11 Burst results for "Kim Fowley"
WGN Radio
"kim fowley" Discussed on WGN Radio
"WGN radio I'm Ronnie James, the mermaids, of course, popsicles and icicles, 1963 on chattahoochee records and Chris from Greenwood, South Carolina asked that we play that and happy to do it. The mermaids were a couple of actually three teams, a couple of sisters, 15 and 17 year old and their neighbor who was a friend. And actually it was a Kim fowley, who discovered them and put them together with chattahoochee records, which was a label he had an interest in, and forget the woman who owned that primarily, but he had an interest in anyway. And so the deal was, I think that Mike post had just gotten out of high school and he was a songwriter and he was shopping him around town, and he was hoping that, in fact, this would be given, I forget the artists they wanted to give it to, but it wasn't, it was something ridiculous like, oh, the guys who did not Donnie not ally, the Hollywood archives, but skip and flip, yeah, which basically were that. And so it turned out that skip and flip didn't record it, but fowley wasn't giving up. And yeah, David Gates is involved in that too. So there's a lot of record royalties in that royalty in that, and that was the deal. All right, so 888-876-5593 Ruth Conti, that's who on chattahoochee. All right, so Valerie in warrenville, welcome to well, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm not going to say that because I realize I'm just up against the news and I don't want to be late from that. So we'll find out what's going on with the world at large from WGN radio news on WGN radio. When news breaks in Chicago or the world, you'll hear it here and we'll talk about it here. This is Chicago's very own 7 20 WGN or download the WGN radio app and stream us live. WGN radio news is on the
Sound Opinions
"kim fowley" Discussed on Sound Opinions
"And we went and saw him at night stage, night stage in Cambridge. He was playing a show, and we gave him a copy of our record. We said, wait, well, we based this cover, and he's like, I know where you got it from. He's like, Kim thali is a very nice man. But he's also a flyer. And I guess he had released these demos without Richmond's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which are excellent. But everyone who ever has dealt with Kim fowley had said that sentence. That I could drink up everything you have. Don't let our youth go to ways. But I first got into the modern lovers again in high school. Maybe from the Sex Pistols from the great rock and roll swindle because the Sex Pistols do a cover of road runner, I think that's the first time I heard about the modern lava and I was like, what's this? And I gotta find this record and you could not find that record, but I found a copy of New Zealand where it was still in print when I would go back there some summers and I managed to get a copy of it there. Well, you know, it's interesting, especially in this mid period Richmond. The vulnerability and the sort of naivete and the 100% hard on sleeve attitude. You know, especially in the early galaxy days, but it's a thread that also runs through dean and Brett, and the new album I have nothing to say to the mayor of LA. You know, you're not afraid to sometimes talk to us like a 13 year old. Awkward with life. Right. In an endearing way, dean. Yeah, so thank you. To a duel yesterday, I carried a lot of your hands I insulted myself. I counted to 12. We fired three shots in the air. It's a gay parade. She's above my pay grade. I feel like I've taken for a surprise the
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
"kim fowley" Discussed on SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
"The european space agency's proposed space writer orbital space plane is not expected to undertake its maiden flight in late. Twenty twenty three. The reasonable spacecraft which will launch on a vega c. Rocket is designed to deploy and retrieve payloads up to eight hundred kilograms in low-earth-orbit like it's american x thirty seven b pat space ride. It will also serve as an unmanned space laboratory capable of overall operations who periods of several months. The space ryder system is based on the vega sees of on plus stage and aces intermediate experimental league. Or i x v which flew in two thousand fifteen the womb plus upper stage lack this space riders service module providing power attitude control and deorbit engines. It's i v. Heritage will be fitted with landing gear and a multipurpose environmentally controlled category bay with twelve hundred liters of payload volume and access to six hundred watts of power supply as well as thermal control data handling and telemetry capabilities are the features will include sophisticated avionics maneuvering in space in the orbiting. The three hundred kilogramme reusable lifting body design will provide a smooth ride back to earth with a soft para for landing is director of space transportation. Daniel neuenschwander says the spacecraft will be capable of being reused for at least six flights affected today. Your europe does not have this capacity and in fact at ease are we already technology demonstration of reentry on earth which took place a few years ago. Experimental vehicle called. I agree and based on this