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zOMG Nick Bowcott! I got to meet you in the late 80s while you were on tour. A buddy and I interviewed you for the small-town radio station we worked for part time and you treated us like we were from Rolling Stone. You were a class act and we've never forgotten you.
Just Lita playing that guitar part from Close My Eyes Forever and my arms came out in goose bumps. The mark of a great song when it still affects you 30+ years after first hearing it.
I love that live video on YT of the Runaways performing "Wasted" with Joan Jett on lead vocals. Lita's guitar solo is super cool and she was just a kid then (as they all were). Lita's had an incredible career and anyone who really loves rock music should acknowledge and celebrate her as someone who broke down barriers.
I saw the Runaways when Lita was still a teen, as I was. She was a prodigy of guitar. Live, she was astonishing, and I'd seen all the "greats." She has matured beautifully as an artist.
Absolutely the first girl rocker. Saw the Runaways in the early70s ,Might have been their first tour at Randy Rodeo in Texas.First rock band in a country saloon with a stage.Lita was amazing,Gret memories last for ever.GOD BLESS,and keep on rocken.
I'll never forget first seeing and hearing Lita! Awesome Rocker! And ING...SO HOT! I wish I had been on that cruise.... probably the last of the cruises for a while! I'm an 80s dude, class of 84, so Lita is one of those rockers I grew up admiring! Such an inspiration to do many, especially women and men like me too! Had a huge crush on her back then... and WOW... still a stunning, intelligent, inspiring person! So hope to catch her love some day in the future but will be looking for her discographie and but some music... got to support our heroes! Rock on and thanks for this interview! 😎🎸🤘🐦
I am so stoked to hear that one of my teenage guitar idols also doesn't have a clue what she is playing! I have recorded several albums and EP's where I compose and play 99% of everything and I always felt inadequate, because I can't read or write music, don't know any scales or fancy chords and just write guitar pieces that sound good to me and riffs to give the song its identity. I feel so much better now!!!
What I get from your answers to his questions about motivation I can feel your answer to why and how do you get motivated is the music. I’m just a amateur guitarist but I know my motivation is always the music, the music gets me going just listening to it, and especially playing it, it’s the music, always the music. I love your playing, I love the fact that your a great guitarist and your music always gets me going, your the best Lita. Keep rocking Stay Cool 😎 and… \m/ Stay Metal \m/
I would love to get Lita Ford and Poison Ivy (the Cramps) writing some songs together, and see what happens musically. It'd be insanely interesting. Great guitarists. ☕🌊
I agree the only other female artist that wrote their own songs and played their instruments that made it big in the 1980's were The Go Go's but they were more pop/punk rock. I do however think Vixen started in the 80's and they did well, more rock/hard rock. Vixen was a cool band.
Sitting around high-scale amps; Soldano, Marshall and Fender ... plugged into a Katana. Product placement, artist choice, Sweetwater suggestion? Either way, this should be great for Katana sales.
I'm currently playing through two Katana heads, wired together in stereo and each run into a Mesa Thiele cab loaded with Eminence EM12n speakers. These Katana amps slay.
LITA!!! The greatest album she put out during my graduating year 1988!!! Kiss 💋 me deadly!! 1st single I’ve heard on the radio 📻 loved 💕 it , still diggin it! Looks like nice 👍 normal type to go hang out with biking 🚴♀️ hiking 🥾, jamming out rocking out 🎸 🎸 🎸 of course!! Would love to do that for a lease a day or two,. Awesome 👏🏻 love 💕 the Marshall amps in the background \,,,|.
The theory is for people like me who don’t have the ears! If it sounds right it is right that’s what my professors always taught. Music is about sounds and Lita Ford knows what sounds right for certain. Between my ears and theory knowledge I do ok, but would rather have Lita’s ears and no theory knowledge!
Tele’s are great for playing lead, dude - you can get the action so damn close and still plays smooth. A $700 tele plays as good or better than most LP customs-much better, in my professional opinion, than Washburn; although the Ibanez and PRS series - they’re the most versatile when it comes to playing lead, hooks, and soloing. Some would argue it’s all in the luthiering...mehhhh...not really
There were other decent girl guitarists before Lita...Bertha and Fanny both thad formidable girl guitarists who don't even get mentioned by Lita!?!...still a great interview Nick ...but credit due please!
Lita Ford is the complete package, Beautiful,great sexy moves, incredible song writer, gifted and talented shredding guitarist, amazing killer voice!! I have been a fan since the Runaways. And she was great then and only 16 years old . The only Rock Queen of the world, no one comes close.Rock Goddess forever!!!! Keep Rockin Lita!!!!
I’ve noticed many young rockers that played B.C.Rich Warlock, Gibson Flying Vs, Explorers and other “metal” shaped guitars ultimately defaulted to the most simple Telecaster in their matured years. Back to basic, I’d say.
I put a tele neck on a BC Rich Vertigo It is solid maple maple board and SS 6100 frets , 3 string bends really resonate , the points are unforgiving if you pet her the wrong way.
You know, if you guys are gonna Demo Gear, it would really help if the Player actually knew how to play lol What's next, Marble Mouth Eddie Vedder demoing Shure microphones?? LOL
She reminds me of guitarist nina strauss who plays with Alice cooper another hot blonde guitarist just as hot they should get together and jam or alice cooper and her doing only women bleed
Where is the interview that Lita trashes today's music? How does she really feel about today's "artists?" All these interviews are dull normal. Let's hear some down and dirty criticism about how terrible music has become, some honesty.
The Interviewer is a Really nice Guy, but His Voice sounds like He has a Mouthful of something. No Offense Meant. MISS LITA IS A MONSTER GUITAR PLAYER 🎸 but She's not a LADY Mouth wise
Where is there smoking? Now, I thought that I saw it (as in smoke) but then I realized it was reflection going on in the guitar...and not smoke. However I find it funny and fascinating that you thought the same thing...am I missing something? I don't think so. Of course you could me using that word in a different manner in that she is still hot, eh?
Loved the interview. Welll done!! My take away was....blows my mind how "the best" can't read music or even write. No formal training. Add Lita to the list of legends who can't read music but "made it" and trail blazed.... There's a RU-vid video about maybe 10 male rock legends who play guitar but cant read mussic....Eddie Van Halen (RIP...admitted he couldnt read or write), Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix....etc. Ironic how the people WITH formal training DON'T "make it big". End up teaching kids how to play instruments (not that htere's anyting wrong with it) or playing in local orchestras. Know one knows who they are. Aren't the one's living in 50 million dollar homes. Yet, the truth is....a lot of us NEED to be taught....heh...my fahter could learn to "play by ear". Hear a tune and mimic it. Couldnt read music....didn't like going for lessons...heh....naturally gifted. Like the rock legends.... Without these RU-vid interviews fans wouldn't get a peak into their idols. That they are people too, hard brain damaged from too much drug use, can still put sentences together, dont drink/drugs....etc. are into fitness and good diet ....still working. :) Family is important to them....etc. That they arent the stereotype... warts and all...good and the bad...not that different from the rest of us...even if several have fallen victim to the "lifestyle".
Great interview with a great guitarist. I admit that I was taken aback that while sitting surrounded by a Soldano, a Marshal, and a Fender Brownpanel, she opted to play through the Boss.
