This is the promo for the single, taken from the album of the same name. Quailty isn't great, but I haven't been able to find a good copy. It's cut short, so I've added some pics, also a cut of The Runaways live in Chicago 1978.
Wow, great video. Thank you for posting. I forgot how great this song was... Really one of my favorite songs. So poignant considering this was one of the last tracks they sang together before the band broke up... Loved Sandy on those drums during Wild Thing
What a brilliant song, I love the guitar solo! Surprised the record company don't release a greatest hits DVD of The Runaways, there's obviously a lot of demand for one
my life will never be complete because i will never be able to see the Runaways preform live. If time travel is invented this would be the sole purpous I would use it for
Same, I'm only 18 years old and I just discovered The Runaways a few months ago, I wish I could go back in the 70's to see them play live, I love Joan.
I'd love to time travel and see them live also. Thank God for You Tube cos I've been told in those days VHS players cost hundreds, not to mention the tapes themselves!
MAN, I wish there was a HD version of this video. I have always wanted to know the chords Lita is playing in that riff break. This has always been on of my favorite Runaways songs.
This video is absolutely the next best thing to having been there - The Runaways rocking at their best (and without Cherie) ! Thanks for taking us there !
jesus man! this was awesome! ok the quality it's a bit bad but it's awesome though , i never had seen before that cut from chicago .. So thank u so much . i really enjoyed the vid... waiting for the night and u drive me wild both are my fav songs. congrats great job :)
Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Sandy West and Jackie Fox. Don't need to say nothin else except maybe Joan Jett was something wonderful then and now, Lita Ford also.
Felony Strutter: That's interesting. I'm not saying Lita's wrong, of course - but to me, the guitar work on "Waitin' For The Night" has always reminded me of nothing so much as (of all things!) the Marshall Tucker Band's big hit "Can't You See?"(ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dlc6xCPx60U.html). Listen to the first sixteen seconds of "Can't You See?" - when it's just the guitar playing, before the flute kicks in - and then listen to the first twenty seconds of "Waitin' For the Night" - when it's just the guitar, before the vocals kick in - and tell me they don't sound *just a little bit* similar. I've found myself wondering, lately, if Lita ever heard "Can't You See?", even if she wasn't a fan or anything. Mind you, I'm probably completely wrong. I mean, I doubt that Lita liked the Marshall Tucker Band, and of course I can hear the "Thank You" influence on this song, too. But that just makes me wonder if the Marshall Tucker Band didn't rip off the riff for "Cant You See?" *from Led Zepplin* , so Lita could have been influenced by both! After all, "Thank You" came out in 1969, "Can't You See?" came out in 1973, and "Waitin' For The Night" didn't come out until 1977. Think about it...Mind you, there's only so much you can do with an electric guitar. There are only so many riffs in the world, after all...Bands are bound to repeat each others' riffs, most often unconsciously, and I suppose it doesn't mean anything at all...
While her solo fucking kicks balls and is super rad & original, the softer riffs are almost identical to "More Than A Feeling" by Boston. Not really sure which came 1st without googling!
Their music was also so under-produced. A great producer could have cleaned up their songs and who knows what could have happened. They always seemed ready to break through to the next level, but never did.
Another EARLY fact, when Gene and Paul were in an LA club 1976 and Gene discovered then flew VH to NYC to record their demo....Paul was there (at the club) with Lita :) Paul Stanley is a GOD. - Confirmed by Lita herself.
LOL I just posted to Lita's FB saying the same thing about Cherie. (Joan will never admit it.) Never knew Lita said that. Cherie effed it up for them. But Sandy West was not "along for the ride." She was an awesome drummer and her heart was in it.
