1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 2: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: This is a. 5 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: Story about transformation, about what happens when you don't just 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: play rock and roll, when you use it to become 7 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 2: someone new, someone louder than, someone impossible to ignore. It's 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 2: a story about five teenage girls who turned identity into 9 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: a weapon, who took rock and roll rebellion and pushed 10 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: it past the point of no return. It's also a 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: story about escape, escape from the valley, escape from your parents, 12 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,639 Speaker 2: escape from polite society. And it's a story about the 13 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: price of that escape, about the predators who circled, and 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 2: about the exploitation disguised as mentor, and about how, in 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: the most messed up twist of all, transformation was both 16 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: the trap and the key. This is a story about 17 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 2: the runaways, and so naturally it's a story about great music. 18 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 2: Unlike that clip I played for you at the top 19 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: of the show that wasn't great music. That was a 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 2: preset loop for my melotron called the Kids Are Not 21 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 2: Alright MK one. I played you that loop because I 22 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 2: can't afford the rights to December nineteen sixty three. Oh 23 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: what a night by the Four Seasons? And why would 24 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 2: I play you that specific slice of falsetto disco Cheese? 25 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: Could I afford it? 26 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on 27 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 2: March sixteenth, nineteen seventy six, And that was the day 28 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: the teenagers Joan Jet Scherie Curry, lead a Ford, Jackie Fox, 29 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 2: and Sandy West released their debut album as The Runaways, 30 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: and nothing in their lives or in the world of 31 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: rock and roll would ever be. 32 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: The same. 33 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: On this episode Rebellion, Escape, Predators, Exploitation, and the White 34 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 2: Hot Cherry Bomb. 35 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: That was The Runaways. 36 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan and this is this Graceland. Thirteen year 37 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 2: old Kerry Krouse wanted to be someone else. She didn't 38 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 2: want this shitty apartment and the latest in a series 39 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 2: of shitty apartments. She didn't want the stepdad with the 40 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 2: bad temper either. She didn't want the view of the 41 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,079 Speaker 2: ocean and the horizon. All this vastness and nowhere to go. 42 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 2: Views like these inspired Awe and some people, But to 43 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 2: Carrie being here, being in Long Beach, California, it was suffocating. 44 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 1: Nothing but the repressions. 45 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: Of polite society bearing down on her. She needed an out, 46 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: But first she turned inward, writing songs inspired by David Bowie, 47 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 2: not only her idol, but the template for who she 48 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 2: now wanted to become. Bowie was once someone else, someone 49 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: completely different. 50 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: Now one day he just up and left the. 51 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: Man known as David Jones behind, and he escaped David Jones. 52 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: And now he was the Starman. He was ziggy, he 53 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: was Aladdin, sane. David Bowie gave you permission to escape, 54 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: escape from the world he lived in, but more importantly, 55 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 2: escape from whoever the world wanted you to be. So 56 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: Carrie altered the spelling of her first name from Cie 57 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: to kr I. Carrie Krouse became carry Chrome, and then 58 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 2: Carrie Chrome escaped for real. She stood on the side 59 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 2: of the road, stuck out her thumb, hitched a ride 60 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: and went inland, where she took a long hit off 61 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 2: the joint that was being passed around and slung her 62 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 2: head back, watching the painted red and orange neon lights 63 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 2: bleed into the night sky. Nineteen seventy five, Hollywood, down 64 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 2: on Sunset Boulevard, Latchkey, kids from the suburbs were gravitating 65 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 2: to Rodney's English disco ground zero for all things glam 66 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: and glitter and best of all transgressive. Cary Chrome climbed 67 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 2: out of the car, slammed the door shut, and watched 68 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: as the strangers who had given her a lift drove 69 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 2: off into the distance. She had no idea how to 70 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 2: get back home, but who cared. She wasn't going back there, 71 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 2: not in any meaningful way. At least, this was the place. 72 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 2: These were her people, the girls who looked like the boys, 73 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 2: and the boys who looked like the girls. The rooster hair, 74 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 2: the rhinestones, the sequins and platform heels, all of its 75 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 2: soundtracked not by Captain and Taneil or the fucking eagles Man, 76 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 2: but by the New York Dolls, t Rex the Sweet, 77 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 2: and that permanent badass of leather clad rock and roll 78 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 2: Susie Quatro. Carrie took it all in. For the first 79 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: time in a long time. She felt at ease. But 80 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: it wasn't enough to simply be there in the crowd. 