Short and very sweet in words tonight - because her absolutely brilliant playing and wonderful commentary say it all (you can skip ahead to 2:13 to see just the performance of "Crazy on You" - but the backstage stuff at the beginning is pretty cool too) ...
Back in the day (around the time of this concert), a fellow guitarist and friend told Jesse about seeing Heart in concert - and as Jesse recalls, the guy was completely blown away by Nancy Wilson's playing. She became one of the most influential female rock players out there, and still manages to wow the crowds at concerts - just do a search on YouTube for recent performances by Heart to see her kick up the dust on stage. Here's one more video of them, performing "Barracuda" at the Sky Church in 2010, with sister Ann giving every young female vocalist out there today a run for their money ...
Incidentally, Heart's bassist, Steve Fossen (who plays on the first video in this entry), joined Jesse's band Strypes in the mid 1980s. He is great bass player and a really nice guy, and played with them for a couple of years. Yes, it was quite the small world back then in the Seattle/Tacoma music scene - as I suspect it still is! :)
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