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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #54: THE WILSON SISTERS WILL NOW KICK YR ASS WITH THE ROCKINROLLS, THX
Yesterday I made a joke about Nancy Wilson being on the Mighty Tiny record label as a girl before changing her name and joining Heart. Which got me to thinking about Heart, and before you know it, I’m Googling and what should I find but this little gem: Ellen DeGeneres playing “Barracuda” on Guitar Hero II for a few moments before she calls in the real band – which commence to completely blow the roof off the dump.
FWOOOOOM!
NOTE: Not an endorsement of batshit running mates.
I confess, Heart completely lost me in the 80s when they did a Jefferson Starship and re-invented themselves as a godawful pop-metal band with MOR aspirations. But up to then, their first two albums got a lot of play on my cassette player (this was before CDs, children). And it’s fair to say that Ann Wilson was probably my first real rock’n’roll crush. (It was either her or Olivia Newton-John – I forget, exactly. Let’s say Ann – that’s much cooler. And I was 12 at the time, if yr wondering.) That said, credit to Nancy for being the first woman I ever saw wielding an electric guitar who wasn't wearing a silly cat costume at the time. I liked it.
Anyway, it’s inspiring to see that Ann and Nancy can still belt out the hits like it was 1977 again. Ann in particular is awesome in the video – Sweet Mother of Babbling Baby Jesus, that woman has some pipes.
FUN FACT: In my eighth grade music class, they wouldn’t let me bring my 45 of “Magic Man” to Music Appreciation Day because the teacher had a specific rule against “acid rock”. It would be years later when I realized the teacher had no idea what the term actually meant. Thanks to him, I thought “acid rock” was a statistical measure of guitar distortion or savageness or something (i.e. some kind of rockness scale – pop rock, acid rock, hard rock, HEAVY METAL).
Well, look, I was a dumb kid. What did I know from acid?
School of rock,
This is dF
FWOOOOOM!
NOTE: Not an endorsement of batshit running mates.
I confess, Heart completely lost me in the 80s when they did a Jefferson Starship and re-invented themselves as a godawful pop-metal band with MOR aspirations. But up to then, their first two albums got a lot of play on my cassette player (this was before CDs, children). And it’s fair to say that Ann Wilson was probably my first real rock’n’roll crush. (It was either her or Olivia Newton-John – I forget, exactly. Let’s say Ann – that’s much cooler. And I was 12 at the time, if yr wondering.) That said, credit to Nancy for being the first woman I ever saw wielding an electric guitar who wasn't wearing a silly cat costume at the time. I liked it.
Anyway, it’s inspiring to see that Ann and Nancy can still belt out the hits like it was 1977 again. Ann in particular is awesome in the video – Sweet Mother of Babbling Baby Jesus, that woman has some pipes.
FUN FACT: In my eighth grade music class, they wouldn’t let me bring my 45 of “Magic Man” to Music Appreciation Day because the teacher had a specific rule against “acid rock”. It would be years later when I realized the teacher had no idea what the term actually meant. Thanks to him, I thought “acid rock” was a statistical measure of guitar distortion or savageness or something (i.e. some kind of rockness scale – pop rock, acid rock, hard rock, HEAVY METAL).
Well, look, I was a dumb kid. What did I know from acid?
School of rock,
This is dF
