Absolutely CRAZY vocals! Heart's "Crazy On You" Live performance is analyzed by Opera Singer!
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2022
- This is one of Heart's signature songs I've read, and I'm excited to see a live performance from 1976. Ann Wilson's voice blew me away in her cover of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" and having an opportunity to hear her in her prime is exhilarating. Ann says "Crazy On You" is about finding solace in thet arms of her boyfriend at the stressful state of the world, and I couldn't relate more!
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Heart performing "Crazy On You" live for the first time.
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Performed by Heart - Words and Music by Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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According to my phone,you posted this 6 days ago ,and I'm the first person to comment?
Surely not true.
Your funny.
I haven't watched everything you've done,but I honestly have watched heeps.
I recon you didn't really like this.
You would be hopeless at playing poker,YOUR eyes give you away.
Also I'm impressed that you have the ability to turn a song off at the exact wrong time.
Sorry, probably held you up just a fraction too much making you read this.🙃🇦🇺
@@iancunningham941 movies etc have made you believe that people have "tells" that give them away. The truth is the best players understand mathematics, risk assessment, nothing to do with" tells" that's all BS from movies and the fake WSOP tourneyments
If you had a Mount Rushmore of singers would Anne Wilson be on it
Not sure if this is the right place to ask you for a review of a singer, but I really enjoy your reviews. I would really like to see what you have to say about a song called "Oh it is not yet evening" by Diana Ankudenova. She is more mature with this one and she gives a listener goosebumps.
i think im crazy on you TCV , hahaha
Nancy Wilson is criminally underappreciated as a great guitarist.
She on my top twenty list
I crushed on her hard. What a talent❤❤❤
Just as good as Christopher Parkening. Maybe better.
She’s not even good let alone great I can name 100’s of players ahead of her
Not in my book and not in the industry. Top ten all time female guitarists, easily. Gotta get off whatever yer smokin.
Nancy is a badass guitarist. She never has received the credit she deserves. Ann? The GOAT of female rock vocalists. Love these two!!! ❤️
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Rick Beato has a video of the top 20 acoustic guitar intros. He plays 19 of them. He doesn't even attempt this one.
Fair enough but Roger Fisher doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves.
@@waynek805 Good point.
She always lets the guys in the band overshadow her, which I think should be a crime.
Nancy said in an interview that she played that guitar intro slightly different from show to show so it didn’t get monotonous. Killer guitarist and vocalist in her own right.
There are not enough superlatives in the world to describe Ann and Nancy Wilson. No surprise that in the 70's they were often called the female Led Zeppelin. And this concert was largely towards the start of their careers, so they hadn't yet spent decades perfecting their craft. Yet Ann can segway between siren and banshee and Nancy, likewise but on guitar. One of my favourite bands of all time...
Nancy is one of the under-appreciated guitar maestros of the 1970s... the way she hits those harmonics without missing a beat... LOL, she makes it look easy!
I believe she’s in the top 10 of all guitarist. I will not argue the top 10 with you. Because there have been soooooooo many great guitarist in history.
It's a travesty that the Rock and Roll HOF waited until 2013 to induct them. Jimmy Paige actually talked about the disrepespect they got for years of not being recognized on a Sirius XM town hall years ago
Thumbs up too, Nancy is also a great singer...Dreams live in Seattle...WOW!!!!
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she's insanely good
@@dbilly7 Nancy is a good guitarist, but she's nowhere close to the top 10. She's not even the best guitar player in Heart.
YES! This song was the moment they ruled the earth as a band when I was a kid in the 70s
With a band they both called terrible, unprofessional, skill less amateurs who had no clue when to come in, read music or carry a tune properly. They got rid of all of them, and became a complete afterthought and relegated to "classic hit" tours. Sad really, their egos took over and they paid for it.
@@toddstevens13 is that what happened? Damn, their first two albums were great.
🤣...if you say so !
