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Punk's Jett Fuels Excitement
from: nypost.com
by Dan Aquilante
Photo: J. Scott Wynn
JOAN JETT defended her reputation at the Bowery Ballroom.
JOAN JETT loves rock 'n' roll - and rock 'n' roll's loved her since the days when she was a teenage Runaway and songs cost a dime on the jukebox, baby.
All wrapped in leather and chains, the 45-year-old punk queen looked and sounded great at the opening show of her four-night N.Y.C. club blitz at the Bowery Ballroom Monday.
Laying low since the release of her 1999 disc, "Fetish," Miss Jett is currently re-establishing her relevance with her just-released CD, "SINNER," and hopes to enlarge her fan base with youngsters who'll be seeing her brand of punk-pop for the first time when she headlines the upcoming Warped Tour this summer.
Jett and her band, the BLACKHEARTS, proved they still mattered at the Bowery with a 100-minute set of fast three-chord rockers. She peppered the program with material from her latest record, but it was the covers and Blackheart classics that made the crowd churn, sing along and reach toward the stage.
Jett initially took a misstep, opening her show with "Victim of Circumstance," instead of her usual opener, the attention grabber "Bad Reputation."
After "Circumstance," she went into a power glide with her great stutter "Ch-Ch-Cherrybomb," her famous Springsteen collaboration "Light of Day," her teasing come-on song "Do You Want to Touch Me" and, finally, her theme song, "Bad Reputation."
At the center of the concert, Jett flipped to new material from "SINNER." The first of those songs, "Androgynous," might have seemed familiar to fans who saw her perform it at the Brooklyn club Warsaw a couple years ago. This tune, while essentially the same, had more punch at this performance with a greater emphasis on the bottom bass/drum thumps.
Inexplicably, yet as usual, Jett's cover of "Love Is All Around" (from the old "Mary Tyler Moore Show") seemed to thrill the house, especially the women.
Even though the middle concert flagged slightly with the new tracks, Jett pulled out of it with a memorable mini-set of hits. She started with "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," shimmied her way into "Crimson and Clover" and ended the show with "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - all fan favorites.
What did she have left for the encore?
Jett and the BLACKHEARTS took their final bows with high-note covers - an unrepentant, true-to-the-original version of "Wild One," and a rendition of Sly Stone's "Everyday People," which nicely reflected the diversity of her fans.
She and her band will be at CBGB's tonight and at Brooklyn's Northsix tomorrow.
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