Shaunna Hall
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Shaunna Elizabeth Hall, an American composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and musician, was born July 28, 1963 in Modesto, California
Modesto, California
Modesto is a city in, and is the county seat of, Stanislaus County, California. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, Modesto ranks as the 18th largest city in the state of California....

 to musically inclined parents. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

, soaking up the diverse music culture there. Hall played trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

 in school, studying under Jon Simms, the founder of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps, at Benjamin Franklin Intermediate School in Daly City, California
Daly City, California
Daly City is the largest city in San Mateo County, California, United States, with a 2010 population of 101,123. Located immediately south of San Francisco, it is named in honor of businessman and landowner John Daly.-History:...

. She started taking the guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 seriously as a teenager at Serramonte High School, and began her rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 career at Blue Bear School of Music
Blue Bear School of Music
Blue Bear School of Music is a non-profit organization founded in San Francisco, California in 1971. Blue Bear has trained over 20,000 students in voice, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, bass, drums, horns, songwriting, bands and ensembles. The School currently has more than 1,700 members...

 in San Francisco where she studied songwriting
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

.

Shaunna Hall is a longtime San Francisco performing artist and composer, equally at home with a guitar in her hand, composing, or working behind a mixing board. Shaunna has worked with a wide range of bands, producers and artists all over the world since 1981 including 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

, Storm, Inc., The Eric McFadden Experience, and more.

Shaunna Hall is currently playing guitar for George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

 and Parliament Funkadelic. She became an official band member in 2007 after five years of touring as a part-time player, monitor engineer, and crew member.

Hall is currently creating the next Electrofunkadelica collection, which will again feature many musical guests and the recording debut of BB Kink, a drag king
Drag king
Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of their performance. A typical drag king routine may incorporate dancing and singing, live as in the Momma's Boyz of San Francisco's performances or lip-synching...

 character Hall introduced in early 2008.

1980s

Bay Area Guitarist, Songwriter, Producer, and Sound Designer Shaunna Hall began her rock music career at Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco. She studied songwriting with Grammy Award winning songwriter Bonnie Hayes
Bonnie Hayes
Bonnie Hayes is an American singer/songwriter/keyboardist from California, USA.-Late 1970s and early 1980s:In the late 1970s, she founded a New Wave band called The Punts, who released a 45 RPM single, "Shelly's Boyfriend" , b/w "Rochambeau," which received considerable airplay in the SF market...

. Shaunna joined her first band, The Crash Puppies, in the early 80s.

In the late eighties, Shaunna Hall and bassist Christa Hillhouse formed Cool and Unusual Punishment, a new wave duo / drum machine combo. Later, they joined, along with drummer Wanda Day, The Lesbian Snake Charmers, a short lived female version of The Clash
The Clash
The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...

, led by singer Jai Jai Noire. Shaunna Hall met vocalist Linda Perry
Linda Perry
Linda Perry is an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer. Once best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, Perry has founded two record labels and has become a major songwriter and producer...

, and when The Lesbian Snake Charmers broke up, they created 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

.

1990s

Shaunna Hall co-founded the hugely successful rock group 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

 with Linda Perry
Linda Perry
Linda Perry is an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer. Once best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, Perry has founded two record labels and has become a major songwriter and producer...

, Christa Hillhouse, and Wanda Day in 1989. In 1990 the group won the S F Weekly Award (Wammies
SF Weekly Music Awards
The SF Weekly Music Awards are a music award for San Francisco Bay Area performers, issued by the SF Weekly alternative weekly newspaper....

) for Best Rock Band. The multi-platinum Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
- Personnel :* Linda Perry - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals* Roger Rocha - guitar* Christa Hillhouse - bass, vocals* Dawn Richardson - drums- Additional personnel :* Shaunna Hall - guitar* Rory Kaplan - mellotron* Suzie Katayama - cello...

released by Interscope Records
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...

 in 1992 includes five compositions by Hall ("Morphine and Chocolate", "Spaceman", and others) and guitar performances. The album was a worldwide success. The band sold millions of records, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Top 200. "Spaceman" was released as a single in 1993 and peaked at #39 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Hall left the band in 1992 during the recording of Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
- Personnel :* Linda Perry - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals* Roger Rocha - guitar* Christa Hillhouse - bass, vocals* Dawn Richardson - drums- Additional personnel :* Shaunna Hall - guitar* Rory Kaplan - mellotron* Suzie Katayama - cello...

 over musical differences, especially with the producer. The group completed the album with session guitarist Louis Metoyer.

