Joan Jett's "secret life is so strange," says 'Up Your Alley' Producer: Inside the Album, Britny Fox

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  • Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
  • This is a full in bloom interview with producer Ric Browde - talks about Britny Fox, No Shame, John Mrvos, recording Joan Jett's 'Up You Alley,' Ricky Byrd, Kasim Sulton, Thommy Price, Kenny Laguna, and Bob Halligan, Jr.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 649

  • @nedmerrill6228
    @nedmerrill6228 Місяць тому +123

    I check my house every night to make sure Kenny laguna isn’t around.

  • @LordVikingLive
    @LordVikingLive Місяць тому +137

    This happened to me in the 80ies or was it early 90ies? Alice Cooper was playing in my city and I didn't have a ticket, so I was out on the town drinking and suddenly these guys came in and I picked up on quickly that they weren't from my country. And we got to talking and drinking and they asked me if I was going to the Cooper gig and I said no I don't have a ticket. You do now they told me, and they said they would make sure to leave tickets for me and backstage passes at the gig next day. And I went there and yeah there were tickets and backstage passes. That was f-ing kind of these guys, and who were they who I got to know and get tickets and backstage passes from? Britney Fox. I still have the guitar pick they gave me. I play guitar too. Thanks again guys You rock. It was a great time.

    • @user-hz2gc6jl7f
      @user-hz2gc6jl7f Місяць тому +13

      I'm from the area Britney Fox are from. They were always nice guys. Dean could be a little stand offish but the other 3 were so cool and down to earth. The drummer Johnny Dee is a GREAT drummer. Plays with Doro today

    • @LordVikingLive
      @LordVikingLive Місяць тому +11

      @@user-hz2gc6jl7f Yeah they weren't any divas thats for sure, didn't get to meet Alice tho, when I got backstage I met them again and the guys from Cooper's band, and I asked them "Where is Alice?" They said " He's gone back to the hotel" I said "Oh" They said "Yeah, he's old". LOL I figured out when it was November 27 1989.

    • @mattrock12
      @mattrock12 21 день тому

      Great story!

  • @NHndrsn1234
    @NHndrsn1234 Місяць тому +142

    I ran monitors for Joan Jett. She’s the real deal! She’s the definition of rock n roll through and through. Such a bad ass!

    • @bradforward850
      @bradforward850 Місяць тому +3

      🤣🤣

    • @0oo00
      @0oo00 29 днів тому +2

      And you'd know

    • @jukesjointOG
      @jukesjointOG 29 днів тому +2

      @@0oo00Better than you or I.

    • @davidrice3337
      @davidrice3337 29 днів тому +6

      She's better than BadCo ?!? Steppenwolf? And the Guess Who ?
      Her catalog is skinnier than last year's snake compared to those bands ! And she's in the hall of Fame? Thats crazy - Foreigner just got there ?
      That's overrated - big time

    • @slave_planet
      @slave_planet 29 днів тому

      Was she having sex with other peoples' wives like this guy said? Did you see anything like that?

  • @JB-js4xi
    @JB-js4xi 22 дні тому +14

    Ive seen her live 6 times, mostly in the 80s and 90s. Joan Jett IS rock n roll personified. She always gives it 100% and I'm pretty sure she is doing exactly what she wants to do...playing LIVE with crowds on a heavy schedule all the time. It's what she DOES. I dont think she minds one bit not having a hit song right now or last year or whatever. She just loves the show and performing.

    • @wademills1616
      @wademills1616 4 дні тому

      She got pissed off because our audience wouldn’t bark like a dog. And walk off and ended her set early. It was great. Never could stand her. She walked off stage like a 2 year old having a fit. And the other two band were great and both did longer sets.

    • @Orlando_Steve
      @Orlando_Steve День тому +2

      I saw her with Poison, Motley Crue and Def Leppard on a stadium tour a couple of years ago. She was probably the best performer there.

  • @user-td4zp4gq2p
    @user-td4zp4gq2p 27 днів тому +63

    Jett is an incredible live musician and she deserves all the muff she can get!😮

  • @2AChef-n-BBQ
    @2AChef-n-BBQ Місяць тому +134

    To be brutally honest, Never really cared for Joan Jett, but got to meet her at a show I was working. She was incredibly nice, and had one of the best asses of any woman in Rock. Everybody knew she was a lesbo, nobody cared because she worked her ass off on stage, and can play. Maybe shes not the huge hit maker,but she puts on a good show,no short cuts.

    • @katjay3125
      @katjay3125 Місяць тому

      Its a mans ass..lol

    • @bigbadcreoledaddy
      @bigbadcreoledaddy Місяць тому

      Best ass?she doesn't even have one.

    • @robotpizza
      @robotpizza 29 днів тому +10

      One of the points of the video was she's being "contained" by Kenny. Had she had other management that allowed her the freedom to be her...she may have produced much more music and possibly be one of the greatest. Of course, we will never know cause she's being controlled by her management and not allowed to be herself. Though, I'm guessing it's been going on for so long she doesn't know who she is.

    • @2AChef-n-BBQ
      @2AChef-n-BBQ 29 днів тому +2

      @@robotpizza he said 50 years Laguna has controlled her

    • @harryhanz1690
      @harryhanz1690 28 днів тому

      A lesbo? Okay gramps.

