# Face the Music - Fanny, or, "So you thought you knew 70's rock. . ." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 31, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741 "2020-03-31T14:48:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/21 "2020-04-11T14:19:00Z")
There was a Shaggs movie in the works a couple of years ago, but I haven’t heard much about it since. > **[The Shaggs Movie Casts 'Eighth Grade' Star Elsie Fisher](https://www.spin.com/2018/10/the-shaggs-movie-casts-eighth-grade-star-elsie-fisher/)** > > Elsie Fisher of 'Eighth Grade' will star in an upcoming movie about cult 1960s teen band The Shaggs. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/22 "2020-04-11T21:48:27Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Here they are in a live performance How the hell have I never heard of these people? – well, OK, there were a lot of people doing great music then who I never heard of at the time either; my knowledge in that area was never all that broad. But still – ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/23 "2020-04-12T00:13:39Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Later on, in the '70s, the Shaggs had actually learned to play their instruments and sing, and they put out an album that was musically at least minimally competent, albeit not notable in any way. The album was _Philosophy of the World_, and my link in #11 was a song from that album. So yes, that was them at the height of their “talent”. I wouldn’t call it “minimally competent”. The whole album (as much of it as I could tolerate) sounds to me like three kids picked up some instruments they’d never touched before and tried to improvise a song. Full album: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA&t=529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA&t=529s) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/24 "2020-04-12T05:37:51Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > The album was _Philosophy of the World_, and my link in #11 was a song from that album. So yes, that was them at the height of their “talent”. I wouldn’t call it “minimally competent”. The whole album (as much of it as I could tolerate) sounds to me like three kids picked up some instruments they’d never touched before and tried to improvise a song. > > Full album: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA&t=529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA&t=529s) No, that was the cult Shaggs of the '60s when they were kids. Years later, as adults in the '70s, they recorded another album that was just normal and nobody’s ever heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/25 "2020-04-12T06:00:37Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > How the hell have I never heard of these people? I know, right? I was only in single-digits at the time, but I made up for it by going through my sister’s albums, listening to a lot of rock radio when they still played that era all the time, talking to ppl and using the internet. Still, I only discovered them recently. Makes you wonder what else we’re missing. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/26 "2020-04-12T18:09:25Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Fanny is an excellent call. My first wife introduced me to them decades ago. It’s really good to see them appreciated. Fanny and Suzi Quatro were the first to prove to the world that WOMEN can ROCK. Yep Suzi showed that she could rock back in the 60’s, when she was just 15. If someone’s not into garage rock, they may not have heard it, but The Pleasure Seekers’ [What a Way to Die](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddDHPWJIfEY) is a classic. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/27 "2020-04-12T18:24:11Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > [Love](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(band)) > > Two songs off that album, [Alone Again Or](https://youtu.be/cPbNpIG8x_s) and [A House is Not a Motel](https://youtu.be/H3xzHYz6L5w), are as strong as anything put out by California groups in 1967. Love was huge in Los Angeles, rivaling Buffalo Springfield. Broke up for pretty much the same reasons, too, so that there never was a good follow-up album. And I think they do the best version of Bacharachs [Little Red Book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-SuGfLhqo4) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/28 "2021-05-08T15:07:21Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zspd9hFRtkw/maxresdefault.jpg "FANNY: The Right To Rock - Official Film Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zspd9hFRtkw) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/29 "2021-05-08T15:23:37Z")
She never seems to have made it big in the USA, but the late 70s and early 80s are for me inconceivable without Carolyne Mas, specially her “Sitting in the Dark” from her live album Mas Hysteria: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9_ydQHaU3cM/hqdefault.jpg "Carolyne Mas Sittin in the dark") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ydQHaU3cM) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/30 "2021-05-11T09:21:46Z")
> WORLD PREMIERE at HOT DOCS INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2021! Cool, they finally finished it! > The _2021 Hot Docs Festival_ will be available for audiences across Canada to stream April 29 to May 9 So that’s over, hope it’s available somewhere soon. The trailer had some NICE footage of their Beat Club performance, even better than the one posted on Youtube. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/31 "2021-05-11T14:16:40Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > It’s more late 60s, but they’ve got a couple albums in the early 70s, but are you familiar with Love? Bit o’ trivia-- Love was an influence on the Doors, or at least when the Doors were starting out, Jim Morrison’s ambition was for the Doors to become as famous as the band Love: > By the time Love entered RCA Studio B in September 1966 to record their second album, _Da Capo_ , Pfisterer had been moved from drums to organ and harpsichord – an indication of Lee’s ever-increasing ambition. Aware of _ **Jim Morrison’s ambition “to be as big as Love** _”, Lee pulled out all the stops. > **[The Man Who Inspired Hendrix: The Crazy World Of Arthur Lee & Love](https://www.loudersound.com/features/love-california-dreaming)** > > How an unlikely rock star lead the psychedelic revolution that swept 60s California ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741/32 "2021-05-12T12:27:13Z")
Been listening to her on Youtube. I really enjoyed her live performances. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/face-the-music-fanny-or-so-you-thought-you-knew-70s-rock/850741.md?page=1)