In a brand new interview with WKBN 21 Information anchor Lindsey Watson, ’80s laborious 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 taking part in to the disc. Ford stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I had put collectively this stunning album, and it is type of a darkish fairytale. It is very nearly type of ‘Shrek’, however on a musical stage. And I like ‘Shrek’, however there’s some characters in that film, and so there’s some characters on my new document. And I wanna carry ’em to life. So the one means I actually can do that’s to search out the correct document label to assist me and to launch every thing and assist me by way of it. And to this point, I’ve struck out a pair occasions with a few labels, but when I do not discover the proper label, then I am not gonna have the ability to put the document out and the music out the best way I need to and the best way I might hope to. And I believe as soon as someone will get it and latches on to this document, then they’re gonna go, ‘Ah, let’s make this come to life.’ I am, like, ‘Sure. That is the entire concept.'”
She continued: “So we’re within the course of, and we’re at place with it now. And we’re [going to] have new website online designs and new clothes designs and new songs. And so there’s every kind of recent stuff. We now have a brand new tour. We added this superior new supervisor that began with us in in January, and he is introduced all these nice reveals to the desk.
“We have been making an attempt to get again out abroad for a very long time, in Czechoslovakia and Spain and Norway and Sweden and the U.Okay.,” Ford added. “It has been some time, so he is introduced all these reveals in from throughout Europe. And, in fact, there isn’t any place just like the USA and it is at all times nice to return dwelling, but it surely’s good to go additionally. It is good to get out and do these different reveals. So I am grateful.”
Final month, Lita confirmed to Daybreak Osborne of TotalRock that her new album will embrace a collaboration with German metallic queen Doro Pesch. “It is ready to return out,” Ford stated. “And I am dying. It is so good. It isn’t a ballad, and it is not 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 happened, Lita stated: “Once I bumped into Doro, she was receiving an award in Los Angeles, and she or he says to me, ‘Lita, we now have to do a music collectively.’ And I stated, ‘I’ve received it. I’ve received the title. I do know what the title is.’ As a result of typically 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 ebook of titles. And shortly after that, Doro had got here alongside and she or he stated, ‘Let’s write one thing.’ And I received the title. So, I went forward and wrote the music. And Doro didn’t write the music, however she positive sang the hell out of it. She got here out and nailed it. So it was an excellent honor to work with Doro once more.”
Ford additionally revealed that her new album will include a collaboration with singer/songwriter/producer Jean Beauvoir (CROWN OF THORNS, PLASMATICS). She stated: “Jean, he is like household as a result of we type of grew up within the punk rock period collectively, [him] from the PLASMATICS and [me] from THE RUNAWAYS. And typically you are simply on the proper place on the proper time with the proper individuals. And Jean and I wrote this music collectively. And, yeah, it is magic. It is a duet, but it surely’s produced by Jean, and he simply knocked it out of the park. It is a magic, magic music.”
In July 2024, Ford advised Joe Rock of Lengthy Island’s rock station 102.3 WBAB about her upcoming LP: “The studio, for me, has at all times been making an attempt to show all people what I wanna hear. And a whole lot of that’s as a result of they mainly do not know themselves as a producer or an engineer. I’ve had a few of the biggest engineers and I’ve had a few of the biggest 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 strive. And so we received actual inventive with guitars and we performed — there’s a whole lot 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 someone 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 huge story behind it. And so it is gonna open a whole lot of doorways for lots of issues. And lots of people are gonna have the ability 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 a whole lot of stuff for Ozzy [Osbourne] and MEGADETH, and he is only a metallic man. So it is all in the proper fingers. I’ve received all of the badass individuals behind me. Obtained 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 collection hosted by Eddie Trunk, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson, Lita said about her subsequent LP: “The issue is we have had so many issues occur over the previous couple of years. Our supervisor died; George Marshall died [in] ’22. After which my songwriting associate died. And it is simply been devastation. However we take all that ache and every 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. Every part 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 reside reveals in assist of her upcoming LP, Lita stated: “Effectively, what I wish to do is put collectively a theatrical present, type of like a rock guitar opera type of factor. It has been finished earlier than and completely different bands have finished it earlier than, however I believe on this case, it is likely to be a little bit completely different and simply to carry the entire present to not life only for audio, however for visible causes additionally.”
In January 2021, Lita advised SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” that her new album accommodates “a few of the finest guitar taking part in” 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 taking part in 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, Okay.Okay. Downing… These guitar gamers do not exist anymore — they only do not exist. Should you wanna hear them, it’s important to return in time a little bit bit and dig them up into your favourite library, favourite music catalog. However I believe 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 had been recorded by Lita prior to now, however by no means earlier than made out there.
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.
