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Shaunna Elizabeth Hall (born July 28, 1963) is an American composer and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. As guitarist, she was a founding member of the band 4 Non Blondes and is currently a member of George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic.
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Shaunna Elizabeth Hall (born July 28, 1963) is an American composer and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. As guitarist, she was a founding member of the band 4 Non Blondes and is currently a member of George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic.
Hall played trumpet in school, studying under Jon Simms, the founder of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps, at Benjamin Franklin Intermediate School in Daly City, California. She started taking the guitar seriously as a teenager at Serramonte High School, and studied songwriting at the Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco with Bonnie Hayes. [1]
Hall joined her first band, The Crash Puppies, in the early 1980s. In the late 1980s, she and bassist Christa Hillhouse formed Cool and Unusual Punishment, a new wave duo. Later, they joined, along with drummer Wanda Day, The Lesbian Snake Charmers, led by singer Jai Jai Noire.
Hall met vocalist Linda Perry, and when The Lesbian Snake Charmers broke up, they co-founded the alternative rock group 4 Non Blondes with Perry, Hillhouse, and Day in 1989. [1]
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In 1990, 4 Non Blondes won the SF Weekly Award (Wammies) for Best Rock Band. Bigger, Better, Faster, More! by Interscope Records was released in 1992 and was the only studio album released by the band. It includes performances and five compositions by Hall ("Morphine & Chocolate", "Spaceman", and others). The album peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Top 200. "Spaceman" was released as a single in 1993 and peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Hall left the band in 1992 during the recording of "Bigger, Better, Faster, More!" over musical differences with the band as well as with the producer. The album was completed with session guitarist Louis Metoyer.
Hall and Pat Wilder subsequently founded Bad Dog Play Dead in 1992. The all-female ensemble played funk, rock, country and pop songs written largely by Hall and Wilder, and the group reunited Hall and 4 Non Blondes drummer Wanda Day. They recorded a demo, engineered and mixed by Garry Crieman at Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco. Janis Tanaka played bass on the demo but did not join the group. The band played live in San Francisco for several months until the permanent disability of Day in December 1992.
Hall played as a part of the agro-core hard rock band The Alcohol of Fame (named by studio engineer Garry Crieman) from 1993-95. The group began as an ensemble Hall put together to perform a benefit for Day at the I-Beam in San Francisco in early 1993. The band changed line-ups, with the core trio of Hall, Crash and Spingola finally teaming with drummer Becky Wreck from the Lunachicks later that year. Their first official performance was at Female Trouble's "The Dykemare Before Christmas" in December 1993. With the addition of bassist Erica Liss of MDC in early 1994, the lineup made a six-song demo, Mendocino Demo 1994, and played the New Music Seminar in New York, NY followed by an east coast summer tour in 1994.
Though Wreck remained on the east Coast, the core trio of Crash, Hall and Spingola returned to San Francisco. Drummer Peter French and a series of bass players including Dennis Dismore and the late Warner Harrison joined The Alcohol of Fame in 1995. The group recorded a second demo in the spring of 1995 at Gush Studios in Oakland, California. Warner announced his departure from the band only weeks after finishing the demo, and the group disbanded.
In 1996, Hall and Tribe 8, Bay Area queercore pioneers, joined Nirvana, Soundgarden, Joan Jett, The Gits, and others on the Home Alive! Compilation. The project raised funds and awareness for self-defense education for women in honor of Mia Zapata, the singer of The Gits who was beaten and murdered while walking home.
Hall appears on Frat Pig and another song from the Tribe 8 CD Fist City on Alternative Tentacles Records. She co-produced Tribe 8's Role Models for America released in 1998 on Alternative Tentacles.
Throughout the 1990s, Hall played with the theatrical six-piece group The Eric McFadden Experience. In 1998, the group received the SF Weekly Award (Wammies) for Best Americana Band and released Our Revels Now are Ended. The CD includes one Hall composition, "Macaroon", which also appeared on an early 4 Non Blondes demo. [1]
Alien Lovestock's 2000 CD Planet of Fish includes the composition "Alien Love" co-written by Hall, Eric McFadden and George Clinton.
Hall composed eight tracks with Storm, Inc. for the independent release The Calm Years in April 2001. Storm, Inc. started in the summer of 1999 when Hall sat in with singer Storm Large as a support guitarist for acoustic gigs. Hall and Storm, Inc. wrote and created The Calm Years. and toured the US west coast following its release.
