We had a chance to meet the kick-ass Buell between rehearsals of her upcoming one woman show and chatted for nearly two hours about everything from those famous boyfriends to posing nude to properly raising Liv. If we learned one thing, it's why you should never, ever call Bebe a groupie, but you probably want to read the rest.ĮLLE: You're suddenly doing a million different things, why now?īB: I listen to the fans. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies.

I actually do what I do because of a very rabid fan base, but of course, an artist like me also fights demographics because, if you try to say to someone who's never seen me, 'Oh, you've gotta see this, it's incredible,' they can't wrap their head around it. I'm not 15 and I'm not somebody who has a thousand hit records under my belt. The musicians that play with me are all world class. Little by little, I just keep making more strides. I'm not gonna call myself the little engine that could because I'm 5'10 and I'm far from little-I'm the little engine that roared. Now I've got a fever about what I'm doing, because I think it's important for women to make this kind of statement, not to have an expiration date.ĮLLE: Starting at the beginning, do you remember the first time you were invited to the infamous back room at Max's Kansas City?īB: Of course. I was embraced the second I walked through the door. Andy Warhol didn't hang out there as much after he got shot, but he'd still poke his head in there. I was by myself, I didn't even have a friend. I just sort of stood there and looked to the left and to the right and I was immediately approached by a very cute, very bubbly girl and she asked me if I was looking for anybody. I just said 'I'm looking for friends,' and she said, 'Well, come sit down!' I met Andy that night. I met Cindy Lange who was Alice Cooper's girlfriend at the time, and before I knew it, my phone was ringing off the hook.

It became my religion almost, going to Max's.ĮLLE: Patti Smith mentioned you in Just Kids. Were you friends?īB: A lot of people don't realize that Max's had an upstairs where bands played-that's how I saw Patti Smith for the first time. She really taught me a lot about stuff beyond how cool the MC5 and the Stooges were and why a record like that was really cool. I already had an obsession with Oscar Wilde and we'd get in arguments about how she thought Rimbaud was cooler. I saw all of the early things that she did-the poetry readings-before I knew it, it was a full-on band and she was singing. When I rolled into town, I knew I wanted to be important I knew I wanted to do something artistic and I knew I had love of so many different things, but I have ADD so honing in my energy and actually being able to sit down was hard. I would write tons of poems which later became songs.

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