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		<title>The Gillettes and &#8216;Rock of Ages&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/04/the-gillettes-and-rock-of-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out our visit with the cast of ROCK OF AGES!
http://www.broadway.com/shows/rock-of-ages/buzz/girl-power-runaway-bad-girl-lita-ford-and-family-hit-rock-ages/

Rock of Ages got a visit from one of the most shredding families in the rock biz on April 9, when guitarist Lita Ford of The Runaways, hubby Jim Gillette of Nitro and mohawk-ed sons James and Rocco dropped by the campy ‘80s comedy to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out our visit with the cast of <strong>ROCK OF AGES</strong>!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.broadway.com/shows/rock-of-ages/buzz/girl-power-runaway-bad-girl-lita-ford-and-family-hit-rock-ages/">http://www.broadway.com/shows/rock-of-ages/buzz/girl-power-runaway-bad-girl-lita-ford-and-family-hit-rock-ages/</a></p>
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Rock of Ages got a visit from one of the most shredding families in the rock biz on April 9, when guitarist Lita Ford of The Runaways, hubby Jim Gillette of Nitro and mohawk-ed sons James and Rocco dropped by the campy ‘80s comedy to see what heavy metal fans in the know have been chattering about ever since the show took the stage. The girls of ROA, including new star Emily Padgett, were especially empowered by the run-in, since The Runaways were the original set of seriously cool all-girl rock rebels to hit the scene during their reign in the 1970s. (PS: Ford hasn’t been idle since the band went its separate ways either—the bombshell had a hot solo career, met and married Gillette and reportedly has a reality TV series titled The Gillettes: An Extreme American Family in the works.) Click through for a quick peek at the wild band of music makers at the rockin’ show.</em></p>
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		<title>LITA on A&amp;E&#8217;s Private Sessions with Twisted Sister!</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/04/lita-on-aes-private-sessions-with-twisted-sister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out LITA this Sunday at 9/8c AM on A&#38;E&#8217;s Private Sessions  with Lynn Hoffman!
PRIVATE SESSIONS GOES METAL WITH  TWISTED SISTER
Be sure to check your local listings!
Get  a sneak peek of LITA&#8217;s appearance on the show!!
Lita Ford Surprises The Sniders on A&#38;E\&#8217;s Private Sessions! 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out LITA this Sunday at 9/8c AM on A&amp;E&#8217;s Private Sessions  with Lynn Hoffman!</p>
<p><strong>PRIVATE SESSIONS GOES METAL WITH  TWISTED SISTER</strong></p>
<p>Be sure to check your local listings!<br />
Get  a sneak peek of LITA&#8217;s appearance on the show!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9xdyRmQdQ">Lita Ford Surprises The Sniders on A&amp;E\&#8217;s Private Sessions! </a></p>
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		<title>The Gillettes in PEOPLE Magazine!</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/03/the-gillettes-in-people-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a look at our family photo shoot with PEOPLE Magazine!
Be sure to pick it up in the latest issue on stands now!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have a look at our family photo shoot with PEOPLE Magazine!<br />
Be sure to pick it up in the latest issue on stands now!</p>
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		<title>Lita LIVE in Las Vegas!!</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/03/lita-live-in-las-vegas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITA and Dee Snider live in Las Vegas March 26th and 27th for I WANNA ROCK! LIVE!
See flyer below for more details!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LITA and Dee Snider live in Las Vegas March 26th and 27th for I WANNA ROCK! LIVE!</p>
<p>See flyer below for more details!</p>
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		<title>Metal Sludge: Lita Ford &amp; Jim Gillette Give You Rocco Gillette</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/02/metal-sludge-lita-ford-jim-gillette-give-you-rocco-gillette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A future champion fighter?
What weighs 93 pounds, is 8 years old, has a mohawk and punches like a grown man?
Rocco Gillette is the answer.
