An Open Letter To Rolling Stone (Joan Jett is PISSED and I don't blame her!)

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[Lib Buster]

And don't forget: Without Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders, Rush Limbaugh wouldn't have such cool theme music!

[Tribune7]

I think JJ would rip the head off a typical feminist and feed it to her dog.

[Bella_Bru]

Exene Cervenka is the sort of person I'd be honored by if she threatened to kick my a**.

[Rocksalt]

How about Poison Ivy of the Cramps?

[John Lenin]

Interesting quote from Martha.

WOMANROCK: Are MP3s helping or hurting artists?

MARTHA:

It's saving our asses. The music industry is turning into a huge corporation that seems to care more about sales figures than music. Pop music is supposed to be accessible to the public, but CDs are being priced into oblivion. We're in an age of information; people know when they're being ripped off. So we log onto MP3, download what we like, and save the 17 bucks. I'm getting my MP3 site together now, because my songs tell me they want to go public.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

http://thedistillers.net/

That's the official site of the Distillers. Brody Armstrong sounds just like Courtney...intense...

[Recovering_Democrat]

Joan makes some very valid points. I believe she's as liberal as they come, too. But when someone or something is ripping into what you love and do for a living, your ire gets up.

She and Michael J. Fox did a movie "Light of Day" together, an interesting child-parent relationship film, as I recall.

[PLMerite]

I wouldn't mind seeing some pictures of that, it'd be cool to add to my Op Enduring Freedom file...

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

You should start a thread, "Women of Rock n Roll".

I've always liked The Pretenders. Very cool music.

I'm also guessing Rolling Stone either didn't bother mentioning, or gave only a line or two to Heart. And I don't think she really qualifies as a rocker, but Natalie Merchant has more talent in her toenails than Britney, Christina, or any of the other "New Rockers".

[Brad C.]

Sounds great to me, I didn't know she was still in music after all of these years. I will have to go search her out.

[ganesha]

Last night I went and saw Allison Pipitone at Nietzsches in Buffalo. That woman kicks ass. In addition some of her songs are quite beautiful. Pamela Ryder alo came up on stage and sang "love song to me", one of Allison's songs. The opening band was Antigone rising. If you want hard rock music, performed by women, which is worth listening to, you have to accept a certain amount of feminism and lesbianism. It goes with the territory. I find that less annoying than the Britney clones any day.

[Erasmus]

>>Exene Cervenka.

>You are the first FReeper I have met who has ever mentioned her!!!!!

Her?? I thought it was an it!

Something only gynecologists talked about.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

USO Tour May & June '99

Kirtland Airforce Base 2001 for deployed troops

USO tour 2001

More at her website joanjett.com click on the photo gallery section!

[Erasmus]

Another rock Diva not given enough credit, Chrissy Hynde.

Was to a concert of hers a couple of years ago. The best British backup band anywhere.

Guess what song got the biggest response?

Hint: It was about her hometown.

Hint II: It's used as the theme on a talk show.

<)B^)

[McGavin999]

Joan Jet is a Liberal, Feminist, Democrat, Pro-Abortion bitch.

She is also a woman who gave her time and put herself in considerable danger to entertain our troops when they needed it most.

In my book, that sends a lot of faults way, way into the background.

[John Lenin]

You are right about the Rush theme, she wrote that song 'My City Was Gone' during the height of all the rubber plants being shut down in Akron, Ohio.

[LilithUnfair]

"Joan Jet is a pal of NOW's President Patricia Ireland."

Yes, but she's still correct in her letter. Don't agree with her (or many other celebrity) political viewpoints, nor am I a fan of her music but she's right. There are women and girls in music, but very few true rock women or men for that matter anymore. It's all pop, bubblegum, wannabe Brit, Backstreet Boys trash. (I'd use the word garbage, but that would be too close to the band of the same name who actually ARE rock musicians.)

Lil

[A_perfect_lady]

Who reads Rolling Stone anyway? Fourteen year olds trying to decide whether to be reds (commies) or greens? I mean, come on, do serious writers read Reader's Digest to see what the latest, greatest, most happening cutting edge movements are going to be in 15 minutes? Rolling Stone. Don't make my wine come out my nose.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I mean, come on, do serious writers read Reader's Digest to see what the latest, greatest, most happening cutting edge movements are going to be in 15 minutes?

That was hilarious! I *love* what you said....totally funny. I was just trying to imagine that too....LOL!!!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I find her lifestyle distateful, but Melissa Etheridge is another one who can smoke these newbies.