She was 18, she was depressed, and she was drunk a lot. She stayed in Hollywood, living on her song royalties in a little place across the street from the Whisky A Go-Go. Joan was finally the one to say, “I quit.” “If I didn't quit they were gonna fire me, and I couldn't deal with getting fired from a band that I started. The lead guitarist and drummer wanted to go heavy metal, and Joan wanted to stay rock 'n' roll. The lead singer, Cherie Currie, left the band after touring Japan. Like: 'Do you feel like a man or a woman on stage?'” They wanted to know why girls were playing rock 'n' roll, and do you think that the fact that you got female skin makes the strings sound different? Different than what!? I mean, I'm tellin' you, people were really askin' us these questions. “We were trying to be equal on all sorts of levels, and we were equal, but it made people uptight. I know what it's like, people thinking you're no good, not as good as them just because you're a girl.” I can sort of understand how people feel when they're prejudiced against, whether it's black people or Hispanic people. We were starting to see these articles people were writing about us, and you could feel the hatred. “I think a lot of what happened was the realization that people weren't gonna accept us. “The assholes! They're assholes, and I don't care if you print that!”Īfter three albums and one sort-of-hit single, “Cherry Bomb,” the Runaways broke up. One night Rush watched them play from the wings of the stage Joan saw them laughing. A journalist writing about the Runaways called her the “dark soul of the band” the Keith Richards. “We were being presented as a tits-and-ass band, and we didn't realize it,” says Joan.īut Joan was dead serious. People showed up at Runaways gigs to ogle, to gape. ![]() ![]() Of course they were huge in Japan.īack home was another story. The Runaways scared the shit out of mainstream America: five teenage girls singing loud, fast, and hard about anger, sex, and lust. Most peple remember Joan Jett from her first group, the Runaways, an all-girl rock band that Joan formed under the aegis of impresario Kim Fowley when Joan was around 15. Ya see, we're a very mainstream population in America now a lotta rock 'n' roll ethics are out the window.” Now, with the movie, I think they're gonna give her more respect. “In a way this is weird, 'cause you got all these artists on display, y'know: 'Here you guys-touch your artists! You've played the records, now touch the flesh!' But we do this thing on a one-to-one basis constantly with the radio stations when we tour. He started in the business when he was 15, playing keyboards, and writing songs for Tommy James and the Shondells now he's nearly 40. “It's not a Joan thing to go and do this kind of promotion.” Kenny talks fast, and constantly. But we are not on the way to the shopping center, we are going to the Gavin Report seminars at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco, a big schmoozarama of AOR and Top 40 radio and record promotion people. Kenny's at the wheel of a rented Lincoln Continental, Meryl's up front, and me and Joan and seven-year-old Carianne Laguna are scrunching together in the back seat like mom and dad and the kids in the 'burbs, and this is the way it is for Joan a lot of the time, 'cause she lives with Kenny and Meryl and Cari in Rockville Center, Long Island, when she's not on the road. And it became more important to me than politics, more important to me than anything else in this society. “Whoa! And then there was Chuck Berry! And then there was this whole thing. “I never got over seeing Jailhouse Rock,” is one of the first things Kenny Laguna, who's managed Joan for the last eight years with his wife Meryl, tells me. You can do anything.”ĭo you believe in rock 'n' roll? Do you believe in the magic that'll thrill your soul? Do you still wanna die before you get old? “And then,” she smiles, her mouth sneaking up at the corners like a leprechaun-gone-wrong, “once you get a following, nobody can take that away from you. And once you get a following, you can get more gigs, and get a bigger following. Even if ya gotta play for nothin', or almost nothin'.” “But the most important thing is to keep playing. THEIRS.“Yeah, I know it's hard.” Joan says in her gravel rasp that lets you know just how hard. I AM SELLING A FIRST GENERATION REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL. YOU WILL BE GETTING A WATERED DOWN, MORE PIXELATED COPY FROM THEM. I CAN ASSURE YOU 100% THAT THE OTHER SELLERS HAVE PURCHASED SCRIPT/COVER FROM ME AND HAVE REPRINTED FOR RESALE. YOU WILL SEE SEVERAL SELLERS ON ETSY WITH SAME EXACT SCRIPT COVER AS MINE. Please read entire description prior to purchasing.
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