Rocco is the son of Lita Ford &#38; Jim Gillette. The pint sized pulverizer has been studying Gracie Jiu Jitsu since age 2 and has been training with professional boxers for just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A future champion fighter?</p>
<p>What weighs 93 pounds, is 8 years old, has a mohawk and punches like a grown man?<br />
Rocco Gillette is the answer.</p>
<p>Rocco is the son of Lita Ford &amp; Jim Gillette. The pint sized pulverizer has been studying Gracie Jiu Jitsu since age 2 and has been training with professional boxers for just over a year.</p>
<p>Check out Rocco &gt;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnETuTxyrAo" target="_blank">HERE</a>&lt; at age 7 with former Olympic Gold Medalist Howard Davis Jr.</p>
<p>Rocco won his 1st amateur fight with a TKO in round 1. He throws over 30 punches in the first 30 seconds before the referee gives the opponent a standing 8 count. The fighters continue and Rocco throws another 30 plus punches before the fight is called with just over 1 minute gone.</p>
<p>See Rocco&#8217;s first fight &gt;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0n_msNep6Q" target="_blank">HERE</a>&lt;</p>
<p>Never mind locking up your daughters. Probably a better idea to lock up your sons because by the looks of this these 2 kids will be beating the shit out anyone they choose at recess starting now.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2005&amp;Itemid=42" target="_blank">http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2005&amp;Itemid=42</a></p>
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		<title>Shop Genuine Evil Brand</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/02/shop-genuine-evil-brand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<title>Maximum Ink says Wicked Wonderland rocks like a MOTHER!</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/01/maximum-ink-says-wicked-wonderland-rocks-like-a-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Wicked Wonderland” is not some safe bet crassly calculated attempt to live off past glories it’s a BEAST of an album! Call it what you will, just give me more, ‘cause it’s sexy as hell and rocks like a MOTHER!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a title="Maximim Ink reviews Wicked Wonderland" href="http://www.maximumink.com/index.php/reviews/disc_review_permalink/wicked_wonderland" target="_blank">MAXIMUM INK </a></strong></p>
<p>Review by <strong><em>Sal Serio</em></strong><br />
January 2010</p>
<p>O metal maven, O heavenly black brassiere pin-up of the 80s, how we loved you! But you left so suddenly, why O why was it so?</p>
<p>Lita Ford actually split for a Caribbean island in the mid 90s to shack up with rocker husband Jim Gillette and start a family. Lita and Jim home schooled their two pre-teen sons, and grew their own food. Sound like a fantasy? Well, what makes my dreams come true is: Lita’s BACK!</p>
<p>“Wicked Wonderland” is not some safe bet crassly calculated attempt to live off past glories it’s a BEAST of an album! The primary theme running through the pummeling tunes is kinky sex. Apparently the couple likes it nasty, and are cool with letting us know all about it. Songs like ‘Inside’ (“Feel me from the inside”), and ‘Bed’ (“Tie me to the bed, spank me ‘cause I like it”) plainly lay it out across the silk sheets for us all to enjoy.</p>
<p>Producer Greg Hampton goes for the huge production he’s known for, giving “Wicked Wonderland” a sinister vibe somewhere between Rob Zombie and Deborah Frost’s Brain Surgeons. Roberta Zombie? The Bra Surgeons? Call it what you will, just give me more, ‘cause it’s sexy as hell and rocks like a MOTHER!</p>
<p>Check out Maximum Ink <a title="Maximum Ink" href="http://www.maximumink.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Great Review from Bleeding 4 Metal (Germany)</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/01/great-review-from-bleeding-4-metal-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a another great Wicked Wonderland review from the folks at Bleeding 4 Metal.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LITA FORD made in the 70s and 80s, an almost legendary reputation as a female hard rock icon. After inter alia with Joan Jett as a guitarist in the all-female THE RUNAWAYS some doors for female rock musicians who were to follow in the 80s, had opened, she went as her former bandmate on solo paths. In addition to numerous escapades, which were inferior to their male counterparts, but, now also produced the blonde singing a successful blend somewhere between hard rock and pop metal, their commercial peak with the album &#8220;Lita&#8221; and the two hits &#8216;Kiss Me Deadly&#8217; and &#8216;reaching Close My Eyes Forever &#8220;(a duet with Ozzy Osbourne). Mid 90s &#8211; the business had been well known (not necessarily changed at this time for good) &#8211; they returned, freshly married to ex-NITRO-song wonders JIM GILLETTE, the music world back.The young family was extended by two sons and then lived on an isolated island off the Gulf Coast of the United States. After 2006, the duet &#8216;I&#8217;ll Be Home For Christmas&#8217; on TWISTED SISTER A Twisted Christmas &#8220;(singer Dee Snider is a longtime good friend of the family) as a timid musical signs of life &#8211; even with a video attached &#8211; the stark change to the housewife and broke her mother, followed by several concerts last year is now a full tour and a brand new studio album.</p>