  • @TheRheannon
    @TheRheannon 20 днів тому +8

    I knew Joan and Kenny from my airport job days..always lovely people. I’ve heard bad things about Kenny and I’m not saying it’s not true but from my personal experience I can only say he was a gentleman. He knew I was a fan and he actually took the time to ship me a bunch of tour merchandise. A jacket, a shirt, an autographed album to the airline. Didn’t ask for it. He didn’t have to do it. Yet he took the time to do it. Class act at least to me. Joan was always an awesome customer. She did have a bit of a an uppetty air on first glance, but when you spoke to her, she shocked you on how down to earth she is. Miss seeing them.

  • @aaronhill9018
    @aaronhill9018 Місяць тому +21

    What we need now is to hear Joan’s rebuttal to this interview.

    • @AnthonySforza
      @AnthonySforza 29 днів тому +5

      Pretty sure it would probably look a lot like "Dude... what the hell?"

    • @Coasterdude02149
      @Coasterdude02149 27 днів тому +6

      You'll never hear it. She's so brainwashed and controlled she will defend Kenny. In response to the Runaways reunion her response "Why the hell would we do that now? We're all in our 50's- what are we running away from? It's stupid" That was on UA-cam somewhere, not sure if it still is

    • @tArchStantont
      @tArchStantont 24 дні тому +1

      She can't and won't.

  • @mskatonic2124
    @mskatonic2124 Місяць тому +33

    As a pleab who loves music, I love hearing the people behind it talk shop.

    • @keithm9337
      @keithm9337 Місяць тому +3

      I like these kinds of interviews as well: "behind the scenes".

    • @gustotrankin7383
      @gustotrankin7383 29 днів тому

      Its spelled plebe you pleb

    • @luigivincenz3843
      @luigivincenz3843 27 днів тому +1

      I'm a late 80's kid. Listened to them all. and there is not one classic rock or pop station in my city which does not play one Joan Jett song every 4 hours.

  • @craig2e46
    @craig2e46 28 днів тому +18

    I saw her in concert at Pine Knob north of Detroit about 5 years ago she was opening for Boston. She did a great job and rock the house.

    • @BoltRM
      @BoltRM 26 днів тому +5

      She always has great concerts!

  • @OtherMike5000
    @OtherMike5000 28 днів тому +20

    *FunFact:* Joan Jett produced the *Germs - G. I.* album. Easily one or the greatest Punk Rock recordings of all time. Absolute MASTERPIECE!! She is an absolute LEGEND!! Respect.

    • @harleymendez3968
      @harleymendez3968 28 днів тому

      Read Lexicon Devil. She didn't produce it. She did next to nothing other than suggest doubling some vocals and guitars. The only reason she was there was to add name value to it. Her only motivation for showing up was to try and get Lorna Doom fucked up to try and take advantage of her. She is a disgusting human being.

    • @tArchStantont
      @tArchStantont 24 дні тому

      She was there. The Germs indicated she was passed out drunk or high most of the time.

    • @TaylorDelRey
      @TaylorDelRey 17 днів тому

      Yeah, she was asleep most of the time.

    • @cwheremonster8870
      @cwheremonster8870 7 днів тому +1

      She has admitted that she had little to do with the effort. Pat Smear (who is way too kind) has taken the high road. Also confirming! “Yeah she was there getting high with us everyday”.

  • @dwade6322
    @dwade6322 Місяць тому +34

    I listen to Joan talk about the Baltimore Orioles every week on 98 Rock in Maryland. I would never guess she could be influenced/controlled to this degree by another person. Wow.

    • @davidrice3337
      @davidrice3337 29 днів тому +8

      You can't believe what these goofs say - they may or may not be truthful - usually if it don't make sense - it's a crock of shit

    • @tiki_trash
      @tiki_trash 28 днів тому +4

      Everyone sees things from their own point of view, literally. Two people can see the same thing and come to completely different conclusions. It's funny how when the Beatles broke up, they each had completely different points of view when relating the same stories.

    • @patrickancona1193
      @patrickancona1193 23 дні тому

      This guy is a repeat Epstein island visitor, he’s a massive pos

    • @mond000
      @mond000 22 дні тому

      All of these rich/famous people are occultists who trade their souls for success. Cults work through mind control, which is spiritual through demon possession.

    • @dukecraig2402
      @dukecraig2402 10 днів тому +1

      ​@@davidrice3337
      Kenny's influence over Joan Jett is very well known, as is the thing about his wife and her, there was even a limo driver who came forward and talked about the two of them going at it in the back while Kenny sat right there as if nothing was going on.
      But that whole thing about him holding some kind of strange power over her and how her career has been dead because of him for years now is something that's not exactly a secret, this is probably at least the 4th or 5th time I've heard an interview with someone talking about that, and why she allows herself to be so manipulated by him is the big mystery, she has no problem bossing people around but as soon as he's in the room it's like some kind of voodoo power is put on her, they say she instantly turns into a different person, and you'd think after what Kim Fowley put her through she'd never let something like that happen to her but she does, and no one who has ever been around it can understand.

