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Wednesday, 15 July 2015, 18:45 BFH Uncategorized 46

In case you missed it, because I did.

I don’t watch the Kennedy Center Honors because it’s usually a progfest, but I decided to click on this after I spotted it in the sidebar while I was watching a different YouTube video. I’m glad I did.

Yes, it has a shot of the Obamas in the audience. Yes it has Colbert in the audience. I don’t care, I can overlook that in order to watch Heart performing in front of the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, daring to do their quintessential song – Stairway To Heaven.

From the look on their faces I can safely say that Led Zeppelin agrees that Heart knocked this into orbit. Robert Plant had tears in his eyes, and Jimmy Page was absolutely giddy. John Paul Jones was grinning from beginning to end, and at one point David Letterman’s wife leans over to get a glimpse of Led Zeppelin, as if to say, “can you friggin believe this?”

Screen Shot 2015-07-15 at 9.45.55 AMIt’s big, it’s glitzy, and it incorporates some elements not in the original, but it works.

I’m not a huge Heart fan. Most of their hits were in a genre I didn’t care for, 80s top forty love song anthems, but I always could appreciate the voice of Ann Wilson. She’s simply one of the best.

 

 

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  2. I’ve seen this and it is well worth the listen. Ann Wilson’s powerful voice still amazes me.

    My oldest daughter is in her mid 40s and she was ate up with Heart. Saw them in concert twice with her. Oh and Nancy Wilson isn’t too bad either. 😉

  6. Many years ago we went to see Teatro ZinZanni (dinner and a show Cirque du Soleil style). Ann Wilson was the “headliner” songstress that night. It was surreal and unforgettable.

  8. I watched it and was blown away. Crossroads had Ann & Nancy Wilson & Wynonna Judd do some stuff that was equally as good. Those two big girls can sing. It’s all over you tube.

  11. I have a massive vinyl collection. Every Heart album. Actually everyone from the 40’s to the 90’s. When someone needs a track I edit it off vinyl to whatever they want. It’s a lot of work but I make north of 150k. A year.

  14. Back in the late 1970s when I was a teenager I saw Heart play in Central Park, NYC. They closed the show with a cover of Whole Lotta Love that became legend afterwards. And this was a young, smoking’ hot Ann Wilson, to boot. I’ll never forget it.

  16. When the sisters covered ‘Battle of Evermore’ (hard to find these days, one particular live performance) I like it FAR more than the original.

    Ann on the mandolin and Nancy gettin’ raucous with the vocals close to the end just MADE that song.

    They freely admit they cover Zep because they are huge fans themselves.

  17. Heart covers Zep in all their shows I’ve seen. And they limit the 80s crap and stick to their 70s stuff.

    Saw them a couple years ago outdoors. Rain Song, Mistral Wind and closed with Stairway. And Anns voice is still incredible

  19. 1. Excellent

    2. Bob Plant is probably regreting not having that vocal cord gender reassignment back in the early 70’s

    3. Mooch had earbuds in, she looked to be rocking Too Short or some other ghetto beat.

    4. Related to #3, fake, fake, fake. These goofs were rocking their heads and 75% of them have no clue who Led Zeppelin is or was, nor Heart for that matter. If they really dug the cut, they would have been dancing and whooping it up.

  22. while i briefly watched, the thought crossed my mind that some of my complaints might be solved if a bomb was dropped on lincoln center during that performance. most present are on the government tit, leftist musicians from a doomed nation (britain) or voted for the jackass.

  25. I clicked and almost turned it off because of that insipid Allstate women drivers commercial; glad I stayed. Loved Zeppelin as a teenager, Never cared much for heart, but that was fantastic, except for the aforementioned Ozero and Mooch. By the way, why was the only white back-up singer Monica Lewenski?

  31. The choir really put that performance over the top and Wilson has the voice to stand out above the choir.

    Sometimes the covers can be pretty darn good – example, listen to Cheap Trick doing the full Sgt. Pepper album. Exceptionally great recording by a premium rock band.

  32. @direct Dave – I got a vinyl that I’m sure you don’t. Bootleg Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon……called ‘In search of the comet…..the coming of Khoutek’….for sale

  34. Thanks Big Fur, I’ve avoided most Kennedy Center Honors since Barry hit the stage. Great to see Jason living up to his fathers legend. Ann and Nancy so pull off the beginning of STH with their guitar & vocal combi, what a fantastic tribute. Even Bonnie Raitt was rockin it. Agree, Barry grooving his head around like he was in his choom days was too much.

  36. I tried it again at home. Fed it through a Hafler 500 and listened to it on ADS 1290s instead of headphones I listened to it on at work.

    I an just not a Heart or Wilson sisters fan. When I was in my late teens and twenties they were “it” around Seattle/Tacoma. My best friend at the time had a girl friend who was best friends with Nancy Wilson and I could go see them whenever, wherever w/front row seats if the concert was reserved seating. Just never warmed up to them. I was alone in that regard though. Have always been a blues and country fan.

  38. Heh, if you watch the full vid, you should see Mooch all frowny face fake smile when Kidd Rock is singing. As though she wants to like the music, but knows she can’t “all that for a fu*king ‘Confederate’ flag.”

  40. OK, I put away my anti-Heart ideology and watched it.
    Well done.
    That song is true art.
    Everyone remembers when they first heard it.
    Just like Dark Side Of The Moon and Van Halen (1), you remember those conjured feelings of WTF was that!

    I still consider Heart a bunch of leftists, but thanks for posting this BigFurHeartiusMaximus

  45. I went through 2 Whole Lotta Love albums. Never was a Heart fan until I heard These Dreams. I love that… so I bought their greatest hits album. At 68, I can’t hardly do the hard rock any longer.

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