Music Capsule Review

Flashback (1993)

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Lead Performance: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

By Deborah Frost

Joan Jett isn't the queen of rock, she's the queen mother. Beloved and benign, she shows up with a proper uniform, three ritual chords, and a genial wave to the kingdom's subjects. But what makes us love rock & roll are surprises, not formalities. Jett has long sustained an oldies act, if not a bad reputation, by recycling producer-Svengali Kenny Laguna's toga-party flashbacks. And even the best cuts on this odds-'n'-sods compilation, like a live ''Cherry Bomb,'' detonated last year with queens-in-waiting L7, suggest she's finally ready to fast-forward.

Posted Dec 03, 1993

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