Shaunna Hall and Pat Wilder founded Bad Dog Play Dead in 1992. The all female ensemble played funk, rock, country and pop songs written largely by Shaunna Hall and Pat Wilder, and the group reunited Hall and 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

 drummer Wanda Day. They recorded a demo,engineered and mixed by Garry Crieman at Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco. Janis Tanaka (Stone Fox, L7, Pink) played bass on the demo, but did not join the group. The band played live in San Francisco for several months until the permanent disability of [Wanda Day] in December 1992.

Hall played as a part of the agro-core hard rock band The Alcohol of Fame from 1993-1995. The group began as an ensemble Hall put together to perform a benefit for original 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

 drummer Wanda Day at the I-Beam
I-beam
-beams, also known as H-beams, W-beams , rolled steel joist , or double-T are beams with an - or H-shaped cross-section. The horizontal elements of the "" are flanges, while the vertical element is the web...

 in San Francisco in early 1993. During a rehearsal for the show, studio engineer Garry Crieman named the group "the alcohol of fame." Although Alcohol of Fame attempted several subsequent line-ups, the core trio of Hall, Crash and Spingola joined with drummer Becky Wreck (Lunachicks
Lunachicks
Lunachicks were an all-women punk rock band from New York City. The band formed in 1987 and has been on hiatus since 2000. Their music was described as "a frenzied mix of punk, metal, pop and rock". The band claimed influences including The Ramones, Kiss, and the MC5.- Biography :Theo Kogan, Gina...

) later that year, that the group truly began. Their first official performance was at Female Trouble's 'The Dykemare Before Christmas' in December 1993. With the addition of Bassist Erica Liss (MDC) in early 1994, the line-up broke the local scene, made a six song demo, Mendocino Demo 1994, and played the New Music Seminar
New Music Seminar
The New Music Seminar was a series of multi-venue music showcases held annually in New York City, in the month of June, from 1980 to 1995, then relaunched in 2009....

 in New York, NY followed by an east coast Summer tour in 1994.

Though Becky Wreck remained on the East Coast, the core trio of Crash, Hall and Spingola returned to San Francisco. Drummer Peter French
Peter French
Peter French was a rancher in the western United States in the late 19th century. The community of Frenchglen, Oregon was partially named for him.-Early life:...

 and a series of bass players including Dennis Dismore, Shelly, and the late Warner Harrison all joined The Alcohol of Fame in 1995. The group recorded a second demo in the Spring of 1995 at Gush Studios in Oakland, CA. Warner announced his departure from the band only weeks after finishing the demo, and the group ended.

In 1996, Hall and Tribe 8
Tribe 8
This article is about the San Francisco based lesbian punk band Tribe 8. See Tribe 8 for Dream Pod 9s post-apocalyptic fantasy role-playing game.Tribe 8 was an all-women outspoken dyke punk band from San Francisco...

, Bay Area punk rock radical un-pc feminists, joined Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

, Soundgarden
Soundgarden
Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...

, Joan Jett
Joan Jett
Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...

, The Gits
The Gits
The Gits were an American punk rock band, formed in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1986. Known for their part in the burgeoning Seattle music scene of the early 1990s, their distinct punk rock sound gained a reputation for its bluesy street punk aesthetic...

, and more on the Home Alive! Compilation. The project raised funds and awareness for self defense education for women in honor of Mia Zapata
Mia Zapata
Mia Katherine Zapata was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits.-Life and career:Zapata was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky...

