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Podcast guestSara Crider
Rhythm guitarist and the very first guest of the show, who founded the all-female rock cover band Pink Taco.
Sara Crider is a rock guitarist and the first guest ever on the Minnesota Music Note. She learned guitar from Nirvana songs, starting on a Silvertone from Sam Goody that she got for her 13th birthday. Sara played guitar in the alternative rock band Astroward from 2009 to 2012, then took about 10 years away from music. She came back as guitarist in the Black Sabbath tribute Sabotage with Candice Wheeler, and then started Pink Taco, an all-female cover band playing female-fronted rock and metal.
On the Minnesota Music Note
Fun facts from the interview
- Her earliest favorite album was Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Paradise City was her favorite song on it.
- Kurt Cobain is the reason she learned guitar.
- Her influences include Rob Zombie, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Jerry Cantrell and Jimi Hendrix.
- She wrote and played all the guitar parts on Astroward's album, as part of a power trio.
- She played in the Black Sabbath tribute Sabotage for about four years, learning Tony Iommi's parts.
- The idea for Pink Taco came to her in a dream about playing guitar with Lita Ford.
- Pink Taco plans to cover female-fronted rock like Alanis Morissette, Kittie, Evanescence and Halestorm.
- She got back into the scene through the Mad Mike's Funhouse Jam at Route 47, where players call themselves the "jamily."
- She also paints galaxy scenes with acrylic on canvas.
- She recommended Rob Perrow as a future guest.
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