Ann & Nancy didn't come to my awareness, as people, until a couple of years ago. (I'm 26 years old). They have become the most inspirational people to me, such beautifully talented women.
Nine years later and I stumble upon my Sheroes! I love learning their songs on guitar. Great all around with Ann Wilson and her super powerful vocals just blows me away since late 70's. I rarely listen to anything other than HEART. Nancy's album with her band Roadcase Royalle is fantastic too. Thanks Ann and Nancy for the superb music you have presented to your fans.
Their performance of Stairway to Heaven that night was the most powerful and touching cover performance of a led zeppelin song, no doubt amplified by how touched and in awe the members of Led Zeppelin were. I've never heard of Heart before that show and I love their humility and authenticity as well as obviously their awesome musicianship. peace
"We come, we rock, we kick it's ass and leave" I love these sisters so much. They have pulled me through some really hard times. I don't go to concerts like I did back in the day. I only go to one show per tour, and that show would be when Heart rolls through Atlanta, GA.
I hate it when people ask Ann about her weight, when it is common knowledge that she is sensitive about that. Ann and Nancy are both beautiful and very talented!❤️💙💚
ANN WILSON IS MY FAVORITE FEMALE VOCALIST AND NANCY WILSON IS MY FAVORITE ROCK MUSICIAN PERIOD A REAL ROCK GODDESS HEART ❤ FOREVER THE UNDISPUTED QUEENS OF ROCK AND ROLL GREAT WOMEN PIONEERS AND TRAIL BLAZERS GOD BLESS THEM BOTH ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Excellent interview by Jian, with two amazingly talented legends of rock who also happen to be beautiful women. This one is near the top of my list for this show.
I don't want to involve his personal scandal as its a good interview regardless. However, knowing his true feelings when it comes to women, this interview does kind of come off as a bit creepy in retrospect.
You poor unfortunate soul. You have missed so much. At least you came clean & admitted your loss of just becoming aware of these beautiful women recently. I have had an undying crush on them since 1976. They are with no exaggeration, the true queens of rock. Please, for your sake ( I promise you will not be disappointed) seek out all of their performances & songs over the years. Especially the originals from the 70's. Your life will be enriched beyond measure. Stunning, awesome women!
What a great interview. I feel like I know you, not just love your music. You ladies are beautiful, talented, humble and grateful. Kudos and I hope you get back together soon. God bless! Thanks for the great interview, Jian.
LOVE THE "WILSON'S SISERS" SOME OF THE BEST BUILDING BLOCK, ON GOOD MUSIC ! LOVE THEM BACK IN THE EARLY 70TH, AND NOW ! THEIR MUSIC WILL LIVE ON, MY GRANDCHILDREN LISTEN TO THEIR MUSIC NOW ! THANK YOU GIRLS !
That is one of the most beautiful and honest interviews I've ever seen/heard. Funny, too. I agree with other posts about Jian. He's really good. He knows 'how' to speak to people and make them feel comfortable. :) This was a real treat..esp after the induction ceremony last evening. :) Congratulations, Ann and Nancy ..on a continuing long life career as artists and just generally, being some of the coolest people in rock and roll. You inspire all generations.
I didn't realize the guy was a DJ as someone stated below, but as an interviewer - he's awesome. I understood exactly where he was coming from. It wasn't about brown-nosing, he's a fan as well. Obviously, like so many Canadian Heart fans, feels especially proud that Canada is where Heart got its first real air play to their astonishment. It was in Canada that Dreamboat Annie was getting airtime in the beginning, not in America. Perhaps a little more here in Seattle, but I for one, am grateful to the Canadian fans who made it possible for Heart to become known throughout the world.
With all due respect, neither of you are obviously aware of Jian Ghomeshi's outlandish sex scandal that derailed his career merely one year after this interview. So let's not heap on too much praise here...
What a great interview. I made my way to it after watching, again, their performance at the Kennedy Center. I agree with "onelove 1968" about Jian, a sensitive interviewer who could be harboring a degree in psychology.
Jian Ghomeshi asks ONLY insightful, intelligent, compassionate and sincere questions. He is as good an interviewer as there is. Hey George Strombo, you are also a great Canadian Interviewer. Both of you make us Canadians who are music fans very proud and make Canada look like the musical appreciative Country that it is. Well done, Jian.
I agree. Whatever one thinks of Jian G. personally, as an interviewer he always asked interesting questions and for that we the audience got interesting 'answers' to our curiousity about whomever was the guest. Hope that made sense, lol.
