In the 80's I was the drummer in a band called “The Red Devil Rockin’ Blues Band”.  The lead singer of the band, Jim Lawrence was responsible for doing our promo material.  To give the band an edgy look he decided to use copies of old tattoos on our posters. This worked great until he used the image of a girl in a short skirt in a slightly suggestive pose.  No one in the band thought anything of it and the posters were put up all over town. Well, the feminists in town noticed, and started to deface the posters.  Phrases like, “You sexist pigs”, “This could be your daughters” and the likes were plastered over the posters. At the time I was working in the government and was receiving emails that were ruder than the poster. They even hassled us outside the gig! So, in order to talk about this image “In code”, I mentioned to Jim that we should give the image a name, I suggested Priscilla, and Jim agreed. Later on, the band decided to release a cassette of live recordings that we had been doing at what was then called “The Float Base”.  Now the bar is called “Harleys Hard Rock Saloon”.  I was in charge of putting together the recording.  Jim and I got together and I suggested that we call it “Priscilla’s Revenge”, he came up with the idea of the image of the red devil giving the finger.  We both thought it was funny, and later joked “if you thought we were politically incorrect before check this out!”.  The band ended in the early 90's and we all went our separate ways.

In late 2004 Greg Nasogaluak and I decided to put together a three piece blues band using the model of “The Red Devil Rockin’ Blues Band”.  The same format was decided on.  Guitar, bass and drums doing high energy blues based rock music.  We played a few gigs without a name and then one night while we were playing, my wife and our friends the Laceys were sitting around brain storming names.  My wife suggested “Priscilla’s Revenge”.  It’s perfect, it’s a nod to what I consider to be one of the best blues rock bands ever to play in Yellowknife.  And it has that added bonus of once again giving the finger to all of those who gave us grief before.  Of course, today the image of “Priscilla” is tame in comparison to what we see in the media around us.  How times change, in the 50’s the image would have been considered quite risky.  In the 80's sexist and now nobody even notices it.