As a sound designer, Hall helped create the first online video game developed by Shockwave in 2000. Tamale Loco is now available in the Shockwave Favorites Vol. 1 game bundle or as a standalone download at Shockwave.com.
In the summer of 2001, she played with Dog Ass, a trio with Los Angeles drummer Becky Wreck and bassist Christy Michel. Formed specifically to play a Breast Cancer Awareness Benefit presented by Loudithfaire, a festival celebrating lesser-known women in rock, the trio gave a few shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles before Hall moved to Barcelona, Spain in 2002.
Hall wrote, produced, and directed a short film called The Beauty of Betrayal in May 2002. Brick Seriously and Hall recorded the video in San Francisco. It features her composition Beauty Sleeps recorded in San Francisco and Los Angeles with drummer Kevin Carnes, EricMcFadden Experience members Sam Bass, Ben Barnes and Paula O'Rourke. Janis Tanaka plays the saw on the instrumental. Hall appears in the film along with actress Natalie Richie.
In July 2002, Hall began touring with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. Since then, she has played on several US, Canadian and European tours as well as dates abroad. She was the monitor engineer from 2002–2004, and the P-Funk Live at the 2004 Montreaux Jazz Festival DVD credits her engineering work. She became the first official female guitarist of P-Funk in 2007.
Hall and Dutch artist Margot van Ham shared an art/music studio in Barcelona, Spain from 2004 to 2006. In 2004, Hall released a video called The Third Eye. Van Ham produced the video in 2004 with a song Hall wrote with Paul Hill and Clip Payne of P-Funk in 2002. The video was released in 2006 as a part of Hall's multimedia project, Electrofunkadelica: e3+FUNKnth = music for the body, mind & soul.
In 2007, Hall appeared on the BBC program The 100 Most Annoying Pop Songs We Hate To Love, which featured the 4 Non Blondes song "What's Up? at number 91 on the list.
Hall joined a number of artists for former artist liaison and backstage manager Tiffany Travalent's benefit at 12 Galaxies in San Francisco in 2007. Led by Eric McFadden, a large group of musicians including Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic), Dawn Silva (Brides of Funkenstein/Sly and the Family Stone), Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), Pete Sears, Carol Hernandez, and The Meters' drummer Ziggy Modeliste gave their time to benefit Travalent, who suffers from severe chronic pain, is unable to work, and had large outstanding medical bills. A DVD of the event was released with footage from the show and related content. [2] [3]
Hall earned two engineering credits in 2008—the first for Clinton's vocals on the song Heads Will Roll, for Lee "Scratch" Perry's Return of the Super Ape . The second, George Clinton and his Gangsters of Love, charted on both the Billboard R&B and Independent Charts. [1]
Hall returned to the United States in 2005, and continues to tour the world as a guitarist with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic in The P-Funk Allstars. She became an official band member in 2007 after five years of touring as a part-time player, monitor engineer, and crew member. [4]
She released a solo project, Electrofunkadelica, in 2006. She wrote, produced, and recorded most of the project on a Macintosh laptop with a portable studio while touring the world with P-Funk on the road between 2002 and 2005, and the tracks feature many P-Funk members and musician friends. The 2006 release Electrofunkadelica: e3+FUNKnth = music for the body, mind & soul, is a collection of audio recordings and three videos. It consists of contemporary music and projected visual imagery performances described as "containing some social and political messages, some emotional and inspirational, and some are just plain fun". The Electrofunkadelica live performances feature Hall on guitar, electronic sources including looping samplers, Kevin Carnes on drums, Stephan G. as VJ, and occasional guest vocalists or instrumentalists. Projected visual imagery plays a large part in the show, with VJ mixing, animation and film.
She is currently creating the next Electrofunkadelica collection, which will again feature many musical guests and the recording debut of drag king character BB Kink. [1] Hall created BB Kink as an Electro-GoGo-Love-Blues guitar player. She introduced the character in late 2008 with performances in Barcelona at Sala Monasterio and San Francisco at Anon Salon.
Hall was a panelist for the 2000 and 2005 ROCKRGRL Music Conference, and has been a volunteer performer for Bread and Roses since 1997. She is a member of ASCAP.
