PS: Mr. Rockatansky, thanks for writing in. "Even it Up" still had that same Heart sound, yes. Yeah, Dieter from Sprockets - "now's the time ven vee donce." What was that, Industrial Music?

One time at a bar that had live music every night, I guess because they had to really reach out to get someone every night, even the bouncer, when we were going to pay a coupla bucks to get in, told us "nah, this band sucks. I wouldn't pay." Haha.

BC (as opposed to CB): Yeah, I like "White Lightning and Wine". There are plenty of great album cuts that most people even from that time have never heard.

PS Don't forget Even It Up from Bébé le Strange (1980).
Staples of the classic rock FM radio and the band is still highly underrated.
What a golden time of music in the 1970s and 80s.
Just look at the rot now with the soft fruity Dieter from Sprockets techno "music" or some bitch slap leather cover on my gold helicopter (c)rap audio pollution.

PS: Thanks for the background, Cloudbuster. "Dreamboat Annie" and "Dog & Butterfly" were among my favorite albums. I liked "White Lightning and Wine", "Straight On", "Cook with Fire" in addition to the classics you mentioned. (Cook with Fire" contributed a catch-phrase to our group still in use--someone had heard it as "Cookies on Fire", and afterwards an "attaboy" turned into, "now your cookies are on fire.")
I did like a couple of their later songs like "Alone" and "What About Love", but as you say, some of the magic was gone by then.

PS: Also, CB, because I didn't know the rest of this band, I looked up the main players during their best period - we'd probably both agree the whole decades of the 1970s - and put the ones that played then in. There were so many drummers over the long term, that I hesitated to put in Mr. Derosier. He obviously played during this song. That's fixed now.

Again, I appreciate any and all factual corrections from anybody.

PS: CB, I was not as much a fan as you. I mean that, for a band like the Eagles or CCR, I could have told you at least who played what, when each joined or left the band, etc. For Heart, I just remember that it was a hard-rocking sound out of a group that people know only as the Wilson sisters as far as personnel. I'd thought that the hard-rock guitar sound was from these women too, but I stand corrected. (I still think they beat out almost all the ACTUAL girl band where they just strum for the videos if anything.)

It is a shame when just the (in this case) good-looking singers or flamboyant front men of any sort get all the glory.

I thank you for the corrections from a real fan. I was about to paste in your comments, but I'll just point to them in the post.

PS Also, the drummer wasn't just "various guy. Michael Derosier was the drummer throughout the band's classic period. He and Steve Fossen were and amazing rhythm section and also deserve credit for the band's sound. The two were the next to get riffed over conflicts with the sisters. Only Howard Leese, who was the band's utility man -- rhythm guitar, keyboards, mandolin, whatever was needed -- stayed on through their schmaltzy '80s power ballad era. He ended up doing a lot of the lead guitar work in that era, not the "amazing" Nancy Wilson. Apparently he was better than the others at managing the sisters' egos. If you hadn't guessed, I was a huge early Heart fan and hated to see the band torn apart by the sisters' egotism. They basically thought their shit didn't stink and they were the only important part of the band.

PS Lead singer Ann Wilson is not really any sort of guitar player and not responsible for any of their notable guitar work. Her vocals are what was special about her. I can't recall her ever playing guitar on stage or on an album. Nancy is a competent acoustic guitarist, but honestly she never would have been famous based on her playing alone. The real genius of the band was Roger Fisher. He wrote most of the band's classic hits and it is his incredible guitar playing along with Ann's vocals that was responsible for the band's signature sound on tracks like Magic Man, Barracuda and Crazy On You. His lead worked as a counterpoint to Ann's vocals that made her sound even better than she is and the subtle color riffs he did were just amazing. The band's work took a huge nosedive in quality after he left due to conflicts with the Wilson sisters.