When I was 9 years old I saw The Runaways on TV and I just loved them from the first song I heard. My idols back then were the glam rocking English band "Sweet". Now I began to love The Runaways too and I wanted to be in an all-girl band just like them.

So 4 girlfriends and I decided to start an all-girl rock band. We made a song I still remember, a part of the chorus goes like this ; " I am so hungry - I have no money - I haven´t eaten for 5 days ". Our idea was that we were 5 street kids from L.A's poor blocks ... cute. One of the girls mom still laughs her ass off when she sees us standing there singing that we are so hungry and haven´t eaten for 5 days ..... It´s fun now and none of us knew back then that she was laughing because her daughter and one of the other girls were fat like meatballs - and they were standing there singing that they were so hungry ... I understand her. Her mom was nice though and never laughed in front of us so we never knew about it until we were adults ... We thought we were so cool ... my oh my.

I was nagging at my mom to buy me drums so one day she did. They were silver colored and sooo beautiful. She told me to play very careful and quiet because she didn´t dare to tell my dad that she had bought me the drums .... poor mom, and poor neighbors - the whole block could hear me playing! How long time do you think it took for my dad to hear that I had drums in my room ?... Did she regret herself or what ? ... smile ... Unfortunately my friends parents refused to buy them instruments so we could never start our band for real anyway.

When I was around 10 years old The Runaways came to my country and they were playing in a town not that far from mine ( I didn´t know how far away and where it was ). Me and my friend wanted to go there and see them and she had an uncle in the village where they were supposed to play so the only thing that our parents said was ; If her uncle took care of us we could go. Oh - we were allowed to go - YES !  So what´s the problem ? ... She didn´t dare to ask him - SHE DIDN´T DARE !! ... my god was she crazy or what ? I could have done something very mean to her then, it wasn´t the first time anyway ... Unfortunately we never left. Ohhh was I mad or what. I still remember how I was crying - how could she do this to me ? I wanted to go myself but I didn´t know where it was or how I could go there. I had to stay home. I don´t remember what I did to her or how long time it took before I began to talk to her again.

Before I started Joan Jett WebArt Gallery I used Joan as a model, had fun with the great graphic apps that I had and were just playing around. Mark saw my pics and suggested that I should start a site with rendered pics of Joan. I talked to some photographers who had taken some of the pics I had of Joan and they said I could use their photos. So I started Joan Jett WebArt Gallery in June 4th 1998. It still lives and I really hope it will survive for many years. It´s up to you, the Jettheads out there.

I hope you´re enjoying my site and Joan. She´s the greatest!
Just like me in my life 

Thanks for visiting and Take care -
Chatrin

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