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JOAN JETT, Lou Reed personal items join Rock and Roll Hall of Fame collection
from: newsday.com
By GLENN GAMBOA
TEXAS TOWNSHIP â€" The walls of this upstairs hall inside Gary Moss' home near Honesdale are covered with a slice of rock and roll history.
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS, with hits including "I Love Rock and Roll," are going into a hall of their own. They'll be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As an original member Moss will be immortalized with them this weekend in Cleveland.
"I didn't have aspirations to be famous, I never had aspirations to play big venues even, I just wanted to play in a band, I was happy to play in a club," said Moss.
Moss says he was into the Hollywood punk scene all those years ago and at 16, started playing bass guitar with JOAN JETT. The band moved to New York and began touring. Then its big single hit the airwaves.
"By the time we recorded 'I Love Rock and Roll,' it was all cranked up, wound up â€" ready to spring load," said Moss.
The song stayed in the Billboard Top 100 for seven weeks in 1982. Now, there's a good chance the band will play it again, only this time during the induction ceremony Saturday in Cleveland.
"Looking forward to hopefully jumping on stage Saturday, there's a lot of musicians, a lot of bands," said Moss.
Moss has been an elementary school teacher for the past 17 years in Pocono Mountain. He said looks forward to getting together with his old band mates, as well as other inductees Ringo Starr and Green Day to name a couple.
His wife and son couldn't be more happy for him.
One of Moss' guitars will be preserved in the hall. He'll also take home an award and have his name etched in glass at the museum along with some of the greatest of all time. |
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