Tobi Vail

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tobi Vail
Occupation	Drummer
Date Of Birth	Jul 20, 1969(1969-07-20)
Age	55
Birthplace	Auburn
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington
Horoscope	Cancer

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. American artist famous for her involvement in the group Bikini Kill and also for her feminist positions. She was a major participant within the grrl riot movement.

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.

Tobi Vail Net Worth

Tobi Vail 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: December 11, 2023)

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

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.

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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.

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.