The Fabulous Miss Wendy!

I forgot when I saw Ms Fab. It was late fall 2010, at Reggies. The Fabulous Miss Wendy is a crazy master guitarist. She has such effortless control of that instrument that she can, and does show off her prowess on it, she performs with it. The guitar is as much prop as it is instrument. So her music cannot help but be fully guitar driven. Her music is fun, catchy, but not syrupy sweet pop. It's fun in the punk, metal, garage rock type of way. Metal guitarists have their precision skills and Wendy has that, owns that. The sound and fun side of Punk is there, as well as the messiness of Garage. Punk is messy too right? Her very straight forward lyrics are a welcome breath of air, different than what I normally look for. A different animal she is indeed. By the way with all these styles of rock; garage, punk, metal, there is an inherent anger to them that Miss Wendy is fabulous to leave out. She's having fun! She's not angry with a chip on her shoulder. She likes boys without apology. A person like that really sticks out because it's hard to effectively filter out the anger in all them styles while still having that dominant impact, and straight-forwardness. Well, she's not giddy in all her songs. Cowboy-ish and brash Wendy is playful like Pat Benatar. A playful alpha-female. In control of her guitar, I mean she was dragging herself all over the place on her back going off on that guitar. The leader of the band. I'm sure she introduced the band but I don't remember. It's not to be cruel or cute. Ms Wendy just busts through that fourth wall between performer and audience,(it is fourth right?) I mean really on her back in the isles under the tables with that straight forward American-working class rock. It's not cloudy and introspective like shoe-gaze. I did not get that folk-rock, indy-rock feel from her. That's baggage that does not weigh down Ms Wendy. And can you believe she has played for the troops in Iraq. Wow! Ms Wendy is so well traveled. Oh, yeah. She's hot. I mean red hair. And it's like she marinated in pinkish glitter. She has "Fabulous" tattooed on her upper back. I know because she just contorts like that and you get a good look. Ms Wendy is Fabulous for many reasons. There's a story behind it. To be vague, Ms Wendy got it by accident, but she kind of super-owns it by now. It's in her stage presence. You don't ignore The Fabulous Ms Wendy.