pedophilia was pretty much celebrated at that time, especially in rock
There was that dust up a few years ago when Jackie Fox of the group said Kim Fowley the producer had raped her at a christmas party in front of everyone and joan jett and cherie curry didn't support her story. They saw it as consensual at least at the time and said so...everybody was either on drugs, drunk, young, confused, predatory, too cool to care, uninformed or some combination plus more no doubt. https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/cherie-currie-on-standing-by-during-jackie-foxs-alleged-rape-i-am-innocent/
Lol you got that song in my head now. I saw something about the article you posted there but didn't pursue it, is this the incident that Cherie is talking about?
yeah it was a big discussion point in social media as jett and curry got a lot of criticism some of it unfair but some of it not totally unfair as Jett especially doubled down when she probably didn't need to. Obviously they were all young and in a perverted environment, but you can't take a super harsh position on a victim that doesn't realize what really happened until much later and speaks about it a lot later than that. Jett btw is one of my favorites of all time, she just didn't handle this "twitterstorm" or whatever well, but I don't blame her for that much either. anyway there is plenty on it better told than I have just google Fox, rape, Jett, Curry, etc
At any rate it all just goes to prove your point in spades - a rape on a matterss I believe in the middle of the room where the band and all their friends were having a new years party. sheesh, and Kim was supposed to be one of the better of his kind.
Thanks for clearing that up. After high school I went out to Sunset Strip after seeing Rodney Bingenheimer on Tom Snyder, Rodney was a DJ who got them their start and had a disco for kids (no drinking). Nobody liked me cause I still had a David Cassidy shag, guess I shoulda had my hair spiked. Plus I was too old, eighteen, over the hill. Rodney was very nice and I didn't see anything too shady. His disco is still there and will be in a movie about the Runaway's. Oh for joy! Well you might like it. Here be Rodney w/ Deborah Harry back in the day, home movie. Rodney is the gremlin on the right.
I think it was just "English Disco." He knew everybody, there's a documentary on him, The Mayor of Sunset Strip.
"During the early 1970s, Mercury Records promoter Rodney Bingenheimer owned a glitter-glam dance club on the Sunset Strip. It was called Rodney’s English Disco, and music icons such as T. Rex, the Kinks, the New York Dolls, Elton John, Keith Moon, Led Zeppelin, and even the King, Elvis Presley, stopped by."
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VieBleu ago
Hey bop
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pedophilia was pretty much celebrated at that time, especially in rock
There was that dust up a few years ago when Jackie Fox of the group said Kim Fowley the producer had raped her at a christmas party in front of everyone and joan jett and cherie curry didn't support her story. They saw it as consensual at least at the time and said so...everybody was either on drugs, drunk, young, confused, predatory, too cool to care, uninformed or some combination plus more no doubt. https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/cherie-currie-on-standing-by-during-jackie-foxs-alleged-rape-i-am-innocent/
bopper ago
Lol you got that song in my head now. I saw something about the article you posted there but didn't pursue it, is this the incident that Cherie is talking about?
VieBleu ago
yeah it was a big discussion point in social media as jett and curry got a lot of criticism some of it unfair but some of it not totally unfair as Jett especially doubled down when she probably didn't need to. Obviously they were all young and in a perverted environment, but you can't take a super harsh position on a victim that doesn't realize what really happened until much later and speaks about it a lot later than that. Jett btw is one of my favorites of all time, she just didn't handle this "twitterstorm" or whatever well, but I don't blame her for that much either. anyway there is plenty on it better told than I have just google Fox, rape, Jett, Curry, etc
At any rate it all just goes to prove your point in spades - a rape on a matterss I believe in the middle of the room where the band and all their friends were having a new years party. sheesh, and Kim was supposed to be one of the better of his kind.
bopper ago
Thanks for clearing that up. After high school I went out to Sunset Strip after seeing Rodney Bingenheimer on Tom Snyder, Rodney was a DJ who got them their start and had a disco for kids (no drinking). Nobody liked me cause I still had a David Cassidy shag, guess I shoulda had my hair spiked. Plus I was too old, eighteen, over the hill. Rodney was very nice and I didn't see anything too shady. His disco is still there and will be in a movie about the Runaway's. Oh for joy! Well you might like it. Here be Rodney w/ Deborah Harry back in the day, home movie. Rodney is the gremlin on the right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrAf_DpaDV8
VieBleu ago
was his disco called the Coconut Teaser for years and years?
bopper ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcYk1NgIsM
I think it was just "English Disco." He knew everybody, there's a documentary on him, The Mayor of Sunset Strip.
"During the early 1970s, Mercury Records promoter Rodney Bingenheimer owned a glitter-glam dance club on the Sunset Strip. It was called Rodney’s English Disco, and music icons such as T. Rex, the Kinks, the New York Dolls, Elton John, Keith Moon, Led Zeppelin, and even the King, Elvis Presley, stopped by."