Bianca Halstead of Betty Blowtorch & Butt Trumpet - Fender Precision Bass | electric bass guitar
orientation: right
number of strings: 4
pickguard: white
scale: 34”
body construction: solid
body cutaway: double
neck construction: bolt-on
frets: 20
fret inlays: dots
side dots: white
headstock: 4 in-line left
tuners: open back
electronics: passive
bridge pickup: EMG
middle pickups: EMG
tuning: E standard
weight: 9 lbs
birthplace: Japan
birthday: mid-to-late 1980’s
includes Bianca Halstead’s hardshell case.
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from Wikipedia.com:
“Bianca Halstead (May 5, 1965 – December 15, 2001), also known as Bianca Butthole, was an American rock musician, born in the Bronx, New York. She was the bassist and lead singer of the bands Betty Blowtorch and Butt Trumpet.
Halstead was killed when she accepted a ride from a drunk driver on December 15, 2001, in New Orleans. She was 36. Halstead is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
A substance abuse center, called "The Bianca Center for Substance Abuse," which opened in November 2008, is named in her honor.”
from the Los Angeles Times:
“Betty Blowtorch’s six-week tour of U.S. rock clubs was supposed to conclude with a New Year’s Eve show at the legendary Whisky on the Sunset Strip. Instead, it ended early on a New Orleans-area highway, where the Los Angeles band’s leader, Bianca Halstead, died in a shattered Corvette.
Halstead, 36, was a passenger in a car driven by Brian McAllister, a Chicago-area fan who had befriended the quartet. They were returning to the group’s hotel in the early morning after a show at a New Orleans club when the Corvette, traveling in excess of 100 mph, sideswiped another car, slid into oncoming traffic and was hit by another vehicle, authorities said.
Halstead died instantly, the other driver was injured and McAllister was hospitalized in critical condition.
Betty Blowtorch was a high-profile presence in a recent renaissance of the Los Angeles hard-rock scene, joining such acts as Texas Terri & the Stiff Ones and Coyote Shivers in a brigade of playfully raunchy acts that packed clubs such as the Dragonfly and the Garage.
Guns N’ Roses member Duff McKagan produced the band’s 1999 debut record, and after the release in May of its first full album, “Are You Man Enough?” on the Los Angeles independent label Foodchain Records, the band had begun to perform nationally.
The Bronx, N.Y.-born Halstead grew up in Los Angeles, and as a teenager gravitated to the Hollywood rock scene. Her first band was Sin, which included the guitarist Bitch. Both women also played in the group Butt Trumpet, and Halstead later worked with Humble Gods before forming Betty Blowtorch in 1998.”
orientation: right
number of strings: 4
pickguard: white
scale: 34”
body construction: solid
body cutaway: double
neck construction: bolt-on
frets: 20
fret inlays: dots
side dots: white
headstock: 4 in-line left
tuners: open back
electronics: passive
bridge pickup: EMG
middle pickups: EMG
tuning: E standard
weight: 9 lbs
birthplace: Japan
birthday: mid-to-late 1980’s
includes Bianca Halstead’s hardshell case.
***
from Wikipedia.com:
“Bianca Halstead (May 5, 1965 – December 15, 2001), also known as Bianca Butthole, was an American rock musician, born in the Bronx, New York. She was the bassist and lead singer of the bands Betty Blowtorch and Butt Trumpet.
Halstead was killed when she accepted a ride from a drunk driver on December 15, 2001, in New Orleans. She was 36. Halstead is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
A substance abuse center, called "The Bianca Center for Substance Abuse," which opened in November 2008, is named in her honor.”
from the Los Angeles Times:
“Betty Blowtorch’s six-week tour of U.S. rock clubs was supposed to conclude with a New Year’s Eve show at the legendary Whisky on the Sunset Strip. Instead, it ended early on a New Orleans-area highway, where the Los Angeles band’s leader, Bianca Halstead, died in a shattered Corvette.
Halstead, 36, was a passenger in a car driven by Brian McAllister, a Chicago-area fan who had befriended the quartet. They were returning to the group’s hotel in the early morning after a show at a New Orleans club when the Corvette, traveling in excess of 100 mph, sideswiped another car, slid into oncoming traffic and was hit by another vehicle, authorities said.
Halstead died instantly, the other driver was injured and McAllister was hospitalized in critical condition.
Betty Blowtorch was a high-profile presence in a recent renaissance of the Los Angeles hard-rock scene, joining such acts as Texas Terri & the Stiff Ones and Coyote Shivers in a brigade of playfully raunchy acts that packed clubs such as the Dragonfly and the Garage.
Guns N’ Roses member Duff McKagan produced the band’s 1999 debut record, and after the release in May of its first full album, “Are You Man Enough?” on the Los Angeles independent label Foodchain Records, the band had begun to perform nationally.
The Bronx, N.Y.-born Halstead grew up in Los Angeles, and as a teenager gravitated to the Hollywood rock scene. Her first band was Sin, which included the guitarist Bitch. Both women also played in the group Butt Trumpet, and Halstead later worked with Humble Gods before forming Betty Blowtorch in 1998.”
orientation: right
number of strings: 4
pickguard: white
scale: 34”
body construction: solid
body cutaway: double
neck construction: bolt-on
frets: 20
fret inlays: dots
side dots: white
headstock: 4 in-line left
tuners: open back
electronics: passive
bridge pickup: EMG
middle pickups: EMG
tuning: E standard
weight: 9 lbs
birthplace: Japan
birthday: mid-to-late 1980’s
includes Bianca Halstead’s hardshell case.
***
from Wikipedia.com:
“Bianca Halstead (May 5, 1965 – December 15, 2001), also known as Bianca Butthole, was an American rock musician, born in the Bronx, New York. She was the bassist and lead singer of the bands Betty Blowtorch and Butt Trumpet.
Halstead was killed when she accepted a ride from a drunk driver on December 15, 2001, in New Orleans. She was 36. Halstead is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
A substance abuse center, called "The Bianca Center for Substance Abuse," which opened in November 2008, is named in her honor.”
from the Los Angeles Times:
“Betty Blowtorch’s six-week tour of U.S. rock clubs was supposed to conclude with a New Year’s Eve show at the legendary Whisky on the Sunset Strip. Instead, it ended early on a New Orleans-area highway, where the Los Angeles band’s leader, Bianca Halstead, died in a shattered Corvette.
Halstead, 36, was a passenger in a car driven by Brian McAllister, a Chicago-area fan who had befriended the quartet. They were returning to the group’s hotel in the early morning after a show at a New Orleans club when the Corvette, traveling in excess of 100 mph, sideswiped another car, slid into oncoming traffic and was hit by another vehicle, authorities said.
Halstead died instantly, the other driver was injured and McAllister was hospitalized in critical condition.
Betty Blowtorch was a high-profile presence in a recent renaissance of the Los Angeles hard-rock scene, joining such acts as Texas Terri & the Stiff Ones and Coyote Shivers in a brigade of playfully raunchy acts that packed clubs such as the Dragonfly and the Garage.
Guns N’ Roses member Duff McKagan produced the band’s 1999 debut record, and after the release in May of its first full album, “Are You Man Enough?” on the Los Angeles independent label Foodchain Records, the band had begun to perform nationally.
The Bronx, N.Y.-born Halstead grew up in Los Angeles, and as a teenager gravitated to the Hollywood rock scene. Her first band was Sin, which included the guitarist Bitch. Both women also played in the group Butt Trumpet, and Halstead later worked with Humble Gods before forming Betty Blowtorch in 1998.”