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Rocker JOAN JETT's still got great 'bad reputation'
from: courier-journal.com/
by Marty Rosen
It's been more than 30 years since JOAN JETT kicked off her rock career with the all-girl band the RUNAWAYS, and nearly that long since she recorded "Bad Reputation," the single and album that established her as a star. But if you'd wandered into Cardinal Stadium last night, where Jett and her band, The BLACKHEARTS, were playing a free Kentucky State Fair concert, you might have thought she was a bright young newcomer, still trying to make a name for herself.
She and her band were masters of furious ironies, couching rebellious lyrics in slash-and-burn guitar chords, rumbling bass lines, and nimble drum textures. Her voice was rough and compelling - and from the way she muscled her trim, glittering way around the stage it was pretty clear that she meant every word when she sang, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."
Much of her classic catalog made the set list: a blazing version of "Cherry Bomb," the provocative "Do You Want To Touch Me?" and witty covers of "Love Is All Around" (the theme from the "Mary Tyler Moore Show") and "Crimson and Clover."
But those paled next to the fascinating sample of tunes from her 2006 CD "SINNER." Her musical vocabulary hasn't changed much over the years Ñ she and the BLACKHEARTS still crunch like itÕs 1985. But these days the personal punk of her early days has developed into a bold and witty political sensibility. A fine cover of Paul Westerberg's "Androgynous" explored the fluid nature of sexual identity. Her own song, "Fetish," was a rough and ready tribute to latex and domination.
And her bitter lampoon of political leaders and pundits was as sharply written as it was funny - and seldom has Donald Rumsfeld's famous rumination on "known knowns," "known unknowns," and "unknown unknowns" been more deftly sampled in a rock tune.
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