81 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 2: Carrie Chrome would be an active participant. She wanted to 82 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 2: be the one to write the songs of tomorrow, the 83 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 2: ones local legend DJ Chucky east Starr would spin for 84 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 2: this clamorous crowd. It was a crowd that on any 85 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: given night included everyone from Robert and Bonzo of led Zeppelin, 86 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 2: to Ray and Dave of the Kinks, to the once 87 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 2: boy King himself Elvis Presley. Who knows she could run 88 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: into Iggy Pop or Elton John Slip from a page 89 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 2: of her lyrics, maybe even run into Boie himself. But 90 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 2: it wasn't Bowie or Iggy or Elton that Carrie Chrome 91 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 2: met when she went to Hollywood. Instead, she was introduced 92 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 2: to another songwriter and music producer, a man named Kim Foley. 93 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 2: Foley's resume was scattershot but impressive. He'd written for Warren Zevon, 94 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 2: Alice Cooper and the Birds, and produced songs by Gene 95 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 2: Vincent and Jonathan Richmond. But what really mattered to Carrie 96 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 2: was that he seemed genuinely interested in her songs. He 97 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 2: said she had real talent and that with his guidance, 98 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 2: she could be somebody somebody else. And so, on her 99 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 2: fourteenth birthday, Carrie Chrome signed a contract with the thirty 100 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 2: six year old Kim Foley to write songs for his 101 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 2: production company, The one hundred dollars a month that she 102 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 2: got paid simply to do what she loved. Was empowering. 103 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 2: So was the fact that Foley loved her next idea, 104 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 2: which was to put together an all girl rock band 105 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 2: to play her songs. But where Carrie saw autonomy, self 106 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 2: reliance and girl power, Kim Foley saw something more sinister. 107 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 2: The band he would assemble would be marketed not just 108 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 2: as girls, but. 109 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: As underage girls. 110 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 2: Their lead singer, Sherie Curry, a blonde Valley girl, would 111 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 2: be their rock and roll Lolita, just like Sue Lyons 112 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: in that Stanley Kubrick movie. Along with Joan jen and 113 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: lead a Forward on guitar, Sandy West on drums, and 114 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 2: Jackie Fox on bass, all of them fifteen or sixteen 115 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: years old at the time. The band that Kim Fowley 116 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 2: soon christened the Runaways weren't just avatars of teenage rebellion 117 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 2: and juvenile delinquentcyne. 118 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: They were jailbaiting. 119 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 2: Okay, so listen up. Before we continue with this story, 120 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 2: I need to set the table for just how fucked 121 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 2: up this era of rock and roll was. We've talked 122 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 2: about this in some detail before, but it needs to 123 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 2: be said again. Kim Fowley wasn't the only one here 124 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 2: being a total creep. This was the same time I'm 125 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 2: the Jimmy Page and David Bowie and so many other 126 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 2: powerful musicians were sleeping with underage girls. This is when 127 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 2: Ringo Starr had a number one hit song called You're Sixteen, 128 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 2: which has the refrain you're sixteen, You're beautiful in your mind. 129 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 2: This is when a journalist, in a cover story for 130 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 2: the rock magazine Crawdaddy, wrote this about watching the Runaways perform, 131 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 2: and I quote, suddenly I am overcome with the urge 132 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: to jack off against the stage and get my teeth 133 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 2: kicked out by a vicious roadie, claw my way through 134 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 2: a thousand demented teenagers puking cheap wine and looted out 135 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: of their cerebral cortexes, just so I could touch the 136 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 2: platform boots of these sixteen year old girls. 137 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: Unquote. 138 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 2: This journalist, by the way, Charles M. 139 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: Young. 140 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: He was twenty five years old when he wrote this, 141 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 2: and he went on to become the editor at Rolling Stone. Now, 142 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 2: as totally gross as that is, it was sixteen year 143 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 2: old Shari Curry, the Runaways lead singer, who had the 144 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 2: idea to buy a revealing corset that she saw in 145 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 2: a shop window on Sunset Boulevard and use it as 146 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 2: a stage. 