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Kiss Me Deadly

from Lavatory by Sam Pocker

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First of all let me just say that even though I may not enjoy much of her catalog, I really love Lita Ford. Not only because she was a member of the Runaways, but mostly because of an interview she did in the 90's on some VH1 "Where Are They Now?" type of documentary.

In the interview she was sitting on the beach somewhere cold, wrapped in a blanket, and talking about her frustration with the collective amnesia in popular music which forced artists like her into obscurity for long periods of time even though they maintained a consistent output of material.

This resonated with me at the time because I was still a teenager and I was heavily into my phase of going to see every legacy artist I possibly could. Night after night I would watch bands like The Ramones or singers like James Brown play to half-empty (or less) houses that held a reasonably small capacity. Sometimes the shows were incredible, and sometimes they were not very good. It was an important part of my performing arts education.

Lita Ford sat there on the beach, looked at the camera, and said "There's a lot of people out there who still want to rock."

It could be construed on one hand as being an empty statement but it got me like a knife in the chest. I understood in that moment everything she was communicating.

As it does, the music came back into vogue a decade later, albeit not as big as it was the first time around, but big enough that Lita Ford could go back on the road and tour. I saw her once play to a sold-out room at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. She was right, there were still a lot of people out there who wanted to rock.

I wonder what she thinks of when she looks back on the 90s.

Either way, I think she's amazing and this song is not presented with any ironic intent. It was very much an anthem of it's moment presented to it's target demographic earnestly.

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from Lavatory, released March 2, 2018
By Mick Smiley
Copyright Music & Media Int'l O/B/O Mike Chapman Pub. Enterprises And The Twin Towers Company

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Sam Pocker Los Angeles, California

Sam Pocker is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and musician. Pocker’s songwriting catalog covers over 8 albums worth of material, released by his bands The Pretty Colors, The Pregnant Vegans, and The Agoura Hills PTA. His most recent book “Where Do Incorrect Ideas Come From?” was released in January 2020. ... more

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