, the singer of The Gits who was murdered by a stalker/fan. The track, "Frat Pig," is from the Tribe 8 CD Fist City
Fist City
"Fist City" is a country music song written and performed by Loretta Lynn, released in 1968. Inspired by her husband's dalliances with other women who pursued him while she was busy touring, Lynn wrote the song as a warning for other women to stay away from him if they do not wish to be soundly...

 on Alternative Tenticles Records, on which Hall appears as a guest on two songs.

Hall co-produced Tribe 8's Role Models for America released in 1998 on Alternative Tentacles. She co-produced Demo, IPO, and Secondary by the The Flying Other Bros. in 1999.

Throughout the 1990s, Hall played with the theatrical and inventive six piece group, The Eric McFadden Experience. In 1998, the group received the S F Weekly Award (Wammies
SF Weekly Music Awards
The SF Weekly Music Awards are a music award for San Francisco Bay Area performers, issued by the SF Weekly alternative weekly newspaper....

) for Best Americana Band and released Our Revels Now are Ended. The CD includes one Hall composition, "Macaroon," which also appeared on an early 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

 demo.

2000s

Alien Lovestock's 2000 CD Planet of Fish includes the composition "Alien Love" co-written by Shaunna Hall, Eric McFadden
Eric McFadden
Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...

 and George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

.

Hall composed eight tracks with Storm, Inc. for the critically acclaimed independent release The Calm Years in April 2001. Storm, Inc. started in the summer of 1999 when Hall sat in with singer Storm Large
Storm Large
Storm Large is a singer best known as a contestant on the CBS reality television show Rock Star: Supernova.-Personal life:...

 as a support guitarist for acoustic gigs. Hall and Storm began to write together and created, along with Storm, Inc. members Kevin Carnes, Michael Cavaseno and Ube Dube Whitaker, The Calm Years. Storm, Inc. performed a West Coast tour following the release of The Calm Years.

As Sound Designer (sound and music), Hall helped to create the first online video game developed by Shockwave in 2000. "Tamale Loco" is now available in the "Shockwave Favorites Vol. 1" game bundle or as a stand alone download at Shockwave.com.

Summer 2001, Shaunna played with Dog Ass, a power trio with Los Anleges drummer Becky Wreck and bassist Christy Michel. Formed specifically to play a Breast Cancer Awareness Benefit presented by Loudithfaire, the trio gave a few shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles before Hall moved to Barcelona, Spain in 2002.

Shaunna wrote, produced, and directed a short film called The Beauty of Betrayal in May 2002. Brick Seriously and Hall recorded the video in San Francisco. It features the Hall composition "Beauty Sleeps" recorded in San Francisco and Los Angeles with drummer Kevin Carnes, EricMcFadden Experience members Sam Bass
Sam Bass
Sam Bass was a nineteenth-century American train robber and outlaw.-Early life:Bass was orphaned at the age of 10. For the next five years, he and his siblings lived with an abusive uncle. In 1869, he set out on his own and spent the next year in Mississippi...

, Ben Barnes and Paula O'Rourke. Janis Tanaka
Janis Tanaka
Janis Tanaka is a bass player who has worked as a session musician and on tour with a number of well-known artists including Pink, Fireball Ministry, Hammers of Misfortune, Pagan Babies, Stone Fox and L7....

 plays the saw on the dramatic instrumental. Shaunna appears in the film along with Los Angeles actress Natalie Richie.

In July 2002, Shaunna Hall began touring with George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

 and Parliament Funkadelic (P-Funk Allstars). Since then, she has played on several US, Canadian and European tours as well as on dates in Australia, Japan, Fiji, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Hall was the monitor engineer from 2002–2004, and the P-FUNK LIVE @ THE 2004 MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL DVD credits her engineering work. Shaunna became the first official female guitarist of P-Funk
P-Funk
P-Funk is a shorthand term for the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and the distinctive style of funk music they performed...

 in 2007.

