We loved talking with the Donita Sparks of L7officialhq on touring, the noise of social media and how the music industry continues to evolve!
If you’re already a reader of BUST, then it’s very likely you’re an L7 fan as well, and co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist Donita Sparks needs no introduction. But I’ll give you one anyway, just because the band’s legacy deserves to be spread far and wide. After forming in 1985 and making waves with their grungy metal sound, L7 were also noted for their unapologetic feminism in a genre that was often incredibly misogynistic.
You know, I feel the same way, but my publicist Sarah says we work with a lot of bands that do protest songs, so I think it is out there. I don’t think it’s as visible as maybe we all thought it was gonna be. It’s not like “Dispatch at Mar-a-Lago” is getting played on the radio. I know of one station that did not want to play it because they didn’t want any trouble.
The crowds are super appreciative. They’re very diverse in age. Lot of young people, lot of older people. The touring thing is much different because we can all escape into our phones. There’s WiFi on our bus. This shit was unheard of. Back in the day, we’d be in a van, and if we needed directions, we’d have to pull over, get change for a payphone, call the promoter. We were forced to be around each other and be in each other’s grills constantly. But that also made the experience amazing.
I was on this panel with Marky Ramone, John Lydon, Duff McKagen, Henry Rollins, and John Varvatos. It’s just like “Okay, wow!” John Lydon was holding court, and I think he had a few to drink, and he was in a mood. And he was being John Lydon. And I thought it was amazing. I thought it was fabulous. It was totally punk rock. He got vicious with Marky, which I didn’t like, but then Marky got vicious right back at him.
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