But they were a very rare type of rock band, and the first of its kind. So what if there was tons of competition back then.

@@jlbaker2000 The competition was better back then. Not much competition now. Still, Fanny was an excellent band. Being rare and the first of their kind means nothing.

Asked myself that very question only SIX Months ago!

A girl shows Ginger Baker up for the hack that he is.

Mike Frech Alice had some awesome chops!

@@mikefrech1123 She does this so much better than he did.

Totally agree

Precision and feeling. Alice at her best!

You don't give your age so I'm guessing you were born late 1950s-late 60s, but I've also met people my age who never heard of them. How that happened I don't know since they opened for plenty of top tier male bands all over the world. Me, I'm in my early 70s and had the treat of seeing these ladies live in 1971 (I think since it was just a few weeks before their "Charity Ball" album release) opening for The James Gang at a Denver venue again, I think it was at the University of Denver). Long story short: Joe and the boys should have opened for Fanny that night. That concert wasn't my "eureka moment" since I knew of them and owned their first album and I had also seen Joe Walsh from the beginning of his career being from Stow, Ohio-about four miles from Kent where the Measles (Joe's first band of any note) played most weekends. Still love The James Gang recordings, but these ladies are one of the few groups/singers I've gobbled up everything I can find of theirs that has been recorded. There is still one I don't have and that is a "live bootleg" from a small studio in Cleveland, Ohio in 1972. It's from Slick (as in Earl Slick) Music as he was Jean's partner at the time. New it sells for $400 and there is one used one I came across for $50.

They are from my era. I am 67. They did not get the kind of stardom they deserved, but they were known and many people loved them.

Ron R yeah exactly the same with me, unreal, can’t stop watching the blind alley beat club vid from 71, that drumming. I mean just unreal.

I'm simpatico. I kept getting it as a recommendation, but didn't know why until I heard it. Amazing stuff...

Old Marvin Gaye tune done SO well with respect due!!!!

Agreed. That fuzz and dirty tone, especially on the fills, are amazing!

June played through "a Hammond Leslie speaker............chained to another amp" (probably "a big Fender"). Listen to her telling about it: fannyrocks.com/podcast/get-behind-fanny-episode-6/

She had better distortion and tone than most guys in 72.

@jah2ras4i The drums ain't no slouch as well.

they will be honored at She Rocks Awards 2018!

Agreed an outstanding performance. High energy with excellent execution. I am trying to remember how I found out about them. I think I just thought their Fanny Hill album looked interesting and purchase it. I was floored by this LP and got two others (Charity Ball, Survivor(?)). I have yet to physically meet anyone who has heard of them before I introduced Fanny to them. I was a teenager in Baltimore, MD USA at the time and don't remember ever hearing them on the radio.

Fanny consists of 4 women.

Mandrill consists 7 members.

Prymrr They Deserve to be in the rock and roll hall of fame !!!

Still BC won't let Fanny issue a CD/DVD of their OWN performance.

@@thirdbase6870 that is annoying. Because I have to say of all that I found, it’s their best.

Patti Quatro was the lead guitarist on Rock And Roll Survivors.

No that is Alice...

You are a very lucky guy! And you have great taste.

I was going to say the same. She plays with real power yet is even and steady and right on the beat. Ginger is one of the heights of rock drumming and she holds her own well.

The fill at 1:20 ...awesome!!!

June has written a marvelous memoir: "Land of a Thousand Bridges."

yeah. class act.

She is amazing and her Tone is to die for :o) At the Moment I am lifting Licks from their TV Performance at the Beatclub 23.11.1971 Fanny rocks!

This is a Cream cover

They were. ;-)

Thank you Dale! June

If half of what Nickey Barclay has to say about him is true, you are absolutely right: www.technodyke.com/dykerock/interviews/072103_fannynickeyshort.asp .

Luck is much more of a factor than it should be. It takes good management along with having what promoters and producers consider to be the right image at the right time. It's a shallow world out there. The Beatles struggled to even get a record deal for a long time. They finally got a record deal and then hit the United States at exactly the right time. Ten years earlier or later, they probably wouldn't have gotten that far. I think Fanny might have been big time in the 80s or 90s. They wouldn't have a prayer now. It's a crazy business.

I believe the main reason they did not get the recognition and fame they deserved is because the listening audience in that day didn't accept or take seriously an all female band, regardless how great they were. It wasn't mismanagement or the record producers.

@Rayburn58 At last an enlightened statement.

@@Rayburn58 The record producers routinely tried to "popify" the band's sound, probably because they thought a poppier sound might be more successful. These ladies rocked HARD and didn't like being toned down. (I know 3 of these ladies personally, so I know whereof I speak.) That's why their live performances are so great.