Ultimate Classic Rock: I’ve heard that Heart might be recording again – are you working on new stuff?
Ann: Yeah, we are, we’re writing now and this break in the Def Leppard tour, though it was a surprise break, it turned out to be really good, because we got our producer down here and we sat and worked and just wrote for five days. It was incredible, [we] came up with a whole bunch of stuff, so we’re on it!
Ultimate Classic Rock: What kind of stuff are you writing? Where is this going in comparison to what we heard on ‘Red Velvet Car’?
Ann: It’s more developed [and] it’s more rock I think, this time. You know, we’ve been traveling constantly and all kinds of things have happened, good and bad. We’re always writers, but right now, there’s really a lot of stuff that’s going down on paper from our experience here, just out in the country. There’s one song that just was banging around inside my head after we were in Pennsylvania. And I’ve never seen the Northeast quite so beat down, quite so poor and broke. The Rust Belt speaks really loudly about what’s going on in the economy. When we went on the break, like everyone flew home, but I said, “No, I’m going to take my bus and I’m just going to go back across the country to L.A. And I’m going to write on the trip.” I didn’t know how haunted by the economic situation back east and how it affects the people. I wrote all of this stuff on the trip back when we were going through Nebraska, going down through New Mexico and stuff, the big empty out there, it just spoke really loudly to me. So, there’s a bunch of stuff, my observations of what it’s like in the country right now.
Heartlinker,
YES, that is some kind of crown your Queen has recently donned.