When not fetching burritos, he's rubbing sunscreen on her back. But mainly, he talks tirelessly on her behalf. "I made her, and I can break her," he jokes. Laguna, a former member of Tommy James & the Shondells (who did the original "Crimson and Clover") as well as the Archies, has been working with her since they collaborated on songs in the late 1970s. Jett tends to inspire that kind of devotion. "She's like a little Sex Pistols, a little Clash and a little Jonathan Richman mixed with Liza Minnelli and Suzi Quatro, and poured into a skintight leather jumpsuit." Hanna's enthusiasm for Jett's primal rock ?n' roll knows no bounds. (he asked her to sing the national anthem the night he broke Lou Gehrig's record for playing consecutive games) former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean (she was on stage with him for "the Dean Scream") and talk-show host Oliver North (she plans to travel with him to entertain U.S. The list of Jett's friends is long, and includes ex-Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. Hanna met Jett in the early ?90s backstage at a show by Fugazi, the post-punk band fronted by Jett's pal Ian MacKaye. I embrace my male side, and it doesn't make me feel any less woman at all." So I tend to walk that line, just down the middle. "I'm a girl, but I'm not a frilly girl and I've never been one. "I was a huge Bowie fan and I always respected that he embraced both sides of himself," she says. On "Sinner," she covers Paul Westerberg's "Androgynous," and plays around with songs like "Everyone Knows," which turns out to be about having a preference for bondage gear. Every guy could think I'm singing to them, and every girl could think I'm singing to them." "I think it's important to keep the fantasy alive. But when she performs in Raleigh - decked out now in a studded, black-leather bikini top - she draws a large lesbian contingent among her demographically diverse crowd. She has never made a public statement about her sexual orientation. In terms of gender, I was really excited, and confused." And the other thing is she didn't change the pronoun. "Her vocal was so good, it was just dripping. "I remember being in the car the first time I heard ?Crimson and Clover,'" Hanna says. The song was restored on the CD release.Kathleen Hanna, formerly of riot-grrl pioneers Bikini Kill and current leader of electro-pop feminists Le Tigre, co-wrote four songs with Jett on "Sinner." Before she was a collaborator, she was a fan. "Star Star" was included as an unlisted "surprise" track on the 1983 cassette release of Album, but was later removed after the original cassette was pulled from some stores because of non-labelled "explicit" track lyrics. "Call Me Lightning" and "Summertime Blues" were later added as bonus tracks on reissues of Bad Reputation and "Louie Louie" became a bonus track on the reissue of I Love Rock 'N Roll. The 1998 version dropped five tracks from the 1993 release: " Summertime Blues", " Louie Louie", " Star Star", "Stand Up for Yourself" and " Call Me Lightning" and replaced them with "Real Wild Child (Wild One)", a live version of " Bad Reputation" and "Right 'Til the End", which was only available on the cassette version of the 1993 release. The album was initially released in late 1993 and was reissued in 1998 with a slightly different track listing. Flashback is a compilation album of outtakes and rare songs released by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
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