The concert was the largest in Eisenhower Park's history, attended by an estimated 25,000 people. (PIX11) - Rock and Roll Hall of Famer JOAN JETT is on tour right now with Poison, Def Leppard and Motley Crue, but she made a stop in East Meadow Saturday night to play a show to celebrate Nassau County's comeback from the COVID-19 pandemic. JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS play 'Nassau is Back' concertĮAST MEADOW, N.Y. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer on her new album and shares advice for future rock stars. JOAN JETT talks 1st-ever acoustic album, 'Changeup' The group performs "(I'm Gonna) Run Away" on "Good Morning America." JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS perform on 'GMA' JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS drop by to talk about the release of their first acoustic album, "Changeup," and perform "Cherry Bomb." JOAN JETT talks new album, performs 'Cherry Bomb' The impetus for Changeup began when Jett and the BLACKHEARTS ended up performing an unplugged set to promote her documentary four years ago. She has eight gold and platinum records, and was inducted along with the BLACKHEARTS into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Soon after the band broke up in 1979, she formed JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS, and went on to found her own record label, BLACKHEART RECORDS. Jett, now 63, first achieved fame as a teen with the punk girl group The RUNAWAYS, with hits like Cherry Bomb. That "never say acoustic" approach is why her latest album, Changeup, which was released in March and features acoustic renderings of 25 hits, is such a departure. Instead, Jett jammed with her electric guitar, right into the rock firmament. I didn't want my 100 feet of wherever I was," she told The Sunday Magazine's Piya Chattopadhyay in May.
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"When I say I didn't have an acoustic around, I mean, I was adamant. Iconic rocker JOAN JETT says she wasn't sure she could ever do acoustic versions of hits like Bad Reputation and Cherry Bomb, because she had been keeping "acoustic stuff at arm's length" her entire career. 'I never owned an acoustic guitar 'til about maybe 10 years ago,' says rocker JOAN JETT avoided acoustic music her whole career - until her latest albumīy Andrea Bellemare | Photo by: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images Have Joan Jett news to report? Email us at and please include the source of the information so it can be validated. INTERVIEWS | LINKS | LIVE DATES | LYRICS | MERCHANDISEĬurrent News Page updated on August 10, 2022Īll news is attributed to the source from which it was received so that readers may judge the validity of the statements for themselves. HOME | BIOGRAPHY | CONTACT | DISCOGRAPHY | GALLERIES Joan Jett And The Blackhearts Bad Reputation Nation