147 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: Propt every show. 148 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: When it came time to perform her signature song Cherrybomb, 149 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 2: which Jon Jett and Kim Fowley reportedly wrote for her, 150 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 2: in thirty minutes, she would change out of her silver 151 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 2: lamet jumpsuit and into the corset. In her mind, she 152 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 2: was the one in power, not the skeevy journalist dry 153 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 2: humping the stage or the manager orchestrating some dirty old 154 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: man fantasy. In her mind, she was simply doing what 155 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 2: her hero David Bowie had done before her. And if 156 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 2: Sharie was Bowie, then Joan was Susie Quatro, and Jackie 157 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: was Gene Simmons of Kiss and Ledo was Deep Purple's 158 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 2: Richie Blackmore, and Sandy was Queen's Roger Taylor. This is 159 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 2: how they saw themselves as equals to the rock stars 160 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 2: who inspired them from the jump. The Runaways had the attitude, 161 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 2: the drive and the chops to keep up with their idols, 162 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 2: and with Kim Fowley's industry contacts, many doors were being 163 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: opened for them. Before too long, cheap trick and petty 164 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 2: were opening for them. But it was what was happening 165 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 2: behind closed doors that was truly horrifying. In her memoir, 166 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 2: Shari Curry writes that Kim Foley once had sex with 167 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 2: a visibly intoxicated adult woman in front of the entire 168 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 2: band so that they could learn, in his words, quote 169 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: the right way to fuck unquote. Jackie Fox later alleged 170 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 2: that Folly drugged and raped her in front of a 171 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 2: crowd of people immediately following the Runaway's debut show on 172 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 2: New Year's Eve in nineteen seventy five, and Carrie Crome 173 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,319 Speaker 2: was only fourteen when she said Folly masturbated on her. 174 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 2: While Jackie tamped down feelings of shame and disgust and 175 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 2: shock over what happened to her, Carrie was not so 176 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 2: equipped to compartmentalize, and she spiraled, watching her teenage dream 177 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 2: unravel before her eyes. She'd been taking advantage of sexually assaulted, 178 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 2: watched it happen to others too, and now Kim Foley 179 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 2: was taking credit for the songs Carrie had written and 180 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 2: was even denying her royalties. So Carrie split, dropped out 181 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 2: of school, became addicted to drugs, and, like our hero 182 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 2: David Bowie, became someone else for the second time in 183 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 2: her young life, but this time her life was an art. 184 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 2: Her life imitated art. Soon Carrie Crone was living on streets, 185 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 2: crashing on couches, and Carrie was no longer one of 186 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 2: the runaways. Instead, she was simply a runaway. And when 187 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 2: her friends and the band soon found themselves in real trouble, 188 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 2: far from home, with no one else to turn to, 189 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 2: Kim finally kept betraying them, and they kept looking for 190 00:11:40,080 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 2: new ways to escape. September nineteen seventy six, England, Joan 191 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 2: Jett was pissed, this time not a Kim Foley, but another. 192 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: Man who better down. 193 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 2: Robert Plant, led Zeppelin's lead singer, was as enamored with 194 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 2: the Runaways as the next jailbait chasing horn dog. In fact, 195 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 2: Kim Foley even got Robert Plant his own Runaways T 196 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: shirt to wear. The girls all wore shirts that had 197 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 2: their names printed below the band's name, but for Robert Plant, 198 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 2: below the Runaway's logo his red Robert loves Kim. 199 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: That's not what Joan Jet was pissed off about, though. 200 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 2: Give Robert Plant a T shirt, who cares? Give him 201 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 2: a thousand T shirts? Whatever would help the Runaway's incredible 202 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 2: self titled debut album climb higher than number one hundred 203 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 2: and ninety four on the Billboard Album chart, which is 204 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 2: where it installed since its release a few months prior. 205 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: Far it wasn't working. 206 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 2: UK fans were way more into the record than people 207 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 2: back in the States, and even England's own version of 208 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 2: the so called manufactured band controlled by Sean Gali, the 209 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 2: Sex Pistols, took notice. Sid Vicious, for one, did more 210 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 2: than notice. He put his hands all over Jones's body 211 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 2: despite her protests. The next thing Sid new Sandy West 212 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 2: was grabbing him by the lapels and tossing him into 213 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 2: the Thames. The Runaways was all Sandy knew. It was 214 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: the only stable thing that she had in her life. 215 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 2: So if some safety pin wearing punk rocker was going 216 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 2: to threaten that, Sandy would do what she had to 217 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 2: in order to protect him. But I digress, So back 218 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 2: to the story. There was Joan Jet along with the 219 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 2: rest of the band, standing at a dock in Dover, 220 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 2: waiting for the ferry to take them to Paris, where 221 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 2: their manager, Scott Anderson told them that the show that 222 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 2: night was already sold out. And this is where Robert 223 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 2: Plant from led Zeppelin comes in back in Los Angeles. 