Lita Ford ~ Out for Blood / Dancin' On The Edge CD 2007 BGO Records UK •• NEW ••

Description: Lita Ford Out For Blood / Dancin' On The Edge AUDIO CD BRAND NEW & FACTORY SEALED Beat Goes On Records BGO Records BGOCD761 UPC | 5017261207616 Made in Great Britain 1983, 1984, 2007 TRACK LISTING Out For Blood (1983) 01. Out For Blood 02. Stay With Me Baby 03. Just A Feeling 04. Ready, Willing And Able 05. Die For Me Only (Black Widow) 06. Rock 'N Roll Made Me What I Am Today 07. If You Can't Live With It 08. On The Run 09. Any Way That You Want Me 10. I Can't Stand It Dancin' On The Edge (1984) 11. Gotta Let Go 12. Dancin' On The Edge 13. Dressed To Kill 14. Hit 'N Run 15. Lady Killer 16. Still Waitin' 17. Fire In My Heart 18. Don't Let Me Down Tonight 19. Run With The $ WHEN Lita Ford turned up in late 2006 on the Twisted Sister track I'll Be Home For Christmas', it was an unexpected but welcome return to music-making for the ex-Runaways lead guitarist, who'd long since swapped the rock'n'roll lifestyle for cosy domesticity. It certainly brought back memories of a glittering solo career as the ultimate heavy metal vixen during the Eighties and early Nineties, when she combined style, glamour and attitude with a strong vocal presence, underrated songwriting ability and, most of all, some extraordinarily powerful guitar work. Here we, remember Lita's first two solo albums, Out For Blood and Dancin' On The Edge, which provided her with a sturdy platform for post-Runaways success. Though she made her name as part of an archetypal Hollywood band, Carmelita Rossanna Ford was actually born in Streatham, London on the 19th of September, 1958 to an English father and Italian mother. However, the family moved to America when she was four years old. Initially they set up home in Boston, but quickly moved on to Dallas before coming to rest in Long Beach, California. When she was eleven, Lita (as she was known) was-- given a nylon string guitar. She quickly taught herself by playing along to her favorite records, but it was only when she went to see Black Sabbath at the age of thirteen that the guitar became more a way of life than a mere hobby. ('if anybody told me, you're a girl, you're not supposed to be playing a guitar', I'd go practice . I'd say , 'Right well take this!'"). Inspired by the likes of Sabbath (particularly lead guitarist Tony Iommi), Deep Purple, The Who, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, she got a job heating up meals at a local hospital in order tto save up the $450 that was required to buy a Gibson SG - the guitar that her hero lommi played. In her mid-teens. Lita was asked to deputize when the regular bass player in a friends band was unavailable one night. ' 'They needed a bass player to fill in for them for that one-night show", she reminisced. "So they called me and said could I fill in for this girl, just for one night, and we'll teach you how to play all the songs and everything. So I learnt all the songs, and it was no big deal. Anyway, we never did play the show, it got cancelled. But Kim Fowley, who was putting together the Runaways at the time, had heard that there was a girl bass player in this band that was supposed to have played that night." An inveterate hustler, music industry veteran Fowley was attempting to put together a girl group that, he proclaimed in a mid-1974 advertisement in the fanzine Who Put The Bomp!, would be the female Beatles, Stones, Who, Shangri-las of the 70s" (the concept of a female Shangri-las is certainly an intriguing one...). When he invited Lita down to Hollywood to audition for the role of bassist in the Runaways, she explained to him that she was really a guitarist. But apparently the Runaways needed one of those, too. Lita wasn't convinced by Fowley ("I put the phone down, turned to my mother and said', 'Who is this guy - some kind of pervert?!"), but, with the backing of her parents, she agreed to attend the audition. Having got the gig, heavy metal fan Lita - just days past her 17th birthday - then had second thoughts about being associated with the style of music that the Runaways were playing. Falling out with Fowley, she quit the band after just two days, but was persuaded by him to reconsider. She rejoined a week later, staying with the band until they finally collapsed in early 1979. Shamelessly marketed by sleazemeister Fowley as teen jailbait, the Runaways got off to a flying start with their 1976 debut single, the superb 'Cherry Bomb', before the strain of life on the road (and life with Fowley) took its toll. Nevertheless, they lasted long enough to release four studio albums and a live set. Live In Japan reflected their extraordinary popularity in the Land of the Rising Yen, where, by the summer of 1977, the only Western groups that were outselling them were Led Zeppelin and Kiss. "The fans were just beyond belief ", Lita has said of their Japanese following. "It was incredible... There were security guards everywhere. They had to hold crowds back at the airport. " Regularly contributing to songwriting chores, Lita also took lead vocals for the first time on 'I'm A Million', a track from the band's final album, And Now...The Runaways. When the band called it a day, she was determined to concentrate on the heavier style of music that had always been her personal preference. However, things didn't quite work out, and she seemed to be gradually drifting away from the music scene, apparently scarred by her experiences with the Runaways. Still only in her very early twenties, she instead took a succession of 'regular' jobs that included pumping gas at a petrol