Unofficial Bio:
Lisa Taylor aka Lisa
Connor- was born as "a pleasant surprise” to her parents Bill and Harlene Connor who were simply trying to
spice up their marriage and didn’t know that you could - in-fact get pregnant while watching the Smothers Brothers.
Their intoxicated delivery room doctor pronounced Lisa “hic--girl” then dropped her from a character building
height of four feet -3 inches, onto the hospital floor.
She was raised with her brother and sister and schooled in the PG County Maryland public school system
where she learned important skills such as "how to jack or be jacked for lunch money", "how to start a fight
without touching someone", "the gentle art of giving and receiving nerbies", "the real deal on titty twisters"
and "why a first grader shouldn’t be mouthy while wearing a tube top."Lisa eventually obtained her own guitar
as well as a tape recorder and co-wrote and recorded her first song; “Dead Pumpkin Song” at the age of 6.
She was raised on the music of the
seventies – her father was a swarthy dance band drummer and acoustic guitarist and mother was a stunning vocalist and
organist. Both of her parents were incredibly gifted musically and would involve Lisa and her siblings in various musical
adventures-sometimes forceably, sometimes requiring matching outfits.
Much of Lisa’s early musical training came from watching atop the stairs as her father
and his 12 piece Big Band practiced and played well into the night. Ah, those dreamy late nights- with Benny Goodman, -Stan
Kenton, - Buddy Rich and doh, stair, stair, stair, stair...-
But, with the help of her ever encouraging parents, she taught herself guitar, clarinet, sanskrit and
some basic magic tricks and began performing for family, friends and neighbors. By 11 years old she was thrown into the world
of Mr. Weinberg’s summer band. It was in summer band that Lisa learned the spit and grit of the music business by successfully
holding third chair clarinet, summer band – Taney B. Junior High – To this day, the word “sectional”
makes Lisa visibly shake.
At 12, with
her father -remarried, Lisa moved to Virginia and began what can only be termed – “the Brady Bunch Years on Acid
”, Ever the survivor, Lisa sought creative escape by singing back-up and learning how to play rock drums with
her talented sister Dana. By the age of 14, Lisa had learned how to hotwire the family station wagon, play “Wipeout”
and skillfully sneak out with her sister to play all the bars and Honky Tonks they could.... so, maybe you want to know more?