<p>Anno 2009 LITA FORD abducted us now turn to the &#8220;Wicked Wonderland&#8221; and it can immediately be determined at the beginning with the opener &#8216;Crave&#8217; already: tinged with pop, keyboard pregnant titles like &#8216;Kiss Me Deadly&#8217; has all that ostensibly do not have much in common. In strong collaboration with husband JIM GILLETTE formed plate that is sure is not at all warmed up with recipes on point, but presents instead a distinctly flavored contemporary music. &#8220;Wicked Wonderland&#8221; is clearly the hardest record has become, the LITA ever taken.The outrageous the now-infamous Wonderland 51 years old blonde turns while lyrically &#8211; Nomen est omen &#8211; especially very strong desires to, and often about sex. Not for nothing that the couple stress often enough that even after 15 years of marriage remains an important factor in the lumbar region of their relationship. However, it takes two &#8211; many songs are almost like a duet, or rather hardly ever sings JIM GILLETTE growlt does not, at least in the background &#8211; this passion easily, so the strong sexual overtones of the plate does not even embarrassing.Musically very low tuned guitars dominate many reefs and numerous effects, and above all LITAS voice that always sounds fresh and damn sexy. Overall, a relatively dark atmosphere is created, but well to the overall concept of the &#8220;Wicked Wonderland&#8221; fits. Accordingly, there are frequent with hearing some details to discover, do not open up for the first run &#8211; very nice example The typical American censor beep when you come to &#8216;Patriotic SOB&#8217; is about freedom of expression. If you are deterred by the unwonted sound but rather the first moment is not possible, will also notice that in 2009 LITA FORD LITA FORD sounds like quite yet, but just as fresh and contemporary while trying to sound retro to (for example, you can hear at times &#8216;Piece (Hell Yeah)&#8217; or &#8216;Scream&#8217; pure). Worthy of mention is the rest of the Artwort digipack album, coming along in the first edition with two bonus tracks. For images that were created in an old brothel, distinguished no less a responsibility as Piggy D. (bassist for ROB ZOMBIE), who visually so true straight home &#8211; has come out of one of the most beautiful booklets for a long time that the atmosphere of the album perfectly captures.</p>
<p>Overall, it is you do when you say be tied into the &#8220;Wicked Wonderland, that here no good housewife reheat the food from yesterday, but has forgotten that iconic Hard Rock still nothing.A good, fresh album, which is less than diehards will apply at a younger or its young audience &#8211; in this form may LITA FORD like to postpone the final retirement a few years back.</p>
<p><a title="Bleeding 4 Metal" href="http://www.bleeding4metal.de/index.php?show=review_de&amp;id=2584" target="_blank">Bleeding 4 Metal</a></p>
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		<title>New interview with Bleeding 4 Metal (Germany)</title>
		<link>http://litaxx.tv/lita/2010/01/new-interview-with-bleeding-4-metal-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Lita and Jim's recent interview with German publication, Bleeding 4 Metal.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following the publication of the strong comeback, &#8220;Wicked Wonderland&#8221; we had the opportunity to work with Lita Ford and her husband Jim Gillette telephone. Despite the current hardships tour &#8211; one in the U.S. is on the road with Queensryche &#8211; could both say nothing of it and showed their best side to be extremely pleasant and friendly contemporaries. Read for yourself what has to say about the infamous pair, the dazzling wonderland how to make a record on remote islands, as can be stressful festival tours, why they would prefer to come once again to Germany and how it is as if a rock Mom &#8216;n&#8217; Rollerin that time alongside the queen miming in a video game &#8211; and all this under the premise of an intact, loving family life. Have fun in the colorful world of the wicked-Gillette, which is ultimately refreshingly normal!</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford:</strong> Hello, I am, Lita!</p>
<p>Lita Hello, nice to talk with you!</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford: </strong>I&#8217;m glad too!</p>
<p>First, how are you?</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford:</strong> Oh, I&#8217;m pretty good! We have just a very, very long trip from Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Louisiana, New Orleans, behind us. It took about three days. When we arrived in New Orleans, erstmal we now need a shower.</p>
<p>As the tour with Queensryche been running for?</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford: </strong>It runs great, absolutely excellent. The super fans react to us and the guys from Queensryche are also very good to us. It&#8217;s really very, very good with great reactions and a damn wild audience.</p>