Hall and Dutch Artist Margot van Ham shared an art / music studio in Barcelona from 2004-2006. In 2004, Hall released The Third Eye
The Third Eye
The Third Eye is the title of a book published in November 1956. It was written by a British man named Cyril Hoskin who claimed that his body was occupied by the spirit of a Tibetan monk named Tuesday Lobsang Rampa...

video. Van Ham produced the video in 2004 with a song Hall wrote with Paul Hill
Paul Hill (musician)
Paul Hill was founder and music director of the Master Chorale of Washington, formerly the Paul Hill Chorale.Paul Hill was also involved in television, and his 1978 production of Menotti's "The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore" won an Emmy Award.-References:...

 and Clip Payne of P-Funk in 2002. The video was released in 2006 as a part of Hall's multimedia project, Electrofunkadelica: e3+FUNKnth = music for the body, mind & soul.

In 2007, Shaunna appeared on the BBC program "The 100 Most Annoying Pop Songs We Hate To Love", which featured the 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

 classic "What's Up?" at number 91 on the list.

Shaunna joined a legion of friends and family for [Tiffany Travalent]'s benefit at 12 Galaxies in San Francisco in 2007. Led by Eric McFadden
Eric McFadden
Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...

, guitarist extraordinaire, an amazing group of musicians including Loop! Station, Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell
George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...

 (Parliament Funkadelic; Woo Warriors), Dawn Silva
Dawn Silva
Dawn Silva is an American funk vocalist.Silva was born in Sacramento, California. She started her career as a background vocalist for Sly and The Family Stone. She joined P-Funk in 1977. She was the only original Brides of Funkenstein member to continue through Brides' career. In 1978, with Lynn...

 (Brides of Funkenstein / Sly and the Family Stone), Jerry Harrison
Jerry Harrison
Jerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...

 (Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...

), Pete Sears
Pete Sears
Peter 'Pete' Sears is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than four decades he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues...

, Ronkat (Katdelic Revival), Carol Hernandez
Carol Hernandez
Carol Hernandez is an American journalist. She won a 1996 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.She was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.-External links:...

, and legendary Meters' drummer Ziggy Modeliste
Ziggy Modeliste
Joseph Modeliste is an American drummer best known as a founding member of the funk group The Meters. Considered to be one of the most innovative, and highly acclaimed drummers ever to hail from New Orleans, Louisiana, Modeliste is a pioneer of second-line funk...

 gave their time to benefit a good friend. Tiffany Travalent plans to release a DVD in 2008/2009 with footage from the show and related content.

Hall earned two engineering credits in 2008. The first was for Clinton's vocals on the song "Heads Will Roll", for Lee "Scratch" Perry's Return of the Super Ape
Return of the Super Ape
Return of the Super Ape is a reggae album produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry, credited to The Upsetters. The album was originally released in Jamaica in 1978 and was the last album by The Upsetters to be released before Perry closed down his Black Ark studio....

. The second, George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

 and his Gangsters of Love
, charted on both the Billboard R&B and Independent Charts.

Current

Hall returned to the United States in 2005, and continues to tour the world as a guitarist with George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

 and Parliament Funkadelic (The P-Funk Allstars). Shaunna released a solo project, Electrofunkadelica, in 2006. Shaunna recorded most of the project with a portable studio while on the road between 2002 and 2005, and the tracks feature many P-Funk
P-Funk
P-Funk is a shorthand term for the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and the distinctive style of funk music they performed...

 members, and friends like [Eric Mcfadden]. The 2006 release Electrofunkadelica: e3+FUNKnth = music for the body, mind & soul, is a collection of audio recordings and three videos. Hall wrote, produced, and recorded the project almost entirely on a Macintosh laptop while touring the world with P-Funk.

Hall created the drag king character BB KINK, an Elctro-GoGo-Love-Blues guitar player. Hall introduced BB KINK in late 2008 with performances in Barcelona at Sala Monasterio and San Francisco at Anon Salon.

Hall is currently creating the next Electrofunkadelica collection, which will again feature many musical guests and the recording debut of BB KINK.

Electrofunkadelica

Electrofunkadelica is a mixture of elements from electronica, funk, nu-metal, old metal, hip-hop, pop, neo-classical, mediterranean and jazz, melded and mashed into contemporary music for the modern international listener. Some songs contain social and political messages, some are emotional and inspirational, and some are just plain fun. The videos range from harsh political commentary to dramatic cinematic narratives to complete silliness. They visually express a broad range of feelings and emotions found in real life through a hi-tech, low-fi production value dichotomy. Electrofunkadelica uses these visuals, somewhere between art films and home video, as a backdrop to live performance.

