Red Aunts

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The Red Aunts were an American all-female punk band that formed in 1991 in Long Beach, California, United States, when Terri Wahl (a.k.a. Angel, or Louise Lee Outlaw) recruited friends Kerry Davis (a.k.a. Sapphire, or Taffy Davis) and Debi Martini (a.k.a. E.Z. Wider, a.k.a. Connie Champagne, or Debbi Dip). Wahl would become the guitarist, sharing vocal duties with Davis who also played rhythm guitar and Martini as bassist. Wahl's ex-husband, Jon Wahl of the band Claw Hammer, stood in as drummer under the alias Joan Whale until he was replaced full-time by Lesley Ishino (a.k.a. Lesley Noelle, Ishino Destroyer, or Cougar).^[1]

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Red Aunts
Origin	Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Punk rock garage rock garage punk
Years active	1991–1998
Labels	Epitaph Records Sympathy for the Record Industry
Members	Terri Wahl Kerry Davis Debi Martini (died 2019) Lesley Noelle
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None of the women had formal musical training or previous experience in bands. They received slight help from both Scott Drake of fellow Long Beach band the Humpers, and Jon Wahl. Dip put out the punk fanzine, Real Life in a Big City. They were not from Riot grrrl Movement, but were supported by Lunachiks. For this reason, and of course because of their synchronicity and empathy with this movement, some mistakenly attributed them to this movement. . The Red Aunts rapidly developed their own sound, going from raw simple punk to more complicated garage-punk-blues within the space of their seven years and five full-length albums. They disbanded in 1998. Singer Terri Wahl opened a catering company and 5 years later her own restaurant/bakery in Los Angeles. Other members have gone on to work with other bands like The Screws, Beehive and the Barracudas and others. Singer and guitarist Kerry Smith currently records under the name Two Tears.

• Red Aunts on Allmusic
• Discography on gunnenrocks
• Interview with Kerry Davis

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