Year : 2014 (Deadline Music Records Remastered Digipak Edition 2022)
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 128 mb
Bio:
Lita Rossana Ford (born September 19, 1958)is a British-American rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways in the late 1970s before embarking on a solo career in the 1980s.Lita Ford was a rare combination of beauty and talent in an era when heavy metal was almost completely void of a female presence. While adolescent boys fantasized about the guitar wizard, Lita managed to enjoy some moderate success while partying and living the wild rock lifestyle.Carmelita Rossanna Ford was born in London, England and started playing the guitar at the age of eleven. Still a teenager, Lita joined the all female group The Runaways, the brainchild of Hollywood guru Kim Fowley. At the time The Runaways were largely dismissed by critics as nothing more than a poor gimmick, but that view changed when the girls disbanded and former members Lita and Joan Jett became successful solo artists. When that band broke up Lita was unsure about her future and worked several jobs, including hairdressing and gas pumping, before Eddie Van Halen encouraged her to pick up the guitar once again. She did so and started pursuing a solo career.Lita Ford managed to secure a deal with Mercury records, but her debut Out For Blood was almost shelved due to a cover that was deemed too offensive. With revamped artwork the album was finally released but few people seemed to notice. The follow-up, while charting in the Top 100 on Billboard's charts, didn't fare much better. Lita became engaged to her childhood idol, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, but that relationship soon soured as did her association with Mercury when they refused to release her 1987 recording Bride Wore Black.Lita severed ties with her record company and employed Sharon Osbourne as her manager. With a new label she was able to release her best selling album, 1988's Lita. It featured the #12 hit "Kiss Me Deadly" and a #8 duet with Ozzy Osbourne called "Close My Eyes Forever". With a fresh marriage to W.A.S.P.'s madman Chris Holmes and a commercially triumphant album, Lita Ford was arguably the most successful woman in all of hard rock. But Stiletto proved to be a disappointment both in sales and material despite including the song "Lisa" which was dedicated to Lita's recently departed mother. Fresh off a divorce from Holmes, Lita regrouped for the Dangerous Curves album, but by that time grunge was beginning to settle in and few people took notice. In 1992 she appeared in the network television show Herman's Head as well as a stint with Howie Mandel's house band on his short lived late night show. In 1994 she married Nitro's Jim Gillette and set about working on her next release Black. Ford and Gillette also formed a group called Rumble Culture and recorded some demos, but nothing has been officially released. On May 13th, 1997 Lita Ford became a mother by giving birth to a healthy boy, and one more child would soon arrive. It has been several years since Lita Ford has released any solo material making one wonder if motherhood has now become her passion. I'm sure we will see more from Lita sometime in the future.
Album:
Originally released 2014 and since then not a easy album to get a copy of, DeadLine / CleoRecs is reissuing LITA FORD‘s ”Live & Deadly”. Recorded live at “one of Lita’s favorite watering holes in South California” in 2000, this album blasts with astonishing energy featuring Ford’s finest, including the blockbuster single “Close My Eyes Forever” plus “Kiss Me Deadly,” “Hungry,” “Shot Of Poison” and more.Now digitally remastered, properly edited, and featuring completely new artwork, for this reissue ”Live And Deadly” comes into a slick Digipack.Lita said she is most comfortable on stage than into the tedious studio sessions – in front of a crowd singing her songs, wearing leather and bashing out licks, riffs and solos on her Warlock guitar. ”Live & Deadly” rocks indeed, rawer, however it’s a very well recorded set, clean, and now polished for better listening experience.Despite the Digipack printing only display 10 tracks, this reissue includes all the original 13 songs.
Line-Up:
Lead Vocals, Guitar – Lita Ford
Bass, Backing Vocals – Tommy Caradonna
Drums – Jimmy DeGrasso
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Joe Taylor
Keyboards, Backing Vocals – David Ezrin
Production:
Engineer – Biff Dawes
Mastered By – Erik Wolf
Mixed By – Bobby Bradley
Photography – David Plastik
Recorded at one of Lita's favorite Watering holes in Southern California. Engineered by Biff Dawes.
All tracks mixed at Bradley's Barn - Mt. Juliet, TN
Bobby Bradley - Mix Engineer
Mastering by Eric Wolf at Wolf Mastering, Nashville, TN
Tracklist:
01. Larger Than Life
02. What Do You Know About Love
03. Black Widow
04. Holy Man
05. Can’t Catch Me
06. Falling In And Out Of Love
07. Bad Love
08. The Ripper
09. Close My Eyes Forever
10. Shot Of Poison
11. Hungry
12. Kiss Me Deadly
13. Rock Candy
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