Lockdown Licks no. 266. “I Love Rock and Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

Played on an HB35+ guitar into a NUX M8 amp set to ‘superlead’ with some reverb.

Video 1

Signature power chord riff using two note E,A,B chords with subtle blues curl riffs on E string, ending on signature single note riff.

Video 2

Lead solo.

“I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” is a rock song written by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker and first recorded by the Arrows, a British rock band, in 1975. A 1981 cover version by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, released as the first single from her album of the same name, became Jett’s highest-charting hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100.