Yep eventually they fired or bitched about them enough they all left. Heart disappeared for several years after that then to salvage their careers they became Corporate Shills, and brought in corporate writers to write the drivel of the 80's as they became a sad image of whom they were with far less talented backing.
Too bad, Ann always had the pipes. Last decade they have been fighting with each other on and off, doing their own gigs at small venues.
@user-el2nh5uo1w No, they never said that. Just fanboys stirring up shit. You can just look up Nancy praising Roger Fisher's style in an interview with Premier Guitar:
"Roger is a really great, original guitar player. He was not a trained kind of a player, which is really one of the great things about him. He broke a lot of the molds that many players were stuck in and was a wild and wooly style of guitar player. I learned quite a bit from him about how to attack the electric, because I had always been an acoustic player. I wasn’t only an acoustic player, but I started playing the electric seriously with Heart. So he showed me a few ropes that really helped me along the way."
And Ann praising Steve Fossen (bass) and Michael Derosier (drums) in a Professor of Rock video. Even with all the personal drama between them, Derosier has stated the sisters always trusted them to come up with their parts, not telling them how it should be. Not to mention Howard Leese of course who stayed with them for 23 years. Personal drama was what "broke" the band apart. And it's always good to remember every member of the band except one voted Roger out.
The intro was extended, but if you listen to the original version, it is one of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock history!
What's really cool about that intro is that Nancy has said she improvised it every single time. She'd just do whatever she felt at the moment, then she'd roll that into the formal intro.
Ann's voice was a weapon in her prime - a female version of Robert Plant with even more range. Just amazing, and she was stunningly gorgeous and sexy too - a total rock goddess.
And especially since her live voice was identical to studio voice! Definently a vocal legend
Lol no. Robert Plant sang flat quite often. Ann makes Plant look like an amateur.
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LOL Rock music isn't about technical perfection - it's about feel, soul and originality first of all, and Robert had a ton of all three, and also an insane range that no one could touch in the late 60's/early 70's before he suffered vocal cord damage. He also basically pioneered an entirely new rock vocal style - no rock singer sang in that type of high range with that much sexuality prior to Robert Plant. And since Robert was a huge influence and inspiration to Ann, I'm sure that she would wholeheartedly agree with your utterly asinine and disrespectful comment.
They both have very sexy voices.
@@junkandcrapamen I was going to say, in this performance it sounds like Ann spent most of the first verse trying to pin down the key! She's dead on as she enters the first chorus.
One of the greatest guitar intros ever. As amazing as Ann is on vocals it's easy to overlook that Nancy is also a hell of a singer too!
Nancy actually is the lead singer for their only #1 hit. 😎
And one bodacious guitar player, lights _out!_ 🙌 🎸
And she has said she's never played the intro the same way twice.
@@janislundy1609, That's actually incorrect. Heart released "Alone", in the late 80's, in which Ann Wilson was lead vocals. "These Dreams" was only #1, for 1 week. "Alone", which Ann Wilson sings lead...was # 1 for 2 weeks.
I know it drives people crazy. But, there wouldn't be a "Heart" to fawn over, without Ann Wilson.
She and sister Nancy are the driving force of Heart.
And while Nancy is an amazing guitar player, and yes...she can also sing.
She is nowhere near the powerhouse vocalist Ann Wilson.
Im so sick of people tearing down and overlooking Ann.
I always thought she killed the intro then Ann came in sounding like she was already out of breath. Still a great performance but it felt like what was about to be one of the most epic renditions ever turned to her sounding like she was struggling to get the notes out like a normal human. Meanwhile I've seen other live performances where she effortlessly killed it.
Hearing you explain Ann's voice from a scientific perspective is so awesome. Ann really is the best too.
Ann's voice is like the sea. It can be calm and relaxing, and can be big and tremendously powerful. Even when she's singing the beginning of this song, you can feel the anticipation of something large and powerful on its way.
Wow, stellar description!! TY for that visual.
No, auto-tune, no in-ear monitors just pure unadulterated talent.
I was a young lad when Heart came out and was just blown away by both sisters' talent.