<p>You have brought out with &#8220;Wicked Wonderland&#8221; just released a new album and of course I would like to talk a little bit over the plate. First of all, how satisfied are you with the reactions to the album, now that shows off your first right, the new songs live?</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford:</strong> We had really great reviews so far, at Amazon.com, it was even four weeks at number 1, which of course is class. I think people really like it much. Of course it is not &#8216;Kiss Me Deadly&#8217; and not &#8216;Close My Eyes Forever&#8217;, it&#8217;s a little harder by the sound here and I like it That&#8217;s exactly my thing. I wanted to create something that rocks, not a slow, boring album full of ballads. I just wanted to once again rock really.</p>
<p>The sound of the album is, as you have already said so much darker than your old albums. Do you think that it is because that in 2009 over 1988 is not easy or is it from your point of view, a general shift of perspective behind it?</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford: </strong>I do not think that 2009 has to do something with it. We have lived for many years on a desert island and on our island, we have no current music. We see no MTV or VH1, we see no television, we hear no radio. We do not know how widely these days should listen to music, if you were to ask someone. This album we just posted from our hearts out and that is just that, what came out here, something hard (laughs).</p>
<p>You had a lot of influence from your husband, Jim Gillette, I suppose, right?</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford:</strong> Oh yes, absolutely! Would you like to speak with him once?</p>
<p>Sure, with pleasure!</p>
<p><strong>Lita Ford:</strong> Wait a minute short, Jim is coming.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> Hello, it&#8217;s me, Jim!</p>
<p>Hi, Jim!</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> How are you so?</p>
<p>Well, thank you, how&#8217;s looking out for you?</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> Very good, a bit tired, perhaps, since we already have one months on tour, but overall a great, buddy!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad to hear, I find your stuff from the past NITRO echt klasse.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Thank you!</p>
<p>Meanwhile, has your sound changed quite yet, right?</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> Sure, it would seem, quite ridiculous to sing on the record so as before (laughs), that just would not be right! (laughs again)</p>
<p>I mean, You look completely different from today, but this is pretty cool &#8230; Finally, it is no longer 2009 and the mid-80s.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> You know, it&#8217;s funny that you just say so, because just as we feel. When we made this new record, I think we were gone so long, but we did not try to sound like before. We did just what came to mind us &#8211; without us around the sound, musical style or something to care, we have simply written, and beheld what happens. Just as we have done it and we are really happy with the result. You like it?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think the new record really well! You have, I believe, meant in another interview &#8211; and I agree with you completely &#8211; if the album for a while listening, one realizes that it still sounds like Lita and not on anything else. It is still Lita, only harder and a little darker, as a result of what I like really good.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>And it is honest above all. You could make the album without their reingeredet some business types in suits who, as meaning &#8220;Let us make this so and so, the determined ten million albums sold, so let us just like to make it like this.&#8221;. We had no idea what fashion or popular, we will end up living on a desert island. So we had no outside influences, and thought only, &#8220;watch time will lead us.&#8221;. We recorded the album even sometimes at home, I made all the images that have been made in our home, so it was not even a third person there. There was only us in the studio, which was pretty nice. If we are not times for shots just did not feel or the vibe, it is simply not felt well, then we said simply, &#8220;Okay, then let&#8217;s just tomorrow.&#8221;.Whereas twenty years ago, when you felt or not it great the vibe just was not there, you had to just go ahead because the $ 2,000 cost of fun so loosely on the day. (laughs) It just felt guilty if we did not do it then, so in the sense of &#8220;We lose 2000 toads otherwise, so I swing my ass better in there.&#8221;. Take home, I love the simple.</p>
<p>I particularly like the (of of ROB ZOMBIE bassist Piggy D.) Artwork designed very well.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> &#8220;He is really extraordinary, yes.</p>
<p>It really is absolutely fantastic, one of the best artwork I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> You know, we hoped it and were pretty confident, but he has truly exceeded our expectations. Everything he did from us to information that had the lyrics to the songs and we said simply: &#8220;Listen, do Piggy:&#8221; Simply, do whatever you want, scissors&#8217; drum you not how they used to look like or what for a style they had. users just your imagination and these texts. &#8220;. The lyrics paint a picture of OUR &#8220;Wicked Wonderland.&#8221; That is what my wife and I like to do together. Nevertheless, we wanted the artwork not so specific. Just because we like to do something sexual, it does not mean that you would like to see something like this. We wanted the artwork will help you through your own &#8220;Wicked Wonderland fantasize&#8221; about. I think that it&#8217;s really succeeded, even with the proper cover. Although it is not really sex-specific view, it is my view for some reason a very erotic image. That&#8217;s funny, in the burning town, the amusement park-type stuff, and the goat with the gas mask. (laughs) You probably would not hold for erotic, but I think it&#8217;s really sexually stimulating.</p>