You are welcome. Everyone seems to have lost their logical rationality when it comes to Ghomeshi's "case". Seems his name is just mentioned and some people's heads spin 360 Exorcist-style and explode! lol.
Dark .Soliton You are so right. Whatever his "legal situation" is, is HIS. At this point all these accusations are just that "accusations". I still watch his show often and enjoy the comraderie with his guests. Cheers.
Heart if still touring can you come to Central Oregon To the Leschwab amphitheater. I grew up listening to you all for over 4 decades and not once have I ever been able to see you in Concert Live. Would you all consider that
Ann is AMAZING and beautiful. With her voice and talent, who cares about her weight? I am curious, however, how & why she gained back all the weight she lost from the lap-band procedure. The only reason I ask is I am concerned for her health.
+Rob Anthony Dire The lap band thing was many years ago. Add menopause to that equation and a woman who's had a lifelong battle with her weight - once you stretch that stomach again - you're off to the races. I've seen other videos of her since - and she has lost an incredible amount of weight and looks as good as she's looked since her younger years. Mostly because she looks more comfortable performing and she just looks like she feels good - and she still sounds amazing. Robert Plant had tears in his eyes when they performed Stairway at the Kennedy Center Honors and has had nothing but good things to say about the performance. He has also stated many times that he really doesn't like it when people cover that song - and rightly so. However, they were so caught up in Ann's performance - the mutual admiration showed in their faces. You can't hide those tears. I understand that they had dinner together following the program and Robert Plant told Ann that he like the performance.
I didn't have a chance to watch the entire video, (have to go to work), but was there mention of why Nancy had what appears to be bandages on her two fingers?
Guns and Roses were massive because they had their own sound and songs that weren't just 4 minute formula tunes to get played on the radio. Grunge came out and kids who are not musicians went for it big time because they liked the whole slacker ethos..plus Cobain was the coolest guy on the planet. I liked Soundgarden and Alice in Chains but I never saw the big deal with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Music is a disposal commodity these days people get bored very quickly so bands have a short shelf life.
Hey ladies why do men who wear dirty clothes, without shaving looked at as rock gods If you didn't know who they are you might hand them a couple of bucks thinking they are homeless. Male entertainers make more money then women yet, it is socially acceptable for them to perform looking like slobs,it's disgusting.Why do women have to spend all their money on expensive clothes.Ladies stop wasting your money we want to hear your voice.Rock on sistas Wilson!
I think you have misunderstood me. Bon Jovi were just a loud pop band like Nickleback today - I wouldn't watch them if they were in my back yard. The problem with the plethora of hair metal bands in the eighties was that they all sounded the same until the singer came in, even then it was hard to distinguish sometimes. I am not disputing that mostly they were fine musicians, just that there was this formulaic approach to songwriting and a reluctance to take any chances that made it stale.
I'm a huge classic rock fan, don't get me wrong but for every Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple there was a Black Oak Arkansas or Duke Jupiter. Or Starship for gods sake. Loverboy, Warrant, Helix, Cinderella, Poison, Ratt, and Nightranger..who could tell the difference? People say grunge killed rock but it was the interchangeable hair metal bands with their appalling power ballads that turned real rock fans off. Sadly that meant that a great band like Cry of Love had no chance in the early nineties.
To give you an idea of my age the last time I read a music magazine was about 1978. I have no idea why people would take the opinion of a rock 'journalist' and not listen to something themselves to make their own minds up. I was playing in a kind of poor mans Black Sabbath from around 1976-82 - we weren't very good but my whole life revolved around playng, listening to and discussing rock music but when I couldn't tell if a song was by WASP or Stryper until the singer came in I lost interest.
We have kind of skirted around the issues here, what exactly is your point? Hearts 70's albums were excellent, the stuff from the eighties sounded just like every other poodle rock band, except with a great female singer... What kind of music do you actually like?
You are just looking at 'pop' music, there are a ton of great bands and musicians that don't get played on radio but are extremely successful touring bands. There was just as much crap music in the 70's and 80's it was just a different kind of crap.
If your definition of crap is Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder then we are using different benchmarks. they didn't get criticized because they were awesome musicians and songwriters. My idea of crap was the awful manufactured pop like Captain and Tennile, Boney M, Barry Manilow, David Cassidy and all of the disco rubbish Who would you describe as a good band that never gets any exposure? I would have said Clutch but their last album did really well..