experience which was highly successful and launched by vega by the way We are now developing space writer during Lowers orbit operation in microgravity vehicle can turn maneuver according to their mission it has and then at the moment in time you start the re entry on earth in fact you have dedicated angle of attack. You start to enter into the atmosphere. This is what we call a lifting body. meaning there are no No plane type of structures. It's just a body which has a certain animal attack enters into the upper part of the atmosphere at high speed we call it hypersonic and then the speed is decreased through drag and when it starts to become subsonic you have lowered significantly speed. And once you have reached a certain level you can deploy para foil and once with the poise deployed. You can have a precision landing on the runway somewhere in europe. We do a call for opportunities and we will have different flight opportunities Planned for example in microgravity research. So if you're coming from a university that's for sure. An opportunity like In material sciences or pharmaceutical field biological that large-scale second we will work on commercial opportunities and here. We are already quite good. Exchanges again with the pharmaceutical industry and we will look for further In-orbit validation and demonstration of technologies which have to be tested and qualified in-space before they go on big and costly mission directorate space transportation daniel knowing fender and this space time still to come messes. Mas ingenuity helicopter identifies potentially interesting path forward and later in the science report. Just feel flushed with success after discovering a twenty-seven hundred-year-old donny. Oh that more still to come on space time is mas ingenuity helicopter identified a potentially interesting path forward for the missions. Perseverance rover like other mas missions ingenuity and perseverance of being stationary. For the past couple of weeks as the red planet passes through solar conjunction the period when mazas orbit moves the behind the sun as seen from earth making radio communications difficult now with operations getting ready to resume. Perseverance mission manages that taking a close look at the south sita region which is showing signs of significant scientific interest based on ingenuity. Stater recess. Believe this site could potentially be a treasure trove of complex geology providing information that could play a valuable role in the patient. Search for pass microbial life on the red planet ingenuity obtained ten images of the area as it flew over the south city a region at an altitude of ten meters. The one hundred sixty nine point. Five second flight was the longest and one of the most complicated undertaken by the tiny one point. Eight kilogram robot copter. Since the mission. I landed on the ancient dried up river dolder inches row crater bag on february eighteenth. The lettuce flight included model way points as ingenuity flew from relatively nondescript terrain outside south city into much more varied terrain inside then back out again looking for signs of layered sedimentary rock that could have been deposited by water. The flight spotted intriguing rocky outcrops accessible to the rover and safe routes. The rover could take into him back out of the area mission. Managers are always concerned about the possibility of getting bogged in a sand dune perseverance project. Scientists kim fowley from this jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. California says that from a science perspective a new south city r- images are the most valuable ingenuity taken so far.
Conversations
"kim fowley" Discussed on Conversations
"I answer this question. All our musical ever be is about sexwale. Never ask us one musical question and all about that and you know they tried any way to sort of steering in that direction and we were very serious about what we wanted to do. But i also felt that. What i was as i was saying that now girls were sort of taught to. You know not really talk about that stuff. Maybe to their friends but not really beyond that and soon teenage girls were expected. Shut up for a certain part of themselves down. And you know that's just not healthy first of all and it's not my fault if you guys around comfortable with us talking about sex and i mean sorry. It's it's happening whether you know it or not whether you wanna know it or not so Now it's easier for me to look back and actually put words to it at the time it was just more. I wasn't really thinking about it. I was just doing it as an adolescent. We've hormones pulsing through your body. You find yourself in these club. Web is very different looking people and as you say the music did something to you and there was the sexuality to it. Do you remember the feeling well. That's of the which phelan i mean. Records you talking about playing guitar. I think the combination of being surrounded by these other people that you identified with being in a space that seemed safe and hearing miss music and feeling liberated by remember what it did. You not exactly i mean it just made me feel good. I mean i. I enjoyed hanging out with my friends and dancing. I know you saw cabaret around this. What were your impressions. I laud everything