station, working as a health instructor and selling cologne in an LA department store. It was at this critical juncture that she bumped into Eddie Van Halen, who told her that she was squandering her talent by not making a living out of playing the guitar. Stung into action by his words, Lita decided to try again. In addition to helping out local post-punk/metal outfit the Stepmothers, she decided to form her own band. However, a satisfactory lead singer proved elusive, and, after countless male vocalists had failed to impress at auditions, she decided that she would have to do the job herself. After Lita had strengthened her voice with endless behind-closed-doors workouts, the pieces started falling into place. The Stepmothers' drummer was Dusty Watson, who played peripatetically in a number of bands at the time, including instrumental surf band Jon & the Nightriders and an outfit called Panic, although he dropped out just before they changed their name to Black Flag. Watson and his friend, veteran musician Neil Merryweather, who had played with the likes of Steve Miller and ex-Traffic man Dave Mason back in the late Sixties, were recruited by Lita for her own heavy metal trio. "I joined the Lita Ford Band in 1980", Watson recently recalled. "/ was hanging out smoking hash with Pretty Poison's soundman, Jerry West, after a show at the Squeeze in Riverside one night, and he said he had just met Lita Ford, who had split from the Runaways. He said she was just getting her first solo project together, and that I should get together with her. Lita and I got together a few days later, and we hit it off right out of the box. I'll never forget my first time jamming with her in a studio in Carson. We played about three or four songs, and she put her guitar down, grabbed my hand, shoved it under her sweatshirt, and said, ‘Feel that! No-one has ever made my tits sweat like this! Let's go get a drink!'" It was an encouraging start (not least for Watson...), and the Lita Ford Band soon began to acquire a local reputation. Lita was firmly back in the rock'n'roll lifestyle - particularly after she bumped into Nikki Sixx at the Troubadour on the Santa Monica Boulevard during the December 1981 launch of the debut Motley Crue album. Too Fast For Love. When Lita introduced herself to Sixx, he initially told her that his. name was Rick, but he was impressed by her offer to share her drugs with him. When she bit her Quaalude in two and popped one half into his mouth, a very rock'n'roll romance had begun. Within two or three months, Sixx had moved into Lita's Coldwater Canyon apartment. Naturally enough, Lita and Nikki's extremely public courtship attracted considerable publicity, particularly after a February 1982 incident that was dubbed "the second Riot on Sunset Strip". Coming out of the Rainbow, Sixx and his Mötley Crüe colleague Vince Neil took exception to some bikers who were hassling Lita and Neil's girlfriend, Beth Lynn. The ensuing melee attracted the attention of two undercover police officers, trying to break up the fight, Sixx used Lita's chain to hit him in the face. He was duly placed under arrest, and spent the night in jail. With her boyfriend (whose band were yet to make their mark at that point) facing assault charges and being threatened with five years in state prison, the equally penniless Lita sold her Firebird TransAm for, $1,000 and gave the money to the officers, who promptly dropped all charges. With Lita attracting a good deal of press attention, and with the name of the Runaways brought back into the public consciousness by founder member Joan Jett's chart-topping solo breakthrough I Love Rock'n'Roll', the guitarist was becoming hot property once more. She was taken on by Left Bank Managements Allen Kovac, in the infancy of a career that would subsequently see him manage Mötley Crüe as well as guiding the likes of the Bee Gees, Blondie and Meat Loaf. Though still only in his mid-twenties, Kovac was already well-connected, and he duly brokered a recording contract for the band. "We were signed to Polygram and managed by Allen Kovac, so it was all big guns out of the box", admits Dusty Watson. In 1983, Mercury released the album Out For Blood. A raw, exciting debut, the album not only showcased Lita's highly-regarded guitar playing, it also revealed the strides that she had made as a songwriter although mention should also be made of the excellent Dusty Watson’s superb drumming throughout, particularly on 4Die For Me Only'). Aside from a hard rock take on the Chip Taylor ballad 'Anyway That You Want Me' (a UK Top Ten hit for the Troggs back in 1966), all of the songs were original compositions, with Lita penning four on her own and sharing credits with bassist/ producer Neil Merryweather on a further four. Of the various highlights, 7 Can't Stand It' was heavy metal pop with a strong, catchy chorus, not unlike Rainbow circa 'Since You've Been Gone', while the title track, the equally frenetic 'On The Run' and 'Rock'n'Roll Made Me What I Am Today' (a song that seemed to be tailored to reflect Lita's teenage experiences with the Runaways) were thrillingly uncompromising heavy metal anthems. But Lita also showed her versatility with the AOR-leaning power ballad 'Just A Feeling', which really should have been extracted as a single. Instead, it appeared on the B-side of the album's only 45, the hard-riffing 'Out For Blood'. Perhaps lacking the glossy production of her late Eighties work, both album and single failed to chart, despite the latter being accompanied by a video that received plenty of exposure on the fledgling MTV. Indeed, the album