Nice to the David Stubbs review in December’s issue of Classic Rock – a neat and to the point hundred words though I was a bit surprised to see Jarboe brushed over as merely Gira’s “ex-lover”…I mean…Jeez. Jarboe did say to me that she was antagonised by rock press tendency to reduce female artists who happen to go out with another musician or to be in a band with another musician, to simply appendages connected to the ‘real artist’ (who must, of course, be the male) – I know there’s a limited number of words available but it still felt like an unnecessarily reductionist description of Jarboe especially in the context of a book that makes clear what a vast power she was within Swans.
Nirvana Legacy 