What do you have against musicians hearing themselves? I guarantee the Wilson sisters used/use in ears when available.
In ear monitors also make the sound better for the audience and easier to mix. The sound engineer doesn't need to worry about feedback onstage allowing for more volume, clarity and creativity.
@@junkandcrapamen It's pretty clear that you know something about sound engineering and that wattsun has never done live sound engineering or sung on stage. Anyone who ever has, knows that ALL singers want to hear themselves as clearly as possible. This has been done with monitors for a long time. Most people paid little attention to monitors until artists starting using headsets and in ear monitors. Now that the masses notice them, they imagine monitors did not exist prior to in-ears or that they were poor and only singers with "pure unadulterated talent" could sing in key.
@@jacquesstrapp3219 I think the point is that they did NOT have all of those modern advantages, and yet they managed to nail it ANYWAY. Extra talent and ability.
@@Tessmage_Tessera Side fill monitors have been in use since 1961. Specialized angled cabinets and separate monitor mixers have been in use since 1970s. Effects processing has been done since the 40s. You should look this stuff up before making uninformed assumptions.
@@jacquesstrapp3219 I don't need to look anything up. I've been a professional musician since 1983. I can build you a Marshall stack from a bag of parts. We aren't talking about simple monitor cabs, we're talking about in-ear wireless monitors, auto-tune and similar modern tech that did NOT exist back then. Grow up and stop trying to win internet arguments.
During Nancy's guitar intro, she started with the standalone piece "Silver Wheels". Then, during the opening of "Crazy On You", she mixed in some of the opening riff of "Hijinx". That was the bluesy part. So, you really heard her doing three different songs there.
and did I hear some bebe le strange?
Exactly right, I'm going to bow out now and listen to the studio recording of hijinx right now, i have not heard that in years.
She was definitely having fun with the lead in
@@jan-reiniervoute6701 some of what became bebe le strange.
...And I wouldn't doubt she came up with it right there and then.
Always gives me chills. Just love Annie.
The two most talented women in rock history, right here
Heart doing Stairway to Heaven in front of Led Zeppelin is masterful.
She made a video on this! ua-cam.com/video/O4p3_4cLlNk/v-deo.html
Completely agree
Definitely
When you get Robert Plant crying, I'd say you've done pretty damn good
@@imyoursuperbeast8220 you could see he was fighting back his emotions. That performance was powerful
It's 1977, I'm turning 18 today and ,( IATSE Local 695 )and I am doing my internship. My co-workers, arranged for Ann to sing Magic Man to me. Afterwards, backstage, she walks back during break and gave this new 18 year old his first kiss.Retired after a 38 year career as one of IATSE Local 695 Chief Engineers and will never forget that one day on the job.
The image of Nancy Wilson in the spotlight, hair blowing in the wind, so intimately and beautifully playing her guitar, is forever burned into my brain. And the way you can literally SEE and FEEL her gather up her rockstar aura for the beginning of the actual song is so powerful. An absolute icon. Then as she starts marching across the stage, the lights come up and the full band begins to play. Then, suddenly, Ann explodes onto the stage with so much power and presence and the song has begun in full. Best rock intro ever, without a doubt.
I learned to play this riff in 1976, a friend showed me how to do it. In 1992 I went into a guitar shop to buy my son an acoustic guitar for Christmas and played the riff. I got a round of applause. 😄
Deservedly so!
👏👏👏 there's another round of applause. I know I would've been impressed ! 😅
She made Led Zeppelin cry at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony on her rendition of Stairway To Heaven
You mean the Kennedy Center Honours for Page and Plant.
But that performance that Heart did with Jason Bonham was absolutely incredible.
Yeah, that was truly an epic moment!
@@WKBacon don’t forget John Paul Jones 😃
@@trego5509 Ahh! I did forget him. To be honest I just completely blanked at the time when I wrote it. I shouldn’t have but I did.
@@WKBacon - I respect that honesty, my friend.
Ann still gives me literal chills down my spine...
