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Guide to the Ladybugs

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Ladybugs Songs and Albums

Matching Tattoos (1969)

Matching Tattoos was a song written about fish tattoos which both Ep!phanee and Penny Dreadful had applied. Penny’s was later removed. The album was generally accepted as the best Ladybugs album since Blessed Nobody, with several solid rockers, though only two were released as singles.

1. Casanova (Penny Dreadful) #1 on the singles chart.
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

2. Matching Tattoos (Ep!phanee) #1 on the singles chart.
Ep!phanee: lead vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

3. Love is Life (Steffie Sin)
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

4. I Hate My Life (Steffie Sin)
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

5. Piñata (Ep!phanee)
Ep!phanee: lead vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

6. Strange Nature (Steffie Sin)
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

7. Hardly Hard (Penny Dreadful)
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

8. My Own Approval (Penny Dreadful)
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

9. Second to Too Many (Penny Dreadful)
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

10. Crank it Up (Penny Dreadful)
Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

11. Assault of Age (Ep!phanee)
Ep!phanee: lead vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

12. Always do Right (Ruth De Molay)
Ep!phanee: piano. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: vocals, drums.

Does Opportunity Make the Thief – Or Visa-versa?

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I’ve had a great day today.  I’ve been cancelling credit-cards and talking to the police.  Last night at about midnight a woman came to the door asking to use the telephone.  I let her use my cell but kept a close eye on her because– well, because I don’t trust people.  I was watching her very closely but I still turned away for a moment and she stole my wife’s purse which was by the front door.  Anyway, she was so quick, I’m sure this wasn’t her first rodeo.

We didn’t realize the purse was gone until this morning and the thief had a chance to charge up about $550 on our debit and credit cards.  I expect we’ll be reimbursed, but I won’t be repaid for my time– which in my estimation is about $250 an hour.  Can you imagine how much Rock Band I could have played in that time?

It reminds me of the story of the woman from the city, who along with her young daughter was walking along in the country.  When they saw a stallion mounting a mare in the pasture, the girl asked her mother. “What are those horses doing?”  Thinking quickly the mother answered. “One horse hurt its foot and the other is helping it back to the barn.”  The girl thought for a moment and then said. “It’s just like in the city.  You try to help someone and you get screwed.”

Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess – 10,000 Downloads!

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Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess has topped 10,000 downloads!  Actually, it’s already topped 11,000 but we’ll just celebrate the big round numbers.  It is available wherever fine ebooks are found, and it is free.

Wonder Woman vs. Power Girl

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Definitely Power Girl….
I’m just guessing but I think that Coke machine ate her dollar.

Wonder Woman vs. Power Girl

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My two favorite super-heroes together at last.  I don’t know who I like best though.

Guide to the Ladybugs

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Ladybugs Songs and Albums

Platinum Dream (1969)

Platinum Dream was an attempt to return to a more balanced album along the lines of Magnum. It came off as a washed out version of the Spotted Album though, with few hard rockers by Penny Dreadful, and Steffie Sin songs that seemed like Ep!phanee knock-offs. As with the Spotted Album, the one great song was an Ep!phanee classic, this time Rotting Garden of Eden. It was the least successful Ladybugs album, despite the cover. The band posed for the cover wearing only silver body paint, hands and poses supplying some modesty. Unlike Beneath the Denim, there was no recall.

1. My Immortal Love (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: lead vocals, piano, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

2. What a Man Does (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: lead vocals, piano, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

3. Metropolis (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, recorder, accordian. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

4. Pygmalion (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, recorder, harp. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass, flute. Ruth De Molay: drums.

5. Drink it Up (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

6. Amaze Me (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

7. Be Still My Child (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: piano. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: spoken word, drums.

8. Lightbulbs (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, recorder, accordian. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

9. Whisper Kiss (Ruth De Molay)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: vocals, drums.

10. Paradox Paradox (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, piano. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

11. I’ve Been Shedding Tears (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: lead vocals, piano, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

12. What Could Have Been (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: lead vocals, piano, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

13. Rotting Garden of Eden (Ep!phanee) #1 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: piano, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

Guide to the Ladybugs

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Ladybugs Songs and Albums

The Ladybugs (aka The Spotted Album) (1968)

The self-titled Ladybugs album, also known as the spotted album due to the styilized close-up of a ladybug on the cover reflected not only the backlog of songs by Penny Dreadful and Steffie Sin, but also their desire to return to simpler music. Few of the resulting songs could be considered great with the exception of the first track. The Song Tesla’s Stepdaughters became an anthem of a generation of women living in a highly technical world without men.