The Electrofunkadelica live performance features Shaunna Hall on guitar, and other electronic sources including looping samplers, Kevin Carnes on drums, and occasional guest vocalists or instrumentalists. Projected visual imagery plays a large part in an Electrofunkadelica show, with VJ mixing, animation and film. The show provides a totally submersive experience for the audience by including the cutting edge visual techniques of VJ's and projected imagery.

Electrofunkadelica Instrumentation

Shaunna Hall - guitar, keyboards, vocals, & various machinery
Kevin Carnes - drums, samplers
VJ - Stephan G.
Other members, characters, and guests TBA

Reviews

January 2008-- WomensRadio.com Review of Electrofunkadelica by Brian Ball

August 2007 -- Boise Weekly Review of Electrofunkadelica:

Interests and Affiliations

Shaunna Hall was a panelist for the 2000 and 2005 Rockrgrl Conference, has been a volunteer performer for Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses
The slogan "Bread and Roses" originated in a poem of that name by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West." It is commonly associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, now often...

 since 1997. Shaunna is a member of ASCAP.

Discography

George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...


George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love
Shanachie - 2008
Engineer
Billboard R&B and Independent Charts

Lee "Scratch" Perry
Return of the Super Ape
Return of the Super Ape
Return of the Super Ape is a reggae album produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry, credited to The Upsetters. The album was originally released in Jamaica in 1978 and was the last album by The Upsetters to be released before Perry closed down his Black Ark studio....


Goldenlane Records - 2008
Engineer

Electrofunkadelica
e3+FUNKnth=music for the body, mind & soul
Make Music, Not War Records - 2006
Guitar, producer, songwriter and more

Eric McFadden
Eric McFadden
Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...


Dementia
Dementia
Dementia is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging...


Bad Reputation Records - 2006 Guitar

420 Funk Mob
Alive in Spain
wefunk 2kAD - 2004
Guitar
wefunkFM.com, wefunk records, and thefunkstore.com

Eric McFadden
Eric McFadden
Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...


Eric McFadden
Eric McFadden
Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...


2002
Guitar

Alien Lovestock
Planet of Fish
NMX Records - 2001
Songwriter

Storm, Inc.
The Calm Years
Gender Nectar Records - 2001
Guitar, BVs, songwriter

The Flying Other Bros.
Flying Other Brothers
The Flying Other Brothers were an American rock band from 1997-2006 in San Francisco. The band played original tunes and covers.- History :The band started at an Electronic Frontier Foundation benefit at The Fillmore Auditorium in 1997...


Secondary
Producer/ Engineer
2000

The Flying Other Bros.
Flying Other Brothers
The Flying Other Brothers were an American rock band from 1997-2006 in San Francisco. The band played original tunes and covers.- History :The band started at an Electronic Frontier Foundation benefit at The Fillmore Auditorium in 1997...


Demo & IPO
1999
Producer/ Engineer

Tribe 8
Tribe 8
This article is about the San Francisco based lesbian punk band Tribe 8. See Tribe 8 for Dream Pod 9s post-apocalyptic fantasy role-playing game.Tribe 8 was an all-women outspoken dyke punk band from San Francisco...


Role Models for Amerika
Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label originally based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. It was originally used as the label name by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles", and after realizing the potential for an independent...

 - 1998
Guest Guitar, BVs, Co-Producer

The Eric McFadden Experience
Our Revels Now Are Ended
NMX Records - 1998
Guitar, Songwriter

Eric McFadden
Eric McFadden
Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...


Who's Laughing Now
Who's Laughing Now
-Credits:* Richard Morrill - vocals* J. "Munky" Shaffer - guitar* Fieldy - bass* David Silveria - drums-External links:* [ Allmusic page for the album]...