<p>I can well understand, my hat&#8217;s also fallen from the outset.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> Great, I really very happy that you like it, buddy. If you hineinsteckt his heart and soul into something, you always hope that other people will catch on and you hope they&#8217;re giving the whole a chance and enjoy it, but sure you never, especially not if you do so as we tackle . We have been for years on our island without television, without radio or rock magazines, nothing, absolutely nothing. If you&#8217;re so isolated in such a way then you just pop in there and not have no idea. (laughs) We are really very, very excited about the reviews we receive.</p>
<p>Good that you mention it: you&#8217;re happy with the reviews and the response to the album of the press, the fans and of course the audience at the concerts?</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Absolutely! Of about a hundred reviews, I have seen, were perhaps five to ten bad and ninety said that it was a great album. Better it can still not walk at all, no one like finally everything. No one likes exactly the same things and it&#8217;s really overwhelming significantly positive on the page. And the concerts: Simply amazing. I do not know if Lita has said to you, what we do now on the tour. We&#8217;re on tour with Queensryche and in fact are our band.</p>
<p>Of that I have heard something.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> We are coming during the Queensryche sets on stage, about halfway through.Geoff Tate presents Lita, she comes out and sings &#8216;Crave&#8217;, then together we sing &#8216;Patriotic SOB&#8217; and when I leave the stage, comes back and Geoff Tate sings with Lita &#8216;Close My Eyes Forever&#8217;.</p>
<p>That sounds great.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> Oh yes, it is really great. Queensryche fans are pretty hard to crack, which are really-nails fans of Queensryche, hence you never know quite how the reaction will vary, but it is truly incredible. I mean, standing ovation, the entire hall by turns, it is an absolute highlight of the show. It&#8217;s all fun, we play only three songs, and everyone wants more. This is a fine teaser.</p>
<p>I saw one of your European festival shows this summer, when you have played in the Gods Of Metal in Monza. I&#8217;m not quite sure, as it was played on the new disk only &#8216;Crave&#8217;, at least I think.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Exactly, &#8216;Crave&#8217; and maybe &#8216;Betrayal&#8217;? I do not remember exactly, but we have played all cases &#8216;Crave&#8217;. Did it please you?</p>
<p>Sure, he has. The song I knew at that time so not why he had stood out a bit between &#8216;Kiss Me Deadly&#8217; and the other old songs. But he has since fallen to me already.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Cool! For now we play in a regular show for four or five new songs and about just as many old songs. It works! Pretty good, we make blocks, each with some old and some new songs, alternate &#8230; flowing nicely into one another. Although the new things are a little harder, the works! Good.</p>
<p>How did it happen that Lita again make music? In 2006, she sang along with Dee Snider yes &#8216;I&#8217;ll Be Home For Christmas&#8217; for the TWISTED SISTER Christmas album &#8220;A Twisted Christmas&#8221;.Was that an advance explanation then or more then a unique collaboration, because Dee Snider You know very well?</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Dee and his family are very good friends of ours and knows Lita Dee really there for many years. I think that Dee in mind was thinking about it maybe Lita could entice back when he made the duet with her. For us it was not so much because our youngest son was only four or five years old and it was just so not the right time for it. Lita knew that they would come back, they just waited until the family was ready for it. They wanted it to be a good experience for the children and that these should not be too young to enjoy it. She wanted them to learn something from it. We love Europe. You are a British citizen and, therefore, Europe has a special place in her heart, so they want to see the guys get to see it and experience the different cultures or types of food. Incidentally, when we played at the Bang Your Head Festival, we walked down the street in this small town where everyone stayed at this hotel and ate the best steak we ever had. The boys remembered for the rest of the tour at the steak in Germany. (laughs) They loved it so and she hated the food anywhere else</p>
<p>Glad to hear that.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>That was pretty cool. They loved it and so can not wait to go back to eat more steak. One of my best friends was from Germany. He spent about half his time in the U.S. and the other half in Germany. When he was in the U.S., he always stayed with me. I visited him once, and lived about two or three weeks with him and we ate steak every night. (laughs) Every evening, there was steak and the funny was when he was with me in the States, he used his flesh right durchzubraten. But when we were in Germany, he roasted it, and would hardly eat it almost raw. He then gave always a little bit and said, &#8220;In Germany you can do this quietly, but not in the U.S., the meat is just not so good&#8221; (laughs again). He was name of this Riesentyp.</p>
