![]() Jean: We are really self-taught, and at the time…I had no idea that when June played an “A” chord on the guitar, I had no idea where the “A” was that corresponded to that chord she was playing. TD: Was it hard to learn how to play the bass? I have no idea how to even go about it, but let’s check it out. So June and I talked about it, and she said, “Well Jean, I’m going to play lead guitar and Cathy cannot play anything but rhythm guitar, so you’re going to have to play bass.” So, it was kind of one of those things, we needed a bass player, so all right, I’ll do it. Jean: Well, at the time we were doing folk music together with these two other women, and I mean from the Hootenanny times, and we decided to form a rock and roll band, and then the one gal who was going to end up being in the band with us, Cathy Carter, there was just no way she was going to play bass. Jean: Right, she knew that my dad just wasn’t going to support it, so she kind of sneaked around his back, and I guess did the credit thing at the music store, so we could pay for our guitars on time or whatever it was. Technodyke: It’s my understanding that your mom bought you and June your first guitars. In the last of my series of interviews with the original members of this historic all-woman band, she shares what it was like to be a part of history. ![]() She also wrote, with Nickey, Fanny’s biggest single, the tongue-in-cheek “Butter Boy”. She and Nickey Barclay were the only ones to play on all five albums credited to Fanny (four for Reprise Records and one for Casablanca Records, June and Alice having left before the last album). In mid-March of this year, I finally caught up with Jean Millington, June’s sister and co-founder of Fanny, as well as the group’s bassist and one of their vocalist. The following is an interview that appeared on the now defunct Technodyke website.
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