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Meet the Band: Doll Parts

A look at a band with local ties.

By JULIE GARISTO
Published August 17, 2006

MEMBERS: Molly Baker, 15, drums; Emi, 26, bass; Mandy Quinn, 17, guitar; and Stacey "Doll" Berry, "29 and holding," vocals.

FORMED: January

HOME BASE: Clearwater

CD: Car Crash, a five-song demo the band gives away at shows. "We're giving them out so people will have some songs of ours, but a full-length will be coming out on (California label) Dionysus next year," Berry says.

THE SOUND: A heavy, legit nod to classic punk rock, like a cross between the Ramones and the Runaways.

Emi: "We like to keep it more old school."

Quinn: "It's easier for me to play."

THE ELDER MEMBER: Though Berry is a good deal older than her bandmates, she feels at ease with them. "We have all been friends forever," Berry says. Emi and Baker are sisters, and their mother is a longtime friend of Berry.

PARENTAL GUIDANCE: "We were raised on punk rock," Emi says.

Quinn: "Not my parents. They were hippies. I was raised on Jimi Hendrix."

DESIGNATED STEREOTYPES: "Molly is the surfer," Berry says. "Emi is the emo kid."

Emi: (in an exaggerated, whiny voice) "I don't want to be the emo one."

Berry: "Mandy is the skater punk."

Baker: "And Stacey is the indie one who listens to bands we've never heard of."

Emi: "We all listen to different music. You can feel it in the lyrics and hear it in the changes in the music."

STAGE LOOK: "We wear whatever we have on that day," Quinn says. "Sometimes I'll be wearing it for a couple of days."

Berry: "We don't hug her after a show."

NOT HELD BACK BY GENDER, PART I: "We're hard-core chicks," Emi says. "We have conversations guys will walk out of."

NOT HELD BACK BY GENDER, PART II: "We all have hearts," Berry says. "Basically, what you see is what you get. Whether we're at the Emerald (Bar) or at Thanksgiving dinner, the topic of conversation is the same."

SURPRISING THE GUYS: "Some bands will say, 'Put 'em on first. They're a chick band. They can't play,' " Emi says. "Then we get up there and we melt their faces off."

Berry: "Their jaws drop, and they're like, 'Wow! They can play.' "

Emi: "It's cool to look out and see nothing but fists up in the air, people cheering you on."

CHECK 'EM OUT: 10 p.m. Saturday, Emerald Bar, 550 Central Ave., St. Petersburg; (727) 898-6054. $6. With Pink Lincolns and Toothless George. www.myspace.com/dollparts69.

- JULIE GARISTO, Times staff writer

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