  • @anthonydileonardo8156
    @anthonydileonardo8156 Місяць тому +22

    Joan Jett dated a friend of mine, Ann Marie and my friend, Tommy was an LI cab driver who used to drive her around...and yet I never met her...and if I did, I'd talk baseball and the Baltimore Orioles with her

  • @user-qt1rr5tk9i
    @user-qt1rr5tk9i Місяць тому +16

    Jett won a staring contest with me while singing and playing her guitar

    • @strangevisions5162
      @strangevisions5162 18 днів тому +1

      she was actually staring at me...I was in back of you.

  • @guitargaragetv8306
    @guitargaragetv8306 Місяць тому +10

    This is the best hard rock / metal interview channel on UA-cam. Great job once again!

  • @thestarseeker8196
    @thestarseeker8196 Місяць тому +22

    It’s really sweet that Joan was so elated about going out and grabbing some 🍕. Wish her all the best, what the hell is going on with Laguna there..

  • @wahyawolfpaw1108
    @wahyawolfpaw1108 Місяць тому +19

    Met Joan 4 times and she was my idol all my life i mean diehard fan but...I met Lita and she was very very very fun and down to earth. Her guitar skills are amazing, she is a TALENTED guitarist not a lead singer and she knows this.

    • @Coasterdude02149
      @Coasterdude02149 Місяць тому +1

      Lita was always fucking awesome! She'd be a lot of fun to hang at a bar with and shoot the shit and listen to her stories.

    • @shaunclifton5281
      @shaunclifton5281 Місяць тому +2

      Yes ! I ran into Lita in Pensacola and had the best time with her. She's sooo nice . I enlarged my pictures with her to 8 × 10's lol

    • @Davido50
      @Davido50 29 днів тому +10

      Never IDOLIZE anyone! Enjoy but don't IDOLIZE. 💯 🙏🏻

    • @shaunclifton5281
      @shaunclifton5281 29 днів тому +1

      @@Davido50 Agreed

  • @malakisands8180
    @malakisands8180 27 днів тому +7

    When I was in Virginia Beach in 1999 Joan Jett was getting ready to perform. I told my friend look who it is and we got to talk to her for 15 minutes before she went on and after the show went to a local bar with the band

  • @flyonwall360
    @flyonwall360 Місяць тому +7

    I've seen Joan Jett twice, and she put on a great show. I always thought that she could have been so much more.

  • @robbrown4621
    @robbrown4621 28 днів тому +28

    I just checked Joan Jett's tour schedule and she is playing arenas and amphitheaters all summer. She may be the middle group of three with Alanis Morissette. But even a middle act in arenas is expected to draw a thousand people. And the amphitheaters are 20,000 capacity.
    Characterizing Joan Jett as a club act (400 capacity rooms) is really unfairly diminishing where she is in her career.. She is still much bigger.
    And, also, who in their 60s in rock n roll has had a hit? Nobody. Not even the Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney...

    • @listenanonymous
      @listenanonymous 25 днів тому

      Blackstar, Bowie.

    • @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine
      @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine 25 днів тому +5

      Yeah....the 'beer money' insult was a bit over the top. The girl has a lifetime paying career in music no matter if you like her or not. I was never a fan. But, she gets respect.

    • @tArchStantont
      @tArchStantont 24 дні тому +3

      She was playing county fairs and rib burn offs for a long time and I think what he is trying to say is she could have been more if it had not been for the controlling manager.

    • @robbrown4621
      @robbrown4621 24 дні тому +2

      @@tArchStantont She is playing amphitheaters and arenas all summer and has not had a new radio hit in more than twenty five years. I think that she is a legacy act and in that light she is very successful. And by the way, many county fairs have thousands of people attend their concerts.
      Joan is the type of artist that is very much connected to the moment in which she arrived before the public. For her, that moment was in the hip and modern world of punk rock circa late 1970s.
      Imagine if The Beatles had never transformed from the exciting rock-n-roll band of the early 1960s into the psychedelic band of the late 1960s. That's what was The Dave Clark Five, for example. So by 1975 and later the DC5 had become a legacy act.
      That's what Joan Jett is today...

    • @tArchStantont
      @tArchStantont 24 дні тому

      @@robbrown4621 She is not headlining big places. It's been opening gigs for a while. She's doing fine and she's making bank. I just think that creatively and commercially it would be better for her if she ditched Kenny in the late 80s and learned to be her own person.

  • @GarrettGrant-vg1im
    @GarrettGrant-vg1im Місяць тому +59

    JOAN JETT is the lone hold out for a RUNAWAYS reunion, The drummer (Sandy West) that passed away wanted a reunion bad, In the Runaways doc you could tell she wanted it more than any member, she had no kids and her baby was the Runaways. I think I remember hearing LITA FORD say that it was JOAN JETTs Manager that is constantly at EVERY meeting or even there when they get together just to "Shoot The Shit" as he may be insecure about leaving them by themselves. It still be great for a RUNAWAYS reunion and they shoulda did it when the Movie came out and/or before Sandy Passed Away!!! GREAT BAND though.

    • @Coasterdude02149
      @Coasterdude02149 Місяць тому +14

      I remember Sandy fighting back tears she wanted it so bad.

