The band list their influences, both past and present, as Sweet, Redd Kross, The Go-Gos, X, The Clash, Joan Jett, The Bangles, The Runaways and Sonny and Cher.
In 2010 he played the guitar teacher in The Runaways, harking back to his role thirty years earlier in Foxes (1980) with Cherie Currie.
She played Sandy West in The Runaways (2010), a drama film about the 1970s all-girl rock band of the same name, alongside Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning.