Later, she wrote the song “Bad Reputation” in response to such reactions. As a teen-ager, she co-founded the all-girl band the Runaways, fronted by Cherie Currie-a group that was adored by many and disparaged, with sexist language, by others. Jett’s primal, commanding sound is, in part, a reaction to that attitude. Americans are very uncomfortable with that-with women and sexuality in general, but when you get to teen-agers expressing themselves, forget about it.” A girl playing rock and roll, it’s going to be sexual. Rock and roll, by its nature, exudes sexuality. “Girls don’t play rock and roll,” he said, and taught her “On Top of Old Smokey.” He wasn’t saying that girls can’t master the guitar, Jett told me, but that “girls aren’t allowed to play guitar socially. Then she took lessons and told her teacher she wanted to play rock and roll. What happened next begins “Bad Reputation”: Jett asked for an electric guitar, and her parents gave her one for Christmas.
It was campy, it was pushing the boundaries. It was resonating in my body with a feeling I couldn’t quite put my finger on, what was going on, but I felt an energy.” She and her mother went to see Liza Minnelli in “Cabaret.” “The music was incredible. “Then, something caught my ear as puberty was hitting,” she told me: rock and roll. (You can hear the radio segment here what follows is from our fuller conversation.) When she was growing up, she said, her parents listened to Johnny Mathis, classical, Sinatra, Top Forty. Recently, I talked to Jett for “ The New Yorker Radio Hour,” and she told me how she developed her sound. I was a sensitive kid and am a sensitive adult, and I was intrigued to learn, by watching “Bad Reputation,” that Jett is sensitive, too. In that era, I liked to wear a T-shirt that said “Let’s Face It-Girls Are Smarter.” And in recent weeks, as the wheels have flown off the shabby jalopy that is American civic life, Jett’s music has helped me feel better. Instead of skirting pedestrian traffic, I walked confidently, claiming part of the sidewalk-and was suddenly blasted back to a sense memory of childhood, when I would request “I Love Rock ’n Roll” at the roller rink and pound my skates in time with the beat. Jett’s sound-the full-throttle drums, guitar, and vocals-made me feel a joyous, uncharacteristic assertiveness. 25 at long ago, I saw “Bad Reputation,” the new documentary about Joan Jett, and came out of it exhilarated, listening to “I Love Rock ’n Roll” while powering down Sixth Avenue. Joan Jett was a female trailblazer in rock and has had eight platinum and gold albums with nine top 40 singles, including the classic I Love Rock 'N' Roll.Įmerging rock band Classless Act will open for the four rock legends.
Poison's Bret Michaels says: "There are not enough words to thank the three generations of fans for making this such an exciting, record breaking, historical tour with the fastest sell outs in history at these stadiums." Their albums Pyromania and Hysteria are among the best-selling of all time, both going 10 times platinum. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Def Leppard have sold 110 million records and (avert your eyes if you don't want to feel old) have been around for 45 years.
Get ready for a wild ride this summer!" the band said in a joint statement.
We can't wait to finally see all the fans across North America again. "It's on! We don't think we've ever looked forward more to kicking off a tour than this one. In 2021, Motley Crue celebrated their 40th band anniversary. The tour will also makes stops in Toronto and Edmonton. More than one million tickets have already been pre-sold for the tour, and tickets resume sales Feb. 2 at BC Place.Īfter two summers of delays, stadium tour is finally back on, with dates across the U.S. Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts will perform Sept. Rockers of, ahem, a certain age can relive the glory days of the 1980s with a foursome of classic rockers coming to Vancouver in September.
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