attracted most publicity for the original front sleeve, which featured a scantily-clad Lita holding a bloodied guitar that had been torn in half. Adjudged too gory for public consumption, it was quickly replaced by a tamer, sultrier photo, but any initial impetus had been lost by that stage. Nevertheless, the album had brought Lita back from post-Runaways obscurity, and it augured well for subsequent releases. Unfortunately the band then fell apart, with Dusty Watson quitting after what he describes as "a stupid drunken brawl in Beaumont, Texas. I was just a snotty-nosed kid back then, and didn't realize what I had. " But a replacement quickly turned up in former Motels drummer Randy Castillo, who would later play with both Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe before dying at a tragically early age in 2002. "Randy was playing at a little club in Los Angeles called Madam Wong, and I had gone to see his band play because I was looking for a drummer", Lita remembered. "I don't remember who referred me to Randy - but anyway I had gone to see him perform, and I thought he was unique with his style of playing. He had a wonderful personality..." With Castillo replacing Watson, and future Bon Jovi bassist Hugh McDonald coming in for the departing Neil Merryweather, it was an entirely different band that supported Lita on her second solo album. Dancin' On The Edge. This time she was sole writer on eight of the nine songs, sharing a composer credit with synth player Jeff Lieb (later to become better known as Jeff Paris) on the opening track, the metal-pop nugget 'Gotta Let Go’. It was another fine album, boasting a cleaner, crisper production than its predecessor while retaining the debut LP's high-octane rawness and strength of purpose. In addition to 'Gotta Let Go' and the similarly pop-meets-metal 'Fire In My Heart', the set boasted a handful of wild, pulsating rockers (the title track and 'Run With The Money' were particularly impressive), while the slow AOR ballad 'Don't Let Me Down Tonight' anticipated the sound that Heart were about to achieve. Dancin' On The Edge gave Lita something of a commercial breakthrough, reaching No. 66 on the Billboard album charts. Although the single, 'Gotta Let Go', failed to chart in the US, it did receive a fair amount of attention - due at least in part to an eye-popping video in which Lita, initially dressed as a wholesome Doris Day lookalike, was attacked and tied up in her own home by a gang of teenage hoodlums, only to break free from her captives after bursting out of her dowdy clothing and into skintight leather! The song saw Lita nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance - although, given that Wendy O. Williams and Pia Zadora were amongst the other nominees (the category was eventually won by Tina Turner), it's probably fair to say that 1984 wasn't a vintage year for female rockers! The album also made inroads in Europe, with both the album and 'Gotta Let Go' reaching the lower rungs of the Top 100 in the UK, and she came over for a well-received tour. A video for the moody ’Dressed To Kill’ (a track that was briefly available as a 12" promo-only release) featured a cameo appearance from Tony lommi, Lita having opened for Black Sabbath in late 1983. Tony and Lita subsequently became an item, even becoming engaged, although the couple would split in 1987 - at which point Lita still hadn't released a follow-up to Dancin' On The Edge. Her proposed third album, The Bride Wore Black, remained unreleased when Lita left the Mercury label and brought in Sharon Osbourne as her manager. The relationship immediately bore fruit with the 1988 album Lita, a sleeker, more commercial offering that remained in the charts for nine months and sired two Top Twenty hit singles in 'Kiss Me Deadly' and a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, 'Close My Eyes Forever". Two early Nineties albums, Stiletto and Dangerous Curves, weren't quite as successful, with Lita's brand of big-haired metal brushed aside by grunge, although the latter set did include the Top Fifty hit 'Shot Of Poison’, which earned her another Grammy nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Female (she eventually lost out to Melissa Etheridge). After a brief marriage to WASP member Chris Holmes ended in 1991, Lita made a series of guest appearances and cameo performances in TV/film, but in 1994 she met former Nitro vocalist Jim Gillette, the pair marrying within a fortnight. A further solo album appeared the following year, but Black was only released on the small German label ZYX Records. Similarly, her performances of ’Whole Lotta Love' and ‘Rock & Roll' were confined to a Japanese-only Led Zeppelin tribute album Stairway To Heaven, after which Lita did some guitar clinics for the new Gibson guitar, Nighthawk. She also recorded some demos with Chic mastermind Nile Rodgers as well as cutting some tracks with Rumble Culture, a new band that featured her husband on lead vocals. Notwithstanding a trio of 'best of' collections (1999’s Greatest Hits, the 2000 release Greatest Hits Live, 2004's Platinum & Gold Collection - The Best of Lita Ford) and her recent contribution to that Twisted Sister track, Lita has maintained a very low public profile over the last few years in favor of bringing up her two children. All very laudable, of course, but the fact remains that it's far too long since she made an album. Never mind: while we're all patiently waiting for a new collection of songs, here's a reminder of just how good she sounded back in the Eighties... 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