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There are at least three bands named Calamity Jane.

1. Calamity Jane formed around 1988 in Olympia, WA. The band originally consisted of Lisa Koenig on drums, Ronna Era on bass and Gilly Ann Hanner doing vocals and guitar. The band played under different monikers, such as ‘Catbox’ and ‘Sometimes Why’. Era left the band to form Treehouse and was replaced with Hanner’s sister Megan. The band stuck with Calamity Jane for unknown reasons.

Successful shows in Portland, OR led the band to move there in 1989. Soon afterwards the band recorded their first album (singles had been released earlier on cassette with Pat Maley) and Koenig moved back to Olympia. Megan moved to New Mexico and Hanner began to reconstitute the band. She recruited Joanne Bolme to play bass and Marci Martinez to replace Koenig. Megan later moved bank to Portland (reportedly when she heard someone else playing her bass lines) to take back up the bass and Bolme stayed as second guitar. This is still the current line-up.

Calamity Jane disbanded in 1992 directly after opening for Nirvana in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dispite the band’s great reception in other countries, the band was booed and spat upon before ditching the stage.

: Nirvana paid Calamity Jane five-thousand dollars to be heckled by twenty thousand macho boys in Argentina on 10/30/92.
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