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By Andrea Bellemare | Photo by: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images
'I never owned an acoustic guitar 'til about maybe 10 years ago,' says rocker
Iconic rocker JOAN JETT says she wasn't sure she could ever do acoustic versions of hits like Bad Reputation and Cherry Bomb, because she had been keeping "acoustic stuff at arm's length" her entire career.
"When I say I didn't have an acoustic around, I mean, I was adamant. I didn't want to see it. I didn't want to know about it. I didn't want [it in] my 100 feet of wherever I was," she told The Sunday Magazine's Piya Chattopadhyay in May.
Instead, Jett jammed with her electric guitar, right into the rock firmament.
That "never say acoustic" approach is why her latest album, Changeup, which was released in March and features acoustic renderings of 25 hits, is such a departure.
Jett, now 63, first achieved fame as a teen with the punk girl group The RUNAWAYS, with hits like Cherry Bomb. Soon after the band broke up in 1979, she formed JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS, and went on to found her own record label, BLACKHEART RECORDS.
She has eight gold and platinum records, and was inducted along with the BLACKHEARTS into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
A change of heart
The impetus for Changeup began when Jett and the BLACKHEARTS ended up performing an unplugged set to promote her documentary four years ago. [more] JOAN JETT talks new album, performs 'Cherry Bomb' from: goodmorningamerica.com
By GMA
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS drop by to talk about the release of their first acoustic album, "Changeup," and perform "Cherry Bomb." JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS perform on 'GMA' from: goodmorningamerica.com
By GMA
The group performs "(I'm Gonna) Run Away" on "Good Morning America." JOAN JETT talks 1st-ever acoustic album, 'Changeup' from: goodmorningamerica.com
By GMA
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer on her new album and shares advice for future rock stars. JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS play 'Nassau is Back' concert from: pix11.com
By Melisa Iscan
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (PIX11) - Rock and Roll Hall of Famer JOAN JETT is on tour right now with Poison, Def Leppard and Motley Crue, but she made a stop in East Meadow Saturday night to play a show to celebrate Nassau County's comeback from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The concert was the largest in Eisenhower Park's history, attended by an estimated 25,000 people.
PIX11's Eileen Lehpamer has the report from Eisenhower Park. Watch in the video player above. JOAN JETT Admits Playing With The Ramones Inspired Her Hit Song 'Bad Reputation' from: rockcelebrities.net/
By Melisa Iscan
JOAN JETT joined an interview with Guitar Player and unveiled that iconic punk rock band The Ramones greatly influenced her while working on her classic work. Also, the famous musician drew attention to journalists who shared their controversial ideas about her early years.
Following The RUNAWAYS, which brought her international fame and commercial success, Jett dropped her self-titled debut solo studio album on May 17, 1980. Still, a few months later, the record was re-issued on Boardwalk Records as 'Bad Reputation' on January 23, 1981. It got critical acclaim with Jett's songwriting and singing performance, and the musician could prove she could be as successful as The RUNAWAYS.
The album's track of the same name became most people's favorite JOAN JETT song and became worldwide known with its well-crafted sounds and lyrics. The song's riff drew significant attention from the critics and The Ramones fans after discovering traces of the band's punk rock style. In her interview, the JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS frontwoman admitted that The Ramones inspired her to compose that part on 'Bad Reputation.'
The performance that helped her to come up with the riff can be The RUNAWAYS' gig with the band on January 7, 1978, in New York. In addition to sharing details about her creation process, Jett revealed that the press always showed her as other in the music industry in which women were constantly sexualized and objectified. Therefore, the singer stated that she embraced that notorious image. Also, she and KENNY LAGUNA reflected her bad reputation in the lyrics.
During the interview, Jett explained:
"There was this one riff that I had sitting around. It was a fast, straight-up Ramones thing, and I thought it was pretty good. I had just come off from playing with the Ramones, so that kind of style was in my head; fast and hard. The writers always tried to make me out to be bad or wrong, not feminine. To them, I was 'the other,' whatever that is. I decided to embrace it, and Kenny and I set about codifying it in words."
