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Musikfest Concert Review: RiverPlace a love shack for JOAN JETT, B-52s
from: themorningcall.com
by John J. Moser, Photo by April Bartholomew
"I Love Rock N' Roll."
That's not just the title to JOAN JETT's most popular song. It's an explanation of why a crowd of 5,000 at Musikfest's main RiverPlace stage loved her performance Wednesday.
Jett plays rock 'n' roll -- real rock 'n' roll, the kind of music that has the heart and soul of punk, but bridges pop and metal. And at 50 years old and more than three decades into her career, she plays it amazingly well.
Jett played a litany of hits, but her newer songs (she played six from her latest disc, "SINNER") captured that spirit just as well.
Jett also performed as if the songs mattered -- squeezing 16 together tight and singing in a confident rasp, a growl or sweetly (on "Crimson and Clover") while her band The BLACKHEARTS -- especially thundering drummer Tommy Price -- backed her.
The show was fresh and invigorating from the first drumbeats of "Bad Reputation," which immediately got people out of their seats and thrusting their fists to the music. The crowd hardily cheered virtually every song, and aging punks, former punks and wannabes all were delirious with a marvelous "Do You Wanna Touch (Oh Yeah)," which had the whole arena moving.
Jett jumped, spun, put her hands on the thighs of her leather pants, and leaned over to the front rows, and (on "Fetish") turned her back and shook her butt at the crowd.
After six songs, she took off her guitar to sing "Androgynous," revealing she already was sweating through her T-shirt. By the 11th song, "Love Is All Around" ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme song), the shirt was drenched and her arms glistened.
She closed with "I Love Rock N' Roll" and "I Hate Myself for Loving You," but returned for "A.C.D.C."
If Jett's music still carries relevance, co-headliners The B-52s' music still is the consummate party soundtrack.
Swathed in psychedelic lights, they played loud, energetic versions of 16 songs that kept the crowd dancing during their 75-minute set, including many who clogged the aisles with drinks in hand.
The band also danced. Redhead Kate Pierson was all over the stage on the opening "Pump," and Fred Schneider drew cheers for his enthusiastic moves on "Mesopotamia."
A spacey, new-wave "Gimme Back My Man," on which Schneider played a haunting glockenspiel, was good, but the crowd responded best to the familiar songs: "Private Idaho" and "Roam," despite being ragged, had them rocking and cheering.
Though The B-52s members -- and their music -- haven't aged nearly as well as Jett, when they closed with a seven-minute "Love Shack," the crowd even clapped along during an extended instrumental middle. And when Cindy Wilson shouted her line, "Tin roof, rusted," near the end, the whole crowd shouted with her.
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