Her photography (1979–1995) was on display at an LA Weekly sponsored art show at Aidan Ryley Taylor Gallery in Hollywood, until November 18, 2006. These pictures eventually documented the early punk scene that she became involved in before joining L7 in 1986. PhotographyĪt the age of 13, Finch began to take photos of her friends in Los Angeles on a camera given to her by her father. The band resumed a six-week national tour starting on May 10, 2019.
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L7's latest full album Scatter the Rats was released on Blackheart Records on to generally favorable reviews. They toured extensively and released new singles in 20. In 2014, L7 reformed with the primary line up of Finch with Suzi Gardner, Donita Sparks, and Dee Plakas. The album features "kid friendly" versions of Ramones' songs with guest vocals and music provided by various punk musicians. In January 2011, Finch co-founded new band Sex in Progress along with Evie Evil of Evil Beaver.įinch produced a Ramones' tribute album Brats on the Beat for the St. Finch served as the sole songwriter and primary singer of The Shocker through 2006. The Shocker released Up Your Ass Tray as an EP in 2003, followed by a full-length album in 2006 on Go-Kart Records. The band played dates on the Warped Tour in 20. įinch founded the punk rock group The Shocker in Los Angeles in 2002. įinch was also involved with Betty Blowtorch, appearing in the 2003 documentary film Betty Blowtorch And Her Amazing True Life Adventures. Joshua Clover of Spin magazine described the OtherStarPeople record as bringing "less weight and more strangeness than Finch's old crew - it's L.A.-slick and punky-dirty". OtherStarPeople completed their debut record Diamonds In The Belly Of The Dog in 1998 the group were signed with A&M Records/ Interscope and the album was released in August 1999.
In the bands 2016 documentary L7: Pretend We’re Dead, Finch cites health and money issues, as well as grieving over the loss of her father and the band’s roadie and friend Umbar as reasons for her departure.Īfter departing from L7, Finch wrote music and sang for her band OtherStarPeople with Xander Smith.
In 1995, after the death of her father, Finch adopted the name "Precious" as an homage to him. In 1994, Finch was featured in a music video for Hole for their breakthrough album Live Through This, as the original bassist Kristen Pfaff had died of an over-dose in June of that year. In 1994, Finch and her L7 bandmate Demetra "Dee" Plakas performed with Japanese musician Hide, also appearing in the original video for his song " Doubt". Finch was the sole songwriter during this period for several of L7's songs including "(Right On) Thru", " Everglade", "One More Thing", and "Shirley". Finch contributed to the albums L7 (1988) Smell the Magic(1990), Bricks Are Heavy (1992), and Hungry for Stink (1994). She remained with L7 throughout the band's most successful period in the early 1990s. In the documentary film L7: Pretend We’re Dead, bandmate Donita Sparks described Finch as "persistent" and stated that after Finch joined the band, her networking skills and stage energy continued to significantly boost the momentum building within the group. In 1986, Finch joined the Los Angeles-based punk rock group L7. Finch subsequently played in the short-lived Hollywood band The Pandoras, formed by bassist Gwynne Kahn.
This line-up produced a demo recording which remains unreleased. The band featured Courtney Love, future founder of Hole, and future Babes in Toyland founder Kat Bjelland. She played bass in the San Francisco-based band Sugar Babydoll (or Sugar Babylon) from 1984 - 1986. Career Musicįinch began her musical career in the mid 1980s. Finch took an interest in photography at an early age and attended a summer art session at Otis Parsons in 1980. Finch credits the support of her adoptive father, who was also an amateur photographer, as being instrumental to her creative development. She was adopted in 1967 by Robert Edward Finch, an aeronautics engineer, and his wife Sandra Jacobson they later divorced in 1974. Finch was born Augand grew up in West Los Angeles.
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