Episode 8: Heart & Lita Ford Special Guest Guitarist:
Doug AldrichGood God, this episode was frickin' awesome. I've been on a big
Heart kick the last few weeks, so this episode was the cherry on top for me today. I'm such a huge fan of both
Heart and
Lita Ford, who I consider to be the pioneer's of Female Rock and Metal. The only person missing from the panel that I hold right up there with them is
Joan Jett. Man, if only she was on it, this episode would have been beyond epic. Still an awesome hour spent watching the three of them talk. I was giddy. Why the hell am I acting like such a little school boy? Anyway, just really cool to have those 3 icons talking among each other. Very, very cool.
Doug Aldrich was the guitarist and I can only imagine how petrified he must have been playing in front of them. I would have dropped a brick, puked and then run off stage. As good as
Doug was, I was suddenly going through
John 5 withdrawal. Nothing against
Doug, but it would have been awesome if
Howard Leese was the special guest guitarist, even though he has no association with Heart anymore. I thought it was kinda odd that it was
Lita that mentioned
Howard and not
Ann or
Nancy.
Eddie, Don and
Jim dropped a pretty big bomb about
Vivian Campbell reuniting with the surviving members of
Ronnie James Dio's first 3 albums and taking it out on the road. No secret that
Dio and
Viv had a big falling out. So, I'm not sure how I feel about this new Tour idea. To kick it up a notch,
Vivian will be coming on
TMS (Season 12) to tell his side of the story regarding the rift between him and
Dio. I'm definitely looking forward to that episode.
Don gets a 'fake-out' with the GNR Reunion news. You punk!!!!!