Alexandra Zorn

In 1986, Mick Collins was a founding member of the seminal garage/punk band the Gories; the group had a female drummer, Peggy O'Neill plus a second guitarist Dan Kroha (all were from metro Detroit).  In other words, the group had two guitarists but no bassist, like the Cramps and Sleater-Kinney.  Of the Gories, Wikipedia notes:  "They were among the first 1980's garage rock bands to incorporate overt blues influences."  Alexandra Zorn writing for Allmusic states in the article on the band:  "The emergence of the Gories heralded a new Golden Age of Detroit rock beginning in the late '80s; a renaissance of noise and rust-belt rock that lasts through to today." 

(December 2014)