 Mydolls - (Houston, TX) Mydolls began in 1978 in Houston, Texas with Dianna Ray and Trish Herrera writing a few songs together. Later Dianna and Trish were joined by Linda Bond/Younger and the three went in search of a drummer. After several attempts of working with drummers, Trish's cousin, George Reyes joined the band and the sound took off with his powerful connection to Dianna Ray's bass playing. This gave Trish and Linda a lot of room to play with their guitars in a very unconventional way. Linda would sometimes play the top three strings, while Trish played the bottom three, giving the sound a somewhat textural body. The vocals were mainly shared by Trish and Linda with Dianna adding some chanting and George singing while playing drums on a couple of songs. Mydolls traveled to London, England after the release of their first 45 and were warmly greeted by Mayo Thompson of the Red Crayola and Rough Trade fame. They were also invited to be on the BBC Radio and be interviewed by John Peel. Mydolls did three major US tours in addition to playing around Texas and Louisiana. The three tours took them though the midwest to college towns and small alternative venues, and all the way to New York City to play the NY Film Festival premiere of Wim Wenders movie, Paris, Texas. Mydolls appear in the movie in the bar scene where Nastaja Kinski reconnects with Harry Dean Stanton. Later, Paris,Texas would win the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Mydolls continued to play together until 1986 when Linda gave birth to her first child, and the band split to pursue other areas of film, art and careers. Trish, George and Dianna did some studio work with Dan Workman (Sugar Hill Studios/Culturcide) while Dianna and Trish played with Dianna's life partner, Kathy Johnston, in WWI Women with Instruments, Black Dresses and They Should Have Been Blondes. Trish lives in Houston and cuts hair at www.wavelengthsalon.com and Dianna has a film business. George, father of two, moved to Austin where he is a counselor at a community college and Linda, now mother of two, works at a hospital in Houston. Currently, Mydolls are rehearsing in hopes of playing a Thanksgiving show in Houston, along with bands who once played Rock Island, for a reunion show. Mydolls has released their complete works on CD on Grand Theft Audio. This CD includes 2 cds and a 24 page booklet of all of their songs plus photos, flyers and lyrics.
What Mydolls wrote about politically, sadly still applies today. Audiography: Nova Grows Up / Therapist CIA Records Exorcist/ Imposter CIA Records Soldiers of Pure War on compilation Cottage Cheese From the Lips of Death Savage Song/ Sub Pop 7 Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick/Mydolls CIA Records |
 Perseph One- (Houston, TX) "Houston's queen of experimental hip-hop, is a genius, or else she's bat-shit crazy. Either way, the Kansas City transplant has been a major player in the local underground music scene" - Houston Press
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 Guitars - (Houston, TX) "straight up gummy-guitar garage goodness." - Modern Luxury
"I don't mean to say, by the by, that Guitars are some VU tribute, they go far, far beyond those boundaries in terms of music; like I said, I'm thinking more just the general feel, here. Music-wise, they're a lot more mellow and rural than Lou Reed and company could ever manage, taking the mid-fi urban grime and making it less grimy and more, well, dusty and lonesome.
Looking towards more contemporary folks, I see some close kinship to fellow retro-'60s/'70s ramblers The Duchess and the Duke, although those two fuse far more Byrdsian jangle into their sound than the Guitars crew. Still, though, there's a similar bitter/tired darkness going on in both bands, and a very similar warm-yet-bleak feel." - Space City Rock
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