@@EgoShredder Nooo! Good Chills! Lean into them.
Did you hear their cover of Stairway to Heaven 💜💜💜💜💜
"chills down your spine" is a metaphor, I promise you- the temperature of your spine is not "literally" dropping when you hear this song.
@@JeffPDX1 Go away, Jeff......
Same I actually lost my mind when she performed Wakken I was like oh my freaking god watched the performance like 3 times in a row.
Heart was the first concert I ever went to. My parents took me to them when I was six years old. It was awesome!
Nancy Wilson is every bit as talented as Anne. Her guitar skills are elite world class and her voice is amazing too.
This is an excellent choice. The acoustic intro by Nancy Wilson is so unique and iconic with its flamenco influences; Nancy is absolutely an underrated guitarist. And Ann's voice! The fact that she is able to blend emotional expression and technique so seamlessly is the reason she is one of the best to ever do it. This is probably my favorite Heart song, and I'm so glad you picked it to react to!
@Guen..I completely agree with your statement about Nancy being an underated guitarist.saw heart in 2019 and they both still absolutely got it.
:smiles: It certainly used to be the case but, amongst guitar players at least, I would say she is widely regarded as one of the best rhythm guitarists of the past generation or so.
It's what makes this band so special- the 2 sisters so good in of their musical disciplines. I would be hard pressed to favor either Ann or Nancy in their contribution to the band, people will always favor the voice of a band but that guitar playing is phenomenal! Awesome, thank you so much for sharing with us
I know I am in a very small minority here but Nancy's intros are too long in my opinion. I like them but not the length. For me they need to get to the song a bit quicker.
@@dallassukerkin6878 I certainly think she is regarded in that way now but back in the 70s not so much because she was a woman which is a bunch of baloney
No matter how many times I see it - Nancy's leg kick still throws me! Ann's passion comes through in every note. Almost like the words are directed at each person - individuallly.
Nancy still does the kick.
Her mannerisms are of Jimmy Page ilk . Nancy's
Ah yes the leg kick that helped kick start puberty for many boys... and she absolutely still does it and looks incredible doing it...
@@WastedTalent- My sister and I saw Heart in 2019(Joan Jett opened!) and Nancy did her kick! Amazing!!!
@@theodosios2615I pant for both sisters.
Ann and Nancy together are unbeatable. Both are insanely talented and their harmonies are amazing. Nancy's guitar playing and creativity blow me away. Love me some heart😊😊
And, they are gorgeous. The Wilson sisters are pretty, too.
This era of their music was by far, the best imho. Roger Fisher, Howard Leese, the other Fisher bro, the drummer, keyboards, everyone just makes it so creative, so danged good all together.
With the Wilson sisters in front, there weren't many, if any, who did it a whole lot better in their day. This was a dynamite line-up, every one of them did their part better than most.
Greatest female vocals ever, unmatched! Back when a show was a show.
Ann Wilson is the greatest to ever do it. And Nancy is a LEGEND and a great musician and singer in her own right. Heart deserves so much more respect in the music world
Most Musicians I have known, and I have known a lot, give full respect to this band. They are legendary for us rockers.
I'm 61 years old and this is some of the music we listened to in Junior High, at parties and just chillin' with friends in the 70s. To see someone who is way, way younger then me enjoy it so much and who understands it from a professional standpoint and can explain it so even the least musically inclined of us can understand it is just great to watch. We just thought it was cool.
Criminally underrated band, and I mean a band collectively, they were super tight back in the day, they put anything out there today to shame. I never really thought, oh wow look at those two girls, they just kicked total ass, just amazing musicians.
I grew up on all this stuff and didn't realize how freaking good it was, you'll never hear anything like this again, todays music is garbage.
Elizabeth, if you listen to different live versions of Anne singing, you will find that she changes the way she does the songs. She is an amazing vocalist. And Nancy... omg... I can't begin to give her the props she deserves for her guitar work.
