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8/10/95
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By Brad Tyer Tim Carman,
Joe Hon, and Jim Sherman
best drummer/best blues
leesa harrington
Leesa Harrington is a
big beautiful bear of a
woman -- 25 years old,
mother of one lovely
daughter -- who likes to
hit things with sticks,
hard. She's done just
that for Linda Lou and
Libido, Bloodfart and
Oreo Beef Maggot over
the years, as well as
sporadic gigging and
recording with
Stinkerbell, Manhole,
Josephus and Happy
Fingers Institute. Call
her ambitious. Last year
she even answered an
audition call when Ozzy
Osbourne was looking to
assemble a new band.
Harrington didn't get
the gig -- good for
Houston -- but she did
get a nice letter from
the Oz thanking her for
her tape. The letter is
framed on a wall in
Harrington's house.
Most folks got to know
Harrington as the heavy
metal thunder in the
Joint Chiefs' art rock
mix, but she left that
band after five years to
join Carolyn
Wonderland's Imperial
Monkeys this January,
and by all accounts --
both fan and band --
it's a marriage made in
some truck stop on the
outskirts of heaven.
With the Monkeys,
Harrington's playing
every day or so,
somewhere or other, and
awaiting the October
release of the band's
second CD -- their first
for Big Mo Records and
first with Harrington
behind the kit. She says
it rocks hard, which
would be no surprise. As
to winning the
long-overdue, first-ever
balloting for best
drummer, she says it's
"kinda weird,
because there's so many
killer drummers in town,
and a handful that'll
blow my ass in the dirt.
But I'm happy. It's cool
that people would vote
for me." (B.T.)
Best drummer/Best Blues
Leesa Harrington
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