Legendary Rock Interviews recently caught up with THE RUNAWAYS bassist Vicki Blue - who replaced original bassist Jackie Fox - better known these days as director Victory Tischler Blue. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

LRI: The legend is that you joined the band after being approached at the mall by some fans who thought you were a Runaway. Is that true?

Vicki: "No, that’s true. That’s exactly what happened. I was shopping at the mall with my friend from high school Marcy who was a couple years older than me, had her own car, would go off to Hollywood to work with bands like LYDIA LUNCH and SOUIXXIE AND THE BANSHEES and had the coolest jet black hair. We were in some store and the girl who worked at the store was like 'Oh my god, are you Lita Ford of The Runaways?!' which was kind of odd because at that point, The Runaways were not that well-known. They sure weren’t that well-known amongst the average person at the mall you know? I knew of them because Marcy knew of them and turned me on to them. Marcy said the weirdest thing to the girl, she said, "No, she’s not Lita and she’s not in the band but she might be next week (laughs)." Then a couple of days after that I ended up in the band. It’s a really weird, fateful story."

LRI: Jackie left and you entered. Was it kind of a blur of photo shoots and recording sessions for Waiting For The Night when you joined?

Vicki: "When I joined the band had literally just got back from Japan that week. I auditioned and got the gig and we instantly started writing for the new album which was Waiting For The Night. In addition to that we started doing a lot of rehearsing, five days a week, eight hours a day. In addition to all of that, there were numerous photo sessions including a couple with Barry Levine. At one of those photo sessions there was a big fight between Cherie and Lita, and Cherie left the band right as we went into start recording the album."

LRI: Cherie made a post on her blog some time ago that could have been aimed at Laurie or one of the other Runaways of the past but sort of made me immediately think of you. It was something to do with The real Runaways only being the “famous five” and it came off a bit harsh, especially given the fact that she gave such great interviews for your movie. Did you see that or have an opinion on that?

Vicki: "You know what, I did see that. I think a lot of the band saw that. It was a really weird thing that Cherie put that out there. That’s just Cherie being Cherie. Every once in a while, she’ll throw something like that out there and all the rest of us are like "Woah, where did that come from." I don’t have any personal issue with Cherie so I don’t know what that was even spurred by. I mean I really don’t know what to say except I was a full member of the band, 100% during that time for what it’s worth. Yes, I left the band before And Now, The Runaways came out but then, at that point, she herself had been out of The Runaways for over a year as well. Some of us leave the group and hold on tighter to it than others, some of us have other things going on and are less involved with that world and I really don’t know what else to say about her comments. I will just say that she’s a very talented performer, a very creative and passionate soul and I have the utmost respect for her on all levels as a professional. Personally? I don’t know. She makes me scratch my head a lot and say 'Huh?, wait a minute…what?'"

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