Tag Archives: The Delphines

The Go-Go’s were typically the most popular all-female band to emerge in the punk/new wave explosion from the later ’70s and early ’80s, becoming among the first commercially successful female groups that wasn’t controlled by male producers or managers. While their strike singles — “We Got the Defeat,” “Our Lip …

The Delphines arose in the remains from the all-female Bluebonnets, a blues outfit that counted among its members Kathy Valentine from the Go-Go’s, Dominique Davalos, Pinky Villandry, and Sherri McGhee. When vocalist Villandry slipped out over disagreements regarding which career monitor the music group should pursue, the rest of the …

Through the late ’70s, the Los Angeles-based trio the Heaters had been tipped to truly have a breakthrough. Straddling the series between mainstream rock and roll and the brand new influx, they opened up for both Truck Halen and Cheap Technique, but battled in the studio room. They released an …