The, Pleasant Gaiman Says

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-girl band” Pleasant Gaiman says. It never dawned on her that she couldn 't do it, even though she didn 't have all female bands to look up to in comparison to a girl growing up today. Her ambitious and untraditional thinking was molded on the liberal campus of Wesleyan University, in Middleton CT, where her mother taught theater. Campus life exposed her to playing gamelans, sneaking into r rated art films in the student center and listening to Ravi Shankar practice in the concert hall. When her mom was co-writing a book with Gloria Steinem, her babysitters took her to see the grateful dead on the great lawn, where she smoked pot for the first time. When she needed a bra, her mother told her no, because it was oppressive, so she went to Woolworths and shoplifted one for herself. She was writing songs for years but didn’t play guitar. She loved learning but hated school, making her a strong contender to going to become a graduate of La. Punk’s first generation. “ I grew up in Punk Rock.” she claims. Arriving in 1977 right before her sixteenth birthday, she immediately found the co...

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