Lita Ford is pretty vocal in her desire to reunite The Runaways and for good reason. Cold hard cash. Those old broads got together and sing ‘Cherry Bomb” and every 50 year old cow in the audience will feel 14 again. Yuck. Lita has actually claimed herself as the quasi mother hen of the band since she ‘had dinner’ with all of the members to convince them to reunite if only for a bit.
Which leads us to the amazing and wonderful Joan Jett. Girlfriend won’t commit or comment on it. Why should she? If there was ever a real bad ass female rocker it’s her. She has a fabulous band and a consistently wonderful solo career and does what every good broad should- mentor. Working with many up and coming bands she lends her fame and experience to usher in the next wave. Unlike Ford who seems to want to linger in the comeback scene.
Now the guitarist tells Bravewords: “I can’t get a yes or no out of Joan, so I’ve kind of thrown in the towel. “It’s now or never. I would love it, but for some reason – I don’t know why – it’s Joan’s camp. The ball is in her camp. It’s up to them.”
Good. Cuz Joan is the only one with the balls to realize it may not be the best of ideas to have menopausal women singing about being jailbait. I love Joan- she’s cool as hell.
As for Lita, well she’s smart enough to be working on an autobiography (when not dinner dining with her former mates) Bringing forth stories of glory days gone by including a job offer from Led Zeppelin.
She recalls: “They came to the Starwood. They came upstairs and went back to the dressing room. They shook everyone’s hands and a huge crowd gathered around us, and we took photographs.
“Robert Plant says to me, ‘You’re really good on guitar. Would you like to play bass for Led Zeppelin?’ “I thought, ‘Yeah, right.’ I shook it off like it was a joke, but I don’t think he was joking. I didn’t even try to pursue that one. I love John Paul Jones – he’s one of my favourite bass players. I just couldn’t imaging me replacing him. “But the fact that they thought about a female in their band was pretty cool.”