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NameTobi Vail
First NameTobi
Last NameVail
OccupationDrummer
BirthdayJuly 20
Birth Year1969
Place of BirthAuburn
Home TownWashington
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignCancer
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Tobi Vail Biography

Tobi Vail is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on July 20, 1969 in Auburn, Washington, United States. She was briefly with in the latter days of Nirvana singer She briefly dated late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain..

Tobi Celeste Vail was born in Auburn, Washington, to teenage parents. Both her grandfather and her father were drummers. When she was young her parents moved the family to rural Naselle, Washington, where her father worked in a youth detention center. The family moved to Olympia, Washington, where Vail attended high school. The first concert she went to on her own was a Wipers show in 1984. In 1988, Vail left Washington to live in Eugene, Oregon. After a year, she returned to Olympia.

One of Vail’s first bands was the Go Team, a punk project started with Calvin Johnson in 1985. The group released several cassettes and nine singles on the independent label K Records, mostly on the 7″ vinyl format. Billy “Boredom” Karren was one of the rotating musicians who played with the Go Team, and it was in this band that he and Vail played together for the first time. The band toured the West Coast in 1987 as a two-piece, then added Karren for two U.S. tours, both in 1989. After the Go Team disbanded, Vail played in various project bands and made a record as the drummer for Some Velvet Sidewalk; she toured with Some Velvet Sidewalk during early 1990. Since the beginning of her teens, Vail had tried to form an all-female band to “rule the world and change how people view music and politics”, including a group named Doris, but none of the projects proved successful.

Her father worked in the youth detention center.

She was the first to invented the spelling “grrl” in riot grrl.

Tobi Celeste Vail (born July 20, 1969) is an American independent musician, music critic and feminist activist from Olympia, Washington. She was a central figure in the riot grrl scene—she coined the spelling of “grrl”—and she started the zine Jigsaw. A drummer, guitarist and singer, she was a founding member of the band Bikini Kill. Vail has collaborated in several other bands figuring in the Olympia music scene. Vail writes for eMusic.

Tobi Vail Net Worth

Tobi is one of the richest Drummer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tobi Vail's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

She was DJ at KAOS FM from the age of fifteen to twenty-one.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeDrummer
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HouseLiving in own house.

In October 1990, Vail, Wilcox and Hanna determined to form a band, which they named Bikini Kill. Vail played drums and on some songs she sang. Through early 1991, Hanna and Wilcox swapped bass player and lead singer duties halfway through the set, and Wilcox also played guitar. After trying out a lot of female lead guitar players, none of whom seemed to fit, the band finally asked Karren to join as he was already known to Vail and a familiar figure in the Olympia music scene.

Despite frequent mainstream media misrepresentation and serious violence at shows, they continued for several years and today are largely credited (along with Bratmobile) with starting riot grrrl, a movement that merged do it yourself (DIY) punk culture with feminism. The band Bikini Kill tried to reclaim feminism for the punk scene in an attempt to disrupt its male bias. The band fought against male aggression at their shows. Largely because of Hanna’s leadership, Bikini Kill encouraged girls to stand at the front of the stage for solidarity as well as for protection from male aggression. Vail and the other members of Bikini Kill encouraged girls to start their own bands. The general idea that girls should create their own independent culture grew rapidly in popularity through a largely underground network of similar-feeling fans, artists, musicians and writers, and soon regular meetings started taking place, usually in punk houses like Positive Force. By the summer of 1991, the riot grrrl movement had coalesced, with Bikini Kill moving to Washington, D.C. for a year.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 1989, Vail published the first issue of her feminist zine Jigsaw. When she published the zine, Vail was working at an Olympia sandwich shop with Kathi Wilcox who remembers being impressed by Vail’s focus on “girls in bands, specifically,” including an aggressive emphasis on feminist issues. While Kathleen Hanna was touring with Viva Knievel, she came upon a copy of Jigsaw #2, finding resonance in Vail’s “Boxes”, a five-page article about gender. Hanna wrote to Vail and submitted musician interviews to be published in Jigsaw; this was the beginning of their collaboration. In Jigsaw, Vail wrote about “angry grrls”, combining the word girls with the powerful growl of grr. Vail’s third issue, published in 1991 after she spent time in Washington D.C., was subtitled “angry grrrl zine”. Vail soon became dismayed with the male-slanted media coverage of the riot grrrl scene. Janice Radway notes that her copy of Jigsaw #4, also published in 1991, has many instances of the printed word “grrrl”, but each one has been crossed out, “presumably by Vail, as a protest against the popularity of the term.”