    • @robertharding8394
      @robertharding8394 Місяць тому +13

      that guy lagunas probably telling her no

    • @pete25901
      @pete25901 Місяць тому +9

      Nobody gave a shit about the runaways when they were at their so-called peak unless you lived in Japan. They were a jailbait band, certainly interesting but no great songs. I seriously doubt Jackie fox is interested in taking a pause from her law career to rejoin the runaways.

    • @rediron44
      @rediron44 Місяць тому +10

      ​@pete25901 BS too. Your musical taste sucks if you believe that.

    • @chrisblaine1669
      @chrisblaine1669 Місяць тому +7

      Rumor was that Sandy was attacked by an older man while Joan sat in the room and didn’t help

  • @theironlukeve5544
    @theironlukeve5544 Місяць тому +16

    Not a lot of people realize the Cinderella and Britny Fox connection. Half of the original members of Britny Fox are founding members of Cinderella. Michael Kelly Smith and Tony Destra were forcibly fired by Cinderella's record label when they were recording Night Songs. Michael and Tony then went on to form Britny Fox. Tragically, Tony was killed in a car accident shortly before they were signed to record their first album.

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 Місяць тому

      So they weren't necessarily "derivative"

    • @katjay3125
      @katjay3125 Місяць тому

      Tony was sacrificed for TK

  • @danehlers9989
    @danehlers9989 28 днів тому +5

    Love these stories of Rock Stars that come from the inside that we'd never hear otherwise....😅 🖤 🤟

  • @stevenmorello2551
    @stevenmorello2551 29 днів тому +3

    WOW. Thanks for posting this.

  • @maha77
    @maha77 25 днів тому +3

    Joan Jett was my first concert as a teen in 1983, I remember at one point she looked right at me, hey Joan do you remember me, I was wearing the Ocean-Pacific t-shirt. Seriously though. she was the BEST concert I've ever seen, I saw many big acts after that but none topped the energy of Joan

    • @teecuzbruh4058
      @teecuzbruh4058 12 днів тому +1

      DUDE said Ocean Pacific,,,,YEAH BUDDY those were the days

  • @TestarossaRocks
    @TestarossaRocks Місяць тому +64

    Ric seems awfully whiny and condescending towards bands that made him a lot of money.

    • @mhitson7483
      @mhitson7483 Місяць тому +9

      He certainly is

    • @AKartes
      @AKartes Місяць тому +6

      "I don't have my Poison royalties, oh noes!!"

    • @The11eleven
      @The11eleven Місяць тому +12

      He probably made a couple million dollars, but was shortchanged $5 somewhere along the line, and that’s why he’s pissed

    • @williamsherman1089
      @williamsherman1089 Місяць тому +7

      Strikes me as that type lol​@@The11eleven

    • @davidrice3337
      @davidrice3337 29 днів тому +5

      Maybe it's because this music is pretty much fucking garbage -
      As far as Joan Jett being an underrated guitar player ? She's overrated if anything - she's in the fucking RocknRoll hall of Fame -
      Steppenwolf ? Guess Who ? BadCo? Really !?!?
      Over Bad Company, who has all of those freaking iconic songs? Unbelievable

  • @mhitson7483
    @mhitson7483 Місяць тому +1

    Fantastic interview as always

  • @4dmind
    @4dmind Місяць тому +8

    Interesting interview - nice new logo for the channel. I enjoy your interviews greatly.

  • @53rdAndThird
    @53rdAndThird 28 днів тому +14

    Joan is left-handed and plays guitar right-hand because when she was a teenager, she thought that she had to play right-handed because that's how most people play. With that in mind, it's surprising to hear this guy talk about how good she is as a rhythm guitarist. Try playing wrong-handed and see how not-easy it is!

    • @deathmetaldouglas69
      @deathmetaldouglas69 27 днів тому +2

      Yeah but if she started like that how difficult could it be? I'm right handed but play drums (not that often) left handed. 1.) I had a left handed friend in middle school let me bang on his drums 2.) Sports ruined drums for me because in like, say soccer, as a right hander you use the left foot to travel/dribble the ball and the right foot for to power kick it across the field or in a goal. So my left hand on the hi hat and right for the power on the snare. Same principle applied to boxing. Tap with the left. Power with the right.

    • @RickIfYoureNasty
      @RickIfYoureNasty 23 дні тому

      I’m a lefty playing a right handed guitar and bass. Same reason. It was all that was around to learn on so I learned the right way. Lol

    • @davejones5745
      @davejones5745 19 днів тому

      Lots of lefties play guitar right handed. I'm right handed, but I chock the chicken with my left.

    • @deathmetaldouglas69
      @deathmetaldouglas69 19 днів тому

      @@davejones5745 Why do you prolifically pound pud with the left hand?

    • @StellaWaldvogel
      @StellaWaldvogel 18 днів тому

      Um, Jimi Hendrix? Paul McCartney? Lots of hard-to-miss lefties.

  • @stevenholquin2127
    @stevenholquin2127 Місяць тому +15

    The Rock & Roll Life Style is
    Not For Everyone
    This is Why Joan Jett Has
    Lasted So Long
    She is a True Rocker

  • @AndyD2000
    @AndyD2000 28 днів тому +1

    That was a really interesting interview. I've really never heard her being talking about as a musician, so it was eye opening to hear him give her so much praise.

