i know its an unpopular opinion but i could actually do without Joan. her whole career is just taking the Gary Glitter sound. for some reason she clicks with those Glitter and Fowley type dudes and yet she is seen as a feminist role model.
Their body of work was to small... And they weren’t particularly ground breaking. Groups like Fanny were doing it 10 years prior. The Runaways will best be remembered as 1 hit wonder jailbait.
I don't deny that they were great, and that they were pioneers for women in rock. But they only had 1 or 2 albums, and only a couple of hits. I don't see it.
Love them or hate them, the Runaways paved the way for women in rock. Suzi Q was a pioneer, true but the Runaways showed that girls could get in there and compete with the best of them. Then you look at what Joan Jett did with her career and what Lita Ford was able to do as a musician, If you can't respect that you simply aren't paying attention to rock history.
The Runaways deserve a lot of respect, but it's puzzling that Fanny - who were earlier and produced four good albums - now seem forgotten, as they were true pioneers. Someone should make a film about them!
if you look back at the timelines, Joplin's hit music first happened in 1968, the band Fanny hit in 1970, and both Heart and the Runaways became popular in 1976. And of course Fanny had many predecessors. Claire Fallon wrote a fascinating look back at all of them: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/making-the-girl-band_us_58ed03a7e4b0df7e2045c149
@@Chasstful Same could be said for a long list of bands and singers though. Entire genres even. Art is what it is and the simple reality that anyone at all remembers a band decades after its demise says something. Nobody's paying to hear me sing or play an instrument that's for sure so I won't criticise.
Given their history, it is good to see this. Cherie and Lita were mortal enemies back in their days with the Runaways, so I'm glad they have moved beyond all that.
The sound guy thought Slash would solo and turned up his volume... +loganbaileysfunwithtrains There's no ESP up there! If you mean Lita Ford's guitar, it's a Gibson from the 70's
That won't happen lita is afraid she might get mistaken for a lesbian like last time she left. I'd say shes doing a good job making herself seem gay or at least bi. Shes a great guitarist though.
sandy west is dead?!?! :,( ....the absolute most overlooked member of the band... the power of those beats.... it was part of what shaped the girls tough and aggressive sound.
It was great to see a video of Lita and Cherie together again. I am a huge fan since the 70s. Still hoping to see a reunion of The Rumaways in some form.
I love these guys so much! I also love that Cherie is now a professional chainsaw artist (she was on an episode of the Kardashians) and Lita is still performing. 💗🖒
What a lot of you are not taking into consideration is that the Runaways were the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to record and achieve widespread commercial success in the 70s. But hey I know haters are going to hate.
Reunions for The Runaways have been attempted several times over the years, but something always happens to prevent it. You get different reasons from different members of the band. But good for Lita and Cherie. They look like they're having a blast and if I have the opportunity, I'll certainly go see them.
Very cool. Remembering The Runaways was one of the first rock albums I bought as a kid, years later saw GnR perform in LA before they were famous, then a few years later played with my all female metal band at The Whisky.
impossible for people to judge the mix sound of a posted video like this: it was a LIVE performance, and unless you were standing right there listening to it, you don't really know how it sounded, especially in a downloaded you tube video. Leave it to say, that song has a lot of energy, always has, and the musicians are always having fun playing it.
@@chicosuman I think its just what they used for recording equipment. Probably just a mic on a vhs camera. The sound was just crap on the camera, and he may have been right in front of Slashs' amp or something too.
@@rickleblanc8900 I don't think that was on Slash. I've been to enough of these "guest appearances" and the tech gives you a guitar to play and you assume the sound balance is right but that is not always the case.This was an example of that.
Just think. I was born in 1958, about the same years as these girls, which makes them in their mid 50's here in 2013. Un fuckin' believable!! Most women in their mid fifties back in the 1940's, 50's, and even the 1960's looked like Aunt Bee, and Edith Bunker. Damn these girls look better than ever, and sound great too. God bless Lita Ford, and Cherie Currie...Anyway. They always looked great....for decades and decades and decades.....
From The Masque in '77 (right across the hall from Brendan's "office") (and Exene's crash pad) under the Pussycat Theater to Fowley's =strange= digs to sleeping in handcuffs in airport waiting rooms from La to Osaka... never a dull moment.
Actually Joan and Lita had dinner in New York a couple of years back and Joan passed on contact info between Cherie and Lita which is how they reunited. Not as acrimonious as people want to make it out to be. I think there will be a reunion down the road at some point !
I was introduced to the Runaways when I was in 8th grade in 1977. I had been given a Creem magazine by my then 'girlfriend' because I was really into funk at the time and there was an article on Bootsy's Rubber Band. I remember a review of whatever Runaways record that had just come out and it started "These bitches suck...." Don't remember the rest of the review said, but that stuck in my mind. I don't think any magazine would print any such thing now. In the same magazine there was a photo of Tom Petty, saying he played punk rock. Wow! Wish I'd saved that magazine.
