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This message was deleted by the player at 04:34, Fri 29 Jan 2021.

Gwen finds Sally and Sue (and anyone else that wants to be involved) and comes up to them holding her phone.

"Hey.  I heard you talking about all those bands my dad listens to, and my 'Groove/Industrial Metal Girl Band' did a cover of a Doors song that I think you might be into."

She scrolls through a bunch of music on her phone, little of which seems recognizable until she finds what she's looking for:

   The Mary Janes (formerly Murderface).  (there's an image of the band)

This brings up another cryptic list with multiple screens of entries saying (demo) or (practice) until she goes further into one:
     live-03-05-16
       02 - Love Her Madly

She presses play and a video of a small club stage of three girls and an empty drum set performing a heavier/faster version of what is probably an unfamiliar Doors cover (Gwen does not realize this song wasn't released until 1971) "Sorry there's no drums, I was fighting ninjas and didn't make it to the show until the fourth song.  That's why Em Jay started with covers.

It really picks up after that."
This message was last edited by the player at 18:48, Fri 29 Jan 2021.

Sue glanced at the unfamiliar technology Gwen held in her hand.   She'd seen any number of handheld devices that Reed put together -- but this was different looking.  Sleeker, slimmer, more streamlined.

Sue was impressed, with the graphic image, and that such a small device could be used to hold (apparently) multiple albums' worth of music.  Apparently, it was Gwen's band, and she was a rock & roller.

As for the Sound: "Holy cats!  That is..." she groped for the word, "Intense. And here I thought the Led Zeppelin record* was about the heaviest music humans could make!" She frowned, listening to the song itself.

"That's a Door's song?"  She glanced at Sally.  "You ever hear it?  Is it a B-side off some single?"   

Sue means literally "the" Led Zeppelin record...they'd only put out one in her period.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:20, Fri 29 Jan 2021.

When Gwen described one of Sally’s favorite bands as “one her dad listened to,” Sally raised eyebrows.  “Get this, Sue,” Sally said with a playful grin. “Gwen’s saying if we lived, we’d be old enough to be her mom.” She chuckled at the irony.

Gwen’s handheld device fascinated Sally. “It’s like something out of Star Trek. Our whiz kids in the commune came pretty close to making some equipment like that, but nothing so...delicate.” Then, Gwen blew Sally’s mind and played a mini-movie on the device’s screen. “Far. Out.”

She went to another level when she saw the band’s lineup. “The ‘Mary Janes’, huh? Like, you’re not talking about the kind schoolgirls wear, are you?” Sally winked at Gwen, happy that some things survived the passage of time. “Wait. It’s an all-girl band!”

Sally clapped her hands, squealing in delight. “Grace & Janis are making the scene, but nothing like your band! And that sound—so wild, so way out! Just the grooviest!”

She pumped the “Power To The People” fist at Gwen. “I don’t care what some people here said, I think I would dig the Future!”

"No, Mary Jane is our frontwoman," (the redhead on guitar and lead vocals, also the one that got killed with Gwen in the explosion.)

Another thing that might be surprising to those from the sixties but is invisible to Gwen is the racial makeup of the band.  The Keyboard player (Glory) is African-American and the Bass player (Betty) is asian.

Gwen is frankly shocked that Sally associated the band name with something and it wasn't weed.

"and I think technically you're old enough to be my Grandma.

This is a pretty popular Doors song where I come from, and all the lyrics are the same... there was some jerk after the show bitching that Em Jay didn't change it to 'Love Him Madly.'  It's the same band, right?  Jim Morrison, Start my Fire, Oklahoma Song, Love me Two Times?". (Not typos, some song titles are different across universes)

I can't play the original for you because I don't keep a lot of oldies stored locally on my phone and my Streamify account doesn't work interdimensionally.  There's whole genres of heavier music since then, if you want something heavier you might like the Valkyries.

Anyway I'm glad you like it because when we get settled somewhere safer, I'm gonna need you to Tallus up that same model of drum set so I can practice."
This message was last edited by the player at 18:44, Fri 29 Jan 2021.

"Many spiritual traditions speak of time being a sort of illusion, a kind of big mind f--k. That we're all here together would seem to support the possibility, hey? It's a matter of perspective, too.  You're young enough for your parents to be one of our ova, and for you - well, your body at least, 'cause I believe in the spirit - to be information inside those cells. And some dude's sperm." 

"But, trippy stuff aside, you want a drum set, you're getting one.   When did you start playing? What made you want to? Aside from the fact music is food for the soul, I mean."     It was a very uncommon instrument for a girl to play, where she came from.  But after flaming, flesh melting skeletons and talking rabbits, not exactly a shock.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:17, Fri 29 Jan 2021.

"Music is a wonderful thing. Though some 'modern to me' music has disharmonic sounds that mess with my hearing." After a pause.

"What particular flavors of music or genre's do you do?"

"Me, Glory, and Pete snuck out to a punk show when we were in high school.
 I just loved the energy.  Probably best that it was pre spider-bite or I might have broken a wall.   Then she met Em Jay and had the idea for a girl band.  At first I just thought it was a good way to drop of dance classes and not have my dad pressure me to play a sport.  Then I realized how talented they were.

It's not just time, right?  I know another Sue Storm, and her and her brother... they're like you but they're not.  Same looks, same powers, definitely not the same personality.  You know a Spider-Man, Tigro's world has Spider-Woman.  Are they like me?  And, am I even just one person anymore after getting my powers back?.

After Tigro speaks up,
"Spider-man is probably Jesse Drew.  He was the first one exposed to Aranea Luna."
Well, the only survivor of the moonbase incident.
"And a cosmonaut in Tigro's world."  Her name is Petra after all.

OOC: For musical style, it's definitely intense - MJ puts a lot of emotion (including yelling into her lyrics, plus there's two guitars, prominent keyboards, and heavy drums.  With this plus the fact that these are supposed to be New York teenagers today I've decided to RP their sound as kind of an all-girl White Zombie (with more keys involved.)
In her world, both Matt Murdock and Logan are bothered by the sound.  Gwen has some enhanced senses but not on that level (plus she liked it before)
This message was last edited by the player at 17:41, Sun 31 Jan 2021.

Sue nodded, "We're definitely into the realm of multiple realities.  I used to wonder...and now, I know it's real.  A little unnerving, but I think, overall I'm happier existence works this way.   I think it reaffirms we become who we want to be, and that our choices do matter. So sorry I'm such a bitch, in your world! Even though I'm a wealthy doctor, with a TV show. Just goes to show, money can't buy you love."

"Huh.  Spider-bite? You're telling me that's how you were empowered?  That's a trip!  The Spider-Man of my world is secretive, nobody seems to know nadda about him.   He's our most popular indie hero -- the media's darling, the press loves him.  And he is a great guy -- I think you'd like him. I could imagine you two on one swingin' date, that's for sure." 

To Tigro:  "I'm hip to your sonic sensitivity, Tigro.  Whenever I played In a Gadda da Vida by Iron Butterfly, my cat would freak out!"

Thank goodness her cat had passed peacefully the year before, and she'd not yet got a new one.  She fully loathed to think of one locked inside the house with her brain-splattered corpse. Or subject to the nasty whim of whoever had killed her.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:17, Sun 31 Jan 2021.