First time hearing Heart “Crazy On You” Reaction | Asia and BJ 

I wasn’t born yet but my mother had an obsession with albums and this was one she played a lot. I was mesmerized by Ann Wilson and wasn’t until my teens I realized that was Nancy on guitar!!! Oh my they killed it!!!

Yeah i thought that was clear! 😅

Crazy on you is about your intitials!

@@joeljarecki2332 LOL, I see what you did there.

the whole album is perfect start to finish.

If there are still doubts, watch the live version.

I played drums in a Heart cover band and we only played two shows TWO SHOWS! after rehearsing for months. Why? Because the lead singer, while very good, said it wasn't worth it to her to work that hard for the pittances we were being paid to play. That should tell you something about Ann Wilson.

They were wonderful live back in the day. Extremely talented.

An IS ALL that. However, although she does a fair showing of herself in the group, Nancy was an average guitarist, at best. She was a much better singer, but they chose not to use her as much for that, and instead used her much more as "eye candy". I'm sure that was at the insistence of Nancy. As I have said elsewhere, Nancy was play acting for the camera most of the time. She was NOT playing the parts that most songs would have you believe she was. This is the ONLY song where she was actually doing a decent bit of work, and only on the intro. Roger Fisher "borrowed" that intro, reworked it and taught it to Nancy. I've played guitar off and on for 60+ years, have play in bands, roadied for many bands, done sound for bands, studied 1,000s of musicians and thought, to the laymen, it "APPEARS" that she is a great guitarist, she is great, productive band member, she is an average guitarist, at least as far as the biggest of their hits are concerned. Sure, she may have done more on the acoustic side of things, but all the stuff they show in their videos are either straight out showing her doing kicks and squats or "bait and switch" camera moves. It's so obvious if you look carefully, which is why they dress the guitarists like her, use weird lighting and have their hair done in the same way as hers. Sometimes, they would show a quick flash of her, and then do a close up of 1 of the lead guitarists doing intricate hand or finger pieces, but only for a second or two, and do it all in bad lighting or shadowy scenes. That is to make it look as if she were doing it herself.

@@jhamler1 more about her and lack of commitment. She just had to make the song her own, ala Mitchell?priest Diamonds and Rust. Hope your new bad is successful. Van Halen Pretty Woman Dave vs Roy O.????

Crazy on you is from 1976 My Fav Decade Heres why ...

..they are the real deal...they still sound great

Sister Nancy (the fabulous guitar player) has great vocals as well. One of the songs she is the lead singer on, "These Dreams" was actually their first #1 hit. Anyway, just wanted to mention that because I always think Ann gets all of the attention, lol! 😊

@@jerickson725 I think she also sings “ There’s the Girl”

Let's not get into that argument. Yes, the 2 CAN rock and DO but ... let's get something straight ... I agree, Ann Wilson CAN definitely sing, but all Nancy ever did, as far as with instruments, was rhythm guitar, WITH the EXCEPTION of the opening to this 1 (one, won, Juan) song, and Roger Fisher stole that from another song, modified it into the opening you hear and then taught it to Nancy. Also, the fast acoustic shuffle part between the opening fingerpicking section and the heavy electric guitar bass line that follows was based on a Moody Blue song, called Question. From Nancy's own lips, "We were listening to a lot of Moody Blues back then. There was a song called Question that had this fast, fiery guitar rhythm. That was our idea for the groove. Then Roger Fisher came up with the really cool riff over A-minor to F, and that gave it some more beautiful momentum." I've read a few other interviews of hers where she goes deeper into the song's background, where she definitely states that Roger Fisher wrote it, and then others where she kind of sidesteps the question and hints that she wrote it. I think the truth is, he taught her that beginning and she began playing it in her own style, but she never plays any other lead, at least not on any of their songs that I'm familiar with. What I am saying is, Nancy Wilson is hardly EVER heard playing, other than this one song, or their acoustic ballads. You NEVER hear Nancy playing on ANY of their "rocker" hits, but she sure makes it look like she is "the shit" in the videos ... with the high leg kicks and low crouches. Don't get me wrong, but Nancy was an incredible singer, who suffered from "2nd place envy" and sibling rivalry issues, and that is why she insisted that all videos made her look like she was doing all the heavy lifting in their killer songs. She wasn't doing ANY of it. I've played guitar for longer than they were a band, and I know this for a fact. She made it look good, but that's the extent of her contributions, as far as playing is concerned. In fact, they always had 2 great guitarists behind them that did the magic, and she even made them cut their hair and dress similar to her so, when they did their videos, they could do tricks with the cameras (flash their faces quickly one after the other) and play with the lighting to convince you that she was doing all the work. Those 2 fantastic guitarists NEVER got any of the credit for all their awesome hard work. That is a crime, if you ask me, and has always pissed me off. If they had just concentrated on the things she DID do, and had her do more singing (she had an incredible voice), she wouldn't have needed to go to such measures to stroke her ego.