224 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 2: At one of their shows at the star Ward, Robert 225 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 2: had shown up in the runaway's dressing room with his 226 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 2: locks of Greek godhaired equally godlike smile. The girls were 227 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 2: all over him. Joan Jet tried to play a cool 228 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 2: rocking that trademark Joan Jet attitude, the swagger, the ambiguous 229 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 2: look that said she was either about to fuck you 230 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: up or rock your face off. 231 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: But it was hard to play. 232 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 2: A cool seeing as though the line for the show 233 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 2: that night stretched down the block and around the corner, 234 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 2: and it was hard to keep your cool, as Joan 235 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: demonstrated when some dude put his fat hands on Shari's 236 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 2: legs and ripped her stockings right off. That night, fat 237 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: handed dude got a face full of Joan's metallic platform boot, 238 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 2: and now standing on the shore in Dover, England, exhausted, 239 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: ready to collapse on the incoming ferry, Joan wanted to 240 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 2: put that metallic platform boot to the face of Robert 241 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 2: Plant because a police inspector from Scotland Yard had detained 242 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 2: Joan in the rest of the band, preventing them from 243 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 2: going to France, and it was Robert Plant's fault. Flanked 244 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 2: by a couple of officers, the inspector ordered the girls 245 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 2: to empty their backs. Hotels in England were reporting that 246 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 2: items had gone missing from rooms that the runaways had 247 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 2: stayed in. In British law enforcement, as it had proven 248 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: so definitively years earlier in its relentless persecution of the 249 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 2: Rolling Stones and the Beatles, were eager to put these 250 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 2: smug American rock and roll girls in their place. First, 251 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 2: Sandy turned over her back, a hotel hairdryer came tumbling out, 252 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 2: and then Joan turned her bag upside down, and all 253 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 2: sorts of hotel room keys rained onto the ground. More 254 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 2: bags were searched, and more keys were found, more than 255 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 2: thirty in total. Fucking Robert Plant. Back to the Starwood. 256 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 2: Joan had asked him what were the best souvenirs to 257 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: get while on tour, and Robert had told her all 258 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 2: about his ritual of collecting room keys from every hotel 259 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 2: he stayed a And now. 260 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: This little piece of harmless advice. 261 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 2: Had landed the runaways not just in hot water, but 262 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: incredibly in jail. Joan Jet was grabbing the bars of 263 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 2: her cell, her knuckles white, her face red, trying to 264 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 2: shake the loose and screaming at the top of her lungs. 265 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 2: She was the oldest in this group and had just 266 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: turned eighteen, and she was getting the adult treatment. So 267 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 2: while the rest of the band could be together inside 268 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 2: a holding room with bunk beds, Joan was freaking out 269 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 2: inside a cold, cramped jail cell all on her own. 270 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 2: Not that things were going any better over in that 271 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 2: holding room, tensions were high. The girls had been informed 272 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 2: that they'd have to remain behind bars for at least 273 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 2: as long as it would take for the cops to 274 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 2: retrieve their luggage and search it. The thing was, their 275 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 2: luggage had already been put on that ferry over to France, 276 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: so it was going to be a minute to get 277 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 2: it back to England. And when they did, Charif, for one, 278 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: was freaking out about what they'd find inside, because in 279 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 2: one of those bags was her makeup case, and inside 280 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 2: that makeup case, Sharie had hidden a bunch of cocaine. Technically, 281 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 2: the coke belonged to the Runaways tour manager Scott Anderson. 282 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 2: Scott was Jones age eighteen, but those extra couple of 283 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 2: years experience over the rest of the girls were clutched 284 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 2: when it came to procure the necessary ingredients of the 285 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 2: rock and roll lifestyle. If you needed your cocaine cut 286 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 2: up into neat little lines, Scott was your guy. 287 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: If you needed some prescription. 288 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 2: Grade downers like placid, Scott was your guy. Booze Scott 289 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 2: could obviously get that for you as well. The girls 290 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 2: were supposed to have tutors out on tour with them. 291 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 2: This was one of the many promises that came a 292 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 2: folly so wilfully failed to deliver on. Instead, they had 293 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 2: guys like Scott, and now Sharie Curry had Scott Anderson's 294 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 2: problem smuggled inside her luggage. Chari was sweating like crazy, 295 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: doubled over where she was sitting on the concrete floor. 