about it. The music was amazing. The campinas of it. And also i guess sort of you know cabaret. I experienced that before i moved to los angeles. So this pre playing music or anything and that was probably my first little mind opening to sort of Coincided with with what the rodney's experience would would be cabaret was campy. it was edgy. It sort of you know joel. Grey the mc had makeup on and. it was just sort of pushing the envelope. And when i got to california. I have found that same energy rodney's and so it was sort of an extension of cabaret and sort of cabaret coming to life. I guess how did you. First come up with the idea for the runaways. Just wanted to play with all girls who started would be really exciting and in don teenage girls playing rock and roll thought would be you know people would love it. People would freak out and love. It and i was really so he did have a concept though of how different this actually works. Yes yes i did. And who did you find to be in the band with you. The first person i met was lamb sandy west and she was the drama of the runaways. I met her through kim. Fowley who is became the runways manager and producer. We both ran into kim separately. Couple days apart. I met him for so on the phone and he had heard that. I i was a guitar player and wanted to form an inaugural band so he was asking me like showbiz questions like do you have a demo tape. -joyed songs and i was a means so naive so green. I didn't know what a demo tape was. i. I didn't know what are you talking about. And i hung up after like twenty minutes figuring. Wow i blew that forget it. You know it's over. Couple nights later Sandy west was in hollywood hanging out and actually recognize valley and went up to him and said i play drums. I want a former inaugural band and so on and so forth and kim said that he had just met a girl that played guitar and she should give me a call and gave sending my number. She called me. I took a bunch of buses to her house. We set up together started playing together and we just hit it off right away. I mean just personally and musically just really hues very heavy drama really into the same things. I was about the girls to play robin mall. She had been bans in high school. She was a year younger than mayor that six months. Maybe and she had already been in three or four bands with with guys so she was much more experience than me and so she knew she could do it. And we set up played Some basic rock wall stuff together and then called up kim valley and put the phone down and said listen to this played some stuff and he said sounds great. Let's go try to find some other girls and we looked around. You know various places. I believe sandy are not sure about. This may have run into leader. And that's how we came came to meet lita. Ford who became was runways lead guitar player. Kim fowley and i were hanging out at the club. That rodney's had now closed down and there was another disco. That was playing the glitter stuff. Rodney had a guest. Dj a slot at this club. And so i think one night a week would be glitter night and the kids who show up you know and so kim and i would go on those nights in sort of hanging out and one night. We saw sherie corey hanging out there and with twin sister and you know she was very striking walking. We asked her if she could sang and she said yes. So we said okay do you want. Do you want to audition sing. We'd for inaugural rock and roll band. And she said yeah. Why were you. The lacing up we'd gone through before we met sri gone through an incarnation. As a three piece with.
Conversations
"kim fowley" Discussed on Conversations
"I answer this question. All our musical ever be is about sexwale. Never ask us one musical question and all about that and you know they tried any way to sort of steering in that direction and we were very serious about what we wanted to do. But i also felt that what i was as i was saying that girls were sort of taught to. You know not really talk about that stuff. Maybe to their friends but not really beyond that and soon teenage girls were expected. Shut up for a certain part of themselves down. And you know that's just not healthy first of all and it's not my fault if you guys around comfortable with us talking about sex and i mean sorry. It's it's happening whether you know it or not whether you wanna know it or not so You know now. It's easier for me to look back and actually put words to it at the time. It was just more. I wasn't really thinking about it. I was just doing it as an adolescent. We've hormones pulsing through your body. You find yourself in these club. Web is very different looking people and as you say the music did something to you and there was the sexuality to it. Do you remember the feeling well. That's of the which feeling i mean. Records you talking about playing guitar. I think the combination of being surrounded by these other people that you identified with being in a space that seemed safe and hearing miss music and feeling liberated by remember what it did. You not exactly i mean it just made me feel good. I mean i. I enjoyed hanging out with my friends and dancing. Saw cabaret around this. What were your impressions. I laud everything about it. The music was amazing. The campinas of it and also i