Heart’s In The Right, Place
Or if anybody had a Heart.
Somebody tell me—how the heck can ya dislike Heart? All these years I’ve been rocking and writing away, leading my usual schizo double life, getting picked up and dropped by record companies, eating poor helpless little snails, wearing unchic ensembles—for what?
Since 1976, Heart has been one of the most durable hard-working, hard-rocking, successful bands— featuring two females—ever. Oh, I’d hear them on the radio in college and say, “Yeah, but (sniff) they ain’t no Velvet Underground.” How immature of me—there is no comparison! The Velvets weren’t hard rock nor commercially successful; Heart is on a Led Zep or Van Halen level! My kid brother, a 14-year-old sophisticate, has great taste in rock & metal and digs He&rt—so that’s all I needed to set off on a most pleasant and informative phone chat with Ann Wilson, which went sort of like this:
