![]() JOAN JETT 80S WINDOWSWe were on the sly and nobody knew, and we had to climb through broken windows just to get in.” So we went to Vancouver where they recorded the album and shot them in an old abandoned barn, which is where this shot is from. The label said no, we want them to look prettier. The idea was that they were a gang and have a ‘Wanted’ poster tacked to the wall where they were hiding out. They grew beards for a photo shoot at my studio, put on cowboy outfits. “The album was originally called “Wanted Dead Or Alive” after the song. The Slippery When Wet album was a career defining moment for Bon Jovi, a 12x platinum record with classics like “You Give Love A Bad Name” and “Wanted Dead Or Alive.” The road to the album cover traversed through a slippery road itself, with no less than four different concepts, before winding up with the existing cover, which Weiss shot, featuring the words ‘Slippery When Wet’ scrawled on a wet garbage bag by Jon Bon Jovi himself. The original album title was “Wanted Dead Or Alive” (Photo courtesy Mark Weiss The Decade That Rocked (Insight Editions)) This was one of the original cover photos for their breakthrough album Slippery When Wet. Three in a row! That’s pretty nice!”īon Jovi 1986 in Vancouver, CA. But nowadays, I can listen to Sirius radio or Hair Nation radio and look at my phone and there’s my cover shot with Dokken Under Lock and Key, Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet and Cinderella’s Night Songs. They’re harder to shoot with weeks of preparation and stress since there’s so much riding on it. I was doing all these great covers for magazines and I’d see my cover photo of Ozzy or David Lee Roth on the newsstand, but they would go away at the end of the month. ![]() That photo shoot got me to the next step. My father helped me build the set and he helped me get the room together. They of course didn’t know that when Weiss was hired for the Stay Hungry shoot. At that he was even singled out and made fun of by the band as part of their act for not moving around enough during the show. Weiss had photographed them live a few years prior, though he didn’t officially meet them. ![]() The 1984 Twisted Sister Stay Hungry album cover was the ‘game changer’ moment for Weiss. Thirty-seven years later, the mentality and strength these teenage girls might dish out are still amazing.Dee Snider of Twisted Sister (Photo courtesy Mark Weiss The Decade That Rocked (Insight Editions)) ‘Cherry Bomb’ is one of the most popular and flammable rock and roll songs ever released. Joan is on top of her game here, as much confidence as her male counterparts. Jett proves a force to be reckoned with by using a Ramones-inspired template. The 1981 LP The Blackhearts title song is a raucous trip of super-charged rock and roll. In 1975, the Arrows band struggled to chart their single in their homeland and had never even been released on the stateside. This is the one that has sealed the deal and turned Joan Jett into a genuine rock star. While Joan subsequently re-recorded this song for her 1983 release, ‘Release,’ it is the original version of Runaways that wins hands down. The end song on the debut album Runaway is a full-blown teen drama set to rock and roll. Jett created her own mini-masterpiece with this kick-ass rocker from the 1988 album, ‘Up Your Alley,’ which takes the shape of Glitter’s pages, and adds her own signature. Even though the single could just reach the top 40, It is still one of the best songs of Jett. The first song of Joan Jett’s third album. Taken from the ‘Bad Reputation’ LP, ‘You Don’t Know What You Got TIl It’s Gone’ takes the Jett sound and transforms it into a song that brings a strong pop style of the mid-’60s. In 1994 Joan Jett and The Blackhearts released an album called ‘Pure And Easy’ that would have taken the band back to the top of the charts. Jett was a huge fan and took the classic hit from Glitter, gave it some 80s glitter, and took it to the U.S. Over the last several years, the ugly (and self-created) problems have cast an irremovable shadow over the fact that Gary Glitter made some great rock and roll singles in his prime. ![]()
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