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On with Mario Lopez. All

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right, joining me on the phone from the band Heart and and

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Nancy Wilson. Welcome to the show. Thank

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you. Are you guys excited for the I

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Heart Radio Music Festival this weekend? Yeah

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sure, yeah yeah. Well the

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Love a Live Tour is going to stop at the festival

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this weekend, and and you know it's probably

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gonna be a bit of a shorter set for you guys. So how do

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you pick the songs that you're going to play

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at a festival like this? Um, we're

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just we have five

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songs, and we wanted to just

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show a good cross section of what we've been doing

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on the road and so and we also

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wanted to use our our

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production to its best advantage, you know, in

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that short time. So we chose

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songs that mostly people know and

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that the band sounds great on

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and make a good little mini

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set with lots of

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light surprises and well

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stuff that's awesome. Well, this is this

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is Heart's first tour in three years.

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Have been enjoying your time on the road

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this go around? Oh sure,

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Yeah. Show has been really

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really exciting, and everybody's

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kind of turning out for the shows, and so

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the energy has been really big and very

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positive, and the music sounds great,

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the band is you know, having a

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good time, and it's uh,

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I don't know. I keep watching this my

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fans footage and stuff on

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Instagram and it's a really cool

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looking shows.

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Um I wish, yeah, you know, I

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could go out in the audience and actually see

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the show. It looks really pretty

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amazing that that's awesome and and

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uh, as far as the audience, Um, how

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have you seen the audience change over the

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years? Are people bringing their kids two shows now

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and all of that. Yeah, it's like

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it started maybe I don't know, back

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in the in the early two thousand's.

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The audience has started to be really a multigenerational

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and there are people, you

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know, the older people are it makes

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them they're too tired to come to a rock shold

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now, so some athadia they

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still come and their kids

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and their kids kids come. It's it's really

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cool. It's it's not like nailed

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down to anyone's demographic. It's it's

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pretty wide. Yeah, it's got to be really really

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I was gonna say, it's gotta be really awesome for you guys to see

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multiple generations just loving your

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songs. Well, yeah, for sure, and

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more increasingly that way. So,

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like Anne said in the last you know, quite

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a few years and there's really

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new young fans that have just discovered

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I think, you know a lot

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of UM. But the younger people are

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really excited about fans that are

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up playing live, that are really

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playing lives that they're especially singing and

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playing and it's not in the

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box as they call it. So you

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know, it's a real authentic aut

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experience, is that you know,

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it's human around the edges.

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Sometimes it's not exactly perfect, as

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we're humans. And I said, that's requesting

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UM things for a lot of

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the young people to see that. It's pretty

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amazing to see some of the original

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songs that we wrote back in

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the seventies, like crazy on You UM

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really plays well

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in two thousand nineteen. I

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mean it just it may as well have

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been written yesterday, you know. I

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mean that's I mean, that's that

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definitely says something about your music that it holds

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up, you know, for that long, and it could

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apply at any point like that's that's

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a huge thing. Getting back to the i R Radio Music Festival

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for a second, Are there any other artists that you

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guys are actually looking forward to maybe sneaking

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out to see a little of well

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as much of them as we would have

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time to go see. I mean, you

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know, a whole bunch of cool people

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on them, you know so well.

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I mean I would be excited to see any or all

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of them, pretty much like it'll be exciting

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to see all those all those pop

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groups with all the dancers, you know, because

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it's such a it's such a thick

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now, you know, it'll be great to see

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it at the top of its game. Yeah,

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of course. Um, so, so you

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guys are wrapping this tour in about three weeks. What are

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the plans after the tour is done. Um,

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we have some offers, but we we're

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just trying to keep our eye on the ball

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right now and just do the like,

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you know, we have a whole other month

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almost to go, and

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we just want to concentrate on

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that and just put everything into that either

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and see what offers are after figure it out

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after you go

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home and go to sleep. How

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much sleep do you get when you're on the road, Do you do you get

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enough sleep? No? Never,

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No, you can sleep the hours,

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but if you're on a moving bus or in

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a hotel, you don't really truly sleep.

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You don't feel, um, the

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same kind of faith as you do when you're in your

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own bed. Yeah, it's not as good rest.

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Um you stay, oh

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do you stay with the momentum of being

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on the road. And once you say

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land at home where you

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feel safe and silier, then

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you know, then you can really rest

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and recuperate and

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you know, listen to the nature

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outside and you know, look up stars

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and stuff that you just never get a chance to

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do otherwise. Right, Um,

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And we're all huge fans of the song

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almost Paradise, Mario is

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I am Courtney as everybody. Um,

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that song is turning thirty five years old this year.

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What do you remember about recording that? Oh?

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Well, I just remember Heart was on

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tour and I had

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I fructured my wrist the day before we

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did that session. We were in Chicago

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and because

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and Mike Reno flew in to

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sing that duet with me, and I

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was in a lot of pain because I didn't want to do any

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painkillers before I sang on

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the session. Right, Yeah, So

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Mike Reno was really cool. He he took

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off his Kashmere scarp and made

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a sling for me to put my arm

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in while we sang, and uh,

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that's That's the main thing I remember is that he

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was really quite the gentleman, you know, and

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we and the song, which I really

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liked already, was really

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easy to sing and well written

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and just really a great love

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song. Well, the I Heart Radio Music

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Festivals this weekend. Heart is going to be there. You can

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follow them on Instagram at Heart Official.

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And thank you so much for calling in today. Oh

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you're welcome. There's great talking to you. All

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right, We'll see you this weekend with

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Mario Lopez