Lita Ford - Living Like A Runaway

[L'Ostrogauxe]

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sympa, pas transcendant mais ça va

[STEELER]

C'est un vrai petit bonheur, ce morceau ! Je n'en attendais pas moins de Lita FORD : ça donne de la pêche, je l'écoute tous les jours. J'adore les parties de guitare, et...avez-vous remarqué comme le batteur est bon?!

[guardianofsteel]

Un autre morceau ici :

http://soundcloud.com/decibelmagazine

[STEELER]

Quelqu'un a écouté l'album entier?

[lolo]

Oui moi. J'ai même mis le lien vers ma chronique, regarde un peu plus haut.

[Everflow]

Interview : http://www.rockconfidential.com/inside/ ... ta-ford-2/

RockConfidential.com: The lyrics [on your new album, "Living Like A Runaway"] are so personal. After all the emotional struggles you've been through the past couple of years, was it easier to write the songs because of that or did it make it a more difficult experience?

Lita: It made it easier. People write about their experiences in life. For instance, Nikki Sixx and SIXX: A.M. have the song "Life Is Beautiful". Nikki died. He overdosed on heroin and died. You write about your life experiences because they're real. I've been gone from the public eye for 17 years. A lot has happened to me in those 17 years. I'm overflowing with emotions and I channeled them into this record. I know I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve with this record and it's OK. I think a lot of people will be able to relate in many ways — dealing with homework, having a bad day at the office or having a great day at the office. It's almost like the album cover should have one big middle finger on it!

RockConfidential.com: The songs on SIXX: A.M.'s "The Heroin Diaries" touched so many people because they could relate the lyrics. I really see "Living Like A Runaway" having the same impact with listeners. There are people out there that could hear these songs and find some comfort with their own situations or to inspire them to get back up and keep kicking ass.

Lita: Absolutely. This record will be an inspiration to a lot of people in many ways. Like "Living Like A Runaway" — how many people are running away from things? Running away from the law, their homework — it goes many different directions. Or maybe "Asylum" — sometimes your house can turn into a nuthouse. Sometimes your office can turn into a nuthouse. Sometimes your school can turn into a nuthouse. This album has also got a lot of great guitar riffs.

RockConfidential.com: It really does. Every song has that catchy guitar riff that a lot of artists have moved away from or forgotten about.

Lita: That's true. You don't pay as much attention to it anymore. That seems to have gotten lost. I really wanted to go back to basics. When Gary [Hoey] and I recorded this album, that's the first thing we said to each other: "Let's go back to basics and bring back what we both love". Gary and I are the same age. We've watched the music industry change over the years. Now the music industry is up against the wall. OK, now what are you gonna do? A lot of people miss those beautiful guitar parts and the real riffy rock. I didn't pay too much attention at the time what was going on musically, but now that this record is written and I'm starting to compare it to other records I can hear that a lot of it has gotten lost over the years. I'm glad that I'm able to bring some of it back.

RockConfidential.com: Tell me about working with Gary Hoey. How did you two first get together?

Lita: We would run into each other here and there. One day he called and said, "I have a studio. You're always welcome to use it." That was really cool and I thought about it and decided to take him up on that offer. When he called me I was looking for a record producer. I had talked to various record producers but none of them fit the mold because they weren't thinking along the same lines as I was thinking. The type of record I wanted to make didn't appeal to them. They were like, "Eehh — it's gonna be old school and it's gonna be dated." If they felt that way then they were the wrong producer! I kept telling Gary I couldn't find a producer. I told him I wanted to go back to basics and play guitar. I don't want to play some sort of electronic device. I want real bass and drums. I want the album to have a theme like "Welcome To My Nightmare" or "Dark Side Of The Moon". I want it to have a consistency. The first song we wrote was "Love 2 Hate U". It turned out to be a duet and it was really great. It was like, "Wow — this is really something that's going to work". We ended up staying in that studio for a year recording this album!

[STEELER]

C'est un plaisir de lire cela ! Lita Ford sait ce qu'elle fait et sait ce qu'elle veut. Ses intentions musicales sont bien déterminées. J'ai commandé l'album, et j'ai hâte de l'avoir.

[franang]

Le 1er titre en ecoute est pas trop mal, par contre le 2nd bof bof

[Everflow]

Lita estime que le timing serait idéal pour une reformation des Runaways. Cela ne dépend plus que de Joan Jett.

http://metalshrineblogg.blogspot.se/201 ... s-att.html

Metalshrine: There's a lot of bonus tracks [on your new album, "Living Like A Runaway"]. Was that the plan from the beginning?