  • @StONed-yx5qq
    @StONed-yx5qq Місяць тому +5

    Joan Jett loves rock and roll….

  • @louisdufour4106
    @louisdufour4106 10 днів тому

    OMG I remember Brittany Fox opening up for Joan Jett singing Girls School. What a great talent

  • @sbeard73
    @sbeard73 Місяць тому +28

    I really enjoyed Britney Fox

  • @adamfindlay7091
    @adamfindlay7091 27 днів тому +6

    Shes all for her fans which does count for something.

  • @freddiekirschman4933
    @freddiekirschman4933 Місяць тому +5

    Let’s prioritize getting Ric back on to talk about The Dogs D’Amour please and let him talk for hours!

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 Місяць тому

      I loved CInderella and Britny Fox, but I could never get into The Dogs D'Amour.

  • @tmm4461
    @tmm4461 Місяць тому +5

    Fascinating stories, never a black and white situation.

  • @patrickmoreau7592
    @patrickmoreau7592 Місяць тому +8

    That is a weird story
    Great video

  • @shawnstephens1251
    @shawnstephens1251 6 днів тому

    Met Joan Jett in the early eighties. She was just getting started in her solo deal and when I met her, she looked just like her album cover. She was nice enough and polite and seemed to be normal enough. Or what passed for normal in the world I was living in at the time.

  • @realasadoughnut
    @realasadoughnut 21 день тому +3

    After reading Dave Grohls book Storyteller I have a newfound respect for Joan Jett.

  • @HappyHermitt
    @HappyHermitt 2 години тому

    Joan Jett was one of the most beautiful womrn Ive seen in her more youthful days

  • @ChristopherElli-cc1ly
    @ChristopherElli-cc1ly 29 днів тому +2

    The True Queen Of Rock And Roll!

  • @fixpedalboards1969
    @fixpedalboards1969 Місяць тому +2

    Ric is awesome! Never met him but he has some golden ears.

  • @JACOBSJohn818
    @JACOBSJohn818 Місяць тому +9

    How the heck could you not know where you live. Must of been some fire bud.

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 Місяць тому +3

      I've had the most potent but in the world, and it didn't do that to me.
      Probably opiates rather than weed they're talking about

    • @trillrifaxegrindor4411
      @trillrifaxegrindor4411 Місяць тому +2

      i had some insane sensie back in the 80s(me and my friend smoked a half quarter in record time),i made it from one small town (thumbing) to another without any recollection of the voyage but i made it home

    • @JACOBSJohn818
      @JACOBSJohn818 Місяць тому

      @@trillrifaxegrindor4411 The brief time i smoked in 80's.(Did not start smokin till'89' at 15) Only got dirt weed but it was ok. Did not start getting better shit till '93'-'94' or so.

    • @BillByham
      @BillByham 25 днів тому

      ... been there ^

  • @skodty
    @skodty 19 днів тому +2

    I've never heard of this guy until today.

  • @jaywall6305
    @jaywall6305 Місяць тому +194

    I don’t care what anyone says, Joan Jett doesn’t belong on the top 10 most influential guitarist! Not even close

    • @ZiggyB-hw9sm
      @ZiggyB-hw9sm 29 днів тому +12

      Maybe Female Guitarists

    • @slave_planet
      @slave_planet 29 днів тому +9

      Yeah, only a fool would say that. Interesting about her rythym playing though, I respect timing like this guy described.

    • @Keith-rk4td
      @Keith-rk4td 29 днів тому +12

      She doesn't claim that either. She knows she is a rhythm guitarist at best. Music magazines gave her that title.

    • @mafiosino
      @mafiosino 28 днів тому +2

      It’s a joke that she is lol

    • @fishingafterdark
      @fishingafterdark 28 днів тому

      Joan the skanky jett

  • @johnsmith-ug5tp
    @johnsmith-ug5tp 28 днів тому +1

    Ric's Joan Jett story always cracks me up haha Hell, the Brinty fox story is a laugh too.

  • @Mambojambo157
    @Mambojambo157 28 днів тому +1

    I love behind the scene information. It’s never as you expect. Especially in pop entertainment land

  • @ChrisCrites-yz2iw
    @ChrisCrites-yz2iw 28 днів тому +1

    Wow...just wow. That is a BIG revelation.

  • @cancelbubble6535
    @cancelbubble6535 Місяць тому +17

    The Joan Jett covers album mentioned (The Hit List) is really good, IMO.

    • @solomonsanchez1897
      @solomonsanchez1897 Місяць тому +6

      Every Joan Jett album is a cover's album. She doesn't write her own music.

    • @no_onein2024
      @no_onein2024 Місяць тому +9

      @@solomonsanchez1897 1992's "Notorious" album and 1994's "Pure and Simple" album had NO covers, ALL songs written or co written by Joan Jett

    • @no_onein2024
      @no_onein2024 Місяць тому +7

      @@solomonsanchez1897 She wrote most of the Runaways' music. It's Kenny Laguna that MAKES her do all those cover songs. Its sad that he controls her so much.

    • @jons.105
      @jons.105 Місяць тому +5

      @@no_onein2024 Right on!