With the surgery that she had, you're not supposed to drink any alcohol. She drank a LOT after she had this done. So that probably screwed up her system. I think she has lost a little weight since this interview
Ann and Nancy are, and have always been, beautiful because their musical talent and their souls remain that way.
Ann & Nancy didn't come to my awareness, as people, until a couple of years ago. (I'm 26 years old). They have become the most inspirational people to me, such beautifully talented women.
Nine years later and I stumble upon my Sheroes! I love learning their songs on guitar. Great all around with Ann Wilson and her super powerful vocals just blows me away since late 70's. I rarely listen to anything other than HEART. Nancy's album with her band Roadcase Royalle is fantastic too. Thanks Ann and Nancy for the superb music you have presented to your fans.
Their performance of Stairway to Heaven that night was the most powerful and touching cover performance of a led zeppelin song, no doubt amplified by how touched and in awe the members of Led Zeppelin were. I've never heard of Heart before that show and I love their humility and authenticity as well as obviously their awesome musicianship. peace
Ann you could not mess any song up with your voice... So humble one of your best qualities.. I love you....
They so humble not to say the least. They are just fantastic! The best of rock & Roll women still going strong today! Love 'em!!
"We come, we rock, we kick it's ass and leave"
I love these sisters so much. They have pulled me through some really hard times.
I don't go to concerts like I did back in the day. I only go to one show per tour, and that show would be when Heart rolls through Atlanta, GA.
One of the greatest Rock vocalists of all time.
My favourite band along with def leppard two of the most beautiful musicians ever nancy and ann wilson
I could listen to Nancy talk all day - she's such an articulate, insightful, and fascinating speaker.
I hate it when people ask Ann about her weight, when it is common knowledge that she is sensitive about that. Ann and Nancy are both beautiful and very talented!❤️💙💚
Plus...her weight is irrelevant. She is wonderful.
ANN WILSON IS MY FAVORITE FEMALE VOCALIST AND NANCY WILSON IS MY FAVORITE ROCK MUSICIAN PERIOD A REAL ROCK GODDESS HEART ❤ FOREVER THE UNDISPUTED QUEENS OF ROCK AND ROLL GREAT WOMEN PIONEERS AND TRAIL BLAZERS GOD BLESS THEM BOTH ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
I cannot love these two women much more!
Excellent interview by Jian, with two amazingly talented legends of rock who also happen to be beautiful women. This one is near the top of my list for this show.
I don't want to involve his personal scandal as its a good interview regardless. However, knowing his true feelings when it comes to women, this interview does kind of come off as a bit creepy in retrospect.
Ann is a beautiful woman,skinny or big,young or old.. she's a beauty.
totes.
She is simply too much amazingness to fit in an ultra-small package!!
I love listening to Ann & Nancy. :) Comforting. They feel like family.
Ann Wilson your beyond awesome and amazing in so many ways!! We love you bunches here in Ohio
These ladies are the bed rock of true rock in superficial times. And funny. "The Hall of Famishness." And beautiful.
You poor unfortunate soul. You have missed so much. At least you came clean & admitted your loss of just becoming aware of these beautiful women recently. I have had an undying crush on them since 1976.
They are with no exaggeration, the true queens of rock. Please, for your sake ( I promise you will not be disappointed) seek out all of their performances & songs over the years. Especially the originals from the 70's. Your life will be enriched beyond measure. Stunning, awesome women!
The roads may be bad in the winter, however, you two never are!
I never get tired of listening to them talk....they'd be such fun ladies to hang out with
What a great interview. I feel like I know you, not just love your music. You ladies are beautiful, talented, humble and grateful. Kudos and I hope you get back together soon. God bless! Thanks for the great interview, Jian.
Wow! Great interview. I have so much respect for Ann and Nancy. Biggest regret: never got to see them
LOVE THE "WILSON'S SISERS" SOME OF THE BEST BUILDING BLOCK, ON GOOD MUSIC ! LOVE THEM BACK IN THE EARLY 70TH, AND NOW ! THEIR MUSIC WILL LIVE ON, MY GRANDCHILDREN LISTEN TO THEIR MUSIC NOW ! THANK YOU GIRLS !
Great interview and Heart absolutely rocks! Down to Earth and the hardest rockers, so talented!
That is one of the most beautiful and honest interviews I've ever seen/heard. Funny, too. I agree with other posts about Jian. He's really good. He knows 'how' to speak to people and make them feel comfortable. :) This was a real treat..esp after the induction ceremony last evening. :) Congratulations, Ann and Nancy ..on a continuing long life career as artists and just generally, being some of the coolest people in rock and roll. You inspire all generations.