I've never seen her play that acoustic opening the same but I can't describe how fire it is. The wind in her feathered hair, her aggressive play style, the vocals , oh lord the whole thing is a bad ass blast.
Yeah, I saw her in an interview where she was showing “how to play it” and she says she always plays it a little different each time, which I think gives it even more of that cool bluesy flavor.
I love Ann. She is the greatest female voice ever IMO.
Not just the best female vocalist. The best vocalist. Period.
Pat Benatar a close second!
I love her, but not the best. I’ve got a whole slew of singers with better chops in my head, but when it comes to rock she’s in the top five ever women of rock. I rank her second to Pat Benatar and possibly Amy Lee. When Tina Turner does a rock song then I can heap her on top too. Ann does a lot of yelling in hard songs and you’ll find her inconsistent depending on when you hear her. I’ve seen her live several times over the decades and she is really good, but records better. Dog and Butterfly is one of my favorite songs ever, so I’m a big fan, just being objective.
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Whenever you get into the "great" category, it comes down largely to personal preference. I'd put Annie Lennox, Linda Ronstadt, Gladys Knight, Siouxsie Sioux (of Siouxsie and the Banshees), Florence Welch (Florence + the Machine), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Tina Turner, and Pat Benatar in the upper echelons. I have a few favorites in that list, but again that's just personal taste.
@@richardnanian6075 definitely personal taste. I would put Linda Ronstadt in front of her.. maybe Pat Benatar because she is classical trained. But Linda could literally sing anything.. even in Spanish! I think she rules
One of the things I love about this performance is that the band members have been playing together long enough to really work well together. They have been performing this song long enough to knock off the rough edges. They haven’t been playing it for so long that they are bored and just going through the motions. A lot of reaction videos use performances from later in a band’s or solo artist’s careers when the performers have passed their primes. Everybody is at their peak here and it shows.
This was Heart’s first single. It barely cracked the Top 40, but garnered FM airplay that got them on the map. Their follow-up single “Magic Man” became their breakthrough hit.
I love Magic Man. I had a Magic Man (or so I thought at the time) of my own. We used to listen to this and Magic Man All the time. God I miss my youth l, jamming to Led Zeppelin and Heart, Scorpions, Cheap Trick, what a time in music to come of age. I have legit mild hearing loss from those days and loud car stereos, plus metal shows for decades. I regret nothing and still see shows every summer with my older son & his gf. I will go see live shows until they plant me. 🙌😎😂
Watched Heart blow ELO off the stage back in the summer of 1978, and ELO killed it that night themselves. They only had 45-50 minutes as the opening act, and they pretty much avoided any balladry. Ann just beat the audience into submission with her vocals that night. Still one of the greatest individual performances in a band setting I've ever seen.
You cannot beat Ann live. She is a killer
And later that summer they were touring as the headliner with Walter Egan as the opening act.
If that's your real name....I want to be your Agent. It doesn't matter what you do. I'll get you gigs. Great name! 🔥
Used to hear people describing shows by these guys with jaw bones on the floor . They were known for mopping the floor on tour . 70s great music !
I was 3 at the time, so it’s folklore for me. And it’s folklore that I grew up hearing again and again. Just amazing energy they had.
Clearly, Ann & Nancy were a tremendous force.
Shoutout to the rest of that amazing band!!! Those guys are seriously overlooked. This is an epic performance.
Seems like just yesterday...
What good times those were...
Band & Guitar player is tremendous .
Love how he shredding that guitar ,
Heart was really under rated in the Rock & Roll era 70's !
Roger Fischer was a phenomenal guitarist. One of the best.
I don't know from the perspective of a teenage young lady back in the 70's, the guys were like "ken dolls". lol. To me it was all about Ann and Nancy. My idols forever.
Ann Wilson's voice when she takes it to the stratosphere actually gives me real goose bumps every time. Really..
The Intro is called Silver Wheels. It can be found on the Bebe Le'Strange album. They usually played that as a lead in to Crazy On You because it worked so well (it's on their Greatest Hits/Live album that order as well). She even throws in a little "Hijinx" from Dog & Butterfly in the partially improvised opening licks.