  • @mutantryeff
    @mutantryeff Місяць тому +8

    I would love to see Joan Jett do an album with Scott "Wino" Weinrich. That would be awesome. Go listen to the 'Adrift' album by Wino.

    • @saltpeter7429
      @saltpeter7429 Місяць тому +1

      What a cool idea. Thst does sound badass. I have not listened much to the new OBSESSED album, one spin at work. I should go back and listen again...

    • @teecuzbruh4058
      @teecuzbruh4058 12 днів тому +1

      WOW that's one we'll never will hear FIB talk about, WINO. Unless I missed it. I'm a big WINO fan!

  • @RobertSmith-lg7jp
    @RobertSmith-lg7jp Місяць тому +4

    Britney had a couple of good songs and the solo in Long way was pretty good. Saw Joan in late 90's and she put on a great show.

  • @stevewelborn8744
    @stevewelborn8744 Місяць тому +24

    I love you and your channel. That said I think this guy is a jerk. I still liked the video.

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris Місяць тому +5

      I agree with you totally!!

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 28 днів тому

      Does a real man with a set scare you?

    • @stevewelborn8744
      @stevewelborn8744 28 днів тому +2

      @@johnsmith-ug5tp nope. I just don't like jerks. What about you?

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris 27 днів тому +2

      @@johnsmith-ug5tp that's what you call a real man? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 27 днів тому

      @@DBMorris Yeah, its called speaking ya mind, and not being afraid to. Not bowing to the woke pathetic milquetoasts of the world. WAAA! WAAA! Ya mean, you offended me.
      F OFF!

  • @paulthompson8642
    @paulthompson8642 Місяць тому +1

    Thank u

  • @genesutton6383
    @genesutton6383 26 днів тому +2

    Joan had a following when I was a kid The runaways were big and she took off after that. I went into high School in 1980, there is a couple times that I saw her I think it was the cars I can't remember who else but their band was very tight they were good all their songs sound exactly the way they should.

    • @angryagain3801
      @angryagain3801 День тому

      I'm pretty sure Joan Jett opened for The Police one year 1983 and then opened for Ratt in 1987.
      She might have also opened for Loverboy once in my city .
      I can't recall her ever headlining a big arena on her own in my city.

  • @user-ez3cp4nj1w
    @user-ez3cp4nj1w 28 днів тому +11

    I saw Joan Jett open up for The Police in Shea Stadium, She was great.

    • @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine
      @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine 25 днів тому +1

      Same concert...she was booed off the stage in Chicago. Crazy times.

    • @deanrane1961
      @deanrane1961 23 дні тому +1

      I was there man 1983, REM came on before her. She blew the place apart! Great concert all around.

  • @RFXLR
    @RFXLR Місяць тому +83

    One of the biggest travesties is that Joan is in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame and Lita isn’t.
    Now this interview explains a lot. The reason she’s such a machine is that she’s not allowed to be spontaneous either as a human being or as a musician.

    • @brettconnerley8670
      @brettconnerley8670 Місяць тому +15

      Lita Ford, not too long ago, talked about meeting with Joan for lunch and that it had been years since they’d seen each other. Lita’s intent was to clear the air and hopefully reconcile. Joan shows up and has Kenny in tow which pretty well ruined any real conversation Lita had planned.

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 Місяць тому +18

      Oh, wait. I assumed that Joan got in via The Runaways.
      Are you telling me that her crappy two-hit-wonder band got into the RRHOF before the legendary Runaways?

    • @elinino5275
      @elinino5275 Місяць тому +31

      Lesbian privilege

    • @KevinGonzales-zv9xb
      @KevinGonzales-zv9xb Місяць тому +3

      Maybe they put her in as a combo.

    • @boardskins
      @boardskins Місяць тому +11

      Lita Ford? The one almost-had-a-hit wonder? lol

  • @lovejen01
    @lovejen01 28 днів тому +5

    The record companies never gave Joan any real support. When it comes to women that really rock such as Joan and Lita Ford the industry could not figure out to promote them.

    • @tArchStantont
      @tArchStantont 24 дні тому

      The Runaways were on a major label ffs

    • @angryagain3801
      @angryagain3801 День тому

      How can you say Joan didn't receive any record company support?
      She has a number one hit single (I Love RnR) and two big selling albums in her career .

    • @lovejen01
      @lovejen01 День тому

      @@angryagain3801 she didn't get any real support you look up interviews she has done over the years and there is documentary came out few years ago talking about it.

  • @bloodstone2k
    @bloodstone2k Місяць тому +1

    I'd love to hear him talk about the Dogs D'Amour. They're one of those band that never got the play they should have, but were so solid and talented.

  • @walkerstark4564
    @walkerstark4564 Місяць тому +2

    Fucked up to hear about Joan Jett being controlled like that, willfully it sounds like. At the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame with Nirvana she tore it up. I caught the video footage and was like “Kurt who.” Really talented

  • @joshuanewburger
    @joshuanewburger Місяць тому +3

    Freaking great.

  • @sword-and-shield
    @sword-and-shield 6 днів тому

    When it comes to Rock, Joan can stand straight, on her own, regardless of what anyone says.

