#Joan jett bad reputation movie#
Badgered by Fowley, Jett and Currie concocted their most famous song, “Cherry Bomb,” in mere minutes.Īnd as they rehearsed, he’d throw things at them, prepping them for the reception that the mostly-male rock club crowd would give him, scenes memorably recreated for the movie “The Runaways.” Jett remembers those sessions as “our boot camp.” She met drummer Sandy West and started piecing together the “all girl” band of her dreams, with producer/impresario Kim Fowley recruiting Jackie Fox, Lita Ford and Cherie Currie as lead singer. She burst out of the “post-Stonewall” glam-rock era, getting her start in feminist LA in the mid-70s. 22), and filmmkers Kevin Kerslake and Joel Marcus give the tenacious feminist icon her due in this thorough and thoroughly entertaining look at her career and life.
“Bad Reputation” arrives as the Queen of Rock Guitar turns 60 (Sept.
It’s no surprise that the story of rock’s original female badass makes for a gritty, inspiring documentary. As Joan Jett, she crashed the boys-only rock guitarist club, faced sexism, critical dismissal and rock fan and music label abuse.And before she was through - and she’s not done yet - she’d formed two iconic bands, had a decade of hits, dominated MTV and crunched and crashed her way into the Rock’n Roll Hall of Fame. “I can’t be the only girl who wants to do this,” she later remembered thinking.
Little Joan Marie Larkin saw the rock quartets on TV in the 60s and early 70s, and decided she just HAD to have a Sears Silvertone electric guitar for Christmas.
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