Vocalist/guitarist LITA FORD sat down with the Chicago Tribune to discuss her comeback and the early years of her career as a member of THE RUNAWAYS with rock icon JOAN JETT. An excerpt from the story is available below:

Midway through the interview, pleasant and accommodating despite the odd start, Ford lets slip that she recently met with Jett for the first time in years, for dinner in New York City.

"I hadn't seen her in so long. We exchanged guitar picks," she recalls. "I just thought it was about time to see her. I reached out to her, and she reached back to me, so it was meant to be. She could have told me, 'Ah, go stick your head in the toilet,' but she didn't. It was great. I told her in the e-mail, 'If you want, you can tell me to (expletive) off. It's fine, but I would really love to see you.' She was a sweetheart."

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Back in September, Jaan Uhelszki at The Morton Report caught up with Jett. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: You’ve said a few years that if you had a reunion with the Runaways, the worst thing would be if you all did get along and decided to go out on the road again. Why would that be so terrible?

Jett: "To just to have taken so much crap the first time around, and people being curious and never having seen it, and then doing it again just for whatever reason we’d do it, and then having people say, 'See? That's why they didn't make it,' or 'Look at these old broads trying to recapture their youth.' It's more the idea that was so revolutionary, and still is, because it's still not a mainstream thing, seeing girls playing hard rock and roll. My theory is that rock and roll is a very sexual thing. And to allow girls playing rock and roll means that they're being blatantly sexual. And in America, girls and women aren't allowed to be. That's why you still don't see it. The pop thing is huge, but people love the illusion of that rock rebel thing. It's a little bit dangerous. So therefore now all these people rock. You know what I mean? When they're using a descriptive word, they use the word rock, and that's very offensive to me."

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