Friday, August 10, 2007

I Heart Heart.

Nancy Wilson, from Heart, interviewed over at The Believer. She even talks about the moment in (her husband) Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous when the whole band starts singing Tiny Dancer, a moment that I have tried (unsuccessfully) to replicate in my own life, many times. (She helped write the "fake rock music" that Stillwater plays in Almost Famous.) About Heart's time based in Canada:

BLVR: I read that Heart was in Canada for a while. There’s some really great music coming out of that country right now—the Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Neko Case, and Destroyer, to name some of my favorites. But those musicians are all born-and-bred Canadians. For you guys, why the north country?
NW: Draft evasion. It was during the Vietnam War. Michael Fisher, who was the Svengali behind the band and Ann’s boyfriend, was evading. There was all kinds of drama surrounding that situation—like, when Ann came back over the border to get home for Christmas, she got the full-on third-degree interrogation and cavity search. She showed up really shaken that night, feeling like she’d been raped. The feds were all over it.
Actually, Neko Case isn't Canadian, but we'll take her. It's cool.

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