296 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 2: She fell ill thinking about what would happen if those 297 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 2: drugs were found. She was in a foreign country and 298 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 2: she was only sixteen. Were wearing off, and now panic, dread, 299 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 2: and sickness deep in her stomach began to consume her. 300 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 2: She and Scott had been engaged in a sexual relationship 301 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: on the road, as well as what Shari thought was 302 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: a deeply emotional relationship. Surely, as a result of this, 303 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 2: Shuri assumed Scott was prepared to do the chivalrous thing 304 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 2: and tell the cops that if it was found, the 305 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 2: cooke was his. But that night, when Scott paid a 306 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 2: visit to the girls in lac Up, Scott made it 307 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 2: very clear that he intended to do no such thing. 308 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 2: What he intended, and what kim Fowley also intended, was 309 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 2: that Shari would take the fall and face the consequences. 310 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 2: The knight felt like an eternity. At some point the 311 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 2: guards took pity on Joan and moved her from her 312 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: solitary jail cell to the holding room with everybody else. 313 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 2: By the time the sun came up, the sickness and 314 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 2: the pito Scheri's stomach was overwhelming. They heard footsteps coming 315 00:18:58,240 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 2: down the hall. 316 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: All five I've. 317 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 2: Runaways craned their necks to get a look at who 318 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 2: was coming to visit. It was the inspector from Scotland 319 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 2: Yard who had originally arrested them. He had news their 320 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 2: luggage had been located. Scharie's heart rates spite she waited 321 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: for him to hold up her makeup bag and asked 322 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 2: who exactly this belonged to, But the inspector did no 323 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 2: such thing. The luggage was clean, and they were free 324 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 2: to go. Somehow the cocaine had been overlooked. Schari breathed 325 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 2: a huge sigh of relief. Even though Scott and Kim 326 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 2: Fowley had left her out to dry, she still. 327 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: Managed to dodge a bullet. 328 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,199 Speaker 2: That is, until she returned home to the States and 329 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 2: discovered the true source of the sickness she'd been experiencing. 330 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:55,199 Speaker 2: Shari Curry was sixteen years old and pregnant. We'll be 331 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 2: right back after this word word word. Joan jet hammered 332 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 2: out the opening riff for the runaway song Born to 333 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 2: Be Bad on her Gibson melody Maker. Her bright red 334 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 2: leather jumps and shimmered under his subtle stage lights, and 335 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 2: her shock of black hair stood defiant as the song 336 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 2: slow start in unabashed girl group homage suddenly turned into loud, 337 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 2: slashing power chords that knotted a punk rock no doubt, 338 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 2: one of the old girl group genre's many descendants. Sandy 339 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 2: came thundering in on the drums with Jackie and leda 340 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 2: close behind on bassi guitar, respectively, and the stage lights exploded, 341 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 2: and then Joan belted out the title chorus into the 342 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 2: microphone with a sneer. The audience went nuts. Cherie was 343 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 2: a killer front woman, no doubt, but Joan had that 344 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 2: underdog gear like Pete Townsend next to Roger Daltrey. Joan 345 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 2: had the place mesmerized. And then something cut Joan's eye. 346 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 2: It was just a glimmer out there in the crowd, 347 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 2: one of the lights catching a piece of metal, and 348 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 2: then the metal erupted in bright red and orange, and 349 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 2: the sound of machine gun firing drowned out the sound 350 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 2: of the band. People in the audience hit the floor 351 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 2: and others ran screaming for the exit. Joan felt bullets 352 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 2: ripped through her body. She collapsed on the stage floor, 353 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: crying out in pain, looking around to see if anyone 354 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: else had been hit. And then she looked over at 355 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 2: her guitar lying next to her. It was covered in blood, 356 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 2: but it wasn't her blood. She opened her eyes wider 357 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 2: to make sure she was actually seeing what she thought 358 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 2: she was seeing. It was so clear to her now 359 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 2: the guitar was bleeding, the Gibson's body was riddled in 360 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 2: bullet holes, and the blood was just oozing from it. 361 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 2: Suddenly the pain got worse. It was like she wasn't 362 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 2: just experiencing her own pain, but she could feel what 363 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 2: the guitar was feeling, and it was unbearable. Joan's eyes 364 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 2: went wider than before, and she opened her mouth to 365 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 2: screen for help for someone, when all of a sudden, 366 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 