Joan Jett in Afghanistan

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 bsheppard at bari.iww.org
Sat Sep 28 16:52:59 PDT 2002



> Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote:
>
> >According to today's Dallas Morning News, Joan Jett became the first
> >female rocker to perform in Afghanistan today.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> I'm not sure what that means, but I'm going to listen
>to
>Bad Reputation now.

That's the song that I thought of, too, when I saw the pic of her playing to US troops. And I was wondering - how might "And I don't give a damn about my bad reputation" sound to an Afghan audience, coming from a female rock performer surrounded by US troops? A balls-out endorsement of US unilateralism?

The DoD could have sent over Insane Clown Posse, however. And I suppose we should be grateful they didn't.

Brian

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