![]() "He didn't come to me and say ?Hey, babe, want to come do this?' I went to him with the idea," she says. ![]() She's mad because it was assumed that the Runaways' manager, Kim Fowley, must have been the puppet master. Jett is still bitter, not so much because the album tanked in the States, or that she didn't get to be a normal teenager. Rex, acts she now plays on her Radio Revolution show, which airs Saturday afternoons and Sunday evenings on Little Steven's Underground Garage channel on Sirius Satellite radio. She caught the bug from early ?70s glam-rockers like Gary Glitter and T. Jett embarked on that teenage-rock life after spending the first six months of her life in Philadelphia, then moving to Rockville, Md. Or waxing nostalgic about a July 4, 1984, show in Washington when she played guitar alongside Jimmy Page and Brian Wilson. Or demanding assurances from Hollywood producers who are making a movie based on her teenage-rock life in Los Angeles that they won't fictionalize the story to the point of having her do something absurd, like have sex with a horse. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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