LITA FORD Interviewed On 'Talking Metal' (Audio)

August 17, 2011

"Talking Metal" podcast (web site) recently conducted an interview with '80s hard rock queen Lita Ford. You can now stream the podcast using the audio player below. A couple of excerpts follow.

On her new album and how it compares to her 2009 CD, "Wicked Wonderland":

Lita: "The new music I am working on is nothing like the 'Wicked Wonderland' album. 'Wicked Wonderland' was a conglomeration of different lyrics, melodies and harmonies my ex-husband, Jim Gillette, and Greg Hampton came up with. They pretty much put together 'Wicked Wonderland'. They did most of the writing. They did most of the guitar playing. It just wasn't a real Lita record. So now we are making a real Lita record."

"Right now it is just Gary Hoey and I working on new material. We got some other musicians on hold to play bass and drums. We used the Uptown Horn Section for one of the songs which is really cool."

On the years following the breakup of the RUNAWAYS (1980 to 1983):

Lita: "I spent those years just trying to be a solo artist. Those were the years I was trying to learn to sing. I was never a singer in the RUNAWAYS, I guess I was more of a background singer. During those years I got a warehouse, I put a Marshall stack in there, I brought my guitars down and I taught myself how to sing and play at the same time which is not that easy. It is really a whole different animal and I didn't know how to do it and I had to teach myself. So that is what a did during those few years. It is like two jobs in one."

On the late Clarence Clemons:

Lita: "I met Clarence when I did the Dick Clark show. He was on the Dick Clark show. During that time he was putting together a band to play on the Howie Mandel show. It was 1992, I believe. Howie Mandel had his own TV show. In the show was a band and Clarence was the head of the band and he asked me if I would be the guitar player in the band and it was great. It was so much fun."

Video footage of Lita Ford performing her ballad "Close My Eyes Forever" at the M3 Rock Festival, which took place May 13-14, 2011 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, can be viewed below.

Interview (audio):

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