An item off my bucket list ...

[uwe]

I finally saw her live. 48 years after the teen magazine poster of her and bandmates graced my bedside wall, I was privileged enought to witness the one and only Madam Cherie Currie at a tiny club in Mannheim last night. And what can I say: Cherie still looks great (i.e. not really pretty, with a bit of a hard/mean streak, just like as a teenager ) and she can just as well not sing today as she used to. With an alto range of three-and-a-half-notes (but very convincing at those!) over some of the most primal punkish garage hard rock imaginable.



It was mind-numbingly juvenile effing great. How fate has spoiled me. 

Actually, her band had a bit of a Dictators vibe going. Especially evident when they opened for her under their own moniker Shameless with their regular male singer who reminded me of Handsome Dick Manitoba (at 02:40).

[gearHed289]

Even that uber nice Canadian Gershon Weinrib said the Runaways were too shitty to listen to. 

[uwe]

The Runaways and early Kiss had one thing in common: They sounded like primal garage hard rock/punk must sound to people who just despise that type of music! It had charm, but very little lasting musical value. Just don't overthink it.

[TBird1958]

Mind numbingly juvenile sounds perfect to me!   

[lowend1]

The Runaways and early Kiss had one thing in common: They sounded like primal garage hard rock/punk must sound to people who just despise that type of music! It had charm, but very little lasting musical value. Just don't overthink it.

As a 16-year-old when their first album was released, I found them to be exactly that, but the good spots have stuck with me all these years. I will still give my undivided attention when anything pops up in random shuffles on my playlist, especially tracks from the live album. I actually prefer Lita Ford's playing back then as opposed to what she did during her solo career. She used to be Blackmore-obsessed and you can hear the rudimentary results of that in the early stuff (not unlike Andy Scott from Sweet).