Heart
2013-08-14
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion
The Woodlands, TX

Lineage: Zoom Q3HD (Recording (24/96 stereo .wav)) > Audacity (EQ, Amplify, normalize, split tracks & convert to 16/44.1 wav) > Trader's Little Helper (Convert to flac8) > Mp3tag (flac tags)

recorded by bradleybee for toolrep1

00. intro (2:07)
01. Barracuda (5:12)
02. Heartless (5:09)
03. What About Love (4:33)
04. Magic Man (5:27)
05. Kick It Out (3:12)
06. Mistral Wind (7:57)
07. band intros (1:21)
08. Even It Up (4:52)
09. Dog & Butterfly (6:17)
10. I Need You to Turn To (3:41)
11. These Dreams (5:13)
12. Alone (5:02)
13. Dear Old America (4:41)
14. Crazy On You (5:28)
15. encore break (4:53)
16. The Battle of Evermore (6:40)
17. Immigrant Song (2:31)
18. The Rain Song (6:49)
19. Misty Mountain Hop (5:17)
20. Kashmir (8:48)
21. Stairway to Heaven (9:19)

Tracks 16 through 21 are Led Zeppelin covers with Jason Bonham on drums.

Time for another edition of... The Follies of the Lucky Taper. A combination of a nephew in the hospital and hellacious Houston rush-hour traffic in intermittently pouring rain delayed my start, so Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience kicked in to Black Dog while I was just approaching the edge of the park, and I only get a decent recording of the last minute of the song. Then later in the set the recording of Houses Of The Holy is ruined trying to find the right seat. Then I feel the breeze in my face and remember that I forgot to bring my wind-screen for the recorder. However all is not lost, my friends. Between sets I ripped off a strip of my sock to use as a make-shift wind screen. I got a complete recording of the Heart set and the encore, and to top it off: most of the people in my section were lame and sat down after a few songs, so I was able to get a nice unobstructed path to the gym sock for a scorching version of Mistral Wind.

The sound was very boomy, so I boosted some upper frequencies (and lowered some bass frequencies) in Audacity. I did not use any auto-compression on this one, only repeated track-by-track normalization, limiting each bass drum kick manually to bring up the general volume.

http://www.heart-music.com/

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Heart is still pounding

By Joey Guerra

August 13, 2013

Ann Wilson, if she had the chance, would offer some sage advice to her younger self.

"I think I would counsel myself to watch out about substances. That's the first thing that I saw when I got into rock 'n' roll, the myth of the fabulous disaster, the Keith Richards mold of drug-taking, drinking, partying," she says.

"I (also) might say, 'Watch the ego, but you're right to push the way you do' - especially when we started doing it. Women had to push all the harder."

Wilson and her sister Nancy, the driving force behind rock band Heart, mostly sidestepped the pitfalls of stardom. (They recount those tales in "Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll," due next month in paperback.) But there were battles and "constant" pressure to use sex as a marketing tool in a genre that is still dominated by male voices.

"There used to be years ago a magazine out of Detroit called Creem, and it was a real rock rag in the old '70s sense. They wanted to do a full-page spread of Nancy and I dressed up in French maid outfits. Like R-rated or maybe more," Wilson says.

"We could have said yes to it and probably sold a lot of records. But it would have taken our career in this whole other way that we never would be able to live down."

A '70s-era Rolling Stone shoot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, which resulted in a topless photo of Wilson, prompted a lawsuit. The negative is in a safe deposit box and can only be opened with keys belonging to Wilson and Leibovitz, ensuring it likely will never surface. That's a far cry from current pop tarts, who often jump at the chance to show maximum skin to sell a single.

"It's never gonna be equal as long as young women confuse power and sexuality. They still do that," Wilson says. "Sure, they're more powerful in a sexual way, perhaps, but what about the other 75 percent of yourself?

"There are a few who don't do that, (including Brittany Howard from the Alabama Shakes and Adele), but there still are so many that just put on the little pole-dancer chick-y act."

The last few years have marked a shift in Heart's rep as an iconic rock act. Last year saw the release of "Strange Euphoria," a career-spanning box set, and "Fanatic," the band's 14th studio album. Heart's performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" during December's Kennedy Center Honors became a viral sensation. It spawned a limited-edition iTunes single and was the impetus for the Heartbreaker Tour, which closes with a half-hour Zeppelin set. Earlier this year, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"I think it's partially attributable to the fact that we just kept working. We just haven't stopped," Wilson says of the current wave of acclaim. "As we get older, our souls are opening, and there's more to notice.

"If we're gonna make a record, it has to be a real effort. It can't just be, 'Let's set up "Dreamboat Annie" as a template' or 'Let's re-record all our old songs with guest artists.' We really so far have been pretty sticky about new, original stuff. And it's hard, because people don't wanna collect albums anymore. They don't even wanna collect CDs. They just wanna stream stuff. You just have to find a new way for original stuff to stream to people."

The current show includes the band's biggest hits ("Alone," "Barracuda"), rediscovered gems ("Heartless," "Even it Up") and, yes, that epic take on Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" alongside drummer Jason Bonham (son of late Zeppelin drummer John Bonham). The sisters have played The Woodlands several times, and Wilson is prepared to sweat.

"We always go, 'OK, is it gonna be as hot as a witch's (expletive) in a brass bra?' Well, probably so," she says. "Your body can get used to that, but you get out onstage under the lights and you get 10 more degrees. You're doing a workout up there, basically. It's really possible to get really light-headed. We just pound the water. That's all you can do. We're not the tank-top type. But we usually do OK."

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/Heart-is-still-pounding-4726841.php