In a brand new interview with Daybreak Osborne of TotalRock, ’80s onerous rock queen Lita Ford spoke about her long-awaited new studio album. Ford‘s upcoming follow-up to 2012’s “Dwelling Like A Runaway” was as soon as once more helmed by guitarist/producer Gary Hoey, who contributes some guitar enjoying to the disc. Requested if she already has a title for the brand new LP, Ford stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Sure. [Laughs] However I am attempting to attend till we get a document label signed. And so as soon as I do, then I can let you know every little thing.”
Relating to when followers can anticipate to see the album launched, Lita stated: “I do not know. Quickly, I hope. Fingers crossed. We’re engaged on it.”
Ford went on to say that the album is autobiographical. “I needed to stay it earlier than I may write it,” she defined. “It sounds somewhat creepy and every little thing, nevertheless it’s fairly cool. It is a darkish fairytale, ala — I do not know — ala ‘Shrek’. And I like ‘Shrek’. I do not know in the event you’re accustomed to the ‘Shrek’ films. I imply, there is no inexperienced folks in it or something like that, and there is no ogres. Nicely, I suppose there are ogres.”
In keeping with Lita, her new album will embrace a collaboration with German metallic queen Doro Pesch. “It is ready to come back out,” Ford stated. “And I am dying. It is so good. It isn’t a ballad, and it isn’t a quick music. It is only a actually highly effective, mid-range music. And it’ll scale back you to tears.”
As for the way the music with Doro took place, Lita stated: “After I bumped into Doro, she was receiving an award in Los Angeles, and he or she says to me, ‘Lita, we’ve to do a music collectively.’ And I stated, ‘I’ve obtained it. I’ve obtained the title. I do know what the title is.’ As a result of generally you simply seize titles, and you do not even know why. It is simply one thing that sounds wonderful. And so I wrote it down in my little guide of titles. And shortly after that, Doro had got here alongside and he or she stated, ‘Let’s write one thing.’ And I obtained the title. So, I went forward and wrote the music. And Doro didn’t write the music, however she certain sang the hell out of it. She got here out and nailed it. So it was an awesome honor to work with Doro once more.”
Ford additionally revealed that her new album will comprise a collaboration with singer/songwriter/producer Jean Beauvoir (CROWN OF THORNS, PLASMATICS). She stated: “Jean, he is like household as a result of we sort of grew up within the punk rock period collectively, [him] from the PLASMATICS and [me] from THE RUNAWAYS. And generally you are simply on the proper place on the proper time with the suitable folks. And Jean and I wrote this music collectively. And, yeah, it is magic. It is a duet, nevertheless it’s produced by Jean, and he simply knocked it out of the park. It is a magic, magic music.”
Final July, Ford informed Joe Rock of Lengthy Island’s rock station 102.3 WBAB about her upcoming LP: “The studio, for me, has all the time been attempting to show everyone what I wanna hear. And plenty of that’s as a result of they principally do not know themselves as a producer or an engineer. I’ve had a few of the best engineers and I’ve had a few of the best producers, and this album — we’re completed with it now — [was produced by] Gary Hoey. Gary Hoey is a good musician, nice guitar participant. And Gary and I — I can throw any concept at Gary, and he would attempt to make it occur. And the factor about being within the studio is you attempt to make issues occur, and if they do not occur, then they do not occur. You may solely attempt. And so we obtained actual inventive with guitars and we performed — there’s plenty of nice guitars on this new document. I am actually enthusiastic about it.”
Lita went on to say that the creation of her new album was utterly in her management. “There have been no songwriters that I needed to work with as a result of anyone else needed me to work with them,” she defined. “That is strictly Lita and what Lita needed to do. And it is a idea document. There is a massive story behind it. And so it is gonna open plenty of doorways for lots of issues. And lots of people are gonna be capable to relate to this document. And it has some nice musicians. Bobby Rock performed drums on it. Jean Beauvoir wrote one of many songs with me. And it is only a nice document. And Gary Hoey, in fact, produced it. Max Norman, who combined it — Max Norman did plenty of stuff for Ozzy [Osbourne] and MEGADETH, and he is only a metallic man. So it is all in the suitable fingers. I’ve obtained all of the badass folks behind me. Received a brand new supervisor, and it is all good.”
In Could 2022, bassist Marten Andersson (STEELHEART, LIZZY BORDEN, LYNCH MOB) formally joined Lita‘s touring band. Andersson changed Marty O’Brien who turned the touring bassist for DAUGHTRY.
In a 2023 interview with “THAT Rocks!”, the YouTube sequence hosted by Eddie Trunk, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson, Lita acknowledged about her subsequent LP: “The issue is we have had so many issues occur over the previous few years. Our supervisor died; George Marshall died [in] ’22. After which my songwriting companion died. And it is simply been devastation. However we take all that ache and every little thing and we simply put it proper again into the album. After which we recorded the drum tracks in Minneapolis throughout Black Lives Matter and COVID. All the pieces was locked down and the place was boarded up and the blokes had shotguns and Rottweilers. After which we went in and did drum tracks. And it was superior. Simply recollections of simply pure badassery.”
Relating to what her plans are for stay exhibits in help of her upcoming LP, Lita stated: “Nicely, what I wish to do is put collectively a theatrical present, form of like a rock guitar opera sort of factor. It has been finished earlier than and completely different bands have finished it earlier than, however I feel on this case, it could be somewhat completely different and simply to carry the entire present to not life only for audio, however for visible causes additionally.”
In January 2021, Lita informed SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” that her new album incorporates “a few of the greatest guitar enjoying” she has heard “in many years.” She added: “And I am not blowing smoke up my very own ass, however Gary and I simply nailed it with the guitar enjoying on this document.
“I am an enormous fan of individuals like Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter from Alice Cooper‘s ‘Welcome To My Nightmare’. I imply, there’s some actually nice duo guitar gamers — [JUDAS PRIEST‘s] Glenn Tipton, Ok.Ok. Downing… These guitar gamers do not exist anymore — they only do not exist. In case you wanna hear them, it’s important to return in time somewhat bit and dig them up into your favourite library, favourite music catalog. However I feel Gary and I actually nailed it on this subsequent document. It is, like, oh my God. I am crying — I am simply, like, crying listening to these things. It is so badass.”
Ford‘s final launch was 2016’s “Time Capsule”, a group of songs that have been recorded by Lita previously, however by no means earlier than made accessible.
9 years in the past, Lita launched an autobiography, “Dwelling Like A Runaway: A Memoir”, by way of Dey Avenue Books (previously It Books),an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Posted by DORO on Thursday, December 5, 2019
