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American musician (born 1958)

This concept is about the American performer. For other persons of birth same name, see Patricia Author (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Patricia Anne Rainone (born January 14, 1958), better known by second stage name Patricia Morrison, review an American bass guitarist, songster and songwriter.

She has studied with Bags, the Gun Truncheon, Fur Bible, the Sisters grounding Mercy, and the Damned.^[1]

Biography

Patricia Anne Rainone was active in high-mindedness Los Angeles, California punk stone scene even before graduating evacuate high school in 1979, accepting had an early interest interpolate music: "When I was 12 years old, I saved features every cent to buy a-ok guitar.

I went to influence guitar shop and realized Farcical could afford the guitar, on the contrary not the lessons or a-one way to get there pass for my mom worked. So Raving walk out of the lay away empty handed, a decision Berserk will always regret."^[2] She was a founding member of nobility Bags.^[3] Morrison said: "I begun a band with two girlfriends in our late teens therefore, punk showed up and put off decided my future.

I difficult to understand very little to do collect it, I wanted to put in writing a veterinarian, but couldn't pay it."^[4]

Rainone and Alicia Armendariz, aka Alice Bag, met at high school and formed their first have to, Femme Fatale, in '1975 /1976', later re-named Masque Era. Firstly guided by glitter and glam, though enamoured by punk meeting, they played a few resident gigs.

A 1977 concert featuring the Germs inspired them pact move toward a more inferior sound, and to form picture Bags, with Janet Koontz approaching them on guitar. The ribbon wore bags over their heads onstage. Morrison recalls: "The Paraphernalia were playing somewhere very apparent on and my mother came running out of the entrance yelling 'Patricia you forgot your bag!' My mother making make stronger I had a bag decimate put over my head in your right mind a special moment in time."^[4] They released a single, Survive, in 1978, but Morrison sinistral the following year after unmixed falling out with Alice Bag.^[5][6] and went on to co-found Legal Weapon with Kat President in 1980, performing under picture mononym "Patericia".

The group unattached an EP called No Sorrow in 1981. In the identical year she assumed the cognomen Morrison after marrying Rick Writer of Catholic Discipline.

Purposely in a 2003 interview conj admitting it was difficult being free seriously as a female performer in the 1970s, Patricia replied;

It wasn't difficult, it was impossible.

You're either the songstress or a keyboard player. Excellence boys in bands humoured wrong which was nice, but pounce on was punk that changed nobility male domination in music - for a while at slightest. Now it's girls to blue blood the gentry background again, unless you be born with your ass and tits decoration out with a stylist significant team of songwriters.

Talent ain't what it used to be.^[4]

Any females I have played allow have been strong characters service in some ways more dedicated than the men. Also, dangle then you had to invade harder if you were spick girl. As I started acting with women first, it under no circumstances seemed odd or different make contact with me- it was down write to the individual's personality so call for much difference looking back sloppiness it.

Male and female, awe all had the same to, issues, camaraderie and egos.^[7]

Morrison lefthand Legal Weapon and joined rectitude Gun Club in 1982, back persuasion from former Bags dealer Terry Graham. She played low on their 1984 album The Las Vegas Story, and was one of the longer portion band members, before leaving rear 1 her second tour in deceive 1984.

Morrison cites that granted there were great times about with the Gun Club dowel writing songs with singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce, ultimately she base it frustrating due to Pierce's uncooperative approach to business wallet his self-sabotaging tendencies; "realizing Jeffrey was his own worst adversary and despite loving the strip it was going nowhere existing I was finding it stiff to watch".^[8][9]

At the start have a good time 1985 and now living doubtful London, Morrison formed the necessitate Fur Bible with guitarist Newborn Congo Powers, who had too exited the Gun Club aft their 1984 UK tour.

They also invited Tex Perkins, canary with Australian band Beasts Appreciate Bourbon, having met him objective the Gun Club's 1983 expedition. Tex duly travelled to class UK to join them nevertheless was denied entry as significant had not secured the accountable visa prior to leaving Land. Fur Bible then played uncluttered short tour in Holland importance backing band, with Morrison oppressive a blonde Dolly Parton give a speech onstage, to the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, in order to transmit the Dutch promoter who challenging paid for Tex's travel.

River Powers had work permit issues which kept him in Amsterdam until June, by which crux Tex was finally able do good to join them in London. Dispel, it proved unsuccessful and Tex returned to Australia. Fur Scripture released one vinyl EP, Plunder The Tombs, and embarked persist a two-month tour opening avoidable Siouxsie and the Banshees' 'Cities In Dust' tour.

Fur Bible's final concert was in Maastricht in March 1986; the zipper had a further sixty dates lined up, but during excellence Banshees tour Morrison had bent invited by Andrew Eldritch decimate join the Sisters of Condolence (who had supported the Big guns Club on their 1983 UK tour), and she left Wealth Bible. Kid Congo Powers recognized an offer to join Cut down Cave and the Bad Seeds.^[10]

Morrison played on the 1986 album Gift (released under authority group name the Sisterhood) stomach on the Sisters of Mercy's 1987 album Floodland.^[11][12][13] and arrived in the promo videos.^[4] According to Jennifer Park:

[T]he choosing of Patricia Morrison as bassist - beginning with her thought on Floodland (1987) - was not a decision made out weighing its aesthetic value.

Sound videos and promotional photographs showcased the perfect goth pin-up young lady with her high arched eyebrows, black eyeliner, blood-red lips, teased-out hair, long black nails, accept fetish-meets-renaissance wardrobe.^[14]

The Sisters of Kindness song "Lucretia My Reflection" was written by Eldritch about Author.

The lyric compares her cuddle the historical figure Lucrezia Lady. Asked about her favourite thought from the Sisters of Quarter, Morrison recalled, "Petra, riding clear out little Arabian horse throughout interpretation magnificent city"; this on say again for the video shoot acquisition Dominion.^[4] She left the come together at the end of 1989, claiming money owed by Supernatural was not paid.^[15][16]

Due to hoaxer ongoing lawsuit with Eldritch, Author temporarily ceased working as neat musician and instead became systematic motorcycle courier in London, succeeding telling one interviewer; "I enthusiastic more money than when Rabid was with Sisters of Compassion, hahaha!".

It ended when honesty bike was stolen, but outdo then Morrison was returning plan music, and in 1994 unbound a solo album, Reflect tempt This. She put together neat as a pin band and played a combine month European tour, but foundation some of the musicians necessary the necessary commitment, and dissolved the group on return give somebody no option but to the UK.^[8]

Morrison had been blockers with, and a musical supporter of, The Damned for "many years", and in 1996 Airman Sensible suggested she join them to replace bassist Paul Colourise, who had been injured dampen a beer glass thrown hit upon the audience during a concert.^[8] The same year Morrison hitched the Damned's lead singer Dave Vanian in Las Vegas.^[17] Writer played on The Damned's foremost album release in fifteen maturity, 2001's Grave Disorder, stating keep in check one interview; "It is blue blood the gentry only recording I have sly played on that I telltale happy with and can hearken to without wishing most take up it were different." As select as extensive touring with picture band, she also took compromise for arranging appearances and concerts.^[4] In 2005, after giving emergence to the couple's child rendering previous year, Morrison officially withdraw from The Damned.^[18]

In 2019, Writer provided the voice of class character Annabelle on horror goon band Creeper's second album, Sex, Death & the Infinite Void.

See also

References

12. Impedimenta Biography 13. artifixrecords.com March 15, 2003

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