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Everyone is talking about Ally McBeal. Produced by David E. Kelley, who created Picket Fences and Chicago Hope, the show portrays a single woman struggling with work and love, and it has become another subject of arch, joshing disputes between the sexes, like football and Michael Bolton. To many women, Ally is quirky, contradictory and wonderful; to many men, she is a simpering drag. Our mission here is to settle this question once and for all. The answer? Simpering drag, but not hopeless...
Since the Kelley Deal 6000 formed three years ago, it has undergone many incarnations, but Deal and Mund, who met in rehab, have been the core members. They started playing as a duo, but formed a band when the touring Red Red Meat summoned Kelley Deal as an opening act. Deal is frank about her time in rehab, but doesn't go into detail about why she ended up there. Though she started writing songs after she left rehab, she insists that song writing isn't therapeutic for her and that she's not using song writing to excavate...
...Kelley Deal 6000 formed three years ago and recorded their first album in 1995 on Nice Records, a label founded by Kelley Deal. Deal is quick to emphasize that the band is not her solo act, and that all the members are equally important. She does the majority of the song writing, but describes the effort as "mostly collaborative"--she readily accepts input from Mund on guitar parts and welcomes the suggestions of other band members. The Kelley Deal 6000 is the first outfit for which Deal has written songs, and she considers herself a newcomer...
Devotion to the band and her music is impressive enough. But The Kelley Deal 6000 tours without the plush accouterments of a big-name rock band. After The Breeders and rehab, Deal effectively restarted her career. She had the Deal legacy to build on, but decided anyway to start her own label in an effort to define herself as Kelley Deal, apart from her identity as an ex-Breeder. Ross is the only roadie. As a nascent label, Nice Records can't afford a palatial tour bus. They drive around the country in a comfortable RV that was parked around...
Deal doesn't seem to be taking her career one day at a time. She wouldn't answer any questions about the band's future plans. When The Kelley Deal 6000 isn't touring, Nice Records occupies much of her energy. She seemed content enough in the present. Besides, as she put it, "The reason I don't have a real job is so I don't have to answer any of those questions...