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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Ringo Starr, Green Day, JOAN JETT
from: cnn.com
by ROLLING STONE
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's announcement that Miley Cyrus would be inducting JOAN JETT at this year's ceremonies provoked a wrecking ball-sized outpouring of Internet outrage. But on Saturday night at Cleveland's Public Hall, Cyrus demonstrated that, even if she didn't give a damn about her own bad reputation, she cared plenty about Jett's.
"I like that I'm associated with sexuality and the kind of punk-rock shit where we just don't care," Cyrus told W last year. "Like Madonna or Blondie or JOAN JETT Ð Jett's the one that I still get a little shaky around. She did what I did in such a crazier way. I mean, girls then weren't supposed to wear leather pants and, like, fucking rock out. And she did."
Jett, for her part, has expressed support and admiration in the past for her tongue-waggling disciple. "I think [what Miley is doing is] absolutely valid," she told New York last year. "You go this way and you go that way and you try to find a center. She's being bold about it, and I admire that sort of bravery."
One of the most influential women in rock history, Jett joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Lou Reed, Bill Withers, Green Day, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The "5" Royales were inducted in the Early Influence category, while Ringo Starr was given the Hall's Award for Musical Excellence.
Here's Cyrus' speech inducting Jett into the Hall:
Thank you guys so much. I'm going to start off this induction with the first time I wanted to have sex with JOAN JETT. We were doing Oprah together, and I went up to Joan's hotel room. Joan opens the door, and I come in, and KENNY LAGUNA is laying in bed. I don't know what the fuck is going on. There's towels shoved underneath all the door cracks, shower caps around all the smoke detectors. Joan is running around spraying orange-smelling cleaner to mask the smell of the pot (that's what you guys call it), and we go into her bathroom.
The show was where new artists got to perform with their idols, and I wanted to perform with Joan, of course. And we were in her bathroom, and we were smoking and just talking, and this was one of the moments in my life where I wanted to be as present and absorb everything that she said to me. I listened to her talk about her days with the RUNAWAYS. She talked about music. She talked about why she loves animals, and she doesn't want to eat them. I was getting to have this moment with someone that, to me, is Superwoman. What Superwoman really should be.
At first, having to induct JOAN JETT in the legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was overwhelming. There was so much that I could say and she just had her life in music that is rare. She's had a career that's decades long. She's been the first of many things and not just as a woman, but just as a badass being on the planet. But this one story is my favorite.
So on one trip of Joan's to entertain the troops in Turkey and the Middle East, and Joan was traveling with the secretary of Air Force. And going from troops of Jerusalem, where she was playing, on the USS Bataan in the harbor of Haifa. Not acquainted with the culture, and all covered up because it was a cold day and looking kind of androgynous, Joan accepted a yarmulke from one of the guards, and she went over to the men's side of the Wailing Wall to make a prayer.
And just as Joan noticed a bunch of women at another part of the wall, Joan's Israeli friend assigned to the trip appeared freaking out and screaming "international incident." The American Marines watching us were getting ready to protect Joan from the Orthodox. We tried to exact retribution that they knew about the transgression. So everyone agreed to never speak about this (sorry), and swore that Joan was the only woman to ever stick a prayer in the men's side of the Wailing Wall.
She was also the first major female artist to start her own record label, and that was only because thousands of other labels said that there wasn't a market for that kind of music. And KENNY LAGUNA, I want to say something to you. I want to say that you're a fucking genius and this is why: Because when 23 record labels were saying that you started BLACKHEART RECORDS together with Joan, by the way using his daughter's college savings, selling records out of the back of your Cadillac, and it takes someone like you that believes in the music but, more than that, believes in us as people, as human beings. You two are an unconditional kind of love. What you guys have is what all of us should look for in the people that we spend our lives and our valuable time on the Earth with. People in this room are probably married to people they love less than you guys love each other.
I'm also honored to induct the BLACKHEARTS tonight. Why don't we bring everyone up right now.
But I do want to say one final story about when I knew that I loved Joan so fucking much. And shit kind of fucks me up because it's the day that she was dedicating her time to an upcoming project for my foundation, supporting the LGBT homeless youth. She was running around our backyard. She was with my dogs, playing with my pig, and I was playing the Tibetan bowls for her at sunset. Kenny and Joan, they sang along with these bowls, and this relationship seems different than the one five or six years ago, smoking pot in Oprah's bathroom. Oprah was paying for it. It wasn't her bathroom, but she paid for it.
I know her less as a deity, but now I have this connection, and I have this connection with her that she can be a guide for me. Growing up, my dad always kept me around music, and I spent a lot of time with all different artists. But I know there isn't one other person on this planet that's been an inspiration to me like you have. Joan's music, her activism, who she is. In all of our lives, all of us are going to experience people who try to tell us who to be and what to be. Fuck those people! Instead of changing for all those people, if you don't like how the world is, change it yourself. She made the world evolve, her life and her success is proof that we can self-evolve. I want to thank you for fighting for our freedom, Joan, and I love you so much. |
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