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To play with fire
from: VOIR.CA – Montreal
by Patrick Ouellet
Note: This article was originally translated from French
JOAN JETT initially dreamed with the trade of actress. But it was enough for him to thread an electric guitar so that very an other way is essential. And for a young woman, the path rock' roll was definitely less cleared only Hollywood Boulevard.
To tell the truth, one apprehended a bit maintenance. Nebulas availabilities, thorough investigation of management, without counting the cat-like reputation of the injury in interview. Or perhaps this was this hard black image of leather and mane... But it is of a voice generous and finely granulous that JOAN JETT remembers its first electric guitar, at a few hours in a concert in Wisconsin. "Oh yes! I had it in Christmas of my 13 years. I wanted to really make noise!" launch the native one of Philadelphia. But already, the obstacles were profiled. "I wanted to take courses and to learn how to play of the rock'n'roll. The professor looked me while wanting to say: "Not, but lost you the head?" Then I followed only one course then I gave up ", that which adds had to be satisfied with a written method. "Then I learned how to play on my discs; David Bowie, T-Rex or Black Sabbath, all that had quite fatty agreements and heavy riffs... "
It is armed with these ingredients, the top of its 15 years, which it joint in RUNAWAYS, punk-glam quintet rock'n'roll with the female one, which will count inter alia Lita Ford (guitar) and Michael Steele (voice), later of Bangles. But a band of girls to the fatty guitars, at the end of the Seventies, that did not run the clubs. Managers, large dukes of industry, technicians, fellow-members male and media cloîtraient themselves in skepticism. "people did not take to us with the serious one; one was made treat of all the names! And that really put to me in anger. I have the impression that it is because the rock' roll does not have something of very sexual ", estimates that which has hardly noted improvement on this point for 20 years. "That disturbs several of them to see on scene of the women assuming their sexuality of the kind; they feel threatened and that makes them aggressive. That can be frustrating, but also very énergisant!"
Been sulky by the radios American but praised in Japan, The RUNAWAYS come from there to separation in 1979. "One in the same way did not see any more the things, musicalement." It is very right later two years, after its first album, Bad Reputation, that Jett (born Larkin) will be surrounded of BLACKHEARTS to record the famous b-side of Arrows, I Coils Rock' Roll. Yes, she likes the rock'n'roll always as much today, but finds somewhat the term galvaudé. "I am perhaps a little a snob of the rock' roll, but I find that several carry themselves with all to qualify rock'n'roll, nowadays. When I see titles of press like "Hilary Duff rock'n'rolls!", I have difficulty in include/understand; it is not that! Everyone rocke, now... " It is for its part flanked of BLACKHEARTS THOMMY PRICE (battery), Doug Needles (guitar) and Enzo (low) that the rockeuse one hopes well to raise the crowd of Woodstock in Beauce. "That has the really super air! I am certain that I well will amuse me there. I hope to have time to visit the neighbourhoods, to benefit from the landscapes, people, then of the music too! I am in a hurry well, because that made a long time that one did not play in this corner... "
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS will play Woodstock en Enbeauce on July 02, 2005.
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