2: Joan shot up in bed, yelling out into the dark. 367 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 2: She was covered in sweat and her heart was practically 368 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 2: beating out of her chest. She'd had nightmares like this 369 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 2: one before, but never this intense, and though this latest nightmare, 370 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 2: like the rest, hadn't been real, she couldn't help but 371 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: feel that something this crazy and this bloody could potentially 372 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 2: be coming around the Bend. Being a runaway had become 373 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 2: an endurance test. As their notoriety grew, Joan and the 374 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: girls were now being demeaned by what seemed to be 375 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 2: an entire world of Kim Folly's, by random older men 376 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 2: who had no problem calling them bitches, dykes, and cunts 377 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 2: every day just for being women who dared being in 378 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 2: a band with zero swinging dicks among them. Some days 379 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 2: it felt like the assholes outnumbered the real fans. Those 380 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 2: same assholes spent their own damn money to buy tickets 381 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 2: to the runaway shows, only to heckle the girls and 382 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 2: throw shit at them on stage. It was enough to 383 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 2: make you want to ditch the show early, run into them, 384 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: cry for hours, and wonder why the hell you were 385 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 2: putting yourself through it all. For Joon Jet and also 386 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 2: for lead A Ford, the negative experiences only hardened their 387 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 2: resolve and thickened their skin. For Sandy West, there was 388 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: simply no way she could give in to the alternative, 389 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 2: go back to a normal high schooler's routine, or even worse, 390 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 2: the life of an ordinary young adult, go back to reality. 391 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: That was a. 392 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 2: Fate worse than death. But for the others the stakes 393 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 2: were even higher. Shari had returned home from The Runaways 394 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six European tour pregnant with Scott Anderson's child. 395 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: She was sixteen years old without the means of the 396 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 2: ability to raise a baby, so she decided to get 397 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 2: an abortion, and while that was happening, Kim Falley kept the. 398 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: Proverbial show on the road. 399 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 2: He ushered the Runaways into the Beach Boys brother Studios 400 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 2: in Santa Monica to record their second album, The Queen's Noise, 401 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 2: while Cherie was still recovering. Because of this, she only 402 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 2: sang lead on half of the album's songs, while Joan sang. 403 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 1: The other half. 404 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 2: The record was released in January of nineteen seventy seven, 405 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 2: the same week the Ramones released their sophomore album, Leave Home, 406 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: in the same year that The Runaways conquered Japan like 407 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: they were the second coming of the Beatles. 408 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: Keep in mind that this was one year. 409 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 2: Before Cheap Trick, the band that used to open for 410 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 2: the Runaways, had hit pay dirt at Budakan for a 411 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 2: few weeks on the other end of the world, the 412 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 2: Runaways finally got the respect they deserved. But unlike Cheap Trick, 413 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 2: all that love on tour in Japan didn't translate to 414 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 2: a greater love than thus a bigger profile in the States, 415 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 2: because by the middle of nineteen seventy seven, there was 416 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 2: no love lost within the ranks of the Runaways. The 417 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 2: bass was beautiful. It was a white nineteen sixty five 418 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 2: Gibson Thunderbird, just immaculate, and it sounded incredible. For Jackie Fox, 419 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: the bass was more than just an instrument. It was 420 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: a representation of how far she'd come. But when she 421 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 2: first joined the Runaways she could hardly play. She was 422 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 2: so inexperienced, in fact, that Kim Fowley brought in Nigel Harrison, 423 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 2: Blondie's bass player, to lay down Jackie's tracks on the 424 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 2: Runaway's debut album. 425 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: Jackie worked hard. 426 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 2: To get better, and now, in addition to being able 427 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 2: to play, she knew from playing next to Joan and 428 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 2: Lida every night how to strike the right rock and 429 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 2: roll Poe was while doing so. But where she'd once 430 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 2: looked up to Leeda Ford, these days, it seemed all 431 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 2: Leda wanted to do was push Jackie around. Maybe it 432 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 2: was because Jackie was an easy mark. She was a 433 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 2: nerd by trade, a straight A student who, before joining 434 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 2: the Runaways had been planning to skip her senior year 435 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 2: of high school so that she could attend UCLA full time. 436 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 2: Whatever the reason, Jackie felt bullied from all sides. The 437 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 2: girls in the band, Kim their crew. She could understand 438 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 2: the guys, but Lita. There was an unspoken rule that 439 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 2: the girls all protected each other, though Jackie had to 440 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 2: admit she hadn't felt very protected ever since Folly sexually 441 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 2: assaulted her, and no one in the band seemed to 442 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 2: want to acknowledge. 