guess sort of you know cabaret experienced that before i moved to los angeles so this pre playing music or anything and that was probably my first little mind opening to sort of Coincided with with what the rodney's experience would would be cabaret was campy. it was edgy. It sort of you know joel. Grey the mc had makeup on and. it was just sort of pushing the envelope. And when i got to california. I have found that same energy rodney's and it so it was sort of an extension of cabaret and sort of cabaret coming to life. I guess. How did you first come up with the idea for the runaways. I just wanted to play with all girls start. It would be really exciting and in don teenage girls playing rock and roll. Thought would be you know people would love it. People would freak out and love it. And i was really so he did have a concept of how different this actually works. Yes yes i did. And who did you find to be in the band with you. The first person i met was lamb sandy west and she was the drama of the runaways. I met her through kim. Fowley who is became the runways manager and producer. We both ran into kim separately. Couple days apart. I met him for so on the phone and he had heard that. I i was a guitar player and wanted to form inaugural band so he was asking me showbiz questions like do you have a demo tape. -joyed songs and i was a means so naive so green. I didn't know what a demo tape was. i. I didn't know what are you talking about. And i hung up after like twenty minutes figuring. Wow i blew that forget it. You know it's over. Couple nights later Sandy west was in hollywood hanging out and actually recognize valley and went up to him and said i play drums. I want a former inaugural band and so on and so forth and kim said that he had just met a girl played guitar and she should give me a call and gave sending my number. She called me. I took a bunch of buses to her house. We set up together started playing together and we just hit it off right away. I mean just personally and musically just really hues very heavy drama really into the same things. I was about the girls to play robin mall. She had been bans in high school. She was a year younger than mayor that six months. Maybe and she had already been in three or four bands with with guys so she was much more experience than me and so she knew she could do it. And we set up played Some basic rock and wall stuff together and then called up kim valley and put the phone down and said listen to this played some stuff and he said sounds great. Let's go try to find some other girls and we looked around. You know various places. I believe sandy. i'm not sure about. This may have run into leader. And that's how we came came to meet lita. Ford who became was runways lead guitar player. Kim fowley and i were hanging out at the club. That rodney's had now closed down and there was another disco. That was playing the glitter stuff. Rodney had a guest. Dj a slot at this club. And so i think one night a week would be glitter night and the kids who show up you know and so kim and i would go on those nights in sort of hanging out and one night. We saw sherie corey hanging out there and with twin sister and you know she was very striking walking. We asked her if she could sang and she said yes. So we said okay do you want. Do you want to audition sing. We'd for inaugural rock and roll band. And she said yeah. Why were you the lead singer. We'd gone through before we met sri gone through an incarnation. As a three piece with.
Rock N Roll Archaeology
"kim fowley" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"Now. All the all the one thousand nine hundred six. So that's hence the. Because i mean th there is grim realism. What he's saying in a way but it is also an acceptance of baram something he just proves that keeping the summer live album point and He's very enrolling role in the band is basically part time member. You replaced wilson his job but he. He spent the next twenty years coming going. The bible very peculiar sort of way unsuccessful. Summarize wasn't he wrote. I write songs. For barry dave custody. He produced the debut album early career. With terry melcher as bruce. And terry bruce. When joel them with know this infamous story that bruce johnson and kim fowley went down to dolphins of hollywood. We've not in hollywood and saw john dolphin hip mud by one of his song royces. You wouldn't know that meeting students but he's interesting you know i mean. He was born in to enormous wealth. Of course so. That's a strange fact here in the story songs on on these two albums that we've been talking about. Some of his songs always sounded a novelist. Disney go right injury sound like they belong in somewhere else some like carlo design alongside russian sense that comes in with him. Brush david kassian. People a subset of what probes the beach. Boys were it would have this. he's very. He talks about relationships in the band. He's been trying to tell to tell. Not hundred sixty the evans. Wonderful whilst you come to listen saying so don't believe it while he's he's keeping summer live is desperate title for an album isn't it. They did a lot of absolute was huge. Huge was the endless coppola with american graffiti. Such kind erode commercial here a second clip. Dennis isn't.
