Suzi will be 76 in a few months, her guest is 78.
It’s not a very good song, IMO. Standard 70’s rock that would have been a b-side or album filler back in the day.
I used to think that it’s pathetic when old rockers just don’t stop. Then I started thinking about the previous generation of jazz legends, who were celebrated for continuing: Duke, Ella, Count and all the rest
So…
Fuck it. They’re having fun, their voices are still good, if not amazing, but age does that.
I’m not clear if you’re aware of this or not, but FYI, this isn’t a ‘new’ song. It’s a cover of the seminal MC5 classic ‘Kick Out the Jams’.
Fun cover, BTW.
I’m sad she’s not dressed up as Leather.
Her guest?
Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, the MC5: All from Detroit.
I know who Suzi Quatra is only because she played Leather Tuscadero. I can’t think of a single song of hers off the top of my head. That’s no slight on her, I’ve looked her up on YouTube and I can see why people liked her, but for the life of me it’s like she dropped off the face of the Earth.
You’ve got the right attitude here. Fuck it. Let people have their fun. I listened to the new song and it was fine. She’s rocking harder in her 70s than I am in my 40s.
I loved Stumblin In.
But those guys weren’t marketing to the kids. Their music wasn’t someway of outraging their elders.
This was her only hit in the U.S.; it hit #4 in 1978. She had a half-dozen other singles in the top 100 in the US in the '70s and early '80s, but none of those cracked the top 40.
She was far more successful in other countries in the '70s, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, and Switzerland. And, she never stopped recording; she’s released 18 studio albums, including four in the last decade. But, even in the non-US countries where she was pretty big in the 1970s, she rarely charted after around 1980.
Here in her home country, she’s almost entirely known only for “Stumblin’ In” and Leather Tuscadero.
At the time, some Americans went to the U.K. to find success; Sparks became huge during the glam rock era and later Chrissie Hynde, Katrina Leskanich (And the Waves) and of course the Muppets. Wiki claims SQ has sold 50M albums, so I’m sure she’s not hurting, even though domestic success eluded her.
She was a trail blazer. A quote I found on wiki:
Of all female rock singers, she appears the most emancipated: A small girl leading an all-man group in which she herself plays bass guitar. The image is of a tomboy, lank-haired, tight-bottomed and (twice) tattooed; a rocker, a brooder, a loner, a knife-carrier; a hell-cat, a wild cat, a storm child, refugee from the frightened city of Detroit
“48 Crash” !!!
So did Paul McCartney.