443 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:22,199 Speaker 1: It had happened. At least she had the bass. 444 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 2: After sound checking at one of the Runaway's final shows 445 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,959 Speaker 2: in Japan, she went to place it on its stand 446 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 2: on the stage and noticed that the stand was unstable. 447 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: She grabbed one of the guys on the crew and 448 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 2: asked them to find her a better stand so that 449 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: the bass wouldn't fall over and get damaged. She knew 450 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 2: she shouldn't have trusted anyone on that tour to help 451 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 2: her with anything. And the roadie didn't listen. No one listened, 452 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 2: and the stand was never replaced, and the Gibson Thunderbird 453 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 2: tumbled over, and the next snapped, and then Jackie snapped. 454 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 2: She went to her hotel room, her head throbbing, her 455 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 2: pulse pounding, tears of rage and sadness and panic running 456 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 2: down her face. She couldn't keep it all in check anymore. 457 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 2: It was all coming to the surface, the pressure and 458 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 2: the mental and psychological abuse. 459 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: The rape. She didn't recognize herself. 460 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 2: She had become her worst fear, someone else. Jackie picked 461 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 2: up a coke bottle and threw it against the wall. 462 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 2: It shattered into pieces, just like her thunderbird. She grabbed 463 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 2: one of the glass shards and she jammed it into 464 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 2: her flesh. 465 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: Her blood was running out. 466 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,640 Speaker 2: She dragged the piece of glass in a straight, jagged 467 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 2: line across four inches. 468 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: Of her arm. 469 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 2: More blood and the pain on the outside finally a 470 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 2: match for the pain on the inside. 471 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: The room began to spin. 472 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 2: She must have been screaming, because the door to her 473 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 2: room suddenly flung open and Serie busted it. And then 474 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 2: Jackie was in an ambulance, on her way to the 475 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 2: hospital where she would begin long journey back to the 476 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 2: person that she used to be. All right, guys, I'll 477 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 2: get back to a runaway story in just a second, 478 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 2: but real quick. I wanted to mention that we always 479 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: dig up way more in our research than we're able 480 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 2: to include in our full episodes here, Like, for instance, 481 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 2: this week, we uncovered this whole thing about how there 482 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 2: is a church out there that worships Jone Jet as 483 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 2: a god. 484 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: Literally for real. 485 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 2: It's such a crazy story that we made this mini 486 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 2: episode about it. And if you're a member of Disgrace 487 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 2: Anta All Access, you can listen to that crazy story 488 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 2: right now, along with all of our other weekly mini 489 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: episodes that we've got out there on a ton of artists. 490 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 2: All you got to do is go to disgracelandpod dot 491 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 2: com to find out more and become a member today. 492 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 2: All right, back to our story, Sandy West stuck the 493 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 2: barrel of the gun down the deadbeat's throat, and the 494 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 2: deadbeat swallowed it, his teeth clattering around the cold, hard steel. 495 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: Now that she had his attention, Sandy passed along the 496 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 2: message she'd been hired to deliver. 497 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: Pay up, fucksticker. 498 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 2: Next time, this pistol will be the last thing you 499 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 2: ever taste. And then the smell of rock bottom depravity. 500 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 2: The deadbeat had shit his pants. The nineteen eighties were 501 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 2: far from glamorous for Sandy West, former drummer for the Runaways. 502 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 2: She worked construction, She tended bar, she free based cocaine 503 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 2: and did crystal meth, and at her lowest she found 504 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 2: herself taxi, which is a term that I was unfamiliar with, 505 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 2: but according to Sandy, is the active collecting drug. 506 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: Debts for dealers. 