{"id":1911,"date":"2010-03-19T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2010-03-19T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:15:57","slug":"friday_evening_videos_i_love_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/19\/friday_evening_videos_i_love_r\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos: &#8220;I Love Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve chosen specially for my friend Cranky Robert:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A4cFIzr85cU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of weird, considering how much of this crap I watched as a kid, but I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing this particular video until today. I knew the song, of course &#8212; I doubt if anyone in my general age bracket doesn&#8217;t &#8212; but the corresponding video somehow fell through the cracks. It amuses me that the early &#8217;80s as depicted here looks much more like the &#8217;70s than what we usually think of as &#8220;The Eighties&#8221; &#8212; no shoulder pads, florescent colors, or big hair in sight! It&#8217;s also notable just how bloody <i>young<\/i> Joan Jett appears to be; I&#8217;ve always imagined the face behind that chainsaw voice as <i>so<\/i> mature and experienced. Well, she may have been, ahem, <i>experienced<\/i> &#8212; that whole rock-n-roll lifestyle thing, you know &#8212; but a little googling and some math reveals she was all of 22 years old when the song was recorded in 1981. Like a lot of the girls I had a thing for in high school, she looks to me now like a kid who was trying to look much tougher than she probably felt. Genuinely tough or not, though, Joan is at least more masculine-looking than the guy who&#8217;s &#8220;standing by the record machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And is it just me, or is Joan giving off a distinct Suzi Quatro vibe in this&#8230; anyone else <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suziquatro.com\/\">remember her<\/a>? I can&#8217;t recall if she actually had any charting hits in the U.S., but she made a bit of a splash with a recurring role on <i>Happy Days<\/i>; she played Leather Tuscadero, the little sister of Fonzie&#8217;s occasional girlfriend, Pinky Tuscadero. (You&#8217;re probably asking yourself how the hell I remember all this stuff&#8230; it&#8217;s a gift, my friends. Or perhaps a curse&#8230; there are days when I&#8217;m not quite sure.)<br \/>\nI always thought this song originated with Joan Jett, but it turns out she was covering an earlier band called The Arrows; their version of &#8220;I Love Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8221; was released in 1975, and if you&#8217;re curious, you can listen to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0\">here<\/a>. Jett&#8217;s version seems to have attained evergreen status &#8212; it turned up in the movie <i>Wayne&#8217;s World 2<\/i> back in the &#8217;90s and is featured on the popular <i>Guitar Hero<\/i> game &#8212; but the song was recently covered again by Britney Spears. Needless to say, Britney&#8217;s version doesn&#8217;t have quite the same <i>umph<\/i> as Jett&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve got nothing against Spears, but that girl doesn&#8217;t know <i>anything<\/i> about rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll. Talk about a kid trying to be tougher than she is.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, in true block-party weekend fashion, here&#8217;s one more selection from Joan and the Blackhearts, in which she&#8217;s looking much more feminine and (in my humble opinion) <i>tres<\/i> sexy. This is &#8220;Crimson and Clover,&#8221; a cover version of the old 1968 hit from Tommy James and the Shondells, from the same album as &#8220;I Love Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hdhonK8NMm8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hdhonK8NMm8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And with that, happy weekend, kids&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve chosen specially for my friend Cranky Robert: It&#8217;s kind of weird, considering how much of this crap I watched as a kid, but I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing this particular video until today. I knew the song, of course &#8212; I doubt if anyone in my general age bracket doesn&#8217;t &#8212; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-evening-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}