ALBUM: Dreamboat Annie (197
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I owe Heart some money.
It was April in 1980. I was an Auburn University student. I was out walking and heard music from the auditorium or arena or whatever it was called.
Concert going on. I walked closer. Closer. Up a ramp. The door was ajar. Hmmm. Took a peek inside and there appeared to be no one at this particular door. Walked in.
Now this is where it gets fuzzy in my memory. I think I saw Blackfoot as the opening act. I know I saw Heart. My memory fails as to whether this was two different incidents or one. I’m leaning toward one. Anyway, that’s why I say I owe Heart money — for the ticket I didn’t buy. Maybe I owe Blackfoot too. I’ll pay up if either of the bands’ members contact me.
I heart heart. Or, at least, hearted heart.
I was an early consumer of this hard rocking female-fronted band. The female Led Zeppelin. I played Dreamboat Annie their debut ceaselessly in high school. Sure there was soft pretty stuff, which I secretly sang along to. But there was real rock and roll and real guitar licks especially in Magic Man and Crazy On You. Check videos below to get sense of their rock and roll acumen.
The reason I said I ‘hearted’ Heart because by college at Auburn, I was over them. I didn’t particularly like the overplayed Barracuda and was lukewarm to the whole Dog and Butterfly thing.
But I’ll always dig Dreamboat Annie, the album which came out in 1975, the sweet spot of my high school days.