I've always loved Heart, but after seeing them perform Stairway to Heaven in front of Zeppelin, I've grown to love them even more.
Very nice Interview. Nancy looked amazing. Ann has such a huge personality
Two beautiful, talented girls. Edmonton and Canada love you and the music!
Wow! You sisters are "Queens" !!!
I didn't realize the guy was a DJ as someone stated below, but as an interviewer - he's awesome. I understood exactly where he was coming from. It wasn't about brown-nosing, he's a fan as well. Obviously, like so many Canadian Heart fans, feels especially proud that Canada is where Heart got its first real air play to their astonishment. It was in Canada that Dreamboat Annie was getting airtime in the beginning, not in America. Perhaps a little more here in Seattle, but I for one, am grateful to the Canadian fans who made it possible for Heart to become known throughout the world.
He is a very bright and talented man.
Speaks 3 languages fluently.
With all due respect, neither of you are obviously aware of Jian Ghomeshi's outlandish sex scandal that derailed his career merely one year after this interview. So let's not heap on too much praise here...
This is my favorite thing ever.
Nancy's laugh at mark 8:17 is so cute. 😍😍😍
Charming, smart, articulate and well balanced interview. Do like the comprehensiveness and researched interview.
This dude knows how to conduct an interview that is worth listening to, period.
Mr. Ghomeshi is a fantastic gentleman. Always a great interview. Thank you for posting this.
8:52 I love Nancy's honesty here and I wish she had put it this way in the book.
Ann is a sweetheart.
Your so beautiful Ann!!!! :) I love yalls music.
Great interview!
The Wilson-sisters rock! \m/
Great interview with Ann and Nancy and I must say, this is a great interviewer!
What a great interview. I made my way to it after watching, again, their performance at the Kennedy Center. I agree with "onelove 1968" about Jian, a sensitive interviewer who could be harboring a degree in psychology.
Jian Ghomeshi asks ONLY insightful, intelligent, compassionate and sincere questions. He is as good an interviewer as there is. Hey George Strombo, you are also a great Canadian Interviewer. Both of you make us Canadians who are music fans very proud and make Canada look like the musical appreciative Country that it is. Well done, Jian.
I agree. Whatever one thinks of Jian G. personally, as an interviewer he always asked interesting questions and for that we the audience got interesting 'answers' to our curiousity about whomever was the guest. Hope that made sense, lol.
Dark.Soliton, I completely agree with you. Thanks for your comment regarding my comment.
You are welcome. Everyone seems to have lost their logical rationality when it comes to Ghomeshi's "case". Seems his name is just mentioned and some people's heads spin 360 Exorcist-style and explode! lol.
Dark .Soliton You are so right. Whatever his "legal situation" is, is HIS. At this point all these accusations are just that "accusations". I still watch his show often and enjoy the comraderie with his guests. Cheers.
heart, Ann y Nancy las mejores, siempre serán las reinas del rock, las quiero, cuánto daría por tenerlas en un concierto en Medellín-Colombia
Sister Act, Brother Act, Band Members = Heart!
Hall of fameshipness...hall of famenessship...
hahaha... I love you ladies
Great Interview!!!
Tough women ann and nancy wilson love them both since 1976.
Discussion of Stairway starts about 15. fyi. Great interview and have always been a fan. Thanks for the post!
J~
Also Ann & Nancy never disappoint.
I enjoyed reading the book. I hope you two write another book.
Lol! "Do they think you are cool? Oh no, they know I'm not cool, I will never be cool" OMG imagine being Ann wilson's children, what a great honor..
What a great wonderfull women, wish i met them
I HEART HEART.
Nancy is sooo huggable!
Ann has a gorgeous face; heavy-set or not, she's still hot, because she's blessed good looks, smart mind, & an amazing voice.
Jian walks a fine line between interviewer and therapist.
Heart if still touring can you come to Central Oregon To the Leschwab amphitheater. I grew up listening to you all for over 4 decades and not once have I ever been able to see you in Concert Live. Would you all consider that
Ann is indeed a race horse in a league all her own.
How to be a haller fame ship-ness. Yes. Exactly.
Better give recognition to Roger, Steve and Mike...it was their band...@ 20:00
dolls.
Ann is AMAZING and beautiful. With her voice and talent, who cares about her weight? I am curious, however, how & why she gained back all the weight she lost from the lap-band procedure. The only reason I ask is I am concerned for her health.
