In Kim’s case, he championed you as a groundbreaking band but also didn’t shy away from sexing you up. I think we’re all going through a thorny cultural shift, reassessing illustrious artists who also may have demeaned or abused people. Like, I was taught young and learned from experience. It’s just, my gears are set to punch when that stuff happens. All of a sudden I felt somebody grab me from behind, sort of wrap their arms around me. Louis, playing a stadium, and I was walking to the stage, in the parking lot. Īn example: I was working with Chuck Berry once, doing some gigs together. But I can’t really speak to what they’re saying.
Do I think differently about him? I don’t like the thought - if he hurt people, that’s not good. If I had felt uncomfortable, or like some guy was going to with me, sexually, I would have been out of there, man. Did you think differently about him and what he meant to your life after those allegations surfaced? After his death, in 2015, he was accused of rape by a former Runaways bassist. But it was her representing all of us - it wasn’t just necessarily about Cherie. I started jamming on the “Cherry Bomb” riff, and he started with the chorus - “hello Daddy, hello Mom.” I’d say 20, 25 minutes, we came back and said, “Sing this.” It was great to be in that creative process, happening right there for a specific person. Kim and I went in the other room, and he said, just start playing me something, play a riff. So Kim said we’re going to write you a song. Cherie Currie showed up to audition, and she had no song to sing. Was the Runaways’ “ Cherry Bomb ” one of those immediate songs? You have to sit down and go, this is so stupid, no one’s going to listen to this - that’s how it starts. But basically, I have to remind myself: It’s work. You don’t sit down, because if you sit down, then you have to come up with something, and if you don’t, what then? Maybe five times in my whole life have I sat down and a song was pretty much there - idea, melody, riff. But I think I feel more fearful that you’re not going to come up with anything. 19, in Michigan, with Australia on deck next year, and their catalog has just begun streaming.ĭo you still get the same joy from writing a song that you did early on? The Blackhearts’ ongoing United States tour resumes Oct. “You should sweat when you’re onstage,” she said. The effect is the same though: hot, figuratively and literally. Her leather looks are actually faux she is a longtime animal advocate. At 60, she is still clad in black and leather, with expertly winged eyeliner - even offstage. Her ferocity and defiance have never diminished. I didn’t have a Plan B.” (As Iggy Pop puts it in the doc: “Joan Jett was nobody’s sidecar.”) “For me, it was all in, completely,” she said of being a rock musician.
Her drive was to keep playing, no matter the consequences even when women were sidelined, she persevered. That’s one message of “ Bad Reputation,” a documentary chronicling her 40-plus years in the music business, first as a founder of the Runaways, the seismic teen girl rockers of the ’70s, then as the frontwoman and guitarist for the Blackhearts, her enduring band. “By the way, if Grandmaster Flash is in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and Joan Jett is on the list of top 100 guitar players, then I’m Caitlyn Jenner’s boy toy,” he said.Joan Jett has worked. Nugent then topped his hateful rant off with some racism and transphobia. Wade Abortion Ruling a 'Catastrophic Shift in Our Fundamental Rights' Halsey Calls Potential Overturn of Roe V. Madonna to Celebrate Decades of Dance Hits on 'Finally Enough Love' Retrospective Album: Exclusive I love the lesbians it’s a cocktail of wonderment,” he said.Įurythmics' Dave Stewart Recalls Annie Lennox's Initial Reaction to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Honor: 'We Really Deserve It' Some of my greatest memories include lesbians. He doubled-down on his misogyny at the time with an added dose of homophobia.
Nugent was not included on Fricke’s list, while Jett came in at No. “You have to have s–t for brains and you have to be a soulless, soulless prick to Joan Jett,” Nugent said in a video he posted in December in which he belatedly reacted to a list originally published by Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke in Dec. That was Joan Jett‘s pointed retort in a new interview in which she was asked to respond to right wing rock ranter Ted Nugent‘s unsolicited shot at her in January, when he claimed she didn’t belong on a list of the best rock guitarists.
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