of?”
Answer: a giphy of Janet Weiss, legendary drummer for Sleater-Kinney (and Quasi), rockin’ out.
Well, here’s one way the universe got better today:
https://gph.is/g/aRmX09N
I clipped this out of this video of them playing in Seattle in '99. If for some reason you’re not familiar with them, and you…
- like punk rock
- crave less heteronormativity
…then you will want to come up to speed on S-K.
That concert video is pretty great, but I chose it mostly cuz it has good shots of Janet having a blast on the drums and working her heart out, which is what she always did.
More good live videos:
Dig Me Out:
Turn it On/One More Hour:
Aficionados will enjoy the hell out of hearing them play way back in 1995, when they were just getting started – before Janet became their drummer!:
Thus endeth the lesson.
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Ah-ha! I am dumb, the style guide taught me how get the giphy to embed properly:
Wasn’t she in the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
@dhelmick56 She was one of the main characters. I clicked on this thread to see a Giphy of THAT Janet Weiss. Color me disappointed. Appropriate for Meh, eh?
@allergycheryl @dhelmick56
/giphy “dammit Janet”
@dhelmick56 @f00l Let’s there be rejoicing and let’s do the time warp again
@allergycheryl @dhelmick56 @f00l Susan Sarandon can take a long walk off a short pier.
@allergycheryl @dhelmick56 @UncleVinny
Many persons in entertainment have strident or simplistic political views.
I try to ignore all that, mostly. As long as it’s just opinion.
Besides.
"Damn it, Janet!" is delightful.
And Sarandon is quite good on the entire film, if I recall.
Why do you take her off-screen public persona so seriously?
Can you let performers be very stupid or very annoying or very self-righteous (by your lights) in their personal expressions of political opinion, and pity them, if need be; and still enjoy the performances anyway?
@allergycheryl @dhelmick56 @f00l
I guess not. With Su-Sa, I was never a fan before she waded in on political topics (slight exception granted for Thelma & Louise), so I’m not giving up much by consigning her to my own very personal dustbin.
Besides, Janet Weiss deserves a name all to herself, without being forced to share it with anything related to RHPS — a piece of light ‘entertainment’ on which I hold similarly gloomy, killjoy, sourpuss opiononsz.
@allergycheryl @dhelmick56 @UncleVinny
Would agree she does.
But this stuff happens. JW the musician may think it’s funny, or have a relaxed attitude about it all.
@dhelmick56 @f00l @UncleVinny Clearly! You have your memories from that time in your life when you were younger…I have mine. They both involve Janet Weiss, just not the same one.
I don’t give a hoot about any entertainer’s political opinions - otherwise there wouldn’t be anyone to entertain me :o) Breathe, then jump to the left, then step to the right
@UncleVinny
Had not heard of her. Kinda stopped following the music scene when so many pop acts took over the charts and MTV sucked forever and radio also sucked.
But she’s great. And so is that band.
/giphy “MTV sucks”
@f00l
Giphy is perfect as always.
/giphy “giphy is perfect”
@f00l btw, my favorite of their albums is Dig Me Out. Call the Doctor is also stellar. The later albums are poppier, and have some good tracks…but nothing that beats the energy of that early stuff.
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@medz Bless you, child!