I want to shout out to keyboardist Kenny Laguna, who has been collaborating with Joan for over forty years, even having a storied music career since the late 1960s.
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I am still impressed by Joan’s incredible guitar playing and Dougie Needles’s guitar playing, just knows how to groove and solo when allowed. They kick off their set with “Victim of Circumstance” off I Love Rock ’n ’ Roll, and we were off to the races! The crowd seem appreciative to have her back in town. You can never go wrong with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts because they are straight-up, pure, no-frills rock n’ roll. What a perfect act to kick off Memorial Day weekend! Since then, she has albums that have gone gold and platinum and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Joan Jett has been leading the charge of women in rock ever since the Runaways formed up. The post Joan Jett & The Blackhearts’ Changeup appeared first on SPIN.On May 27, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts played Stir Cove at Harrah’s Casino in Council Bluffs.
How do you decide between your children? Or your animals. Some might be a favorite for a minute, but then it switches. So, there isn’t one song, in particular, that’s a favorite? It sounds like you’re sitting in a room and getting your emotions out. What I’m proud of, I think is just the way it came out. They’re all my babies and they all mean something special to me. Well, I could go to a song, but I’m proud of them all. I trusted her judgment because she would tell me if it sucked. She’s the one that said it’s a good idea…. Is there’s anybody really special that really helped you make this album? If you have the capacity to listen on a Dolby Atmos system, you’re going to hear things coming out of 16 speakers and mixed differently than you would stereo. We mixed this Changeup record with those attributes as well. We also did not just do regular stereo mixes, but there was a whole new Dolby Atmos immersive system that people are using. This is going to sound weird, but it was better than I thought it was when I think of my own self. Was there any kind of discovery in making Changeup ? It was a really fast process also from the finished recording to it being out. We were initially in the studio in November, and then in January and February. Now, I don’t know if we’ll ever have time for that or not, but if I had…to choose one or the other, I’d have to go with my electric guitarĮverybody I’ve mentioned it to seems to like the idea, so if we can make it work, we probably will. I think it would be fun to do a very short tour, like a month, in small venues where we just did our acoustic stuff. We wanted to figure out a way at it, ‘What can we do to give the fans some extra bits or something? Maybe we’ll record a few of these songs acoustic.’” After being on the road in August 2021, Joan and the band started recording Changeup in November.ĭoes this change the way you view women playing acoustic guitar? Is it a whole new way of thinking? Now, last year and this year, are both the 40 thanniversary of the Bad Reputation album and I Love Rock ‘n Roll album. I wasn’t looking to do something necessarily. It went over well, and so I didn’t fear it as much. She continues: “We did Bad Reputation and a few other songs and it felt good. We couldn’t really set up electric, it was just an impossible task, and so we decided, the whole band will be there and we’ll just try to do some of these acoustic.” premiere, to perform a few songs from the film. “A couple of years ago, we did a documentary called Bad Reputation that was in theaters for a little bit,” she says. You need more playing electric guitar.’”Įnter Changeup (released March 25), Joan’s first-ever all-acoustic album that came about, as she explains, by doing extra tracks for fans. Joan tells me she was “repelled” by the acoustic guitar, based on the biases surrounding women in music: “I said, ‘You have plenty of girls playing acoustic guitar. I had no use for it throughout my career.” “I wanted that electric guitar and I did not want to even see an acoustic guitar. Girls can play rock and roll,’” Joan says. “You had to remember, when I was a young girl wanting to play a guitar, people told me, ‘Girls can’t play electric guitar. A definitive “no way” was Joan Jett’s response when asked if she’d always planned to record an acoustic album.
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