In 1969, though, the young women weren’t sure how much longer their musical career would last. I was going to UC Davis and Brie and Jean got a house in Los Altos.”
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By summer, we had reconfigured as Wild Honey. “We played with Sly and the Family Stone in Lake Tahoe in spring of ’68. “The Bay Area was our happy place,” June Millington says. They’d shimmy down the tree outside their house, says Jean Millington, who played bass, and then start the car by pushing it silently and then popping the clutch once it was far enough from home not to wake their parents.Įventually, their dad came around and bought an old school bus to retrofit for the girls to drive their gigs in Northern California, first as the Svelts, later as Wild Honey.
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Some nights the sisters would sneak out of the house to rehearse with guitarist Addie Lee and drummer Brie Brandt (now Brie Darling). “In fact, he was right, but we didn’t care. “Our dad was against it because he said, ‘Well, who’s gonna take care of you?’” she says. “She went behind our dad’s back and went to a music store and signed for our first gear in ’65. “Our mom was always into it,” June Millington says by video call from her home in Goshen, Massachusetts. As children, their family relocated to Sacramento in 1961 by high school, they’d formed their first band with two other girls. June and Jean Millington were born in the Philippines to a Filipina mother and a White father. “Fanny: The Right To Rock” opens in theaters on Friday, June 3, and somewhere out there Bowie can rest easy. “They’re as important as anybody else who’s ever been, ever it just wasn’t their time,” Bowie told the magazine. The late David Bowie, who wrote the band a fan letter in the early ’70s – and two decades later in a Rolling Stone interview was still talking about how criminally overlooked they were – would be pleased.īowie, it should be noted, dated Jean Millington for a year or so in the mid-’70s, and she later married his guitarist, Earl Slick, with whom she had two kids. Cherie Currie of the Runaways, Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s and Kate Pierson of the B-52’s are among the musicians interviewed in it. The documentary film Hart made, “Fanny: The Right To Rock,” includes all of that as well as the long shadow of the band’s influence on female rock bands and musicians who followed. On any night at Fanny Hill, the house they all lived in just off the Sunset Strip, musicians from singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt to Lowell George of Little Feat might be down in the basement jamming with different members of the band. Barbra Streisand hired them to back her in the studio on her albums “Stoney End” and “Barbara Joan Streisand.” They opened for everyone from Chicago and Humble Pie to Jethro Tull and Jeff Beck.