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George Clinton George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love Shanachie - 2008 Engineer Billboard R&B and Independent Charts
Lee "Scratch" Perry Return of the Super Ape Goldenlane Records - 2008 Engineer
Electrofunkadelica e3+FUNKnth=music for the body, mind & soul Make Music, Not War Records - 2006 Guitar, producer, songwriter and more
Eric McFadden Dementia Bad Reputation Records - 2006 Guitar
420 Funk Mob Alive in Spain wefunk 2kAD - 2004 Guitar wefunkFM.com, wefunk records, and thefunkstore.com
Eric McFadden Eric McFadden 2002 Guitar
Alien Lovestock Planet of Fish NMX Records - 2001 Songwriter
Storm, Inc. The Calm Years Gender Nectar Records - 2001 Guitar, BVs, songwriter
The Flying Other Bros. Secondary Producer/ Engineer 2000
The Flying Other Bros. Demo & IPO 1999 Producer/ Engineer
Tribe 8 Role Models for Amerika Alternative Tentacles - 1998 Guest Guitar, BVs, Co-Producer
The Eric McFadden Experience Our Revels Now Are Ended NMX Records - 1998 Guitar, Songwriter
Eric McFadden Who's Laughing Now NMX records - 1997 Guitar
Various Artists Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense Sony - 1996 Guitar
Tribe 8 Fist City Alternative Tentacles - 1995 Guest guitar
Nicodemus Dance Hall Giant PSM Recordings - 1995 Guitar
The Alcohol of Fame Gush Demo '95 Recorded at Gush Studios, Oakland, CA - 1995 Engineered by Allen Kraft, Mastered by Matt Murmen at Different Fur Studios, San Francisco Songwriter, Guitar
The Alcohol of Fame Mendocino Demo Session 1994 Recorded by Joey Mobile Sound - 1994 Songwriter, Guitar
Positive Sound Massive "Sex & Guns" and "Unity" PSM Records - 1993
Bad Dog Play Dead Hyde St. Demo Recorded by Garry Crieman at Hyde Street Studios, SF - 1992 Songwriter, Guitar
4 Non Blondes Bigger, Better, Faster, More! Interscope Records - 1992 Guitar, Songwriter
Second Wind [5]
The 3rd Eye [7]
Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts [9]
Details [11]
George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars - Cosmic Slop
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2008–present BB KINK
2005–present Electrofunkadelica
live band Shaunna Hall - guitar, keyboards, vocals, & various machinery Kevin Carnes - drums, samplers VJ - Stephan G. Other members, characters, and guests TBA
2004 The Third Eye Video With Margot van Ham
2002–present George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars
2002 Beauty of Betrayal Video With Brick Seriously
1999-2001 Storm, Inc. Shaunna Hall - Guitars, bvs Michael Cavaseno - Guitars, bvs Storm Large - Vocals Kevin Carnes - Drums Ubidube Whitaker - Bass
1997-2005 The Eric McFadden Experience Eric McFadden - guitar, vocals Shaunna Hall - guitar, vocals Paula O'Rourke - bass, vocals Paulo Baldi - drums Sam Bass - cello Benjamin Barnes - violin
1993-1995 The Alcohol of Fame Band Members 1993-1994
Shaunna Hall - Guitars, bvs Cara Crash - Guitars, bvs Steve 'Spit' Spingola - Vocals Becky Wreck - Drums Erica Liss - Bass
Band Members 1994-1995 Shaunna Hall - Guitars, bvs Cara Crash - Guitars, bvs Steve 'Spit' Spingola - Vocals Warner Harrison - Bass Peter French - Drums
1992-1993 Bad Dog Play Dead
studio band: Shaunna Hall - guitar, vocals Pat Wilder - guitar, vocals Wanda Day - drums Janis Tanaka - bass on recordings Christi-on Crawford - Vocal on "Head Spin"
live band: Shaunna Hall - guitar, vocals Pat Wilder - guitar, vocals Wanda Day - drums Katherine Chase - bass, vocals Anna Carney - keyboards and vocals and guitar Christi-on Crawford -guest vocalist
1989-1992 4 Non Blondes
Christa Hillhouse, bass Shaunna Hall, guitar Wanda Day, drums Linda Perry, vocals
1988-1989 Cool and Unusual Punishment
Shaunna Hall Christa Hillhouse
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