Rock N Roll Archaeology
"kim fowley" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"Would be surprised how many times that happened. I am absolutely seriously you these guys come up with these expensive leather briefcases and you expect it to be full of papers. And they opened up. You can say. There was a marks and spencer. Sandwich in and a cassette. That's it the story that lou adler once told me about kim fowley coming in with a fairly impressive looking briefcase and lost austin to open up. An there wasn't even a sandwich in there was nothing in the attilio. it was purely so you became. You know eventually you become head of ionel find finding grandma you had to twelve years. Which is quite an innings. I mean how do you remember the the uk music industry in those years what it was a very vibrant time because the interest in music worldwide was gathering pace. I mean it always. You know there's always been a popular music same but suddenly it was hitting all the far corners of the world and then with the start of. Cd's that really exploded. The amount of sales amount of interest in music then other things came in like n. t. v. So it was people. Today are amazed by the numbers of cds and albums and cassettes sold at that point. Musically was also very very diverse and people are gone from the white from being to single driven. Yes they would. You got to have hates but it wasn't just hits. There was still a possibility of having all tastes who would just great songwriters or gripe performers. So it was. It was a fantastic time. Yes probably the biggie. Stock act of the biggest of the early acts. You saw somebody. Death left put in hobe on went on to become absolutely massive movie talking about julian. Cope lights So we wanted to explodes but a sovereign deflected. We have haven't huey lewis and the news fan in our in our midst. And i wouldn't i wouldn't go as far as that. They emmy's in your in the discography that you send over the east. You signed very first single. When they were not called the news circle something else but exo disco. Yeah so the story was jake and niccolo and dave robinson were fans of banco clover and they persuaded nigel to sign clover. And bring over. Julie done and they became a bit of a hit. Seen on on the you know the light pub rock scene. i'm pre punks. It was all crossover. that point. this was nineteen seventy six and nigel left to go and stocks up his label and that left clova without anyone looking after the junior. I know scout so we've got nothing to do with me. And eventually they actually broke up it. Lest huey and half of the brand in england with no money no way of getting home and they were stuck and huey who i've known for a year or so and was very good friends with used to come around to my flat all the time so we could play music. He became a big fan of traduced him too little fate and he was became a huge fan of little fate. And is there any way that you could sign us so that we could get the money for the home. So i arranged for this single to be recorded which featured some members of thin lizzy on the other members of clover. It was a disco record which we did put out a nobody was interested in and then off in the boys went. And then you got back to san francisco. They formed the news and the rest as they say i've ever heard. Could you sign the so. We can fly some crate digging mates from the dancing luth. We'll have that single treasury rate. So every time i go to any of these sort of award things he lewis a bit across the room and of course at that point. He was in the eighties. He was huge star and he would always come zooming across to give me a massive.
Whimsically Volatile
"kim fowley" Discussed on Whimsically Volatile
"Just that's like thinking of looks. And i'm like oh i don't really have any like any comment on that type either. The ah I was thinking about this today. Though and since it's pride month thought this would be interesting. Be pride flag day to. That's right but i grew when growing up in the ice skating. Crown of chaos that that is of like caddy girl nece I was desperate to fit in and twilight was the thing that was. That was the thing everyone was into and they were. You know i was like okay. I'm going to read the books. I'm going to get into this. I'm gonna be. I'm going to be with the straight girls mad at the time. I didn't know that i was like being with the straight girls. I'm just like i'm going to be normal. And i taught so. They're all wearing the team. Jacob the team edward and it got me thinking like. Is there like a team belov lake but not even for like girls is like there like are the guys like into bella. They'd be like no what are you talking about. She's ugly lake really like so so street guys. Don't like bella. bella on the gay guys seem to like bella too. So where does that leave me like. And then that was just like a whole revelation of like. I wouldn't say kristen store is my type but she school and that might have. That might have been like a young realization of like. Oh i'm different sure. Kristen stewart is like the call for realizing for various people. That's a lot to bear. Heavy bird played joan. Jett i mean god love. That movie was incredible. It was great. I didn't even mind all this sort of blending of other people they did for the some of the characters. Oh my god so cool. I mean who played the manager. He's incredible so oh good. I always forget his name and we can look it up and let's see if we can remember i. I definitely can't. He was amazing in that. I know a couple new. Kim fowley every story about him is always interesting even ones got along with them. Every story was totally bananas. We'll remember that guy a minute. If we don't. I'm sure anyone listening knows the net he was in a great friedkin movie called bug. Which right with ashley judd. It's horrifying and it's it's really good. It's kind of movie that i wanted to go. See a freaking double feature and my friend had seen bug and that was the first of the two. He hadn't seen the second movie killer. Joe great movie. Matthew mcconaughey sort of started this whole thing with that. I read once it started the mcconnell sauce with that. I won't far but i will say restarted is instead of being rahm sort of went to that and my friend was like go bugs in amazing movie but i never want to see it again. So i'll meet for the second movie as good. I'm looking forward to this now. All right but yeah the runaways. Movie my favorite just visual moment is when she crushes a pill with her. Oh it's so good it's like you know getting to see like growing up with twilight and seeing her in that was just like. Oh that's a cool moment. I think yeah just an and obviously i love joan jett so like seeing. That was like whoa like your roads. Colliding and cherie currie's early solo albums that were i. Guess there's only two. I love as well. You know the one that she did with her sister..
