The Bonnie Parker Band Revs It Up Again…Decades Later

Written By Mike Greenblatt

PHOTO: Bonnie Park Band 2024

An all-new, all-female version of The Bonnie Parker Band (with guitarist/keyboardist Denny Colt and drummer Hillary Blaze) will play its first gig at My Father’s Place on Long Island in Roslyn, New York, October 5. Parker, one of the first females to ever front a rock band back in the day, has always been a captivating performer, singing and writing songs with guys who shared her lust for solid rock’n’roll. They opened for Eddie Money, Grand Funk Railroad, Twisted Sister and Blue Oyster Cult. But it was during their headlining club shows in New Jersey where they really busted loose. During those heady times, she would live down the Jersey Shore in Margate.

Bonnie Parker Band

PHOTO: The Bonnie Parker Band back in the day reading the Aquarian Weekly's Night Owl supplement. 

They also toured internationally and even enjoyed a British hit single with their cover of PF Sloan’s “Eve Of Destruction” that singer Barry McGuire took to #1 in 1965. Parker also performed in TANG touring Europe and Scandinavia with Girlschool, Dokken, W.A.S.P., Garry Moore, Helloween and Crucified Barbara. Bonnie also played bass and sang in Corky Laing & The Memory Thieves. (Laing drummed in Mountain, the proto-typical metal band that played Woodstock in 1969.) She also wrote a rock opera, Playing God, with Laing, performing it in Finland.

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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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