Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Um, and of course, the second band needs no introduction.

Of course, I'm speaking of her namesake, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, uh, class of 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

What can I say? Without her, you know, I, I don't even wanna limit it to just there's no riot grrrl movement.

There's just, there's, there's a whole, uh, portion of, of, of hard rock and punk, and a lot of, uh, post late '80s, early '90s, uh, bands that formed in LA that really wouldn't have existed without our guest today.

Um, when the British Invasion happened, all of us young kids, we all put bands together.

Now, in my little area on Long Island, get this, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Leslie West and Mountain, next, the high school next to mine, Billy Joel, Twisted Sister.

The Rascals played my seventh grade dance.

Oh, my goodness.

Mm

... you know, Joan Jett's I Love Rock 'n' Roll doesn't sound like that.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Uh, Joan Jett's got a birthday today.

[upbeat music] "I love rock n' roll, put another dime in the jukebox, baby."

Um, 63.

I do remember, and I just did a gig the other night at Lucinda's in New York on this podcast.

kind of an all-star thing with Eric Roscoe Amble, who was in The Blackhearts with Joan Jett.

And one of my early memories, because she, her Bad Reputation record and then the follow-up that was the big hit with I Love Rock and Roll on it, they, um, they came at a really good time for me where I was 12 years old.

I was in, I was in the hospital for a while.

Love it.

We also get the Blackhearts taking on Dave Hart.

The Blackhearts are like, I don't know what this is.

They're out there at the show.

They're kind of like Dark Order.

Like the original Dark Order.

They're all in masks.

They're the Blackhearts and they're masked.

Yeah.

They, um, remixed Joan Jett's I Love Rock 'n' Roll into I Love TV Screens.

Mm-hmm.

And I don't know, that's not how I want my Emmys opening up.

There was a fun Law & Order spoof with Taylor Swift.

Why not? There was an opening song parody of Joan Jett's I Love Rock & Roll, but with TV screens instead of rock and roll.

which started out pretty fun, but at the end, a bunch of backup dancers wearing TV sets on their head showed up, and I was like, oh, I don't think that's so good.

And then later, they did another song parody, Supertramp's Goodbye Stranger.

But it was on the networks, CBS or one of those big ones.

And, uh, so she start, that's why we start off with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

She starts off, Mariska Hargitay's, you know, like a Jalen Brunson thing from the Knicks.

They do a little thing, and then she runs and gets on a plane.