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Warped speed
More than 40 bands set to play Orlando on Sunday
from: news-journalonline.com
ORLANDO -- JOAN JETT always has led a punk lifestyle. Now she's set to show the kids just how bad she is when she headlines this summer's Warped Tour, which comes to Tinker Field on Sunday. She's also releasing "SINNER," her first studio album in 10 years.
Jett, 47, started making music when she was 15. She was the first female rocker to launch her own record label and paved a path for bands like Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and Sleater-Kinney and now scouts young bands to help get them started.
Jett talked from her beachside home in Long Beach, N.Y., about the music business, collaborating on the Warped Tour and the country's "scary" state of affairs.
Q. What are your expectations of the Warped Tour?
I don't know what to expect. It seems to me like it's going to be a big traveling circus. I'm looking forward to it. I think it's going to be a wonderful exchange between a lot of people. They're all there because they love music.
Q. You're 47 -- you could conceivably be a grandma to some of the kids that will come out to see Warped -- how messed up is that?
Absolutely! I don't even think about it. I got into a band at 15. I didn't finish high school, and didn't go to prom, and didn't grow up how most people grew up. In some ways, I still feel like I'm 18. I'm not concerned about age and judgment.
Q. I love that you have that George Bush sound bite at the end of "Riddles." What do you think of the current state of our country?
Extremely scary. I'm very nervous about everything. "Riddles" isn't an attack specifically on this administration. It's more about how they don't speak to you directly, nothing is clear. Everything is a game. I'm worried about it, and I'm glad I'm paying attention. I'm not sure enough people are.
Q. You were a pioneer, not by choice, in that you had your own record label to put out your music when no one else would. Did all the majors come running after you found success in the early '80s?
Twenty-three labels heard (demos) and said there was nothing there. That either tells you that they don't listen to what bands send them or they can't hear hits. They heard "I Love Rock and Roll" -- they heard four hits! People did not come running. They still don't get it.
Q. What are some things you must have on the tour bus with you?
My Starbucks. A little small baseball-sized ball that I use to undo knots in my muscles. That's imperative to have on the road.
Q. What's your big backstage diva request?
(Laughs.) Oh man. I'm not very diva-y in that way. We just have some water and I try to get my Carefree sugarless bubblegum and they're discontinuing. I wrote them, but it's too late. I'm going to have to buy out their warehouse. No meat in my room -- I'm a vegetarian.
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