KMJ NOW
"kim fowley" Discussed on KMJ NOW
"And he goes to him and says, You know what? Richard just doesn't take his craft seriously. He just doesn't work hard. And Stephen, Whose is it? True what Andy said. Like why? And that hurt that hurt you. Come to me is my friend your friend and go, Richie, What's going on with that was any talking shit about you right? And then I would have said Oh, you know what? He's got a problem with me. But, Stephen, you've seen what I've got over the years. What happens we go play the three songs I practice a frigging minute. One thing and he did was take half the money because he said, You guys owe me money because I produced albums for you. Like an outside. Instead of taking a little bit of money. He took 5000 and $20,000 and said to me, point blank. I might as as as my this Italian first respond, the cop once said to me. On my on my father Stone. I love that a friend on my father Stone. And he said, if you mentioned Manitoba's bar my bar for 20 years New York City I'm not playing the shop. And I said Andy It's one of the ways I feed my kid. No, because I want you focused on the music and concentrated I want you for is what you have to understand, Brother this. Let me tell you something. And I told boys just I'll tell everybody's He's a songwriter. He gets songwriters money, he gets publishing money. He doesn't get air rights over the dictator money. He bought the name Dick it So what You could have bought it in decades. That's the only reason that they have the deck chairs. Yeah, By the way, we are. We almost did because he had let it lapse and and it was available and John and I just said knowledge. Don't even worry about it, Not but they're not the dictators. They're only ridiculous because he ran down there and bought the name. That doesn't make the dictators. They take it, But I can't mention And then my can't say at the end of the concert after we play totally after we play. Hey, everybody. You see what Manitoba's for the actor point right? Okay, so no, You can't do that. So what I had was Kim Fowley. Big pussy. Um, all these girls, my ex and all girlfriend show up in Manitoba's bar T shirts. I didn't say a word they said after poison man and you know it. And you know what happens the next day. I want to see a Ramones documentary great movie. Came out my phone range. Still Stephen and he goes. I don't know what the hell you did to get ready. Get in shape, But you were amazing. I said, See you ready? Everything. And he said I did. Yeah, I didn't practice. I didn't take my I didn't do my craft away and he wanted me to do it. I was handsome, big mad and your great Yeah, Yeah, we'll be right back with handsome Dick, Manitoba from the dictators. This is the Mark Capitan Show on K. M. J. Right now, the gap between what you should save and what you can save has.
WGN Radio
"kim fowley" Discussed on WGN Radio
"We are celebrating the women of Rock on the day Players show Suzy Quatro, Pat Benatar, Debbie Harry and now rock icon Joan Jett. One of rock n roll's legends got her first guitar. When she was only 14 years old. She became a founding member of the Runaways in 1975. And then she formed Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, where her first hit was a song We opened with I love rock n roll that was back in 1982, and it went to number one for seven weeks in a row. She formed Black Hawk records, and she also gives back by touring for the past 20 plus years for the U. S. O He's an innovator on the music scene and named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. And that is Joan Jett. Hey there, Joe. Hey, Dave. How you doing? Excellent. Hey, thanks So much for hanging out with us tonight. My pleasure. So, Joan, I want to talk to you. How it all started for you. So you got your first guitar? That was really the beginning of all this, right? Well, I think I think he was 13. Because then my family moved to L A. And when I was 14, so I got it like The Christmas when I was 13. Yeah, And what were you? Where were you being taught at the time? What kind of music where you're playing. I wasn't playing anything I wanted to play. You know, I was hearing listen to radio hearing songs like Remember the song? All right now by the free really was One of the songs that made me want to make those sounds. It was something about the rhythm guitar in that song. It kind of bend slightly out of tune at points and I don't know. Uh, it hit me right in the crotch. But at 13, I didn't know that it was just something that made me want to learn how to make those sounds. So I asked my parents for get an electric guitar for Christmas and was very surprised. Pleasantly surprised. And they actually got me one serious Silvertone. And so I went to go take guitar lessons and, you know, being really excited about it. I wanted to go to teach me rock and roll the first day and So I don't know if he was just kind of Doing this because I was a girl asking to learn how to play rock and roll or if this is what he would teach any kid, But he said, no, we've got to learn on top hold smoky, so he tried to teach me on top of old Smokey and I went. I sat to that lesson. And that was the last lesson I took, and I