Singer Cherie Currie nonetheless has a bitter style in her mouth in regards to the time The Runaways opened for RUSH in 1977, insisting that the prog-rock legends sabotaged her band’s set.
A scene within the film The Runaways reveals guitarist Joan Jett (performed by Kristen Stewart) breaking right into a dressing room of an unnamed band and urinating on one in all their guitars. Jett herself revealed to Jam! Music in 2010 that the band who impressed that scene was RUSH, claiming, “They sat on the aspect of the stage and laughed at us. That type of stuff pisses me off.’”
Now, Currie, in a brand new interview with The Metallic Voice, has supplied new particulars on the incident that passed off throughout a live performance in Detroit in February 1977.
“We had been handled so nicely by Tom Petty who opened for us, and Low cost Trick who opened for us, however RUSH sabotaged our set,” started Currie. “We’re at Detroit’s Cobo Corridor. It’s an enormous venue. I noticed them and so they had been throwing items of paper, similar to commonplace 8×10 paper, onto the stage whipping it such as you would a pizza. I used to be in 6-inch platform boots and I needed to bounce off of Sandy West’s drum riser. I hit a type of items of paper and I slid throughout that stage and there was an orchestra pit with all of the photographers.”
She continued, “I’ll always remember seeing them attain up with worry that I used to be going to go over, and in some way I caught myself proper on the final minute and did a type of, [rock star poses], to one of many photographers. I may have been paralyzed. I’m not exaggerating, I may have been very a lot injured had I gone off that stage. In order that’s why Joan and I specifically don’t care a lot for [RUSH] as a result of they weren’t defending us, they had been sabotaging us that evening and they might be sitting there behind Lita [Ford]’s amp [snickering].”
In a 2013 interview with Prog journal, RUSH singer-bassist Geddy Lee was requested in regards to the feud with The Runaways, to which he responded, “The Runaways had a ginormous chip on their shoulders. I keep in mind that present. We had hassle with our gear so our soundcheck received delayed and The Runaways by no means received one. However we had been all the time good to whoever was opening for us.”
He added, “We had no bias in opposition to them as a result of they had been ladies — none of that bullshit. I do know they mentioned that we had been laughing at them after they performed, however fairly frankly they had been too shitty to take heed to. And 40 years later they’ve a narrative to inform about it. Who knew?”
The total interview with Cherie Currie will be seen beneath, with the RUSH story coming on the 17:40 mark.