I can vouch she played the solo on City's Burning. That was on the Private Audition album and I saw them on that tour. She did indeed play the solo.

Download Jupiters Darling (2004) and Fanatic (2012). Red Velvet hit the top 10 and was the bigger album, but it didn't rock real hard except for the "bridge to burn" song WTF. Fanatic is heavy pretty much all the way through and Ann's vocals are much better on it than on Velvet (the production on Velvet was pretty…

I think it was all "secretary-rock" (love that term, hadn't heard it before). It was pop, even the rockers were pop. Who Will You Run To is a nice pop song, but it wasn't a rocker like Barracuda. The Bad Animals album was worth the vinyl it was pressed on because of the title cut (the only real heavy rock song on…

Roger officially left in 79, but check out the book "Heart: In the Studio" which chronicles the making of all their albums though 2004. According to that book, Roger checked out during Dog and Butterfly and contributed almost nothing to that album. He did contribute the great riff in Mistral Wind (the best track on…

LOL. I'd forgotten about Alias as well. Fisher has no business bashing 80s Heart based on the tripe he put out with Alias.

Mutt Lange had his tentacles all over everything in the 80s and 90s. He's the reason Def Leppard developed that generic sound that ruined all of their mid to late 80s work. Not a fan.

They had one about denying orgasm?

I always thought of their peers as Aerosmith and Van Halen. Heart tended to rock harder than REO or Journey, and Aerosmith went down the same outside writer/power ballad detour that Heart did. People say Heart is a female led Led Zeppelin, but I've always thought of them more as a female led Aerosmith. Ann Wilson…