[DesertRhino]

Bands hit a phase when wives and girlfriends push their way in to caterwaul on stage. John Lennon, The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, even Skynyrd...

It’s sad, but there is very few ways to avoid it.

At least Led Zeppelin never caved.

[dayglored]

> It’s sad, but there is very few ways to avoid it.

IMO as a rock-n-roll performer starting 1965, women can play a useful part in a band in a few, but not all, configurations:

• All-girl band (Lots of great examples)
• Mixed-sex many vocalists (Mamas&Papas, 5th Dimension)
• Single female vocalist and backup band
• Multiple females in a back chorus (...and the colored girls go: "Do-do-doo, do-doo, do-do-doo...")

What doesn't work is a single female vocalist in a band where the males are the main vocalists. It's always a little out of balance. If it's a girlfriend/wife of a male member, it's even worse.

[Zuriel]

**At least Led Zeppelin never caved.**

No, didn’t need to.

Robert Plant sounded like a woman in childbirth often enough. And looked like a woman with his goldilocks. Lol, my wife’s opinions back in the day while dating one night cruising in the vette. And I laughingly agreed. (She had a very manly father: WW2 warrior, outdoorsman, looked and sounded like a younger John Wayne.)

[The Free Engineer]

This isn’t one of those cases. She had a history of being a backup singer of a bunch of famous albums from the Muscle Sholes studios when she joined the Dead (See the documentary about Muscle Sholes if you haven’t). Jerry knew who she was. And she was the one who got her husband into the band.

[Dr. Franklin]

Bands hit a phase when wives and girlfriends push their way in to caterwaul on stage. John Lennon, The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, even Skynyrd...
It’s sad, but there is very few ways to avoid it.
At least Led Zeppelin never caved.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had a rule: No chicks in the band.
After Stevie Nicks topped the charts with them after Stop Draggin' My Heart Around, she wanted to join the group. Tom explained the rule to her and she did her solo stuff and then returned to Fleetwood Mac. (BTW, I always that Petty and Nicks' version of Insider was their best duet, but it never got the airtime as the former duet.)