Bebe lestrange 😊
How amazing and iconic is Nancy Wilson's opening? The rhythm she sets without percussion is so clever, and the improvisations she includes are off the charts.
Best rock lyric ever? I nominate:
"I was a willow last night in a dream
I bent down over a clear running stream
Sang you a song that I heard up above
And you kept me alive with your sweet flowing looooooove!'
I saw a video of Nancy saying that she has never played the intro to this song the same way EVER. My heavens, how great is she!
I listened to your analysis of Ann Wilson singing Barracuda and loved it. I'm a former professional opera singer, voice teacher and graduate of the New England Conservatory. I love how Ann's very bright, forward tone and almost like she's biting every note she sings which I feel represents her feelings about that horrible rumor. Her incredible range was unmatched. Have you ever analyzed Steve Perry's voice from Journey. Another great singer! Thank you
Doesn’t Nancy look so epic when she hits that groove. What a rockstar.
Ann & Nancy are both powerhouses. Great singer songwriters; as anyone who points to Zeppelin as their primary influence should be.
You really should see the Kennedy Center honoring Zepplin performance by Heart, with Jason Bonham on drums, orchestra & choir. Magnificent!!! And you know when you’ve got the President & First Lady in the audience rockin’ out to your cover, you know you nailed it. 💙💙
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Elizabeth has, in fact, reacted to that very performance. It was her introduction to both Led Zeppelin and to Heart.
Absolutely !!!
Yeah she’s done that one. She might really like the 2002 Performance of “These Dreams”. (Nancy on lead vocals!! Great harmonies with Ann. Nancy killed it in that performance.)
2002 Live in Seattle performance of “These Dreams”: ua-cam.com/video/0DLeH2FWFTE/v-deo.html
@@tiestofalljays or the performance of These Dreams at Sky Church with Alison Krauss. I actually got to see them perform this together when I saw them at The Ryman. My 2 favorite singers sharing the stage was pure vocal heaven!
this really is the best intro that really pinned nancy at the top of the female guitarists ever, and the vocals just rock after THAT
Having seen these ladies live, I can attest to the soothing, almost hypnotic nature of hearing the amazing Nancy Wilson with an acoustic guitar in her hands. It's absolutely magical!!
Annie's voice is a force of nature. What's really amazing is how well she can dial it back in more intimate settings.
Dog and Butterfly.
Ann is one of the very few singers that has impeccable diction. To understand and feel every word she sings has never been a challenge.
Years ago, a good friend had a stint playing in Heart. This gave me the amazing opportunity to meet both Ann and Nancy. Even after my friend moved on to another band, I continued to see them every time we were in the same city. I treasure the memories those two angels (plus Ben, Craig and Disco Debbie), gave me. They are so genuine, kind, and lead everything with love.
Plus, I got to meet Carrie Underwood and share her 21st birthday because of Ann and Nancy.
Nancy doesn't get NEAR the respect she deserves as a guitarist!! She's a beast with that accoustic!!
Ann and Nancy changed rock and roll. Definitely opening doors for other ladies.Congrats on your baby 🍼🐥.
You really really need to watch them cover The Battle of Evermore. It really shows Nancy's chops as well as Ann's. I get chills every time I listen to it.
Totally agree!
Agree!
Nancy is a sweetheart. She taught me to play so many songs for nothing, just for kicks. A true bard. When she does this song, her intro up until right before it rocks-out is always ad-lib for fun.
i saw them live back in 2008. hands down, best live performance i’ve ever seen. ann didn’t miss a note, neither did nancy. they were unbelievably good.
"Mistral Wind" is a must listen. The sheer ground Ann covers, and her stunning control make my jaw drop. It's epic.
Perhaps the most underrated rock song ever.
YES! That is such an epic song. That has always been one of my top fave Heart songs. So underrated as far as public exposure.
