Darian etc. w/Heart

[c-man]

Yesterday I watched Heart's recent (2007ish) complete performance of the Dreamboat Annie album on the On Demand channel Palladia.  I was not surprised that Darian Sahanaja was part of the band, as I've known for a few years now that he sometimes joins them on tour. I was a LITTLE surprised that he served as their musical director for this show, and did the string and background vocal arrangements.  I was MORE surprised that he brought along Jeffrey Foskett for background vocals, and The Stockholm Strings for the orchestral parts.  All in all, I thought it was a great concert.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Yeah, I caught that on VH1 Classic; it was an excellent concert. Darian and Jeff are shown in quite a few shots. Darian actually gets an introduction; I can't remember if Jeff did. It seems that Darian and Jeff work well with Wilsons.

One minor quibble....On my favorite song, "Crazy On You", Nancy flubs her acoustic intro/solo; I'm surprised they left it in. Also, for some reason, they shortened the song, leaving out a small part. Oh well...

[Jon Stebbins]

My wife and i went to the taping of this back in April '07 at the Orpheum theater in downtown L.A.(Thanks to Jeff Foskett for the invite) and it was really fun. Apparently Brian was supposed to be in the audience but didn't show so we got his seats...no lie. The show was pretty much straight through, I can't recall any re-do's. The audience was full of L.A. music bus. celebs, and industry types...with a seemingly '80's slant. I ran into several old friends from that era, Susanna Hoffs and Debbie Peterson from the Bangles were there, I saw Rhino Records co-founder Richard Foos, Probyn was there too...and a bunch of actresses you'd probably recognize, my wife knew all their names but I'm drawing a blank now. What blew me away is how close Ann Wilson's voice sounds to how it did in the late '70's, its got so much power...she practically doesn't need a microphone.

[the captain]

I'm not a big Heart fan, but Jon, you are dead on about Ann Wilson's voice. I think it's amazing.

[Wilsonista]

I rented the Blu-Ray of the loive Dreamboat Annie from Netflix and agree that it is a great performance.  The first time I actualy saw Heart in person was the first tour that Darian played with them.

[Jon Stebbins]

The Wilson sisters (Ann and Nancy with Wondermints backing) performed Till I Die at the 2003 CWF concert and it was great.