<p>How then are the chances of you again in the near future will see in Germany or at least Europe?</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>You know what? I tell you now that we actually would like to spend several months in Europe. We would then prefer to go as long as possible on tour. As I said before, we consider this as part of the education of children. We are not this deluded Americans (laughs), keep America for the real thing. Out there, there is a big world and we want our children to see and experience other places. Frankly, we were even almost moved to Europe. When we moved to the islands, we were on the move seriously consider to Europe. It simply was so much easier and faster to draw on the islands, so that ultimately we all went there weicheimäßig.(laughs) But we still think about the fact that we would have liked a house in Europe. We would also love to come to Germany. And with the number of interviews that we&#8217;ve given Germany the album really seems to like, so I think if we pass all these interviews and people like the album you also like laughing (again), we are very likely happen. We would like to come over, so if the promoters see ourselves in all these magazines and hear that the German fans who like the album, they will ensure that we come from. They will make us an offer and say, &#8220;Come as quickly as possible and play a few shows ago.</p>
<p>That would be great.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> We really want to, we would really like to come back to Europe. The last trip was so fast, I think we left (thinks briefly) &#8230; was the film festival in Italy, immediately after Germany?</p>
<p>Exactly, that was the same weekend.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Well then, times were a little insight into how quickly everything happened and how we are exhausted at the time: the evening of the show in Germany, we left the hotel by 2 clock at night to drive to the airport. The flight was canceled, so we had to wait at the airport and determined there hanging fast to six to eight hours. When we got off the plane, the airport in Italy, we were immediately driven to the backstage area. No hotel, nothing immediately in the backstage area, we had maybe 30 minutes before the stage. And after the show went back immediately to the airport. So we had noticed in themselves no trace of flair to the whole thing.I think in Germany we came on the day before the show, so we went out once led, the guys from the restaurant where we had a wonderful steak, walked a bit through the park, where it flows a small river, which was everything already nice. There was only one days in Germany and I just need much more than that</p>
<p>Sure, we indeed want to take anything from such a trip and learn from it.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Right, exactly &#8230; () slightly sigh So I hope that we will get a real tour about and not only play festivals. I hope we get a proper European tour over one to two months together, that would be ideal for us. We would love the simple.</p>
<p>I hope that it works.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>And I, oh yes.</p>
<p>That would certainly be fantastic. Incidentally, I find it incredible how much you love your family, and both shows how important it is for you.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> There is nothing more important for us, our family matters most to us. If someone does not like any of us, then he has all against him. (laughs) My friends, I always say, if you get a Gillette, you&#8217;ll all end. If you anpisst one of us, then you piss us all. (laughs) My boys are such a roughneck who really do not want to piss on you. (laughs)</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s really great that you have one part used to look so extreme, and thereby ultimately be so normal.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> Do you know what&#8217;s funny? For several years, we always get offers for a television show about our family, that&#8217;s why what you just said. Just because we had this extreme look and people thought that we would conduct ourselves as well. Crazy or whatever. Then they make us realize that we are pretty normal people and that&#8217;s probably the attraction for the television show: those damn crazy-looking people are normal. (laughs) You continue to try, so let&#8217;s see just what will happen.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen that will soon be published a comic about you.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Yes, exactly! The nice thing is that the people who make him a father-son team are. The son is only fourteen years old and has already written several Comcis, is not that great? Strictly speaking, we have almost said the only reason why even this, because behind it, a father-son team.</p>
<p>So far, I still could not look on it, but I will definitely do more.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Do that, it will be released next month.</p>
