Biography
Mae began playing with underground bands in Olympia, Washington in the mid-1990s, including a single recording with Witchy Poo, and a period with Kill Rock Stars artists The Frumpies before moving to Washington, D.C. to help form The Make-Up in 1995. After The Make-Up dissolved in 2000, Mae joined Weird War with some of her former Make-Up band mates.
Her style is heavily funk inflected, influenced by Funkadelic's Billy "Bass" Nelson, Larry Graham, and The Slits, as well as Northwest stalwarts Dead Moon.
Typically focusing on the bass guitar, in Weird War she plays a Fender Jazz Bass through a Sunn cabinet, though in The Make-Up she often played Hagström and Epiphone guitars through Kustom amplifiers.
Mae is based in Washington, D.C., where she continues to work as a musician and practitioner of mysticism.
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