Joan jett today2/28/2023 ![]() The ’70s, though, was truly a prime time to be an aspirational music-loving LA teen. Then decided with Kenny that we’d come back to the East coast because just as a plan for a working band, it was a better place to be.” “My family moved to California in about ’73, I think moved to California for eight years or something, then moved back. “Before that, I lived in California, that’s when my band The Runaways were formed,” she says of her all-girl rock group formed in 1975 and managed by notorious record producer Kim Fowley. And if nothing else, Joan loves and believes in humanity in all forms.īorn in Pennsylvania and raised in Maryland, Joan’s been in New York since 1979. Only someone who truly loves humanity could expect more of them. QAnon would say, ‘See? They do eat babies!’” The veal tastes good because it’s a baby.’ Why don’t you get an actual baby? We roast up that baby and that dead baby leg is good? If you talk like that people would freak out. ![]() Why don’t you just start throwing human beings up there? It’s, ‘The lamb tastes good because it’s a baby. “I see people and say to them why won’t you just - Meat is meat. That’s where I discovered belatedly, what animals go through and I just couldn’t deal with it. I don’t think his gripe was animal treatment, it was more about farm-to-table and what happens to everything in the process of going from the farm to the table. He was a part of the Baskin-Robbins-era thing. It’s just something that naturally happened and then I’m wondering, ‘Wait a minute, why am I eating animals if I love animals and I wouldn’t eat my dog, or I wouldn’t eat my cats?’ It made me start thinking and then I read a book about it at the same time called, Diet for a New America, that was written by a guy named John Robbins. ![]() He never preached about it, he never really busted my balls about it or anything. My best friend and songwriting partner, producer, manager, Kenny Laguna, he’s been a vegan since he was 11. “I was a meat-eater for many years, from being a kid up until about– I’m trying to guess, the mid-’80s. That’s why they have to talk about animals not being smart, so they don’t feel bad when they have to eat them. “Human beings, just by their nature, are very arrogant. “People are so arrogant, if you haven’t figured that out by now,” she says. We chat about our pets, animal rights being a long-time cause of Joan’s, who’s been a vegetarian for decades. You fucking played with it and tortured it and it died.” She then turns her attention back to me: “I just thought that was a weird way to wake up and I thought I’d share it with you.” She continues, scolding one of them: “You’re not hungry. “So occasionally, I wake up to dead birds, which in the middle of the night I did, because I heard them running around and I found a little decapitated bird…not until after I stepped on it by accident and it felt like pretzels crunching and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God…what did you guys do?’ When I turned on the light, it was a little beheaded finch. “I have cats that are really enjoying catching the birds right now,” she has two cats, Felicia and Cleopatra. “Because I have serial killers for animals,” she says. What, then, has kept Joan Jett up all night? Floods of images come to mind: late nights on the ‘70s LA club scene, touring since her teen years - I mean her 2020 tour was supposed to be with Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and Poison, and surely those guys don’t go to sleep early, either. Wherever she tells us to go, we’ll follow her there. MTV showed us a Joan we definitely wanted to meet: leather-clad and studded, screeching and loud, raw and unapologetically talented, her undeniably gorgeous face looking straight into the camera. Even if we didn’t know what a bad reputation was yet, we were already chanting the lyrics from her previous album, Bad Reputation. But “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”, both the single and the album had the benefit of launching mere months after almighty MTV, showcasing Joan - like so many artists - in a way we’d never seen before. Yes, there were women who rocked hard before her, notably trailblazer Suzi Quatro, who Joan consistently notes as her inspiration. If you’re a Gen X-er like me, you likely became obsessed shortly after the release of her January 1982 hit single - actually a cover of a 1975 Arrows song - “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”, from the album of the same name. Also Read Bret Michaels Hospitalized, Poison Misses ‘Stadium Tour’ Gig in Nashville
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