For more Go-Go's: Prime Time (Promo Videos 1981-2010): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=430D504FCBD8712C or check out my blog at http://grrlbandgeek.blogspot.com/ The Graces - Lay Down Your Arms. Official music video for "Lay Down Your Arms" by The Graces, which featured Go-Go's guitarist Charlotte Caffey on lead vocals, pre-"I'm A Bitch" singer Meredith Brooks on guitar, as well as vocalist Gia Ciambotti. This song was the first single from the debut LP "Perfect View" and hit #56 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989. Subsequent singles from the album failed to chart and the band was dropped from their record deal in 1991, at which point Meredith Brooks left to pursue a solo career. She was replaced by former House Of Schock member Chrissy Shefts, but just as they were about to be signed to a new record deal in 1992, Gia Ciambotti was offered a job in Bruce Springsteen's band and the group officially called it quits. Caffey formed another group in the mid-nineties called 'Astrid's Mother' (her daughter Astrid had been born in 1995) but the band proved to be short-lived. Since then, she has spent most of her time being a full-time mom as well as co-writing songs with/for other artists including Hole, the Murmurs and Keith Urban (who scored a number one country hit with a Caffey/Wiedlin co-written song "But For The Grace Of God). She also started her own record label with sister-in-law Anna Waronker (formerly of Los Angeles band That Dog) called Five Foot Two Records, which has put out new recordings from Waronker and The Muffs, as well as re-issued the classic "Neurotica" album by husband Jeff McDonald's band Redd Kross. She continues to work with a reunited Go-Go's, co-writing much of the 2001 album 'God Bless The Go-Go's' and performing live with the band annually. Caffey and Waronker also composed the music for "Lovelace - A Rock Opera", a musical based on the life of porn star Linda 'Deep Throat' Lovelace which premiered in Los Angeles at the Hayworth Theatre in late 2008. In 1993, Go-Go bandmate Belinda Carlisle covered this song on her album "Real", which was co-produced by Caffey. The Carlisle version had minor success in the U.K. and Europe, but failed to make a dent in the U.S. charts, making this version, the original Graces recording, the best known in the States. For more info, check out http://grrlbandgeek.blogspot.com/2010/06/graces-perfect-view-lp-bonus-tracks.html

• published: 25 Jan 2010
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