<p>Lita has now received even a role in the video game &#8220;Brütal Legend&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> This is indeed a good story, because most people do still believe that rock stars their MySpace or Facebook not really even get news, right? Both &#8220;Brütal Legend&#8221; and the comic book came about MySpace. You wrote us an e-mail via MySpace. The creator of &#8220;Brütal Legend, Tim Schafer, a class type, incidentally, is a huge heavy metal fan. He has made this game because he loves heavy metal. I can not say enough good things about him. If you alone for a look at the soundtrack, you already know what a big heavy metal fan he is. Are 100 songs on the soundtrack! It really is an exceptional soundtrack. Well, he wrote us this email and says that he Lita happy Legend in a game called &#8220;Brütal&#8221; she would thus, with his production, he was just busy. He was well aware that it was a little weird to try to establish a contact with her through MySpace, but he did not know how else he should approach her. I think to myself, of course, &#8220;Sure, but surely it &#8230;&#8221;, but still look for his name and erstmal think it is just someone who wants to try to talk to her. I certainly time to look under his name and the name of his company&#8217;s &#8220;Double Fine&#8221; on Google and find him. He is an award-winning, world-famous video game creator. So I call him and say, &#8220;Of course they would like to join in the game, buddy!&#8221;.We have a seven and a twelve-year-old son, so find the course&#8217;s grand, if your her mother in a video game. (laughs) After we had done this, and the voice recordings had been completed for that, we had him on the phone and I said &#8220;You really Need some songs for the soundtrack?&#8221; Tim said, &#8220;Of course, you might have one for me?&#8221; and I said &#8216;mate, we are in the midst of recording a new album! &#8220;. He said, &#8220;Now, really? Sure, I would like a song.&#8221; So I say &#8220;Actually we have just one song that is not finished yet. Although we have the music, but still no recording vocals for it. That would be perfect, then we could indeed write the lyrics so that they fit the game.&#8221;. Tim said, &#8220;Okay, send me once in the tracks.&#8221; I will send them to him and not five minutes later he calls back and says enthusiastically, &#8220;This is madness, let&#8217;s do it absolutely.&#8221;. I only say &#8220;Well, send me that a few paragraphs about the game, where you see the content of the sites and so on, describe, then we&#8217;ll do.&#8221; Hence for example the line of text &#8220;crawl through the sea of black tears.&#8221; The sea of black tears is in fact a place that we visited in the course of the game. This collaboration has given us very much. Lita plays the queen, then we have the song in the game and they have even &#8216;used Machine Gunn Eddie&#8217; by NITRO on the soundtrack. So we have two songs and my mom is the queen, the boys are so very excited to be able to play it. (laughs)</p>
<p>Cool idea! Yes, it really does look like it, just that everything is going for you, as far as I know, is the signature guitar so well on a good path.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Yes, we are still working on it, which is not yet complete, but we stay tuned. In my opinion it should have given twenty years ago a guitar. I am surprised actually that there was never, I mean, if you take a girl a guitar in hand, it would be cool if Lita&#8217;s a guitar would be? &#8220;(Laughs)</p>
<p>Exactly. Even though I know that you are not really involved in it, there is indeed sometimes even a movie about litas old band THE RUNAWAYS.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> Yes, we have nothing to do, but you know, is funny &#8230; Dee Snider interviewed Scout Taylor-Compton played by Lita in the film. About eight weeks ago he told us, &#8220;Man, I&#8217;ve talked to her, she would be happy to talk real time with Lita. You know that Lita is not involved, they know that Lita does not like the people behind the film, but they asked me to tell you that they know why Lita is not like these people. you know that Lita, it was always just about the music they always wanted merely losrocken and thinks that she herself has got off to a really good job. She hopes that when Lita gets to see it, they will be proud of them. &#8220;. Well, in about a week then another friend called me to say and &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m sitting next to Scout Taylor-Compton, Lita would probably say&#8221; hello &#8220;?&#8221; (laughs) I say &#8220;looking time&#8221; (laughs) and Lita says &#8220;NO!&#8221;Just before I could say no, she says, &#8220;Oh, you know what, but.. (laughs again) &#8230; Okaaaay Lita then spoke with her and end both cried. Lita really liked her very much and also liked what she had to say about the film and the people behind it. A few days ago, it culminated in the fact that Scout at our show in Lake Tahoe was last Saturday. She and Lita came together and it was very cool, it&#8217;s a damn cool girl. Lita really like them very much. If you time on MySpace under the &#8220;My Photos&#8221; look, either the last or next to last page, I think it is either 22 or 23, you can see the pictures of the evening. We took a few photos with Scout on the night. To that extent, that was really cool.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the film, her work in both ROB ZOMBIE &#8220;Halloween&#8221; movies I really liked.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> It is a very cool girl, damn cool. Scout is just genuine. Lita said recently, we have a press release in a few days and I asked what she would say about Scout. She then said something that really touched me, it was thought &#8220;Scout has a heart and a soul.&#8221;. This agrees completely, and it is something that when I many actors and actresses look (laughs), slightly cynical, which can not be said of many. (laughs loudly)</p>
