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She had seen the Arrows perform the song on their weekly UK TV series, Arrows, when touring England with The Runaways in 1976. Perhaps the most well-known song of Jett’s is her cover of The Arrows’ song, ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’, which she released with her post-Runaways group, The Blackhearts, in 1981. Whether Ted Nugent likes it or not, Joan Jett is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and it’s a point that often gets overlooked. Without her work on the six-string, the likes of Bikini Kill and L7 would have been without one of their most galvanising influences. In fact, Jett has had such a marked effect on the proliferation of riot grrl that her record label, Blackheart Records, produced some of the most notable riot grrrl groups around, such as Bikini Kill and L7.Īlthough she’s an incredible performer, the most notable facet of her artistry is that she’s a guitar-playing legend. It’s no surprise that she’s hailed as a God when it comes to the riot grrrl movement.
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And she did that, by gosh! She knew how to get us to do the things.” It remains an early hardcore hallmark.Jett has retained the non-conformist and fluid exuberance of the glam scene all these years and has continued to influence countless budding musicians. She was like, ‘Uh, I think you gotta tune the guitar, Pat.’ We needed someone with ears and.a rock ’n’ roll heart in there, helping us make a good album. “She didn’t engineer,” drummer Don Bolles said in Bad Reputation. We thought if they could do it, there was no reason why we could do it, too.” And the Germs made that influence manifest in hiring Jett to produce their sole LP, (GI). “ and I were much more into the Runaways. “We thought the Ramones were a throwback to the long-haired denim ‘70s thing,” Smear stated one page later. “They were male groupies lurking for the Runaways,” manager Kim Fowley claimed in Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s definitive L.A. punk band reflected the influence of the Runaways more than the Germs, the destructo-glam outfit centered around self-immolating poetic brat Darby Crash and his guitarist pal Pat Smear. tour hanging on to glam’s last pair of stacked heels, returning in a leather jacket, safety pins and a homemade Sex Pistols T-shirt.īut no L.A. It was heartfelt and mentally correct.” And at the center was teenage Jett, who’d left for a U.K. As Blondie’s Debbie Harry put it in Bad Reputation, “They were young, they were hot and their music spoke about who they were and their generation. They were a local example of a rebellious young rock ’n’ roll act doing exactly what they wanted, despite enormous opposition.
As proof, Alternative Press presents 10 directions in which Joan Jett’s influence has spread.
Her influence transcends gender, sexuality and even musical genres. And made it so that future generations would never have to hear that insult again. She didn’t “play pretty good for a girl.” She played great. Read more: There’s one ’70s punk-rock icon that Anti-Flag all agree is a badass Yes, like the Clash and Blondie, Jett brought punk into the mainstream a good 12 years before Green Day made Dookie. Soon, her mix of glam, punk and bubblegum crashed into the charts via a remake of obscure Brit-glam B-side “ I Love Rock ‘N Roll, ” topping Billboard ’s Hot 100 for seven weeks in 1982. She went solo, backed by the Blackhearts, working clubs up and down the East Coast for three years, selling her first album out the trunk of manager Kenny Laguna’s Cadillac at her shows when no major label would touch her. JLast night, June 4th, at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, riot grrl pioneers Bikini Kill continued their reunion tour in perfect form by treating the sold-out crowd to an extra-special version of their hit 'Rebel Girl' featuring the legendary Joan Jett on guitar and backing vocals. Although she’s an incredible performer, the most notable facet of her artistry is that she’s a guitar-playing legend. She had the last laugh after the Runaways disbanded at the tail end of the ‘70s. In fact, Jett has had such a marked effect on the proliferation of riot grrl that her record label, Blackheart Records, produced some of the most notable riot grrrl groups around, such as Bikini Kill and L7. “Tell me I can’t do something and you’ll make sure I’m gonna be doing it,” she concluded.
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I’ve had my head split open by a beer bottle, a rib cracked by getting a battery thrown at me… Just because I’m a girl. Instead, for her troubles, she was assigned epithets beginning with the letters S, W and C. “I was so into this idea of girls being able to play rock ’n’ roll.as well as boys will, and would be so cool and sexy because it had never been done,” Jett remarked in the documentary of her founding glam act the Runaways.
And Jett demolished more walls than anyone, paving the path every woman with a guitar has traveled since. Read more: 10 essential ‘70s punk bands from Los Angeles you should already know
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