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Femme Fatale eventually morphed into a new band, which became Bags. They took the band's name and their stage names "Alice Bag" and "Pat Bag" from a gimmick that the band used during early performances where they performed with grocery bags over their heads (the practice did not last, in part due to
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and the band released several videos. After this, she performed with Las Tres and then formed Stay at Home Bomb, her most recent musical project. According to her official website, since the deaths of Lee and Ritter and her estrangement from Morrison, she considers the Bags to be permanently
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and other Los Angeles punk bands. At the release of the film in 1981 the producers billed the group as "Alice Bag Band" to avoid any conflict with Morrison, but the band had already broken up by then.
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Alice Bag joined the death rock band Castration Squad, which included Phranc and Dinah Cancer among its many members. In the 1990s, she formed Cholita! with punk rock
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got on stage and ripped the bag off Alice's head). Alice Bag was the vocalist and Pat Bag played bass, and the rest of the band comprised guitar players Craig Lee and
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performed together occasionally when she embarked on her subsequent solo career. However, Lee is best known as a writer and critic for publications such as
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on September 10, 1977. Their concerts were often accompanied by disorderly scenes, including altercations with celebrities, such as one between singer
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In 1978, they released their only record, a single called "Survive", backed with "Babylonian Gorgon", released by independent record label
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A collection of recordings from the group has been released on Artifix Records as well as a reissue of the original Dangerhouse single.
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After this, Pat Bag left the band and Ritter switched to bass. In 1980 the group, was filmed by
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and embarked on a reading and performance tour across the United States.
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At the 2008 exhibit "Vexing: Female Voices From East L.A. Punk" at the
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Rob Ritter also joined The Gun Club, and appeared on their first LP
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heard about their band and asked the members to audition for
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disbanded, and has refused to perform Bags songs in public.
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Museum of Art, Armandariz performed punk versions of
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band formed in 1977, one of the first generation of
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Dangerhouse
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Rob Ritter
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Alicia Armendariz
Patricia Morrison
Elton John
Cher
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Venus and the Razorblades
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