+Rob Anthony Dire The lap band thing was many years ago. Add menopause to that equation and a woman who's had a lifelong battle with her weight - once you stretch that stomach again - you're off to the races. I've seen other videos of her since - and she has lost an incredible amount of weight and looks as good as she's looked since her younger years. Mostly because she looks more comfortable performing and she just looks like she feels good - and she still sounds amazing. Robert Plant had tears in his eyes when they performed Stairway at the Kennedy Center Honors and has had nothing but good things to say about the performance. He has also stated many times that he really doesn't like it when people cover that song - and rightly so. However, they were so caught up in Ann's performance - the mutual admiration showed in their faces. You can't hide those tears. I understand that they had dinner together following the program and Robert Plant told Ann that he like the performance.
3 people..(currently) clueless.
To pity them or chuckle silently..
Hmmm.. Tough choice..
maybe he asked one them out on a date after the show...LOL
he was good at his job
I didn't have a chance to watch the entire video, (have to go to work), but was there mention of why Nancy had what appears to be bandages on her two fingers?
She didn't mention it, no. Probably shredding a wicked solo?
Guns and Roses were massive because they had their own sound and songs that weren't just 4 minute formula tunes to get played on the radio. Grunge came out and kids who are not musicians went for it big time because they liked the whole slacker ethos..plus Cobain was the coolest guy on the planet. I liked Soundgarden and Alice in Chains but I never saw the big deal with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Music is a disposal commodity these days people get bored very quickly so bands have a short shelf life.
Where did the band heart o
originate from? Great Falls, MT or Seattle, WA?
darwin lumbattis ...they got their start in Vancouver.
Oh no I'm not cool! .... Oh yes you are!
Interestingly, they felt "Straight On" is a number that got to feeling like a bore to perform.
Hey ladies why do men who wear dirty clothes, without shaving looked at as rock gods If you didn't know who they are you might hand them a couple of bucks thinking they are homeless. Male entertainers make more money then women yet, it is socially acceptable for them to perform looking like slobs,it's disgusting.Why do women have to spend all their money on expensive clothes.Ladies stop wasting your money we want to hear your voice.Rock on sistas Wilson!
what does that even mean?
I think you have misunderstood me. Bon Jovi were just a loud pop band like Nickleback today - I wouldn't watch them if they were in my back yard. The problem with the plethora of hair metal bands in the eighties was that they all sounded the same until the singer came in, even then it was hard to distinguish sometimes. I am not disputing that mostly they were fine musicians, just that there was this formulaic approach to songwriting and a reluctance to take any chances that made it stale.
I'm a huge classic rock fan, don't get me wrong but for every Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple there was a Black Oak Arkansas or Duke Jupiter. Or Starship for gods sake. Loverboy, Warrant, Helix, Cinderella, Poison, Ratt, and Nightranger..who could tell the difference? People say grunge killed rock but it was the interchangeable hair metal bands with their appalling power ballads that turned real rock fans off. Sadly that meant that a great band like Cry of Love had no chance in the early nineties.
To give you an idea of my age the last time I read a music magazine was about 1978. I have no idea why people would take the opinion of a rock 'journalist' and not listen to something themselves to make their own minds up. I was playing in a kind of poor mans Black Sabbath from around 1976-82 - we weren't very good but my whole life revolved around playng, listening to and discussing rock music but when I couldn't tell if a song was by WASP or Stryper until the singer came in I lost interest.
Someone educate me. I know Ann had the gastrointestinal operation, but she still looks really heavy here. What's up with that?
:D
We have kind of skirted around the issues here, what exactly is your point? Hearts 70's albums were excellent, the stuff from the eighties sounded just like every other poodle rock band, except with a great female singer... What kind of music do you actually like?
You are just looking at 'pop' music, there are a ton of great bands and musicians that don't get played on radio but are extremely successful touring bands. There was just as much crap music in the 70's and 80's it was just a different kind of crap.
If your definition of crap is Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder then we are using different benchmarks. they didn't get criticized because they were awesome musicians and songwriters. My idea of crap was the awful manufactured pop like Captain and Tennile, Boney M, Barry Manilow, David Cassidy and all of the disco rubbish Who would you describe as a good band that never gets any exposure? I would have said Clutch but their last album did really well..
With the surgery that she had, you're not supposed to drink any alcohol. She drank a LOT after she had this done. So that probably screwed up her system. I think she has lost a little weight since this interview
Who cares?
Might wanna quit with the superficiality.