Heart wraps amphitheater season
Published 12:16 am Monday, September 22, 2014
- HeartNorman Seeff / Submitted photo
How you perceive the Seattle-based rock ‘n’ roll band Heart — helmed for 40 years by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson — probably depends on your age.
If you’re, say, 50ish or older, Heart is the hard-rockin’ group behind smash ‘70s singles like “Barracuda,” “Crazy On Yo” and “Magic Man” from their first two albums, 1975’s “Dreamboat Annie” and 1977’s “Little Queen.”
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If you’re closer to 35, Heart is a power-ballad machine responsible hit ‘80s tunes like “What About Love,” “These Dreams,” “Nothin’ At All,” “Never” and “Alone.” Or, for that matter, “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You,” which was technically released in the first half of 1990.
Or maybe you’re in your 20s, and the Heart you know is less hit-oriented, more legacy focused. Maybe you remember the Wilson sisters’ ‘90s activity, when they formed their acoustic group The Lovemongers, released a greatest-hits box set and were the subject of an episode of VH1’s “Behind the Music.” Perhaps you’re a big fan of Nancy’s scores for “Jerry Maguire,” “Almost Famous” and “Vanilla Sky.”
Heck, even if you were in a coma from 1975 through a couple years ago, you may remember Heart being inducted into none other than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, or the band’s incredible version of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” from 2012 that went viral on YouTube.
The point is: What a catalog. What a resume. What a career. Ann and Nancy Wilson are music legends with a ridiculous number of accomplishments to their names. On Monday, they’ll light up Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater for the last show of that venue’s 2014 season.
Heart; 6 p.m. Monday, gates open 4:30 p.m.; $39 and $75, plus fees, available at the gate, the website below and The Ticket Mill (541-318-5457) in Bend; Les Schwab Amphitheater, 344 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive, Bend; www.bendconcerts.com.
— Ben Salmon