Must be the original studio version with Nancy, Roger, and Michael on guitars, though. Their interplay with Ann's voice is integral to the song.
Agreed.... but the studio version.... the bass notes are incredible!!!
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First and foremost, thank you for giving Nancy her due. I know that as the Charismatic Voice, we’re here for the reaction to the vocalists, but the acoustic guitar work in this song helps accentuate the power of Ann’s vocals. I’m always reminded of one article I read about Heart many years ago. Nancy’s nickname growing up was Whiz-Fingers and no song showcases how on the nose this nickname was better than this one one, and this version in particular. The intro is not part of the studio version, it’s a melodic and graceful treat that she crafted to, as you said, transition into the meat of this song. When it gets a little blues riffs start kicking in, that’s the start of the canonical song intro. And long-time fans pick up on the traditional sections of the song. That said, Ann’s vocals are amazing when she comes in. What an amazing, powerful voice.
Keep sniffing and you shall smeltz. 👍
Nancy's guitar work is _next_ next level, fluid and fiery! 🔥🔥🎸🎸
There's a video on UA-cam where she gives a step by step lesson on how to play this intro. The lesson was great but mostly she's just a real sweetheart. It really showcased her personality and humbleness.
@@ytr3488 haha. I am cut to the quick by your rapier wit.
Ann’s voice is the only one that sends chills up my spine in a good way. And yes I’ve seen her live.
Yep. Chills and goosebumps. BTW, I found out last week that Ann moved from Washington 3 years ago and now lives less than an hour from my house. I feel blessed to be near The Goddess of Rock!
One of the best intros to a rock song EVER! Nancy Wilson absolutely kills that intro! Legendary! 🙌🏽
There's quite a number of female rock stars but Ann Wilson shines far brighter than any other!
a real Powerhouse 🤘
The whole of the "Dreamboat Annie" album is well worth a complete listen
I love Heart. One of the greatest rock bands of all time (no qualifiers).
One of the best guitarists ever. It's a crime against humanity that she hasn't been recognized anywhere NEAR as much as she deserves.
Ann Wilson is so good she can even take on Led Zeppelin songs and crush it. Has done for many years actually. Legend.
Ann Wilson's voice is like a JET engine: Smooth and powerful from strong lows to soaring highs with no weak points at all.
Ann had great vocal lessons to teach her how to sing this way 40 years later...One of my favourite singers! It helps having such great pipes to enhance them. *shivers*
Perfectly described!
Calling Ann and Nancy Wilson rock goddesses is not hyperbole -- it's understatement. Absolutely amazing.
Heart is hands down one of the single best rocks groups of all time, full stop. They weren't just inspirational to women, but to generations of musicians.
Ann Wilson has titanium vocal cords. Her voice has been matched by only a very few good singers over the years.
Thank you Elizabeth for a great analysis! It rocked!
Ann Wilson's is one of the most beautiful female voices in history. The way she controls everything, even the chaos, gives you chills.
The Wilson sister and Heart were doing songs from a female perspective before almost any other bands. True pioneers
Such a criminally underrated guitarist Nancy is.
The guitar opening gets your attention but Ann’s vocals just send shivers through your soul. One of the absolute best songs in rock music.💎💙💎
Ann Wilson is a beast 🤘
Pure power ✌❤🇨🇦
Kate Bush, Ann Wilson, Karen Carpenter, the greatest gifts of vocal sound to the human race ever
Linda Rodnstandt maybe should be on that list as well
Ann just sang that in SUCH a sensual manner... as if she was feeling every sensation she was singing about...
Yep. That's exactly what it is.
I've probably seen hundreds of concerts at this point in my life and Ann Wilson is by far the best female vocalist that I've ever seen/heard live. And I've seen Heart three times, so it wasn't like she just happened to have one really good show.
You are SO lucky you got to see them live! I finally saw Ann Wilson on her own last year. Ridiculous! She still blew the audience away all these years later.
