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JOAN JETT, Loverboy stir up 1980s memories at Muskegon's Summer Celebration
from: mlive.com
by Lorilee Craker | The Grand Rapids Press
JOAN JETT is fantastic. The 50-year-old rocker, who looks about 23, conquered the main stage at Muskegon Summer Celebration Friday night, thrashing on her Gibson Melody Maker, stomping, spitting and belting out her punk rock hits.
Around 11,500 music fans showed up for the first full night of Muskegon Summer Celebration at Heritage Landing, to see Jett and The BLACKHEARTS and opener Loverboy.
Wearing her uniform of black leather pants, a black tank top, and Jett black hair, the fierce-yet-petite artist, one of only two women to hit Rolling Stones list of 100 best guitarists, tore into it immediately.
Tunes such as "Cherry Bomb," an old RUNAWAYS (her first, all-female band and the subject of a new biopic starring Kristen Stewart as Jett) ditty, "Do You Want to Touch Me," and her sped-up cover of "Love Is All Around," the Mary Tyler Moore theme song, riled up the crowd. Jett is cool and her speedy, punk rock is super fun to listen to, but nothing touched the reaction that came near the end of her set, when "I Love Rock N' Roll" was launched. "I saw him standing there by the record machine..." she growled, and the place went nuts.
Another eighties fixture, Loverboy, lit a blaze under the crowd as they opened for Jett. (Mike Reno was not wearing his famous red leather pants, for which we should all be grateful.) The now-middle-aged Reno still has a fire in his ample belly though, and the guy can holler like crazy, missing only a few of his highest wails.
The crowd loved old tunes such as "Lady of the Eighties," "The Kid is Hot Tonight," and seemed to ponder when Reno asked, "Do you know what you were doing when you heard this song?" and commenced "When It's Over."
He blathered about how pretty the ladies were in Muskegon, told the crowd he and his band drove up from Milwaukee on Harleys, and was generally much chattier than JOAN JETT. By the end, the audience of teens and eighties fans (ie: 30-50-year-olds) was in a froth with Loverboy's biggest hits, "Hot Girl's In Love," my favorite, "Turn Me Loose," and the Big One: "Working for the Weekend."
Good times!
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