@@StevesFunhouse ..you seem to minimize the importance of a solid rhythm guitarist

I thought that Micheal Fisher was Heart’s manager and the brother of lead guitarist Roger Fisher. Michael was with Ann (and is the “Magic Man” ) and Nancy was with Roger. Maybe Michael was in the band in some capacity at the time of the song’s writing. At any rate… There has never been or never will be a band like Heart… they were my favorite band up through Roger’s departure … I was even on board for Even It Up and Greatest Hits/Live. They lost me in the hair band 80’s… still Heart remain one of my favorite bands of all time!

Yeah, I think that went over Asia's head.

That's how I've always interpreted it also.

Yes, your interpretation is correct, Asia had the wrong interpretation of crazy 🤪

Nailed it...this is about escaping all the awful stuff going on in the world at the time with her lover and going "crazy" on him sexually...making love.

I thought it was about being crazy about him. Emotionally. Lol.

Thanks for listening

...these ladies are brilliant!, not sure they get enough credit.

In defense of Asia, she is not saying she is straining, she is saying more air and muscles are needed for all higher notes.

Oh the band that the sisters fired because they said they could not keep time, did not know how to play their instruments and were just terrible. Those band members? That is why Heart disappeared for me after their purge. The fact they became a bubble gum pop group as well had something to do with it.

@@toddstevens13 .. I think they always sounded great, and now they are legends. I think they still sound great.Obviously, they had drug induced growing pains like most others…there are always 2 sides to every story,that I could not be bothered with. They had a ton of great music in the 70s, and their 80s music was not bad either…

@@raymo6795 Glad you liked their corporate faked pop stuff, just not for me at all.

You mean Ann buddy

You mean Ann, but point made😉

Yes, Ann. Although Nancy probably has pretty good range with her guitar.

@@MarkChappell1 Nancy has a very fine voice. You are right

Awesome song!

Love that song.

Nobody reacts to their killer song "Mistral Wind" either.

Adore that song and Nancy's fav of big sis Ann's songs. ❤❤

...also "Dreamboat Annie"

and another great song from that album was Straight On

Nancy was average. This song was her ONLY 1 where she did anything out of the norm, and she was TAUGHT this part by Roger Fisher.

@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee Oh hell yeah ... I got no problem with that, and I wish she would have sang more ... much more. I'm right there with ya 🤛✊👊🤜😉😎!

And who will you run to one my favs but no one talks of this one and I think it's Fire

especially the LIVE version of "Magic Man" (1976)! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ps7tVvQHLyo.html

I was thinking of that also. One of the top three live performances ever - What do you think .

I saw the Heart Rocking Heaven tour just after that Kennedy Awards performance. 1st half was all Heart with a couple Zep songs in there. 2nd half was a full Zeppelin set with Jason Bonham on drums! They did Stairway of course but only with about a half-dozen choir singers and not 120

And they could do it just as well LIVE! No "Studio Babies" back then, touring was EVERYTHING, if you couldn't pull it off live then you were dead in the water as an artist or band. Then you ended up on "American Bandstand" lip syncing your "1 Hit Wonder" song, then you were quickly surpassed and forgotten.

@@Impalaman1968 Death to auto-tune. Cheers.

