Betsy Ross
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Home Town: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Genre: Rapcore
Posted By: SlimSkulldugger
Joined On: January 16, 2005
Page Views: 14,540
Song Plays: 2,570
Current Rank: 1,473
Highest Rank: 34
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Albums
Betsy Ross
Similar Artists
Collapsing Lungs, Ministry, Static-X, Blondie
Group Members
Betsy Ross (vocals), Pete Gross (guitar), Chris Goldbach (drums), Megacriss (bass), Tony Tomasino (drums), M.C. Dan (samples)
Instruments
Guitar, bass, drums, samples
Musical Style
Industrial rapcore with female vocals.
Influences
Collapsing Lungs, Ministry, Prong, Rage Against the Machine |
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Brief Description
Featuring its 16-year-old namesake on lead vocals, Betsy Ross made its debut on the South Florida music scene in April 2000. Featuring music scene veterans Pete Gross and Chris Goldbach (Collapsing Lungs, Radio Baghdad, Against All Authority, et al.), the group made a modest splash and received positive press reviews. The band's sound and style mirrors that of the rap-metal pioneers Collapsing Lungs, who released one album on Atlantic Records in 1994 when Betsy was all of 10.
History/Biography
Betsy Ross appeared on the South Florida scene in early 2000 as a 16-year-old neophyte plucked from the local punk-rock scene by music entrepreneur Pete Gross to fulfill his unabashed vision of a nu metal band in the mold of Collapsing Lungs (his pioneering industrial rapcore band) but fronted by a teenage girl.
Gross recruited another ex-Lung - drummer Chris Goldbach - and enlisted programmer/sampler M.C. Dan to help flesh out the tunes that made up the early Betsy Ross repertoire. Featuring the backbone of Gross' insanely catchy but heavy guitar riffing and Goldbach's powerful precision (yet danceable) drumming, Betsy Ross amazingly and immediately brought back the music and spirit of Collapsing Lungs when the band debuted in April 2000.
Gross envisioned the band as "the female answer to Fred Durst" and Limp Bizkit: "A hot chick who could out-rap him and outwit him and maybe even smack him around."
When asked to name one band she looks to for inspiration, Betsy doesn't hesitate: "I like Rage (Against the Machine) a lot. If we could write songs like they do, when you know it's about to go off and it makes you want to go crazy and break shit, I'd be a happy girl."
Look out, Fred Durst.
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