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Jett plays to sweltering audience
from: dundalkeagle.com
by Bill Gates
Jett plays to sweltering audience
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS greet the crowd as they take the stage during the Heritage Festival on Saturday night.
It wasn't quite as hot, temperature-wise, when Jett played on Saturday.
But the heat generated by a mass of bodies that spread out past the beer garden and as far to the wings as possible surely made up the difference.
Last year, the Guess Who played to a crowd estimated at over 5,000.
Jett's audience topped that.
She opened with three songs back-to-back-toback: "TMI," "Cherry Bomb" and "Do You Wanna Touch Me?"
"I know it's hot, but that's what rock-and-roll is all about," Jett told the crowd. "You have to sweat for it."
After playing "Bad Reputation" and "Playing with Fire," Jett asked the crowd: "Anyone know if the Orioles won today? I'm a big O's fan."
To which her guitarist responded: "And I'm a big Yankees fan."
"This is what I have to put up with, Jett told the crowd, then to her guitarist: "The Yankees never had four 20-game winners in one season."
"No, just 27 world championships," came the rebuttal.
After telling the crowd early in her show, "You have to sweat for [rock and roll]," JOAN JETT shows she practices what she preaches.
From that, Jett segued into "Love is Pain," a condition with which probably many Orioles fans can identify.
Then came "Naked," "Fake Friends" and "Reality Mentality" before Jett brought the crowd to its feet Ñ well, those who hadn't already been standing the entire time Ñ with the opening chords of "(I Love) Rock and Roll."
Jett followed her signature song with her cover of "Crimson and Clover," then another crowd-pleaser: "I Hate Myself for Loving You," her 1988 hit which reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is currently being bastardized by Faith Hill during the intro to NBC's Sunday Night Football.
Unlike DeYoung the night before, Jett and the BLACKHEARTS actually left the stage before returning for their encore: "Little Liar" and "A.C.D.C."
As most know, Jett grew up in Rockville. "I always told people I was going to move to California and form a rock band," Jett told the crowd earlier during her performance.
"I didn't realize I had said it so many times until I recently went to a high school reunion. But I did go to California, and I did start a band: the RUNAWAYS."
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