Lita: No, it wasn't. I wanted to do a Lita album. I wanted to make my own album and I didn't want anybody telling me how to make it, you know. I wanted to be left alone. I know what I'm doing, I've been doing this since I was a kid and I don't need anybody telling me how to make a fucking record. I just needed to be left alone and create what was in my heart. After so many years of not performing and being held back and being held away from the music industry, I had a lot of built-up riffs in my head. It was pretty cool, actually, when I started playing. It was flowing out of my head and I would get my song writing partner, Michael Emig, I would get him on the phone. We never hooked up. We would do everything over the phone and I would get him on speaker phone and I would say, (sings) "Michael, run baby run!" and Michael would go, "Across New York City!" and then I'd say, "Run baby run!" and Michael would go, "Through the streets of L.A." I would go, "Yeah, Michael, that's it!" and then Michael would say, "You can't slow down and you can never stay when you're living like a runaway!" I would go, "Yeah, Michael, it's brilliant!" and he'd go, "Yeah, it's badass!" Things came together really well. "Bad Neighborhood", which is one of the bonus tracks… you gotta hear it! We did the same thing and "Bad Neighborhood" was written from the saying bad neighborhood from an old friend of mine who used to run Narcotics Anonymous and he used to say, "Get out of your head, it's a bad neighborhood!" It goes both ways, because my ex used to get inside of your head, like "You're inside my head, get out of my head!" and he would get inside his own head and Michael Emig came up with that saying: "Get out of your head, it's a bad neighborhood!" and I said, "Where did you get that saying from?" And he said, "I got it from Tom over at Narcotics Anonymous," and I said, "He used to say that?" So we wrote (sings) "Better get out, better get out of your head. Ain't doing you no good. Better get out, better get out of your head, because it's a bad neighborhood!" It came out freaking great.

Metalshrine: The Nikki Sixx song, "A Song To Slit Your Wrists By", what about that one?

Lita: Honest to God, it appeared on my desktop. It just popped up on my desktop and I thought, "What is this? A Nikki Sixx song on my desktop? I don't have any Nikki Sixx songs saved on my desktop." So I listened to it and I thought, "Wow, this is pretty cool! I need to do this." After hearing it, it had such heavy lyrical content, I thought, "I gotta call Nikki and ask him what it is." Because it wasn't a MÖTLEY CRÜE song. It was from the 58 version. Are you familiar with that?

Metalshrine: Yeah.

Lita: I wasn't at the time and I didn't know what it was, so I sent Nikki an e-mail, "What is this and can I have the song? Can I do a remake of it?" and he said, "Yeah, it's a song I wrote for my ex-wife 15 years ago." and he thought, "Wow, cool! My ex-girlfriend is doing a song I wrote for my ex-wife 15 years ago." [laughs] So it worked.

Metalshrine: I've read that you've been in touch with Cherie Currie [ex-THE RUNAWAYS] and I'm just wondering, are there any plans? Are you doing anything together or are you just talking?

Lita: So far it's just us getting back together and talking. Cherie's all ready to do a RUNAWAYS reunion and I would love it and I think we should start writing songs and I think it would be great. I'm not sure what Joan [Jett] is doing right now. I don't know if she's in the studio or if she's touring, I'm not sure. I was in contact with her for a while and then all of a sudden she just disappeared. She's probably on tour, but I don't know and it really needs to come from Joan. I talk to Cherie all the time. I talk to Vicki all the time and I'm still good friends with Jackie, but we can't do it without Joan, you know. She's got to be a part of it and she gotta want to be a part of it, so hopefully by the end of the year she will have made up her mind and hopefully she says yes.

Metalshrine: Excellent. I would love to see that.

Lita: I think now is the time for it. It really is perfect timing.

[lolo]

Pour ceux qui doutent encore, l'album est en écoute intégrale :


Ecouter LIVING LIKE A RUNAWAY

Et l'article qui va avec ICI.

[heavy76]

Je le trouve vraiment excellent cet album, je ne pensais pas qu'elle saurait encore nous en sortir un aussi bon vu le niveau du précédent!

[STEELER]

J'ai acheté l'album, et je suis enchanté ! Vraiment, du bon travail . J'ai déjà 4 disques d'elle, et celui-ci ne dépare pas dans sa discographie, bien au contraire : il prouve que Lita FORD sait toujours délivrer un Hard Rock de haute qualité : de bons riffs, de la précision (sans oublier l'excellent batteur), des morceaux variés. Une excellente surprise !

[Everflow]

Une chanson en ligne :

http://soundcloud.com/decibelmagazine/lita-ford-mother