Heart’s Nancy Wilson: “I Think Artistic Integrity Is Fleeting at Best.”
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🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Plus, the rock-guitar legend recalls the Seattle grunge scene, talks 6- and 12-string acoustics in big arrangements, how she wrote the iconic introduction to “Crazy on You,” and playing “Stairway to Heaven” for Led Zeppelin.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I say this most weeks. I'm feeling pretty good right now. And I, you know what? I think the reason why I say it is because I don't do my filming, filming, no, recording. I don't do my recording when i'm not feeling good i wait till |
| 0:23.5 | yeah i'm feeling all right i'm gonna do some stuff that's the mood i'm in right now feeling good |
| 0:30.6 | today on the show we have nancy wilson you might know nancy wilson from the band, Heart! |
| 0:44.3 | And as if being a rock star is not enough, just like last week's guest, Danny Elfin. |
| 0:49.4 | She also dove into the film music world. |
| 0:51.5 | Vanilla Sky. |
| 0:53.6 | That movie messed me up. |
| 0:57.9 | I saw that when I was 18, and I reconsidered what was reality for about a month. Still messes with me sometimes to this day. She scored Vanilla Sky. Jerry |
| 1:03.9 | McGuire. Show me the Moes right. Actually, I just said, you know, the quote is show me the money and i was trying to think of a guitar |
| 1:12.5 | reference that starts with an m and that immediately that's that's the first thing that came to |
| 1:17.9 | mind what was show me the show me the what's an amp that show me the milkman show the, I'm looking around my room trying to find other |
| 1:29.2 | music, you know, but Moes Wright. That's, I like that because it's kind of a deep cut guitar thing. |
| 1:35.4 | I don't know if they make Moes Rites anymore. All I've seen are vintage ones. Anyways, |
| 1:40.0 | almost famous Elizabeth Town, Nancy Wilson, scored those. |
| 1:45.1 | That's pretty dope. |
| 1:46.7 | And of course, Hart is now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
| 1:51.6 | That's crazy. |
| 1:53.2 | That's amazing. |
| 1:54.8 | On their first album, Dreamboat Annie, was recorded in 1975 on a 16-track machine. |
| 2:02.5 | The big hits were Magic Man, Crazy on You, one of the coolest guitar intros of all time. |
| 2:09.7 | That's Nancy Wilson. |
| 2:11.3 | She's on the show. |
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