<p>I can not deny that.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette:</strong> They&#8217;re right, most fake people. (laughs loudly)</p>
<p>Better I should not have&#8217;s can say. As we have slowly come to the end, maybe one or two questions then. The new merchandise, which she has recently raffled off at the Competition, I liked very well. Will also be offered online or otherwise, there&#8217;s the only purchase the shows too?</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>It will also be available online, but before that we have yet to clarify how we will manage the store. He is already designed and also has really cool. Inter alia We will sell the picture disc of the album. I think in Europe there&#8217;s not the buy and the only place in the states where it will be available directly through us. It is a very limited picture disc vinyl edition of the new album &#8220;Wicked Wonderland&#8221; is the exclusive autograph only be available through our website. This is really cool. We are still working on it. Here are just changing everything, I&#8217;m sure it does for you too, just maybe not as fast as here. In the U.S., people buy these things do not look so, they are all just downloads. We ourselves still love the good old days when people got a record, the foil, the plastic außenrum ripped, opened it, put it on the turntable, the protective rausnahm, read the lyrics while listening and looking at the photos &#8211; it was just a holistic experience, you know what I mean?</p>
<p>Sure, I can completely understand. Even today this is still great if it runs and it is not so easy only a download. It is one of the reasons why I am so impressed by the artwork of &#8220;Wicked Wonderland.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Yes, we did it on purpose, because we are made of this wood. We are simple people, time, money and ideas have wasted on the artwork. It seems today no longer apply to much. We simply wanted that people have something like this &#8211; I mean, there are lots of young people who have never heard of Lita. They are perhaps ten years old and they look as at &#8220;Brütal Legend&#8221; and look at later times in the album. We wanted these kids have the same experience as we did, with all the artwork, texts and images. You should get an exciting presentation, and if more bands would think so, would not disappear from the CD gradually.Perhaps the young people would say, &#8220;Hey, I could download it though, but I just want to see all the stuff around it.&#8221;</p>
<p>This, in my opinion, one way that we could embark on preparing the people back to relevant experience, quite rightly. Okay, so far as where we are, maybe just one word for the German fans?</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>We love Germany, we love the people there, good food and would be very happy to spend time with you again. Hopefully it makes it possible that we, through its touring demands. We really want to spend very much time again in Germany. What could be better way to give to bring the whole family, and play a little bit rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, while we visited a country?(laughs)</p>
<p>Right, I hope we see you here soon!</p>
<p><strong>Jim Gillette: </strong>Hopefully it&#8217;ll work, that we come over the summer. By the way, where is your nickname &#8220;Elvis&#8221;, we make this Christmas story on Wall Street. It may sound crazy, but we are ringing the closing bell (laughs) and then play four songs, two normal songs, and two Christmas songs. And one of the two songs is an Elvis song &#8211; do you remember the Christmas album by Elvis? (begins to sing and impersonate Elvis, until he gets a fit of laughter) That we will play &#8211; we&#8217;re really excited, which is great fun! Thanks for your support, Elvis, we know that to truly appreciate &#8211; is looking after you!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lita Ford will be the hostess with the mostess on Thursday, December 31 when the Queen of Heavy Metal kicks off Lita Ford&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve Rockfest at <a href="http://www.columbusgold.com ">Columbus Gold</a> gentlemen&#8217;s club in Columbus, Ohio.  This special event will ring in the New Year and celebrate Lita’s successes in 2009, including the release of her successful comeback album Wicked Wonderland, her partnership with fetish retailer <a href="http://wickedwonderland.stockroom.com/">Stockroom.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.fmqb.com">FMQB</a>&#8217;s announcement naming Lita the 2009 Best Female Rock Artist  </p>
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<p>Lita Ford’s New Year’s Eve Rockfest<br />
Columbus Gold<br />
5411 Bethel Sawmill Ctr<br />
Columbus, OH 43235<br />
(614) 764-0500</p>
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