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Here is a photo I found on the net taken in Birmingham, Al the night after I saw them. Ann is wearing the same outfit she had on in Huntsville.
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Pretty bad ass chicks......Comment
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2 beautiful ladies.............
Can't wait for the drama when they're ever inducted into the RRHOF.........................Comment
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I never had a thing for Ann --- she reminded me too much of a cousin I had (chubby Ann, that is). Serious boner killer.
Nancy definitely tingled my loins. Wasn't there an 80's Heart video where she's riding a horse and her ample cleavage is jiggling wonderfully?
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Gotta love the mom jeans!Dude, introducing Aussie female duo, Cheetah - okay, 1980-ish. A Vanda and Young production. I saw them open for some band in the UK at the time. Don't remember who, but I'll always remember these two because the dark-haired one climbed up into the seats right next to where me and me mates were and started slinking all over some hapless dude ... it was awesome.
sigpic" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLRComment
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No the deal with the "lesbian sisters" ad is that it was released by an idiot who worked for Mushroom Records.
Ann & Nancy knew nothing about it until it was already out, and they blew a gasket, figuring it would hurt sales.
Whoever the idiot was at the Record Company, he WAS a fucking idiot. You do not do anything to jeopardize sales of an album you are trying to promote.
But he was too much of a stoopid fuck to understand even a basic concept like that.Comment
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Saw this full excerpt posted over at Metal Sludge:
At one hotel, we met Eddie and Alex Van Halen. Over the course of a few hours, they had a Kamikaze-drinking contest, followed by a cocaine-snorting fest. Once they were good and loose, they got into a fistfight. Moments later, they were hugging each other and falling down, saying, “I love you so much, man.” They would cycle through this pattern every hour.
Eddie and Alex let it be known that if Ann and I wanted to sleep with them, they would be amenable to that. Their concept was two brothers with two sisters: lnstead of the Wil-Shers, we could now be the Wil-Halens, except they wanted us in one bed. It wasn’t the only time we had that offer, and as with every other request, we turned it down.
Talking with Eddie that night, he said he really admired my acoustic playing.
“You should play your acoustic guitar onstage,” I said.
“I don’t own an acoustic guitar,” Eddie said.
Eddie Van Halen–at that point one of the greatest living guitar players, when he wasn’t punching his brother in the face–didn’t own a single acoustic guitar. I couldn’t believe it. But he swore it was true.
“I’m going to buy you an acoustic guitar right now,” I announced.
I went and woke up our road manager. He told me that at midnight instrument stores were closed. “Then let’s give him one of mine,” I declared. We went to our gear truck, and I took my favorite Ovation. I walked up to Eddie’s room and handed it to him.
He started crying. “That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me,” Eddie said.
I went to my room to sleep. But at seven in the morning, my phone rang. It was Eddie.
“Nancy, Nance, sweet Nancy, sweetest Nancy,” he said. He was obviously still high and had been up all night. “I wrote a song for you on my Nancy-Nancy acoustic guitar.” He put the phone down and started to play. He was only a few rooms down the hall, so I could also hear him through the walls.
The song went on for many minutes and was truly amazing. It was more of a suite than a song, but it was beautiful. Eventually, the line went dead–I think Eddie had passed out. I don’t know if he ever played the song again, or even if, when he sobered up, he remembered anything about the night, except that he and Alex didn’t manage to take the Wilsons to bed. But it was the best thing I ever heard Eddie Van Halen play. I only wish I could hear it again.
-This excerpt is from Heart’s newly published memoir ‘Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll’ By Jessica Hopper.I like to pay close attention to the things I'll forget later...Comment
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Fucking cool story. Thanks for posting it.Not exactly. The weight gain began on earnest between the album Private Audition (1982, highly underrated, City is Burning is an all time favorite) and the album Passionworks (1983). I know this because I was at the very first date of the Passionworks tour in Jacksonville, FL in 1983, where they co- headlined with Kansas. MTV News was there and did a live report about the unique co-headlining format, the story goes that they flipped a coin to decide who would open each night. The MTV segment was shot right in front of me and my college roommate swears you could see me plainly, but I never saw it myself. Anyway, it was my first time seeing Heart, Kansas opened that night. Not having seen so much as a photo of Ann in the preceding year or so (I owned the Passionworks album but she was not shown clearly in any pictures) I was over the moon about seeing this woman with whom I was SOOOO in love with. I waited for hours outside the venue and dashed to the stage so I could be down front and see her for myself. Finally it was time!!!! The lights went down, the keyboards started to play, I was ready to express my love...... then this hulking figure approached the mic only a few feet away and I thought "must be a problem with the mic and they sent a roadie out to switch it...." .............and then the lights came on............and it was Ann!!!!!! Looking more like Roseanne!
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Eddie and Al don't sound like fun drunks to hang out with...Probably stingy with the blow too.American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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