Who is Tobi Vail Dating?

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In 1992, while still involved with Bikini Kill, Tobi started the Frumpies in Washington, D.C. with Bikini Kill bandmates Wilcox and Karren, and also with Molly Neuman of Bratmobile and the PeeChees, and later Michelle Mae. The Frumpies were distinctly less overtly political in nature than either Bikini Kill or Bratmobile, with a different sound. The band toured the U.S. with Huggy Bear in 1993 and they toured Italy with noise rock band Dada Swing in 2000.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Vail met Kurt Cobain when he was hanging around with the Melvins in 1986. Cobain played guitar on one of the Go Team songs. Vail and Cobain briefly dated beginning in July 1990. The two discussed the possibility of starting a music project, and recorded a few songs together. Some of these songs ended up being Nirvana tracks. In October 1990, after Dave Grohl joined Nirvana, Hanna and Grohl started dating, making for two couples linking Nirvana to the new band Bikini Kill. Referring to the Teen Spirit deodorant brand that Vail once used, Hanna wrote “Kurt smells like Teen Spirit” on the wall of Cobain’s bedroom. Cobain, unaware of the deodorant brand, saw a deeper meaning in the spray-painted phrase, and he wrote the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” which became a monumental hit song for Nirvana. Cobain and Vail soon split but they remained friends.

In 1993, Vail started Bumpidee, a low-cost method for unsigned bands to increase their listener base, using the distribution of cassette recordings of their songs. This was another embodiment of Vail’s strong DIY principle. The name Bumpidee was chosen in honor of the children’s television show Bumpity. One of the Bumpidee bands was Worst Case Scenario which included Justin Trosper and Brandt Sandeno—these two musicians found success in the band Unwound, retaining the DIY ethic from their Bumpidee exposure.

Facts & Trivia

Tobi Ranked on the list of most popular Drummer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tobi Vail celebrates birthday on July 20 of every year.

Vail ran the mail order department at Kill Rock Stars from 1998 to 2011, after working there part-time from 1992 to 1997. In addition to blogging through her Jigsaw website, Vail also posts as “Tabitha Says” on Tumblr, beginning in August 2008.

Did Tobi Vail date Kurt Cobain?

Vail met Kurt Cobain when she was hanging around with the Melvins in 1986. Cobain played guitar on one of the Go Team songs. Vail and Cobain briefly dated beginning in July 1990. The two discussed the possibility of starting a music project, and recorded a few songs together.

How long did Kurt Cobain and Tobi Vail date?

Kurt had known Tobi for two years, but it wasn’t until early 1990 that he had the occasion to spend an entire evening with her.

What Nirvana songs are about Tobi Vail?

Smells Like Teen Spirit‘ The inspiration behind one of the most iconic and instantly recognisable songs of all time came when Cobain’s then-girlfriend, Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill, spray-painted “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit” on his bedroom wall after a night of drinking and graffitiing in the streets of Seattle.

What is the meaning of the song Smells Like Teen Spirit?

She wrote “Kurt smells like Teen Spirit” in reference to a deodorant brand that Cobain’s girlfriend at the time wore. Cobain, who didn’t know what Teen Spirit was, was said to have interpreted it as a revolutionary catchphrase and named a song after it.

Who did Kurt Cobain sleep with?

In the soon-to-be released book, “I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution,” authors Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum, interviewed more than 400 people to rediscover the “golden age” of music videos made from 1981 to 1992.

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