She was also the drummer for
Mars, one of the
No Wave bands. Mars played live about two dozen times, all in
Manhattan. Their first show was at
CBGB's in January 1977; their last one was at
Max's Kansas City on December 10, 1978. Their recorded debut was the "3-E"/ "11,000 Volts" 7-inch single, released by Rebel Records/
ZE Records. The group then released a single live EP in 1979 or 1980, though they had broken up in 1978. Both recordings were compiled by
Lydia Lunch's self-run label, Widowspeak Records, in 1986, as
78; the songs were slightly remixed and tweaked by
Jim Thirlwell (a.k.a. Foetus). It was reissued by
Atavistic Records on CD in 1996 as
78+. In 1978, Mars appeared on the influential
No New York compilation LP produced by
Brian Eno, along with
DNA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and
James Chance and the Contortions, which helped to bring the nascent
No Wave genre into the foreground. ==Footnotes==