You have to just be in the music, because it’s really easy to get spooked. As soon as you start thinking, you screw up. But basically, when I’m onstage I try not to think. JETT One thing I made sure of was when she held the guitar that the pickup was right over her crotch.
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GW For the live scenes in the movie did you offer Kristen Stewart any advice as far as how to portray Joan Jett? The way for me to get back at somebody has always been to blow them away onstage. That would not be the way I would handle things. The Runaways never wrecked any other band’s gear. That whole scene, going into the dressing room, that was a complete embellishment for the movie. GW Afterward, your character breaks into the band’s dressing room and urinates on a guitar. So it was like, people were threatened, but they were very juvenile in the way they took it out on us. And I remember Cherie walking onstage and slipping, because we were all in platforms. They would be standing on the side of the stage, laughing during the show, throwing paper and wads of stuff at us. But I’m not even so sure it was the members of Rush that were giving us crap as much as it was their road crew. That incident supposedly occurred during your tour with Rush in 1977. In the movie, during soundcheck before a show, the Runaways are given a rough time by the bigger, male, headlining act. GW That sense of threat extended to your peers as well. But as we began to realize that it was threatening, all of a sudden it became the principle. We just happened to stumble into it very naïvely, not really knowing what we were getting into and not knowing it was going to be so threatening to people. So all we were trying to do in the Runaways was sort of give voice to that. And it’s fucked up for teenagers who aren’t given a voice. To deny that is really kind of fucked up. GW There’s basically an orgasm in the middle of the song. Go listen to “Whole Lotta Love”-that thing drips. Or Robert Plant standing onstage with his shirt open, and you can see the bulge in his pants, and he’s holding his mic down by his crotch.
Think back to the Sticky Fingers album cover.
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Or the thing that made TV stations film Elvis from the waist up. It’s that thing that made parents afraid to let their kids go see Chuck Berry, because Chuck Berry was gonna run off with their daughters. Because socially, rock and roll means sexuality. What you’re saying is, socially, girls aren’t supposed to play rock and roll. What does the statement “Girls can’t play rock and roll” even mean? Are you saying that girls can’t master an instrument? Because I remember as a kid being in band class with girls who played the cello, who played the violin, who could play Beethoven and Bach pieces. And even as a kid it didn’t make sense to me. I’m guessing that was something you heard on more than one occasion. GW There’s a scene in the movie where your character is told that girls can’t play rock and roll. To me, the Runaways as a band is more the environment in which the movie is set. The focus is more on Cherie, myself and Kim. It’s not the definitive word on the Runaways. That said, I also think the movie has been mischaracterized as a biopic. So maybe it will introduce the Runaways to people who have never heard of us and lead them to explore what we did and listen to the music. This is a real Hollywood movie, with real movie stars. JOAN JETT Hopefully the film will change that a little bit. GUITAR WORLD Despite the growing appreciation for the Runaways over the years, in the larger music landscape they’ve remained very much a cult act. “If you don’t, it’s a hard thing to fake.” “If you feel strong, if you feel sexy, then you act that way,” Jett says. At 51, the self-described barre-chord basher is as brash and defi ant as ever. Today, Jett continues to tour with the current incarnation of the Blackhearts and is preparing to record a new studio album, her first since 2006’s Sinner. These and other solo tracks (as well as a handful of re-recorded Runaways classics) are collected on a new two-CD compilation, Greatest Hits. She launched a solo career, founded her own record label, Blackheart (a word she also appropriated for the name of her band, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts) and proceeded to rack up single successes like 1981’s “Bad Reputation,” 1988’s “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and 1982’s “I Love Rock ’n Roll,” her smash hit cover of the 1975 Arrows original. Following the Runaways dissolution in a mess of drugs, ego clashes and mismanagement, Jett, in characteristic form, continued to bash her way through the largely male-dominated rock landscape.
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