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About Time Capsule
Lita Ford is ripping open the vault and sharing music no one has heardyet. Ford, a Grammy-nominated artist who recently accepted GuitarPlayer's Lifetime Achievement Award and is one of the youngest livinglegends in rock 'n' roll, is celebrating four decades of music. She is releasing Living Like a Runaway: Lita Ford, A Memoir, documenting herjourney from all-girl band The Runaways to major solo successes. Fordis also offering an audio complement in the form of Time Capsule. .This "throwback" record boasts identifiable voices and brilliantplayers jamming without any planning or pressure. Some of the album'shighlights: Billy Sheehan playing bass and Rodger Carter on drums;Dave Navarro playing a mandolin; Jeff Scott Soto singing a duet withFord; Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander of Cheap Trick actually singingbacking vocals; and KISS' Gene Simmons ripping the bass.The album is a time capsule of the fertile and whisky-soakedpre-grunge period that so many rock fans have continued affection for.Time Capsule is Ford's gift to fans who love the '80s, when thrillingvocal performances, raunchy riffs, and loud, growling guitars were asessential as oxygen.In these "lost" recordings, you hear what happens when insanelytalented musicians get drunk, hang out, end up in a room together witha "Screw it, let's play" mentality, minus the click tracks or labelexecs breathing down their necks, looking for the single or the"hook.""There was a shitload of these 24-track analog tapes in the closet inmy house [in the islands]," Ford recalls. "This is some of the bestwork I've ever done and it was sitting there. I grabbed two suitcasesand took them back to the United States."Imagine Ford dragging a pair of suitcases full of analog tapes throughthe Caribbean dirt back to Los Angeles, so, as she recalls, "we couldbake these fuckers," due to their age. "If you just put them on thereel, they would flake. I was chewing my fingernails, thinking,'Please work!' And they did!"Time Capsule was made organically among the most badass and giftedmusicians from the '80s. There was no back and forth emailing of parts this was done in real time, drinks in hand.As for exactly how the songs came to be, she muses, "We had a breakbetween recordings and it seemed so many us were always in the sameplace, at the same time. George Tutko was one hell of an engineer,coming off the platinum-selling Lita album. He asked me, 'Who willproduce?' I will, because I knew George had my back and I wasn't aloneon this."Participation happened spontaneously. She remembers how onerecruitment went down, saying, "Dave Navarro walks by. We grab him andtell him, 'Play something on this song. Here, play this mandolin!' Andboom! He does it."She furthers, "These recordings have attitude. All of these rock starswere recording in the local studios. There's also Cheap Trick theidentifiable voices of Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander singing backingvocals. Gene Simmons played on and co-wrote 'Rotten to the Core.'W.A.S.P. Chris Holmes is in the introduction to the album and is thefirst thing you hear, stomping around looking for the keys to his'Ford.' Billy Sheehan was one of my best friends, and I asked him whathe was doing. I said, 'Want to play bass?' We didn't know how long itwould take; we were simply having fun."
