![]() ![]() "I used to play that thing until my thumb was blistered and bleeding." But aren't bassists supposed to pluck with their fingers? "Yeah, I learned that later, when I was playing in my band Cradle. What was he thinking of? Girls (she was 14 at the time) didn't play electric basses, still less one with a really thick neck that made it particularly difficult to master. ![]() It's the 1957 Fender Precision that her dad gave her back in 1964. ![]() When she returns with coffee, however, Quatro points out the bass guitar hanging on the wall. Today, the living room carpet and rug are impeccably Hoovered. This is the woman, for crying out loud, who in 1975 released a badass-sounding album called Your Mama Won't Like Me. The Australian tour when she played bass with a broken arm. The night her father socked Chuck Berry on the jaw in her dressing room. The time Elvis invited her to Graceland and she declined. The day she shot Alice Cooper between the eyes with an arrow (it had a rubber tip, but let's not spoil the story). When she dragged her drunken guitarist husband Len Tuckey up to bed (again!) after a gig. The time she got a wasted Iggy Pop thrown off stage for trying to muscle in on her mic. " Then there are the six-hour sex sessions. ![]() One paragraph begins: "Around this time I became a go-go dancer. Having just read her new autobiography, Unzipped, this domestic felicity is not what I expected. ![]()
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