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I called Mia Levin (Mudwimin, Frightwig) about Etta James who died recently. I am trying to piece together that Etta James recorded an album in Nashville called “Seven Year Bitch”, in 1989. Then, in early 1990s Selene Vigil starts a band called Seven Year Bitch. Then, in late 1990s, Lisa Fay Beatty (1964-2011) of the Mudwimin joins 7 Year Bitch, first as a sound mixer then as lead guitar. Then Lisa happens to work for a Thrasher Productions show for Nina Simone and strikes up a friendship with Nina Simone. Is there a creative thread that connects those events?

Mia says that Selene is part black, if that helps, and married, she thinks and I believe her, the drummer of Rage Against Machine.

When prompted or asked, Mia confirms my recollection, somewhat extraneous and perhaps gratuitous here, that the original guitarist for Seven Year Bitch, died, maybe of an overdose. Well off subject but still close to my heart, I recall Kathy Moffeit calling me once to say she saw an album of 7 Year Bitch and bought it just for the name. Kathy and Mia knew each other as kids and maybe in junior high, if that helps — actually, and not to brag, I kinda dated each of them, in the 7th Grade kind of way, although both relationships evolved into more like me being a brother, a safe guy, but still Jewish not Asian. Digressing to: who was I talking to about not being visibly Asian? A trustee for the De Young, a Kathleen Hall I believe, the biochemist, who claims to be part Chinese. (Kathy is part Korean, half Korean, even, like Steve Kressie, the Gunn basketball star, whose mom I shot at a recent game — I discussed all this with Hans Delannoy yesterday, who says that he thinks of himself as part Asian in that his mom and maybe his dad are both from Indonesia. Hans can rattle off the names of the four NBA Asians: Wat Misaka — I had to explain him–, Ray Townsend, someone else from San Jo and Jeremy Lin. I am way off topic.

Mia said that Friday was a nice lady, the one who died.

Lisa and I were working supposedly on a monologue or show about Nina, which I have posthumously working-titled “Save Me, Yeah.”

I will have to look in to Etta, at least.

edit to add: Selene Vigil also known as Selene Vigil Wilk having married Rage Against Machine drummer Brad Wilk. 7YB bassist Elisabeth Davis was also a member of Von Iva, I wrote about recently. Slightly off topic, I tried to produce a show for Lyme featuring forme L7 stalwart Jennifer Finch but the band no-showed. otherstarpeople aka. Thanks to Madina Salaty, who gets a pass because she also sent AFI our way, I was recalling with Kepi Ghoulie Sunday at Rockage. What was my  potential Kepi headline? Oh, yeah: “Finders Kep-ers” although I had to look up the TK reference.