the runaways and joan jett

a blog for fans of the runaways and its members. none of the pictures or gifs are mine unless otherwise noted (by the tag 'mine'). i'm in love with joan so there will be more joan jett content than anyone else...sorry. please note that i run most of my posts through a queue, so i may be posting but not be present

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The Runaways

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Photos of The Runaways when Vicki Blue (Victory Tischler-Blue) was the bassist

📷 Brad Elterman

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the r u n a w a y s in the rock ‘n’ roll sports classic

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Joan Jett + gum

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Joan Jett + her guitar

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

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School Days for Top Pop (1977)

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It’s a dangerous scene when you’re e i g h t e e n

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The Runaways, 1977 This is a really interesting picture, because it includes both Cherie and Vicki Blue, and there was very little overlap between Vicki’s time in the band and Cherie’s. So this might have been taken at the photoshoot during which Cherie very dramatically quit (dramatic partly because Lita KICKED A FUCKING DOOR DOWN)….the photographer, according to multiple sources, threw and shattered his camera during that photoshoot, so maybe it’s not from that session.  But shit, you could cut the tension with a knife.

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Joan Jett, 1987

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In response to the Julie stuff (I was interested), I found this on some l word chat from 2016ish. Its a supposed comment from Julie on Jackie’s huffpost article:

Julie Hasse · Author/Novelist at Writer

No wonder my favorite women in that band were Kari and Jackie. I was in a relationship with Joan for six years. I observed the abuse from her current manager. It trickles down. I watched how both he and Joan dwindled our love into the closet so deeply that I couldn't breathe. Joan has done a lot for women, true, but when it comes down to the core, the personal stuff, the stuff she is directly responsible for, she becomes the worst kind of a zombie.

Link here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/l_anon/joan-jett-t3426133-s204.html#google_vignette

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thanks anon. woof. the sad thing is that i can see it. i feel like the 90s with bikini kill and evil stig and the general riot grrl stuff would have been something she could have used to feel more empowered, but i guess not. i have the sense that there is this scared girl underneath her tough exterior and this sort of backs that up

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Joan Jett, 1981 Happy International Women’s Day!

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We saw a lot of the reviews and the interviews, and people always cutting us down, and ‘jailbait’ is a light word…think the meanest thing you could possibly call a girl, the most degrading thing you could call her, then think a hundred times worse. And that’s the way the Runaways were treated. Joan Jett on misogyny in journalism, circa-1982

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art imitating life I

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art imitating life II

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Joan Jett + rocking through the years

…rock ‘n’ roll means something. It means more than music, more than fashion, more than a good pose. It is a language of a subculture that has made eternal teenagers out of all who follow it. It’s a subculture of integrity, rebellion, frustration, alienation, and the glue that set several generations free from unnatural societal-and-self suppression.

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w a s t e d is where you’re at