Joan Jett

Editor’s Note: Vets Rock joined us on the Musicians 4 Freedom radio show this past Sunday on United We Strike radio. More here.  Joan Jett bio.  Here’s another article about her work with The Runaways. Joan’s site. Rock n Roll Truth Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett by Dave Thompson (Backbeat Books, September 2011, $19.99) is the unexpurgated story of Joan Jett, the single most exciting rocker of the American 1980s, one of the biggest-selling acts of the age, and one of...Read Full Story

Guns N' Roses and Joan Jett are among the newest crop of nominees for this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Cure, Heart, the Spinners, blues great Freddie King and hip-hop stars Eric B. and Rakim are also included in the list of new nominees, along with previous nominees like Red Hot Chili Peppers, War, and the Beastie Boys. Joan Jett (who was played by Twilight star Kristen Stewart in the film The Runaways ) is one of rock music's most iconic female stars. Jett was only 15-years-old...Read Full Story

The latest batch of potential inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame goes well beyond rock, but then again the Hall has never been one for “rock” purity. We can only assume they’ll eventually drop the pretense and call it the Music Hall of Fame. The list of 15 is all over the map, from The Cure to Beastie Boys to Red Hot Chili Peppers to Eric B & Rakim. The list will be narrowed down to five winners during the induction ceremony scheduled for April 14th, 2012, which gives you plenty of...Read Full Story

NEKESA MUMBI MOODY AP Music Writer NEW YORK Welcome to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Guns N' Roses. The seminal rock band of the late 1980s and early '90s, best known for hits like "Welcome to the Jungle," ''Sweet Child O' Mine" and "November Rain," leads the 2012 class of inductees announced on Wednesday. Also making the cut is the hip-hop trio Beastie Boys; rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers; the late singer/songwriter Laura Nyro; Donovan...Read Full Story

At Six Flags Fiesta TX Holloween show 2010. The lead singer in this song is our drummer Jessica Green. She liked the song and the movie with Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart so Six Flags was cool with us doing it. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. Been getting hit with some of those so I hope I don’t get taken off youtube. I just want to say my songs are educational. They are how to play guitar and bass and drums, gosh. Well, Estaban on lead guitar, Jennifer on Bass, Me on rythm guitar...Read Full Story