The band was started at the San Francisco Art Institute by Iyall and Zincavage.

" Even though I was going to the Gardens so much, I also had criticisms: Everyone was leaning against the wall wearing black ," Iyall said.

Saxophonist Benjamin Bossi was added to the lineup as an " accident " when Iyall met him while he worked in a deli.

The sudden surge in popularity was disorienting to Iyall.

Iyall stated that there was more pressure to write sexually laced lyrics for Benefactor: " I do like to be provocative, and I definitely have access to my sexuality, and as a topic I find it ripe, but I wasn't ever going to be a sex-pot diva, so that was kind of odd.

Billboard writer Kathy Gillis wrote after a concert two years later that Iyall exhibited a " dramatic range that, while not extreme in either direction, was touching.

" Iyall was highly critical of the music of the day and found inspiration in other mediums.

Iyall was observed by Mother Jones to be among a new group of female fronted rock bands that displayed a " tough, wry, street-wise, cynical " attitude and sought to redefine the role of women in rock music.

Critics praised her lyrics for their " searing imagery ", " seething poetics ", and " intelligence " " My approach was always that I had something to say, I had a point of view ," Iyall said, commenting on her outspokeness.

Vocalist Debora Iyall occasionally visited the Bay Area to see Patti Smith perform.

Iyall recruited Woods because she enjoyed playing with him in the Mommers and Poppers.

writer Denise Sullivan stated that the label spoke to Iyall about losing weight, but she subsequently refused.

In 2010, Iyall declined to discuss the issue, but added that she may not be taking full responsibility in the matter.

Patti Smith had a great influence on Iyall.

Iyall released a solo album entitled Strange Language with former band members Bossi and Smith in 1986.

In the last couple of years, three books have appeared in public sociology: The " Public Sociologies Reader ", edited by Judith Blau and Keri Iyall Smith ; " Public Sociology: The Contemporary Debate ", edited by Larry Nichols ; and " Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-First Century ", edited by Dan Clawson, et al.

" Iyall used to find the comparison annoying, but eventually warmed to it: " When people said I sounded like her, I'd say, ' Oh yeah, thanks a lot.

According to Iyall, the name " Romeo Void " referred to " a lack of romance " and came to mind after they saw a local magazine with the headline " Why single women can't get laid in San Francisco.

" The very next town we got to after they made that decision, there wasn't an A & R person there ," said Iyall.

Among the many artist musicians who studied at SFAI are Jerry Garcia, guitarist in Grateful Dead ; Mike Henderson painter and blues musician ; Dave Getz, drummer for Big Brother and the Holding Company and Country Joe and the Fish ; Prairie Prince and Michael Cotten of the The Tubes ; Debora Iyall and Frank Zincavage of Romeo Void ; Freddy ( aka Fritz ) of the Mutants ; Penelope Houston of the Avengers, Courtney Love, actress and rock musician ; Nathan Burazer, and Jonathan Holland of Tussle ; Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker of Troll ; Devendra Banhart ; Robert Earl Davis, band leader of The Earl Brothers.

The band primarily consisted of saxophonist Benjamin Bossi, vocalist Debora Iyall, guitarist Peter Woods, and bassist Frank Zincavage.

Iyall has continued to pursue music as a side project.

Bassist Frank Zincavage met Iyall at the SF Art Institute ; the two hit it off and discussed putting a band together.

Constant touring has been cited by Iyall as the primary reason for the break-up.

Iyall has continued to dabble in music related projects and events.

Richard Harrington of The Washington Post acknowledged the similarity, but also noted the influence of other singers in " Never Say Never " where Iyall mixed the " aggressive bitchiness of, the coy confrontational tactics of Patty Donahue of the Waitresses and the slack sensuality of Debbie Harry of the earliest Blondie.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

A long book heavily weighted with military technicalities, in this edition it is neither so long nor so technical as it was originally.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In Europe, the discipline originated as ethnology and was originally defined as the study of social organization in non-state societies, later redefined as social anthropology.

TWX originally used the earlier five-bit Baudot code, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

Here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally bringing the plague was invoked to end it.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.

The word archipelago was originally applied specifically to the Aegean Sea and its islands.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.