No guitar is safe.

Hey there, welcome. It's episode 40 of No Guitar is Safe. Thanks for listening. Today we're about to copter over, chopper our way, fly through the sky to Swinghouse Studios.

A fantastic facility in the Glendale area of Los Angeles.

And I can't thank them enough for giving me great rooms to do interviews when I need to be over there.

Because what an opportunity I had today.

And that was to plug in with and sit down with and hear the amazing life story of a true hard rock metal pioneer.

Bad-ass guitarist, door kickdowner, tiger stare in the face her.

She has no fear.

She just loves playing guitar and accidentally changed history in the process.

The amazing Lita Ford.

That's one of her more recent songs.

It's called Living Like a Runaway.

It's a really beautiful song.

And also I like it because it kind of tells her life story in one song.

Has a great jam at the end, too.

She also has a book called Living Like a Runaway.

It's now out in paperback as well as hardcover.

It's a bestseller, and good reason because it's impossible to put down.

Now, I love rock and roll biographies, but some of them don't have the same depth as this one.

First of all, Lita keeps it so real.

She does not spare any details. She is very candid,

and she tells it like it was, and like it is. And there are some of the most just spectacular

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