Talk:The Bangles

new lineup

Updated info about current lineup — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.234.1.160 (talk) 13:19, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Lineup history

The current early-history section says that Hoffs teamed up with the Peterson sisters and it started with the three of them with Zilinskas added later. The "History of the Bangles" section on the official website says that Hoffs placed an ad in the LA Recycler that Zilinskas answered and it was through her that Hoffs met the Petersons. Mark Deming's "artist biography" of Hoffs on the allmusic.com site says that Hoffs answered an ad in the Recycler...while at the same site Stephen Thomas Erlewine's "artist bipgraphy" for the group says it was the Petersons who answered an ad placed by Hoffs (with Zilinskas added later). Deming mentions the group originally being called the Colours before becoming the Bangs. That last gibes with a 1987 Rolling Stone article on the band which mentions Vicki Peterson having a friend "Amanda" who she played with in earlier bands, which in turn gibes with the 2005 article written for the Los Angeles Times by Amanda Hills Podany about her brief reunion with the Bangles whose bassist she had been when they were the Colours (Podany is now a longtime professor at Cal State Poly) when she said Steele was taking a break from the band...never mentioning Zilinskas. There's an interview with Hoffs online where she said Podany was briefly with the band between Zilinskas and Steele, and returned briefly before Travis. At least twice since then there have been 5-member performances where Podany AND Zilinskas performed (December 2016 producing a photo of the five on Vicki Peterson's Facebook page shared by the band's official page AND a Youtube video posted by Podany where Hoffs introduces her for a performance of "He's Got a Secret", as well as the 2018 Arroyo Seco 11-song set). The "Rock in the OC" site review of the Arroyo Seco concert indicates that Amanda was the one who played with the Petersons first but it's not clear if she played with Hoffs first. The official site seems to treat the three ever-presents as the only fulltime members of the band though I gather that since Dr. Podany has a full-time job if they perform with a bass guitarist it is likelier to be Zilinskas but it's not clear how often they do any concerts anyway with or without. (They had a concert in the last couple of weeks with Zilinskas).LE (talk) 09:01, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Found another video in which they discuss their history on stage before playing and get into who answered whose ad...apparently there were multiple ads. A few men have apparently also filled in at bass guitar and one of them, Derrick Anderson, played tambourine with Zilinskas at her old post (she has played in 2014 as well as on the more recent occasions).LE (talk) 16:12, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

OK,here is an article from Medium from November that really gets into the details of what happened before the Bangs became the Bangles.LE (talk) 03:50, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

I am not sure that Zilinskas is currently part of the band. http://www.thebangles.com/about_thebangles.html lists her as emeritus 178.11.205.48 (talk) 22:56, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

First female Alternative Rock band.

It should be worth mentioning they are the first all girl alternative rock band with Paisley Underground being an early alt rock genre, and none existed prior except maybe the Marine Girls but they were more post-punk. ~2026-37839-29 (talk) 01:12, 2 July 2026 (UTC)