A report from the Q1043 event

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Brett reporting from NYC, September 1st 2010:

It was amazing…The ladies first came out and did like a ten minute interview with some radio host (I want to say his name was Jim Kerr or something) but they talked about the new album and the same old questions each interviewer asks Ann and Nancy like about being women in a male dominated industry, their fixation on the beatles, and so on. The interviewer made sure to speak of how amazingly red velvet car is doing in the market. He spoke of its immediate rise to number one on amazon and said that when he was going through radio stats early in the morning (he works on 104.3 radio) that “Hey You” is being predicted to be Heart’s 21st top twenty single.

Ann & Nancy September 2nd

(Amazing and well deserved news, might I add.) On a side note, Ann was wearing these red kick ass cowboy boots. The interview concluded and the girls were taken off stage for about five minutes and returned with a six song set starting with barracuda. I have been dying to finally see Ann and Nancy with straight acoustics and they did not disappoint. Nancy and Craig were spot on, transforming some of the hardest heart rockers into numbers that suited acoustic guitars well. The rest of the set was as follows: Barracuda, Dog and Butterfly, Hey You, WTF (acoustic and out of this world), Crazy on You, and Dreamboat Annie. A fun little

Red Boots

thing that they did was at the end of Dreamboat Annie where there is normally a flute playing, Nancy sang it in a joking way and a majority of the crowd sang it right along with her. This is my tenth heart show and even though it was only six songs, this ranks among my favorite experiences. I am so thankful I was chosen to attend this event. On the way out the door, everyone who attended was handed a poster to remember this magical night.

Also in other great news, the interviewer had a VINYL COPY of Red Velvet Car!!!!! Ann and Nancy hadn’t even seen it yet…I can not wait to get my hands on that. This show was also filmed with 6 cameras and will be broadcasted on clear channel tv, along with about one hundred radio stations.

More from this event at Q104.3

Two new pictures released

Seen this one before, but not in color!

New picture of Heart in the studio

Pix from Lilith Fair in San Francisco

Mercurynews.com has posted a bunch of pix from the July  5th Lilith Fair. Click on the picture to go to the gallery.

Ann Wilson, July 5th 2010,

Heart (review from spinningplatters.com) click here for more pictures

Heart aren’t given enough respect by the feminist movement. More than any riot grrl band (not to devalue the importance of riot grrl), they opened the rock world to women in a huge way. They were the first rock band where the women were the songwriters and also took control of the leads. Nancy Wilson is the kind of guitarist that could show Jimmy Page a thing or two, and at this show, they made sure to keep this set as metal as they could. The whole set was devoted to the edgier, heavier Heart. Only in the middle of the set, where they played a few decent songs off their upcoming record, Red Velvet Car, did things mellow. Nancy took lead vocals from her sister on the strongest of the new songs, “Hey You,” and then played a powerful reading “Alone,” with the stage bare aside from the Wilson sisters and keyboardist Debbie Shair (Ironically, this was the only time all day that only women were on stage).

Ann Wilson’s voice has only improved with time, with a soulful richness that is incomparable in any genre of music. They closed the main set with the near-perfect closer of “Crazy On You” and “Barracuda,” which is still one of the greatest riffs in musical history. They managed to avoid any of their sappier stuff like “These Dreams” and “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You.” In fact, my only complaint about their set was the encore, which was a cover of Led Zepplin’s “What Is and What Should Never Be,” which left the majority of the crowd kind of confused, aside from the handful of people that recognized the song. It’s a weird song, and kind of took the energy away from the set, which would have been better served by “Magic Man,” or even a slightly more intense Zeppelin cover, like “Rock & Roll” or “Battle Of Evermore,” both of which Heart have been known to cover in the past.

Meanwhile, Sue Ennis tweets…

Sue Ennis

…some very interested messages about “Hey You” and Ann’s BDAY!

• New single “Hey You” will be most added record at AC radio next week. What year is this again?
• Wish my original b-day song were the best gift last night but, hands down, it was the life-sized, silver plated barracuda from Chp Trik.
• Fun h.b. vid segments from Cheap Trick, the Journey guys and Alice guys. Elton’s appearance and sweet message just brought the house down.

Follow Sue Ennis on Twitter. Thank you Sue :) (and thanx to Harry Grillo for the poke :)

from FMQB.com

Ann Wilson gives it her Heart

Ann Wilson

What woman out there does not remember belting out the lyrics of the song “Alone” somewhere at some time in their lives and for some reason?  I know I did, a lot.  From “Magic Man” to “These Dreams” to all of those rock and roll tunes that Heart singer Ann Wilson belted out over the span of the band’s career, rivaling anyone in rock with their passionate,  gut wrenching, heart pumping sound.

With a voice that is par-excellence, Ann Wilson turned 60 this past weekend.  She paved the way for female rockers to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any male musician on the scene.  Yet Ann and Nancy Wilson always stayed in their truth as females in exile from the stereotypical female genre of the fallen angel.  Heart brought you into their songs, telling you they understand, letting you feel the lyrics like “try to understand, he’s a magic man.” You want to know who he is. You want to know why she needs him.

More from this article at Goldmine Magazine

ANN WILSON IS 60 TODAY!

Queen of Rock Ann Wilson turns 60 today. She sings and looks better than ever before! Congratulations to Ann Wilson and also on Red Velvet Car!

Barracuda: just Ann’s 1977 studio vocals

Thanx Carl!