*_The Wilson Sisters didn't mess around being a cute girl band for 'Crazy On You'_*
From the beginning with Nancy's enormous guitar riff and Ann's gigantic vocals you know this song is going to rock. They didn't disappoint. This one song put the band on the map around the world. Song is still as relevant today as it was in 1976 when it was first released. This song and the Album "Dreamboat Annie" sold millions of records. Song spanned multiple genres and it had good ratings on multiple Billboard Ratings around the world.
*_Thank you for another amazing professional review of the band Heart_*
HEART is one of the best bands of that era or any. I saw Ann Wilson play last summer and her voice is better than ever.
And all of this music was made without electronic auto tune or voice boost. These were all musicians that cared about music and their fans to the max. Gave it 100 every song at every show.
Anne has one of the most incredible voices in rock music and an insane range that very few people are able to do and make it sound like it was no big deal.
I love the live versions of Crazy on You, as they all seem to open with Nancy just playing the main riff and then whatever the hell she feels like mixing it up with. Just phenomenal playing. Ann's vocals on this track have just incredible, intense, passionate emotion to them. There's an edge of desperation, almost unhinged, desire behind her singing on this track.
There WAS unhinged desire. She was singing about her lover who had been in the band and was their manager ...and who eventually jilted her. The Magic Man.
This was by far the best Heart line up. Nancy and Ann always get the recognition but the band as a whole was just stellar.
Absolutely, Roger, Howard, all of them together were a force to be reckoned with. Nothing they did after this lineup broke up was as good. Don't get me wrong, they still have so much talent, the sisters, but this was the best lineup imho. 💯🔥
Ann is in a league of her own. She could take on any male vocalist of her era and put them to shame. Thx for featuring her.
There was nothing like this at the time. The transitions and Annes voice. Still arguably one of the best songs of all time.
5:57 My personal feeling here is Nancy steals the show when she does that leg kick at the end of guitar intro and just totally effing jams!!!!
Heart is one band I really wish I could have seen in concert. I have seen so many of the great rock bands in concert but missed Heart.
Its amazing how moving a powerful performance can be. Its always inspiring to see skilled humans giving their very best right in the moment when it counts. That is why live music played with real instruments will always be the benchmark. It requires the musicians to bring all of their talent to bare at that exact point along with their bandmates. No second chances, no do-overs, nail it or nothing.
This was my era, and I got to see Heart live. I consider Heart to be one of the best rock bands ever, period.
Anne's voice is amazing. Don't overlook Nancy as a vocalist though. When she recorded the vocals on "These Dreams" she was sick and still sounded amazing.
I believe that was their only number one hit too.
I totally agree!
Rolling Stone's recent top 200 singers of all time list omitted Anne Wilson. Wow! You mentioned the group's affection. Nancy and guitarist Roger Fisher were close lovers when this was performed. There was definitely A LOT of affection there.
That’s astonishing. She’s the best, not just in the top 200. Wow.
You said Rolling Stone - What they think doesn't mean squat.
@@slhanks4ExactIy, screw Rolling Stone, it turned into a complete garbage rag.
You will absolutely love , Heart, Straight On. Their voices together is nothing short of spectacular.
I have always been so impressed by her precision. So many singers have to slide into notes so they don't land flat, or sharp (but usually flat). When she slides into notes, it's entirely an artistic choice, but when she wants to hit a note clean, she just hits it. Such a phenomenal vocalist.
This is my favorite version of Crazy On You. Love that intro and she made that opening kick her signature.
I love the intro by Nancy Wilson she is so awesome and looks so cool in this performance! Silver wheels is so beautiful.
You could not have picked a more perfect version to listen to!!
The first time I heard this on the radio, I thought it was Led Zeppelin, this being Heart's first hit single. It's so cool that a wonderful opera singer appreciates rock singers rather than disregarding them.
..thought it was led zeppelin 😂 your ears must be shot..
This song is practically orgasmic in Ann's vocal intensity, and Nancy's guitar work is epic. One of my favorite songs from my favorite band...
Every single one of them is absolutely shredding