Amanda Clements:  

Life Hey All! After leaving Gunn High, I spent a few years tooling around Palo Alto waitressing for a living and attending classes at Foothill before packing my bags and moving to big bad Los Angeles. L.A. kinda sucked, but I learned and grew by leaps and bounds before packing my bags again to bask in the grunge scene that was Seattle in 1993. Seattle rocked, but alas, it was a love that was not meant to be. I found myself back in San Francisco in '94 where I finally settled down enough to get my B.A. in Sociology from SFSU. Around 1998, I hooked up with a couple of great girls and helped form a pop-punk trio called Violet Discord. We performed around S.F. and beyond for about 5 years and made a record, which was cool. Unfortunately, my dear bandmate did not get along well in The City and had to leave. The infection that was VD was officially wiped out and my life as a rock star was over...or was it? In late 2003 I was spotted at a hot rod show and invited to join another all girl band of psychobillies called Thee Merry Widows and it has been a wild ride ever since. We have played the Exotic Erotic Ball (with 2 Live Crew!), toured the UK, played the legendary CBGB in NYC, toured the entire West Coast, and released a full length album in 2006 that seemed to sell really well in Texas. We also performed for the boys at San Quentin and are a now top requested act there (imagine that.) We toured the Southwest in summer '06 (b...Expand for more