1. Tesla’s Stepdaughters (Ep!phanee) #1 On the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

2. Beauty Is (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

3. Bathsheba (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

4. Don’t Let Him Inside You (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

5. The Crossroads (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

6. Steffie’s Lookalike Robot (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, accordian. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Ruth De Molay: drums. Other: vox mechanica.

7. My Black Heart (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

8. China Lunch (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

9. Fifty Million Cars (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

10. After Great Pain (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, piano, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

11. High Risk (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: harmony vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: lead vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

12. Things are Beautiful if you Love Them (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, piano. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

13. Handprints on Car Windows (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: harmony vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: lead vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

14. Just a Nut (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

15. Wounded Deer (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

16. My Dream (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, piano. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass, bagpipes. Ruth De Molay: drums.

17. Behind Every Woman (Ruth De Molay)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass, saxaphone. Ruth De Molay: vocals, drums.

18. I’m Rich, So Rich (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

19. Egomaniac (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

20. Sad Little Witch Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

21. A World is Dead (Steffie Sin)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

22. Plumbing (Ruth De Molay)

Ep!phanee: guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: lead vocals, drums.

23. Madrid (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, mandolin. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

24. Cliffs of Doneen (Traditional)

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: lead vocals, guitar. Steffie Sin: backing vocals, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

25. Where are you, Francis Perkins? (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, ukilele. Penny Dreadful: acoustic guitar. Steffie Sin: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

Guide to the Ladybugs

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Ladybugs Songs and Albums

Blessed Nobody (1967)

Often called the most innovative musical work of the modern age, Blessed Nobody was built around a magical fantasy theme, held to much more tightly than was the war theme for UXB. The band posed for the cover in costume as traveling medieval minstrels and all the tracks were built around the idea of a fantasy sound with magical influences. This resulted in an Ep!phanee heavy record, but stands as her greatest collected work.

Blessed Nobody is often considered the third Ladybug Movie, though it was not filmed, directed, or produced by professionals. Instead, Ep!phanee and the others simply adlibbed falling into their imagined magical fantasy world, playing both themselves and a long list of characters. While some consider it a cult classic, it is hardly ever shown.

1. Everyone Cries Alone (Ep!phanee) #1 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: backing vocals, cowbell. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: backing vocals, piano, bass. Ruth De Molay: lead vocals, drums, tambourine. Other: choir.

2. Copper (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, accordian. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums, marachas. Other: French horns.

3. Once in a Lifetime (Ep!phanee) #3 On the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, marachas. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, bass. Steffie Sinn: marachas. Ruth De Molay: drums, conga. Other: harmonium, spoken work, full orchestra with choir, harp.

4. You Made a Fool of Me (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: accordian. Penny Dreadful: vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

5. Blessed Nobody (Ep!phanee & Steffie Sin) #1 On the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: harmonica, jew’s harp. Penny Dreadful: acoustic guitar, harmonica. Steffie Sinn: vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, recorder, bass. Ruth De Molay: drums, finger cymbals, marachas. Other: 3 flutes.

6. Carnival Time (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee; lead vocals (double tracked), harmony vocals, organ, harmonica. Penny Dreadful: acoustic guitar, sitar. Steffie Sin: bass, harmonica, drums, tambourine. Ruth De Molay: tambourine.

7. My Radio Days (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals, piano. Penny Dreadful: fuzz bass. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

8. House of Mirrors (Ep!phanee)

Ep!phanee: vocals. Steffie Sinn: bass, drums.

9. Women Performing Like Men (Penny Dreadful)

Ep!phanee: vocals, guitar. Penny Dreadful: guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass. Ruth De Molay: drums.

10. The Calliope in Veterans’ Hall (Ep!phanee) #1 on the singles chart.

Ep!phanee: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, marachas. Penny Dreadful: backing vocals, guitar. Steffie Sinn: bass, marachas. Ruth De Molay: backing vocals, drums. Other: harp, 12 trumpeters, calliope, cannon