“The energy and charge of the music cast its spell on every one of us in the audience...”
“You gave the performance of a lifetime...”
“The Deadly Nightshade sidles into the song -- sly, back-alley, side-street truckin’ music with the hint of burlesque gum-popping, hip-swaying strut and flounce... ”
The Deadly Nightshade Band
- one of the nation’s first all-female bands
News and Nefariousness
“The Deadly Nightshade, an all-female group, has a whole melange of folksy/country bluesy styles at its disposal and uses them correctly. With no label, they have been giggling around New York recently, following good reaction from a WBAI-FM live radio broadcast. It must happen for them.” — Rolling Stone Magazine, October 24, 1974
Roma Baran & Vivian Stoll Productions
December 2009
The Deadly Nightshade have begun recording a project at the studio. Roma and Viv spent a raucous and fun weekend in the studio with the band recording some great tracks for 2 songs and we’re all looking forward to doing more!
The Deadly Nightshade II
in LIVEWIRE
by Donnie Moorhouse
21 May 2009
Last year’s reunion show at the Institute for Musical Arts in Goshen was an eye opener. The band came out of that show with a renewed sense of their rock’ n’ roll purpose.
The Return of The Deadly Nightshade
in LIVEWIRE
by Donnie Moorhouse
25 June 2008
Long before there were supposed to be any all female rock bands, Pamela Robin Brandt had already been in two. From the ashes of Ariel, a group that combined a handful of Smith and Mt. Holyoke college students, sprung The Deadly Nightshade...
Bra Burners Do Fernwood
by Mike
12 January 2006
They generated a lot of attention because they were a bunch of girls playing guitars and drums and stuff, and they were written about in the New York Times, as well as Life and Look magazines.
17 August 1975
by David Black
"Well, hello, Mr. Big -- remember me? You saw me for years, five days a week. I'm your secretary. You called me Rosemary. And I called you -- Mr. Big." The Deadly Nightshade sidles into the song -- sly, back-alley, side-street truckin' music with the hint of burlesque gum-popping, hip-swaying strut and flounce...
Rolling Stone
24 October 1974
A whole melange of folksy/country bluesy styles at its disposal and uses them correctly. It must happen for them.
13 September 1974
Last June 25, a trio called the Deadly Nightshade won itself a good number of fans by performing at Ms. magazine's second anniversary party aboard a packed Hudson River ferry...
The Deadly Nightshade
by Alan Lewis
"Though the group's career seems to have centered on New York, we always thought of the Deadly Nightshade as a Western Massachusetts band. It's where the group got started, and band members seemed to be in and out of the always interesting Pioneer Valley music scene. ...I have a vivid memory of seeing the Deadly Nightshade on television; and I believe I was actually introduced to the band's music by its appearances on the national television broadcast, Sesame Street."
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