went and bought one of learn how to play guitar by yourself books and sat down with my my records and, uh, kind of learned how to flight bar chords. Yeah, that really opened it up for you. And I know you were hanging out or you What place the night spot that really caught your attention was Ronnie being and timers? Uh, English disco, right? Yes, it was a very special place. It was a disco for for teenagers. They didn't serve liquor. And if you were over, 21, you're just kind of too old. So it was definitely geared towards kids. And they would play all the British singles that you that American kids never heard. So you here. So we and, uh, a band called the Sweet or Slade, Suzy Quatro T. Rex and just tons of great English music that American kids never heard. Three minutes. Hit songs and big choruses and handclaps, and it was, uh, really catchy stuff. And so that, you know, kind of inspired me along with that that early stuff that I told you about was deep purple and Black Sabbath. Um, mixed with the New York dolls and all this quitter stuff and that kind of became my style. And soon, you know, I mean, after that, when you got there 74 75 you founded the runaways would lead afford. Jerry Curry, Sandy West, Jackie Fox. It became huge and and you began touring quickly, like with cheap trick in Van Halen. Did that success come pretty fast for you? Well, we were we played right away. I mean, literally within a month of the runaways for me, we were doing shows. First. We were three piece and that was in. I'd say September of 75. Then by that December we had Change the line up and audition three and Jackie Fox and we became the five piece and you know, we we did go on tour right away, and we had a record deal right away One Mercury records so It's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. And you know Kim Fowley was handling some of that stuff, So I'm not really quite sure. How, um You know that that came about But the touring, um You know we were touring with. We talked a lot of a variety of bands. You know everything from like you, said Van Halen to cheap trick we were playing. We did gigs with cheap trick while they were playing the material from their first album, So that was like a really special time as well. I know you had mentioned before, and I've seen some interviews with you before that you felt like you know, at the time. You know the runaways. You didn't feel like he had a lot of direction. I mean, you were kind of on your own figuring things out. Yeah, pretty pretty much. We were just, uh, For me. It was It was all about the gigs. I wasn't really thinking much beyond that. Which could have been good or could have been bad. You know about thinking about my career and what would happen after the runaways? I just was kind of focused on really what was right in front of me, you know, writing the songs doing the shows. I wasn't really thinking about the business or how that worked, or Anything like that. I was since I was one of the songwriters. I did get money to publishing. I mean, you are, but yeah, but you were you were concerned about the music more than itself. You want the business center? That was my main concern. But I wasn't. I wasn't you know, thinking into the future about Oh, my God. What happens after this band or you know how long can this go on or anything like that? You were young and quite frankly, living for the moment which you should do with that, actually. Yeah, Absolutely. Yeah. Now I know you know, in the 19 seventies and I know you experienced. You know your fill of sexism in the music industry. You know, girls playing rock and roll. It just doesn't happen. How many times did you hear that? Thousands. Yeah. And you still, you know, people don't voice it as much, but it's more. Uh, that energy is still out there. Yeah, Let's just say that. I mean, you know you don't see you know, the music scene is not changed that much. It's not like you've got, you know, girls and bands. Playing guitar now that that are successful, The thing is, they're out there. They're all over the place. They're in every city every big city every small town. You've got girls in bands, whether it's an all girl band or a girl in a band with guys playing rock and roll. They're out there. It's just, um uh, you know, I guess it's got to be Sexism and I don't know what else to call it. You know, I mean, I When I started in this, I figured Rock and roll's sort of the free sort of medium people wouldn't give you crap for playing guitar. You know they'd be accepting. And I was completely wrong. You know, I thought people would be excited to see girls playing guitars. I was wrong, and But I'm not talking about the fans. I'm talking about something within the industry something within the power structure. It doesn't like it, And I'm thinking it's I think it's more the labels themselves that that just couldn't move the needle on this fast enough because I know you. You were told many times. Lose the guitar. Change your style. Your look everything else you know? Well, the Joan Jett experience is, you know the punk rock glam rock look and the music. I mean, it's a package.
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