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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 2001)
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As she prepares for a reunion show, Jody Bleyle returns a different drummer by K aty D avidson girls,” she says. “I needed a way to combine ny young lesbian living in Portland during music and dykes.” the 1990s probably caught wind of Jody She managed to strike a balance throughout Bleyle s name somehow— not only was she the mid-’90s by keeping active in both bands. i the spunky, balls-out, in-your-face drum She also started her own record label, Candy mer for Hazel (an otherwise all-male rock band, Ass, which co-released records by Team Dresch a group she still fondly describes as “grunge”), and small handful of Portland’s trip-hop acts. but she was one-quarter of the now-seminal Bleyle relocated to the Bay Area at a seem dyke entourage Team Dresch. Besides knowing ingly odd moment: It was 1997, and her two all of this, 1 felt an odd sort of personal connec bands were rockin’ and gaining prominence. tion with her because 1) someone once told me She describes her departure as a kind of escape. I kxik like her and 2) another someone once “I ran away from Portland,” she says. “I told me she had a dream that I had a crush on wanted to take everything apart and put it Bleyle, so she punched me in the stomach. back together in a different way.” Although 1 lived in Portland at the end of W hat exactly does this mean? Well, four the ’90s, I somehow managed never once to years ago, Bleyle fell into synch with the San see Hazel or Team Dresch play, so my percep Francisco punk-reggae scene. tion of her was formed merely through “It was a direction I was already mentally friends’ stories of her onstage high jinks ("I heading in—polyrhythms, polyphony, the spiritu was on a mission; 1 used to yell a lot,” she ality of certain chordal structures,” she says. “This says) and the tastefully topless photo of her was what was really exciting me about music." and her band members on the cover of the Bleyle befriended several punk-reggae bands. Hazel record. Inspired by their commitment to music, nature So, what the hell was I supposed to ask this and womanly love, she began collaborating sort-of-familiar stranger? This, my friends, was with the five members of Reggae Mentality. not the task of the journalist. It was the task of Despite the name, Bleyle the human being. assures me the group is I approached Bleyle in “ 120 percent punk.” anti-interview style: We “Even though we play l " I ran away from Portland. just hung out. I punk music, we do it with Interestingly, 1 met her I wanted to take everything a reggae mentality,” she away from the wet stomp says. "That’s how we came ing grounds of Portland, opart and put it back up with the name.” at her “deceptively nice” together in a different way." Reggae Mentality recent apartment in San Fran ly recorded a three-song ciscos Mission District. — Jody Bleyle demo in Bleyle’s home studio She made this disclaimer and completed a comprehen as the man living upstairs loud sive tour of California’s central ly, forcefully and repeatedly attem pted to valley. Despite her admitted “new direction," she clear some lodged debris from his throat. “Its says she’s excited to take a short break from these compulsive,” she says. musical endeavors to prepare for a Hazel reunion After discussing San Franciscos freaky housing in Portland, the band’s first show in two years. situation (soon to flee Portland for Frisco myself, I However, she promises the crowd will find a admittedly eyed her apartment’s extra bedrcxim much calmer, more spiritual drummer behind like a hawk), Bleyle reminisced for a while about the set. “I just want to spread love and absorb playing in Hazel. "It seems funny to talk about it love,” she says. JH now because things have changed so much, but it really was odd to be a girl in a band then," she HAZEL plays with Quasi and Harivy Danger says. “It was kind of lonely, scary at times.” 9 p.m. April 21 at Pine Street Theater, 215 S.E. At one point she was spending so much Ninth Ate. 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