  • @elinino5275
    @elinino5275 Місяць тому +11

    I never understood how female artist would let these managers/producer control them. Seems so damn bizarre. Lita also. Shania twain Celine dion. Im sure there's more

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 Місяць тому +5

      Not just female. It's pervasive among male artists, too

    • @taintedlife2618
      @taintedlife2618 Місяць тому

      And people give Madonna so much 💩. Shes been in control since day one. Always did what she wanted and it’s not like she hasn’t gone through a lot either. She didn’t have a Svengali or a father like to control everything and guide her like Michael Jackson or Beyonce.

    • @katjay3125
      @katjay3125 Місяць тому

      Satanism..they are handlers

    • @michaelwills1926
      @michaelwills1926 Місяць тому

      @@taintedlife2618she is a major tool of the establishment, all these folks are. It’s the cost of fame ergo, they all have controllers.

    • @daverice2426
      @daverice2426 Місяць тому

      Under the thumb of one dickhead manager or another since she was 16, must be a huge mindfuck

  • @mondoenterprises6710
    @mondoenterprises6710 Місяць тому +6

    Joan doesn't make a bad album.

  • @thedude4672
    @thedude4672 Місяць тому +21

    I loved Britny Fox!

  • @leroyjones6170
    @leroyjones6170 Місяць тому

    Wow. Great stories.

  • @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine
    @RobertFairweatherLuvMachine 25 днів тому +1

    Joan Jett was the odd bird booking in 7-23-83 Comiskey Park Chicago MTV concert. She was booed off the stage. She and the band took beating from crowd that was throwing anything they could up on the stage at the Blackhearts. My memory has them cutting off their set early...

  • @metalmickey
    @metalmickey 25 днів тому

    I hope you got the Dogs Damour info for a video. Love them guys. Met Tyla in 1990.

  • @RandomDudeFromSomewhere
    @RandomDudeFromSomewhere Місяць тому +1

    That bass player from Britney Fox ended up in another Philly band named LeCompt later, they were good.

  • @myprivatewar
    @myprivatewar 28 днів тому +7

    Long live Queen Joan 🍻🍻🍻

  • @marvelharris9540
    @marvelharris9540 Місяць тому +6

    say what you want about britny fox, but that gold metal flake les paul in the girl school video is cool as hell

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 Місяць тому +2

      The main girl in that video used to drive my 13 year old just-hit-puberty self wild!

  • @Sarah-gf9ed
    @Sarah-gf9ed 26 днів тому +2

    Love Joan. She is one of my favourite female artists. Love her music and style ❤

  • @derekmoody1358
    @derekmoody1358 Місяць тому +14

    I heard it's opiates more than pot

    • @thedude4672
      @thedude4672 Місяць тому +2

      That would make more sense.

  • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
    @LaurieValdez-zk3dy Місяць тому +2

    It's so sad to hear from The Runaways massive control it never ends

  • @DrTomoculus
    @DrTomoculus Місяць тому +22

    As if Kim Fowley wasn't enough.

    • @danstone8783
      @danstone8783 Місяць тому +4

      No amount of fame and money worth having to live life like Joan has lived in my opinion.

    • @DrTomoculus
      @DrTomoculus Місяць тому +4

      @@danstone8783 Well, I kind of lose respect for her, because I'm pretty sure she witnessed the rape of one of her bandmates, and said nothing, nor seemed to have any conscience about it.

    • @katjay3125
      @katjay3125 Місяць тому

      Joan is a man

    • @harleymendez3968
      @harleymendez3968 28 днів тому +1

      She and Fowley were basically symbiotic business partners. She did more than just sit there and watch it.

    • @DrTomoculus
      @DrTomoculus 28 днів тому +1

      @@harleymendez3968 I absolutely agree with you. I don't have a lot of respect for her, nor him.

  • @drewdavis4614
    @drewdavis4614 Місяць тому

    Glorious results of a misspent youth is the best album!❤

  • @whamsie4022
    @whamsie4022 Місяць тому +2

    The Britny Fox guitarist was in Cinderella. They needed to boot him to get their deal. The similarities were not by coincidence. BTW, I always through the Britny Fox drummer looked out of place. This story explains why.

  • @karenmandeville7116
    @karenmandeville7116 Місяць тому +1

    i have No Shame-it's a good album!

  • @schlooonginator1227
    @schlooonginator1227 Місяць тому +26

    Is it just me or is Joan Jett morphing into Judge Judy?

    • @DBMorris
      @DBMorris Місяць тому +3

      🤣😂🤣😂 🤣😂

    • @Coasterdude02149
      @Coasterdude02149 Місяць тому +14

      Seem to be a trend. Jimmy Page has morphed into Michio Kaku

    • @thedemonnemo
      @thedemonnemo Місяць тому +4

      Joan may be cool but she'll never be Judge Judy cool.😅

    • @alanrogs3990
      @alanrogs3990 28 днів тому +2

      Ouch

    • @OAlem
      @OAlem 27 днів тому +2

      @@Coasterdude02149 😂

  • @jamesgibson3242
    @jamesgibson3242 Місяць тому +3

    I had no idea of most of these things. I was her #1 fan starting in 1982 in high school but over the years moved on to other artist as my #1 artist.
    I had no idea she was such a great rhythm guitarist. I knew she was a good player but had no idea she could play as well as he describes. Amazing.
    From what he says it sounds like Kenny Laguna is more than a producer but is a "handler". Not everyone in entertainment has a handler but if he has been controlling her for 40 plus years like this then it appears she may be a mind controlled slave and was groomed and shaped to be who she has become. Just the mere fact that she was so obedient to not thinking she could go out and get pizza is a bad sign. Without having a handler she may have taken a different road in her career and personal life.
    By the way I have that cover album and I thought it was really good. Too bad it didn't do so well.