Actually no, she CAN'T still sing like this. I've heard her, and like most artists, when they get older, they lose the upper part of their voice. I've watched the Kennedy performance, as well as other recent performances, and she definitely checks out in spots where she used to go or just sings in a different area of her abilities. It's not mean to say this ... it is a fact of life. What is mean, is that, it doesn't happen to EVERY musician ... some can still do it when they are older, some can't.

Let’s not get crazy with that comment. Pat Benatar and Linda Ronstadt can hang! And in the new Generation I’d put Amy Lee in there as well!

I saw them in Nanaimo, British Columbia in 1973 or 74 opening up for Brownsville Station of Smokin in the Boysroom fame.

I remember that show clearly and how those women blew everyone away - July of '76

Yeah they missed the ⛵. This song is about red hot🔥 stress relieving sex 💓

I always thought it was in kitchen

@@jimcarlson6157 Hey, it could be 👍

Only Heart would have the balls to do Stairway & they killed it. It's my favorite song & I was blown away by their performance. Saw Zeppelin 5 times back in the 70's. My boyfriend was a Zeppelin fanatic. I was super impressed.✌🌻🌻

Not to mention, that performance was with John Bonham's son Jason playing the drums nailing his Dad's parts to the T. If I remember correctly, the remaining members of Zeppelin were there, and the performance brought them nearly to tears, it was that awesome.

@@Impalaman1968 you are correct. It was an amazing performance

I have, and this is really just MY opinion, so it doesn't mean anything but, I really didn't like the Kennedy Center performance at all. If I were them, I would do what groups like Pink Floyd or the Eagles did ... get someone younger in to do those parts they can't do anymore.

They did it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lBDKn57tazw.html

Nancy is NOT a virtuoso !!!

@@StevesFunhouse an entire generation disagrees. As do all the greatest guitarists who ever lived.

@@CuttinEJ No they don't ... Just the people who don't understand, which is why the myth continues to get passed around. Real musicians know better. You're thinking you know better because you don't understand what's involved and you've heard others speaking or writing about it, including guitar magazine people. The problem is, most people don't actually play, so they fall for the act. I'm here to tell you, it is YOU who are wrong. A trained eye can see things you and most people can't.

@@CuttinEJ Don't believe me !!! Find yourself an ACTUAL expert or great guitarist, show them ANY video of her playing, and you will find that, other than the intro to this song, a part that Roger Fisher stole and reworked from the Moody Blues and TAUGHT to her, they will confirm, she is NOT playing all those intricate lead guitar parts. And let's be clear, when put up against a lead guitar or rhythm guitar (played by the 2 guys always standing behind her) running through amplifiers, there is no way you're gonna hear much of anything she does playing rhythm on an acoustic. Elsewhere in the responses to this video, I laid out the fact that Nancy explained how the intro was created, that Roger Fisher wrote it, taking most of it from a Moody Blues song the liked called, Question. Then, she went on to say (paraphrasing), "most of the stuff you wrote is really ripped off from other artists you've heard ... you just rework it until you make it your own". From an old saying (paraphrasing again), "given a typewriter and enough time, even a monkey can spell the work 'f*ck' !!!". The actual saying is much longer and "cleaner" but, you get the point. Nancy was taught the intro, and she did a great job of it, when she wasn't trying to go off on a tangent and expand on it.

@@StevesFunhouse you make a lot of assumptions and, as usual, your assumptions are incorrect. First in thinking that you are in any way qualified to criticize someone who has actually produced original music that the world still loves and second in assuming that I don’t know anything about music or playing the guitar. My first guitar was a 1965 Fender Strat that my Dad (a professional musician (guitar)) bought for me for Christmas from a pawnshop in Joplin, Mo in 1969 for $100. I’m 63 years old now and I still regret letting that one get away from me. Even though arthritis and Crohn’s have rendered me unable to play any more, I still can’t bear to part with my 2017 Les Paul Studio HD. You should probably spend more time listening and less time speaking on subjects of which you obviously know so little. (And yes, that’s how you say that.)

Thank you so much!!

So it’s about bringing the head voice down to your lower range and then going up from there?

I thought 1st listening to the album that Crazy on You was the standout track. I think I liked Dreamboat Annie next best.

Ohhh Dreamboat Annie!! And Magic Man is badass jam. Was my first record of theirs. A 45 heh heh