NMX records - 1997
Guitar

Various Artists
Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense
Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

 - 1996
Guitar

Tribe 8
Tribe 8
This article is about the San Francisco based lesbian punk band Tribe 8. See Tribe 8 for Dream Pod 9s post-apocalyptic fantasy role-playing game.Tribe 8 was an all-women outspoken dyke punk band from San Francisco...


Fist City
Fist City
"Fist City" is a country music song written and performed by Loretta Lynn, released in 1968. Inspired by her husband's dalliances with other women who pursued him while she was busy touring, Lynn wrote the song as a warning for other women to stay away from him if they do not wish to be soundly...


Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label originally based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. It was originally used as the label name by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles", and after realizing the potential for an independent...

 - 1995
Guest guitar

Nicodemus
Nicodemus
Saint Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, who, according to the Gospel of John, showed favour to Jesus...


Dance Hall Giant
PSM Recordings - 1995
Guitar

The Alcohol of Fame
Gush Demo '95
Recorded at Gush Studios, Oakland, CA - 1995
Engineered by Allen Kraft, Mastered by Matt Murmen at Different Fur Studios, San Francisco
Songwriter, Guitar

The Alcohol of Fame
Mendocino Demo Session 1994
Recorded by Joey Mobile Sound - 1994
Songwriter, Guitar

Positive Sound Massive
"Sex & Guns" and "Unity"
PSM Records - 1993

Bad Dog Play Dead
Hyde St. Demo
Recorded by Garry Crieman at Hyde Street Studios, SF - 1992
Songwriter, Guitar

4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...


Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
- Personnel :* Linda Perry - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals* Roger Rocha - guitar* Christa Hillhouse - bass, vocals* Dawn Richardson - drums- Additional personnel :* Shaunna Hall - guitar* Rory Kaplan - mellotron* Suzie Katayama - cello...


Interscope Records
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...

 - 1992
Guitar, Songwriter

Video Projects and Performance Videos

Second Wind
Second Wind
A second wind is an exercise phenomenon.A second wind is also a sleep phenomenon.Second Wind may refer to:* Second Wind , the developer of a Sodar based wind profiler and other instrumentation and software for the wind energy industry...

 

Beauty of Betrayal 

The 3rd Eye 

Going To The Hukilau 

Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts 

Stellar Evolution
Stellar evolution
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star undergoes a sequence of radical changes during its lifetime. Depending on the mass of the star, this lifetime ranges from only a few million years to trillions of years .Stellar evolution is not studied by observing the life of a single...

 

Details

George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

 and the P-Funk All Stars - Cosmic Slop
Cosmic Slop
Cosmic Slop is the fifth studio album by Funkadelic, released in 1973 on Westbound Records. While it has been favorably reevaluated by critics long after its original release, the album was a commercial failure, producing no charting singles, and making only #112 on the Billboard albums...


Projects and Groups

2008–present
BB KINK

2005–present
Electrofunkadelica

live band
Shaunna Hall - guitar, keyboards, vocals, & various machinery
Kevin Carnes - drums, samplers
VJ - Stephan G.
Other members, characters, and guests TBA

2004
The Third Eye Video
With Margot van Ham

2002–present
George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars

2002
Beauty of Betrayal
Video

With Brick Seriously

1999-2001
Storm, Inc.
Shaunna Hall - Guitars, bvs
Michael Cavaseno - Guitars, bvs
Storm Large
Storm Large
Storm Large is a singer best known as a contestant on the CBS reality television show Rock Star: Supernova.-Personal life:...

 - Vocals
Kevin Carnes - Drums
Ubidube Whitaker - Bass

1997-2005
The Eric McFadden Experience
Eric McFadden
Eric McFadden
Eric Byron McFadden is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco Bay Area, California, at times described as "an authentic old-west troubadour and an absolutely wicked 6-string maestro."...

 - guitar, vocals
Shaunna Hall - guitar, vocals
Paula O'Rourke - bass, vocals
Paulo Baldi
Paulo Baldi
Paulo Baldi is an American rock drummer and percussionist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a member of Cake, Les Claypool's Fancy Band, Deadweight, The Faraway Brothers, and the Eric McFadden Experience....

