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Nancy Wilson

11/16/2010

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She's iconic rocker from Heart, which topped the charts in the '80s. The band released its latest album, 'Red Velvet Car,' and is now touring like it's 1984.

Nancy Wilson

"WTF" By Heart

Q: If you were to do an intimate, acoustic set with free reign over the setlist, which songs would you choose to play? - Georgie Starbuck
A: Well there’s so many songs lately that I’ve been thinking of doing that for. [My sister and bandmate] Ann and I have been saying lately, “Ugh, why can’t we record an album of covers, because there’s so many songs that we love.” Like Bee Gees songs. Like "First of May," "To Love Somebody." Or Paul Simon songs. There’s just so many great songs in the world. Joni Mitchell.
Q: What do you consider to be your most outstanding moment in your career? - Amy
A: The last couple of years since we released this new album, it’s been the best ever, in the history of us, as a band. Because we’re as tight as any band I’ve ever been in, and we’re together and we play a lot together. It’s ESP. With Ann, she’s been recovered for a year. Just focused, and her voice is better than ever. It’s just good. It’s energy. She’s getting older, but she’s getting younger and prettier. How can that be?
Q: I'm a 16 year old girl, and have no idea what I want to do with my life. I was just wondering if after you heard the Beatles for the first time, you always wanted to be a musician or if you ever considered other career options. If so, what were they? - love2ridetawny
A: Yeah, I was about 9 when I saw the Beatles on the 'Ed Sullivan Show,' and it was a cultural showstopper. The whole culture was watching that moment, like the lunar landing or when JFK was shot; it was the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. There was a perfect amount of mystery and hype surrounding their arrival, because they were such a sensation overseas that it just caught fire, and it was just a life altering experience. Made us from that moment forward want to play music. We were already into ukuleles and pianos and family kind of music, but that’s when we knew we had to make a rock band, and be like the Beatles. So we became super aimed at getting guitars. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I’ve never had any other real job in my life except for music. I did a little bit of babysitting. I gave guitar lessons. I was an algebra and geometry tutor, but other than that not much else.
Q: What are your favorite tracks on the new album? And what was your process for creating it? - pete
A: You’re already asking hard questions. The process was pretty incredible. Ann got to work on her solo album, called 'Hope and Glory' with Ben Mink, a producer from Vancouver. And when they were working and I got to work with him on her album, we all sort of fell in love, and we begged him, “Please do a Heart album with us,” and he said, “Well, show me some decent songs and I’ll think about it.” So we wrote a lot . . . we got together and wrote songs with him in mind, his production values in mind, and some of them he liked enough to produce, so once we had that going, we didn’t really take that much more time recording. It was more in the writing.
Q: You’re also known for doing these movie soundtracks, particularly 'Almost Famous.' What are your favorite memories of that movie? - Sandy
A: I think that’s just quite a masterfully put-together film. Even if I wasn’t involved, even when I see it now, it’s really a moment where music and picture were married really well. There was a piece of music that I had laying around for a long time, and it just fit like a glove for the scene when the bandmates are deflowering the little journalist kid. I had this piece of music for years, and I just slotted it in there, and the scene was done. It was never that easy again. That was the one time that was easy.
Q: "Barracuda" was in the news a couple of years ago, when Sarah Palin was using it as her theme song. What did you think of that? - mikeyp
A: Well, it turned into something that, in retrospect, was a pretty good thing. We didn’t realize it at the time, but it gained us a bit of attention that was a bit of good for us, even though some of our fans were really upset. They were off of the band entirely: “I will never buy another Heart album;” “I’ll burn my old ones.” That was a little rough, but I think in the end when people will calm down . . . . It’s just America, you’re allowed your opinions.
Q: Did you know Palin was going to use it? - mikeyp
A: No. We were watching the convention; we’re interested in all that stuff. And we saw it on the spot with the rest of America. I just got on my phone and called my friend, Kelly Curtis, who’s the manager of Pearl Jam, and I said, “What the fuck? They can’t do this. We want to send out a statement.” And we talked to our manager, and we decided to send out a statement. And we decided, let’s not send out the statement with the F word the second time. But it was actually a very noticeable thing. And we were on "Dancing with the Stars" the other week, and Bristol is a performer, and we didn’t know if we were going to be meeting Sarah Palin in person or not. We didn’t, but that was a photo opportunity that I was not looking forward to having.
Q: After your tour for this album, what projects do you have coming up? - MicahD
A: Well, we have a DVD coming out pretty soon in March called "Night at Sky Church." We filmed in Seattle. Right after we made the album we decided to do a show so we can sort of present the new songs, as well as the familiar songs, with this lineup, with this band right now, which was super charged. So that was just a great night.

Read more: Nancy Wilson, Heart, Red Velvet Car

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  • So the most gorgeous woman on the planet wonders how her sister keeps getting better looking? How about, you Nance?? How the heck can YOU keep doing that?? :-)

    - Posted by deepfrese @ 11/30/-1, 12:00 am

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