  • @doormasterjohn
    @doormasterjohn Місяць тому +3

    Her biggest hit was a cover. And its a straight up cover sounds almost exactly the same as the original- no people she did not write or co write " I love rock and roll" but I'm sure Alan Merrill enjoys the royalty checks

    • @BillByham
      @BillByham 25 днів тому

      It's An AWESOME Cover Of Crimson & Clover 🍀 sit down fool .

    • @nolslifegren
      @nolslifegren 12 днів тому

      Hes dead so no

  • @SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra
    @SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra Місяць тому +4

    Wrong: "poison" were wearing Kix's "old clothes."
    Anything KIX did, successfully, or interestingly, poison appropriated from them. Period.

  • @noelhernandez363
    @noelhernandez363 28 днів тому +1

    "I LOVE ROCK-AND-ROLL, PUT ANOTHER DIME IN THE JUKEBOX, BABY"!! 🤟🎸🤟🎸

  • @Guido.Fawkes.1
    @Guido.Fawkes.1 Місяць тому +6

    Like you said, B. Fox were a weak Cinderella clone. The last hurrah of signings in the late 80’s were all the C-level bands.

    • @AnthonySforza
      @AnthonySforza 29 днів тому +2

      That's admittedly one of the jagged pills I have had to swallow in recent years. Is that not only being a kid from the 80s, but also having gone down the road of "Musician" myself, I have had to look back at bands I once idolized and with a scrutinous eye, admit that "Wow... these guys arent really talented."
      Dont get me wrong, I wont sit here and jerk myself off with thoughts of grandeur as though I would have been something back then, but doing it oneself, there are certain things you pick up on over the years and then listen to music more analytically. Like "What makes this song so good/like this/this part/etc?" Then break it down in a way to where it makes sense and you can possibly kind of use the ruins to build something new.
      Dont get me wrong, a lot of those songs were absolutely fun and catchy as all hell, I still blast them... but you can tell it didnt really take a lot of "Talent" to make them. However, it at least took a human brain, with feeling and emotion, unlike today.

  • @user-xr2lv4ll6j
    @user-xr2lv4ll6j 26 днів тому +1

    Jesus, this was a good one! Joan Jett does come off a little odd in every interview I've read or seen her do. Bizarre.

  • @wallofrock6725
    @wallofrock6725 Місяць тому +1

    Does anyone else remember a different version of the video “Little Liar”? Seems like I remember what I believe was the 1st version of it, it was a little different and had a few different scenes. It was kind of like what they did with the KISS video of Hide Your Heart - quickly make an alternate version to keep controversy to a minimum. But I don’t remember any specific scene that would have been inappropriate in the Little Liar video.

  • @claytonstrickland8336
    @claytonstrickland8336 Місяць тому +10

    I've seen Joan Jett and the Blackhearts open for other bands twice, once for The Cars and once for Aerosmith. The Blackhearts destroyed both of them.

  • @marsmidnight4085
    @marsmidnight4085 28 днів тому +2

    FREE JOAN JETT!!

  • @notintohandles
    @notintohandles 29 днів тому +3

    How sad.😔

  • @hazor777
    @hazor777 Місяць тому

    Very Interesting…..

  • @Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm
    @Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm 24 дні тому

    She's a great live cover band. Maybe the best cover band ever.

  • @mikej70
    @mikej70 Місяць тому +3

    Britney Fox was hilarious the singer was so exaggerated screaming like that I don't know who thought they were good amusing only!

  • @60zeller
    @60zeller 25 днів тому +2

    Most of Jett’s hits were covers

  • @jaysilverheals4445
    @jaysilverheals4445 24 дні тому +1

    what does it mean "she can double it"?

  • @OGMann
    @OGMann 22 дні тому

    Watched Jett live. She has a handful of good songs. One or two the audience knew well enough to sing along to. Decent stage presence. She was never a major deal in the music scene.

  • @miked9112
    @miked9112 28 днів тому

    Britny Fox was a good band, Dean lives in my town nice guy too

  • @jonathansteadman7935
    @jonathansteadman7935 Місяць тому +2

    Yeah, some Dogs Damour would be great, knew Tyla and Joe Dog.from London, played in a band with their old bassist.

  • @k-chill8428
    @k-chill8428 Місяць тому

    Hope there’s some Dogs D’amour stories coming!

  • @donbergeson6771
    @donbergeson6771 24 дні тому

    I don't who he "fired" but it wasn't the drummer. Johnny Dee was the drummer. I onow this because he was the first drummer i ever saw play live at a major show when Britny Fox opened for RATT and he's now a friend of mine.

  • @rc1564
    @rc1564 3 дні тому

    Women in rock n roll just cant cut it. ..
    And I mean all of them...Especially heart