 - drums
Sam Bass
Sam Bass
Sam Bass was a nineteenth-century American train robber and outlaw.-Early life:Bass was orphaned at the age of 10. For the next five years, he and his siblings lived with an abusive uncle. In 1869, he set out on his own and spent the next year in Mississippi...

 - cello
Benjamin Barnes - violin

1993-1995
The Alcohol of Fame
Band Members 1993-1994

Shaunna Hall - Guitars, bvs
Cara Crash - Guitars, bvs
Steve 'Spit' Spingola - Vocals
Becky Wreck - Drums
Erica Liss - Bass

Band Members 1994-1995
Shaunna Hall - Guitars, bvs
Cara Crash - Guitars, bvs
Steve 'Spit' Spingola - Vocals
Warner Harrison - Bass
Peter French
Peter French
Peter French was a rancher in the western United States in the late 19th century. The community of Frenchglen, Oregon was partially named for him.-Early life:...

 - Drums

1992-1993
Bad Dog Play Dead

studio band:
Shaunna Hall - guitar, vocals
Pat Wilder - guitar, vocals
Wanda Day - drums
Janis Tanaka
Janis Tanaka
Janis Tanaka is a bass player who has worked as a session musician and on tour with a number of well-known artists including Pink, Fireball Ministry, Hammers of Misfortune, Pagan Babies, Stone Fox and L7....

 - bass on recordings
Christi-on Crawford - Vocal on "Head Spin"

live band:
Shaunna Hall - guitar, vocals
Pat Wilder - guitar, vocals
Wanda Day - drums
Katherine Chase - bass, vocals
Anna Carney - keyboards and vocals and guitar
Christi-on Crawford -guest vocalist

1989-1992
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...



Christa Hillhouse, bass
Shaunna Hall, guitar
Wanda Day, drums
Linda Perry
Linda Perry
Linda Perry is an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer. Once best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, Perry has founded two record labels and has become a major songwriter and producer...

, vocals

1988-1989
Cool and Unusual Punishment

Shaunna Hall
Christa Hillhouse

Press and Media

Early 4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes was an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1989. The group was formed by bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, drummer Wanda Day, and vocalist and guitarist Linda Perry. Prior to the release of their first album, Roger Rocha replaced Hall on...

 Interview (July 1991) - Interview by Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana is an American writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He teaches philosophy and literature at the New School in New York City. He divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.- Fiction :...

 for Flipside Magazine
"Shaunna Hall gets in touch with her inner geek" - Interview by Danise von Rod on Loudithfaire.net

Rockrgrl
ROCKRGRL
ROCKRGRL was the first national publication for female musicians in the United States. Created by Carla DeSantis, the magazine purely focused on women in music and highlighted the artistic diversity of women musicians, often overlooked in mainstream culture...

 Interview: Issue #41 Sept/Oct - Cover: Kat Bjelland
Kat Bjelland
Katherine "Kat" Bjelland is an American musician who is currently the lead singer-guitarist of the band Katastrophy Wife, and is the former lead singer and guitarist of the punk rock band Babes in Toyland....



Coverage from BAM Magazine on Storm, Inc. and "The Calm Years" features interviews with Shaunna, et al.

January 2008-- WomensRadio.com Review of Electrofunkadelica by Brian Ball
Brian Ball
Brian Ball was a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed in only one Grand Prix race during the 1968 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, finishing the year in 12th place in the 500cc world championship. At the 1968 Isle of Man TT, he finished second to Giacomo Agostini in the Senior...



August 2007 -- Boise Weekly Review of Electrofunkadelica by Dam McMahon

External links

  • http://www.shaunnahall.com
  • http://www.myspace.com/electrofunkadelica
  • http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=52428
  • http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/electrofunkadelica
  • http://www.independentdistro.com/page93.html
  • http://www.loudithfaire.com
  • http://www.GeorgeClinton.com
  • http://www.stormlarge.com
  • http://www.ericmcfadden.com/experience
  • http://www.tribe8.com
  • http://www.psmrecordings.com
  • http://www.fournonblondes.com
  • http://www.wefunkrecords.com
  • http://www.breadandroses.org
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