Bass Musician Magazine - SPECIAL August 2014 Female Bassist Issue | Page 176

or helps your opportunities?
It really depends on the circums
think in some ways it helps me
people are sometimes surprised
a female up on stage with the bi
rocking just as hard, so it can be so
of a novelty. So maybe I am favore
guy who plays just as good as I do
I bring that element of surprise. B
same time, that is what is annoyin
it. The fact that people are still su
in 2014. But it definitely comes up
tell you how many times I have
“You’re a really good female bass
Why must you add in ‘female’? W
I just be a really good bass play
still have a long way to go, I think
is why I volunteer for RocknRoll C
Girls.

What, if anything, would y
to change the industry for
bassists?
I think what I would change ab
industry for females is somethi
is going to be a gradual change;
way beyond the music industry.
programs like RocknRoll Camp f
is key, because it gives girls an
to learn to support each other an
together. I think society teaches
be competitive with one another a
small. Small bodies, small voice
minds. What we teach at RocknRo
is that there is plenty to go aro
everyone. You don’t have to comp
other girls to have a piece of the p
you can be loud; you don’t have to
and meek. It’s going to take a lo
for women to be completely equa
society, (not just the music indus
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