Relationship To "women's Music"
Keyboard player Lauri Conger describes a time at the beginning of the band's history when she decided to "make a political shift (from being the only woman in the bands she played with) ...to work with women." Conger also notes that MQII was one of the earliest women's music groups to go electric rather than playing acoustic instruments.
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