Joan: Yeah, her name's Lorie McAlister and she 's 21. She's played bass for a long time and she's really good. We've rehearsed with her for about ... this was our fifth day today. We got three days left, then Tuesday we go to San Francisco for two days and Palo Alto for a gig, then Santa Cruz then back here to the Whisky, UCI and then the Golden Bear.

Al: Where's Vicki Blue?

Joan: She's sick. I'm serious, I swear to God. I don't want to tell you what but she's sick which made her unable to go on tour. She got too flipped out, I mean not mentally sick, physically....

Al: No hard feelings?

Joan: Oh no. I still call her and talk to her all the time. I'm supposed to go to New Orleans with her in February or something.

Al: Why'd you do that Slade song on the album?

Joan: Because I liked it. I suggested it and just everyone liked it. I like it because that's the kind of stuff I grew up with, glitter stuff and Rodney's. It's a great title.

X-8: No more connection with Kim Fowley?

Joan: Oh no, not at all.

X-8: We shouldn't go into that, he might kill us. Tell us about your audience?

Joan: Any audience to tell the truth, we haven't even played in front of an audience in six months since Europe, except for some dumb celebrity thing we did in Century City. Have you ever heard of Harold Robins? Well his wife threw this big homecoming thing for him and we played. It was a previewing of Annie and they wanted a band to play and Toby, our manager, got us the gig. Steve Jones was in town and we were doing a song he wrote "Black Leather."

Joan: So the last song of the set he got up and jammed with us. You name it, Za Za Gabor, they were all there, Jacqueline Bisset - all these huge fuckers were there and they were plugging their ears and by the end of the set, they were all walking out. It was really great, really fun. There was a review of the party in the LA Times but it only talked about us.

Stan: Suzanne Sommers was there wasn't she?

Joan: Yeah, we got our picture taken with her. What a jerk that bitch is!

Stan: Suzanne Sommers was there wasn't she?

Joan: Yeah, we got our picture taken with her. What a jerk that bitch is!

Stan: Hey, leave her alone!

Joan: She's a jerk!

Stan: I'd like to see her.

Joan: Oh fuck you, horny bastard!

Stan: Well, I like girls.

Joan: Not this one, not if you get to meet her.

X-8: Does she have a good ass?

Joan: How could you tell?

Stan: I just saw her in Playboy and it had her tits in it!

Joan: She's so movie starish, phony smile...

X-8: I hear your audience is getting lesbian?

Joan: I don't know. It's hard for me to see out there sometimes plus sometimes I'm not really thinking about it. But I saw alot of guys out there. Yeah, I heard something about that. "Runaways dyke audience." And some people going "Hey Sandy, what a fox!" But I don't think that's the majority of our audience, though I don't care if they're anybody. I don't give a shit if they're transexual or bisexual, gay. I don't care, just so long as they like it and enjoy it.

X-8: What's your own personal closet habits?

Joan: what?

X-8: Your private pleasures?

Joan: Well, if they're private, they're gonna stay that way... I buy every dirty magazine in the world. I like to read them. I do. You know how wives go "Why are you reading that?" Well, honey the articles are good." Well, it's true, alot of the magazines have really good articles. I always buy Hustler cause they're tasteless. Oui....

X-8: You check out the girls?

Joan: Well what the hell are you supposed to do, close your eyes?

X-8: What bands do you like now?

Joan: Besides the old Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & the Banshees, that's my new favorite. The album's really really fuckin' good, the best I've heard in years besides the Pistols album.

Al: What do the other Runaways like?

Joan: I like more punk than the rest of them. I mean see, I'm really narrow minded about music. I like one kind, ya know? I like Rock and roll, Chuck Berry but I don't have any of his records.... Lita likes Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and the older stuff, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin. The new bass player is a Zeppelin freak, but Lita loves the Sex Pistols and the Clash. I love the Clash too.

Stan: You got a new roadie I hear?

Joan: Who?

Stan: Ken... the stripper.

Joan: I heard about that, he gave me a big speech about that.....

Al: Where is your strongest following at?

Joan: All of Europe is a really good market, better than here. States is so jaded, they've seen everybody here, everybody you could imagine. Record companies here are a lot more efficient and choosy in what they pick. They want something that sells. The same reason the American phone system is so much better here. They settle for second best over in Europe where as here, it's really particular. In Europe, you're already presented as a pop star, you're already in the magazines, big color pictures, they really build you up. Our label over there gives us a lot of support.

Joan: In the States our best areas are the Midwest, Texas and Ohio. We got the best reaction from like Huntington Beach, I mean they go crazy. Certain areas go for certain things, the Whisky's always been good....

Stan: Hey, its Darby on the streets, and Helen.

Joan: Where? I wanna talk.....

X-8: Yell! Go get him.

Stan: Naw.... I can't express myself.

Joan: Why, are you loaded?

Stan: Yeah, on Marijuana.

Al: How was the Lycium gig with the Dickies?

Joan: Really good. Didn't you think that was really great?

Stan: Yeah, our first big place.

Joan: I felt good cause we were playing with another American band cause alot of the English people try to like, "take the piss out of the Yankees", like I heard Ken, well he met the clash and he was backstage just sitting and the Clash started talking to him and they go, "Oh you American" and the girl next to him goes, "Yeah, that's why he doesn't have anything to say," like big competition.

Stan: He got an autograph so he was happy. They (Clash) signed his passport, he was happier than a pig in shit!

Joan: Sid vicious is a hero. That's my statement, I think he's a hero, especially if he gets off this, he'll be the biggest hero.

Al: Do you think he killed her?

Joan: I don't. I really don't.

X-8: Stan, ask her some questions.

Stan: You want me to interview her now?

Al: Yeah.... What's different in Europe?

Stan: Cheeseburgers are good here, there's tacos and there's soap operas.

Al: You said that the last time.

Stan: Well, this is her interview. I am just sitting here on Marijuana answering your questions.

Joan: Your mother will read this.

X-8: When you started, were you trying to push the female type deals? Like when you posed for surfer pictures in Cream?

Joan: I wasn't. Why do you think I wore a wetsuit? I hate that sex ass stuff.

Al: At the Golden West, you got really upset when Lita brought out that penis squirt gun.

Joan: It's stupid, it's unnecessary, I never liked it from the beginning, the corset and all that crap.

Lisa: Why did you dye your hair black?

Joan: That's my roommate. I've known for many many years.... Oh my hair because one of the Tubes said, "Hey, you ought to dye your hair black, like jett black."

X-8: How'd you like the party at the Tropicana?

Joan: Oh, were you guys there?

X-8: Yeah.

Joan: That's how I liked it, I was fucked up out of my head...