Talk:The Pandoras
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As Jennifer Finch went on to play in L7 and Kim Shattuck went on to play in the Muffs, both influential bands in Los Angeles, I think they meet the Wikipedia guidelines for importance. The Pandoras also were representative of a certain time in the 1980s Los Angeles music scene (the Paisley Underground era in particular). Unfortunately, because the Pandoras' existence predated the Web, there isn't much information on the Internet about them - an All Music Guide entry [1] and a brief page on the Bomp! site [2] as well as the link which I have listed in the main article.
[edit] The very beginning.........
I came across this Pandora page today, while working on my website. Being the first bass player for the Pandoras, (Deborah Mende or Menday, depending on what article or picture your looking at) had seen inaccurate info. on our beginnings before. I always put it down to all the chaos and fiasco of the Pandoras splitting in two, and the fighting over the Pandora name.....and hey, I had moved on, gotten back into my visual art, got married, had a kid, etc. So, today, I don't know what came over me. Maybe it was the stress of having made a big move of my home, and studio to Arizona...maybe it was the weird desert storm that passed through here a little while ago. Maybe, after seeing the Pandora article, and having not thought about them in so long, brought the memory back of Casey calling me in 1991, when I was pregnant with my son, about Paula's death. Whatever...it made me want to escape back some twenty six years ago to that little college, (Chaffey College, to be exact).....and write about Paula and I sitting in the women's bathroom, (yes, I said bathroom, lol, the acoustics, you know?), banging out songs on our guitars, and our only worry was how we were going to get our name out. Paula's idea was to graffiti our name all over the Hollywood nightclubs, even though we needed to get our shit together, and get a drummer and bass player-of which I ended up the bass player. Writing this kind of memoir, so to speak, brought back that sad feeling I had in 1991, when Casey called to tell me about Paula's death. After I left the band, I never spoke to Paula again....I wish I had. Anyway, with just one of us still here, thought I'd get the story straight. So, I guess, the rightful/legal name of the Pandoras, actually was Paula's. It's great that she's being remembered on that Pandora website, on the link of the Wik. page; because Paula ate, drank, slept, breathed music....it's what she lived for.
Peace..........
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Pan SPLP.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:16, 19 November 2007 (UTC) ==========
Actually it is Fair Use so not sure why it was even deleted as it was/is the album cover and I believe that is what the "Fair use rationale guideline" said. Seems to be weird that the entire media world accepts that when Labels send out promo pictures and album covers in order to help promote their acts it is accepted and, a given, that they can be freely used to promote that artist. However here at Wiki one has to jump through hoops and rings of burning fire to "prove" that the PR images can be, *gasp*, actually used in articles about the artists. Go Figure. I think maybe the powers that be need to come up with some simple "Fair USE: Record/Managment/Band Publicity material" tag that would make all of this much easier.