507 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 2: It was this erratic and dangerous lifestyle which led to 508 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 2: Sandy being arrested multiple times and eventually doing jail time. Surprisingly, 509 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 2: perhaps most of all, the Sandy was that jail was 510 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 2: the first place where she had felt stability in a 511 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 2: decade or so since the band had split up, jail 512 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 2: to Sandy was like Jackie's thunderbird bass or Carrie Crome's 513 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 2: alter ego. It kept her cool and calm and out 514 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 2: of trouble, at least for a short while, because, just 515 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 2: like the Runaways, Sandy's time on the inside was a finite, 516 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 2: a flash in the pan, and so when she got out, 517 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 2: she went right back into the fire of an untethered life. 518 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 2: She died of cancer in two thousand and six, at 519 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 2: just the age of forty seven. For nearly thirty years, 520 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 2: all Sandy wanted to do was get the band back together. 521 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 2: Back in nineteen seventy seven, following a mental breakdown in Japan, 522 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 2: Jackie Fox had been replaced on bass by Vicki Blue. 523 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: Sharie quits soon after, leaving Joan to shoulder the weight 524 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 2: and lead the Runaways as a quartet. They made two 525 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 2: more albums, but even after they fired Kim Fowley, they 526 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 2: still weren't able to come together as a cohesive unit. 527 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 2: On New Year's Eve in nineteen seventy eight, the Runaways 528 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 2: played their last It wasn't until twenty fifteen, the year 529 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 2: of Kim Fowley's death, that Jackie Fox went public with 530 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 2: their allegations that Foley had raped her, and it was 531 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 2: another eight years in twenty twenty three when Carrie Chrome 532 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 2: sued Foley's estate for multiple sexual assaults she says she 533 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 2: suffered at the Svengali's hands. Revelations in lawsuits such as 534 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 2: these continued to expose the system that enabled men like 535 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 2: Folly to do what they did, exploit, corrupt, manipulate, and control. 536 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 2: But The Runaways were never about Kim Foley. The Runaways 537 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 2: were about escape, reinvention, about becoming who you are for real. 538 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 2: What Carrie understood when she changed her name, what Shari 539 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 2: understood when she stepped into that corset, and what Joan 540 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 2: understood every time she put on that red leather jumpsuit 541 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 2: was a rock and roll truth. You get to create 542 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 2: your own myth. You get to turn yourself into the 543 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 2: thing the world told you you. 544 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: Could never be. David Bowie became. 545 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 2: Ziggy Stardust, Carrie Krous became Carrie Chrome, and every girl 546 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 2: who heard The Runaways played Cherry Bomb on a shitty 547 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 2: AM radio or later saw Jone Jets saying bad reputation 548 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 2: and heavy rotation on MTV wasn't just inspired to form 549 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 2: a band. They were inspired to become whoever the hell 550 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 2: they wanted to be, to escape the person polite society 551 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 2: told them they had to be, and instead become the 552 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 2: person they needed to be. The Runaways didn't just kick 553 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 2: open a door, they obliterated the idea that the door 554 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 2: ever existed. That is rock and roll, and rock and 555 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 2: roll is no disgrace. I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. 556 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 2: All right, guys, thanks for listening to another episode of Disgraceland. 557 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 2: Apple podcast listeners, make sure you have auto downloads turned on. Listen, guys. 558 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 2: I'm wondering for the question of the week this week. 559 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 2: Obviously Runaways, great girl group, great all girl group. I 560 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 2: should say, we want to know here at Disgrace Slam, 561 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 2: which female artists do you want to hear covered in 562 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 2: the coming episodes of this podcast. We've obviously covered a bunch, 563 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 2: We got a bunch more slated for release this year. 564 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 2: But I want to know who you guys are into, 565 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 2: who you want to learn more about, who you want. 566 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: Us to cover. 567 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 2: Let me know six one seven nine oh six six 568 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 2: six three eight, voicemail and text. Hit me up with 569 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 2: your answers. We might play them on the after party 570 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: coming up right after this hiving up on social at disgracelampod, 571 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 2: disgrace lampod at gmail dot com to email me. All right, 572 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 2: here come some credits. Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly 573 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 2: and is produced in partnership with Double Elvis. Credits for 574 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 2: this episode can be found on the show notes page 575 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 2: at disgracelampod dot com. If you're listening as a Disgraceland 576 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 2: All Access member, thank you for supporting the show. 577 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: We really appreciate it. 578 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,439 Speaker 2: And if not, you can become a member right now 579 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 2: by going to disgracelampod dot com slash membership, rate and 580 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 2: review the show and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, 581 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 2: and Facebook at disgracelampod and on YouTube at YouTube dot 582 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 2: com slash at disgracelamdpod rock a rolla 583 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: He's add Man.