
We’re trying to do that, and just get our live performance under us. Then, there’s another benefit called, Women’s Choice, where it’s celebrating strong, powerful women and we’re trying to jockey into position to be Roadcase Royale for that event, which was initially offered to Heart, but of course Heart does not exist at this time. Nancy Wilson: There’s a few things in LA this week that we’re trying to pan out just to come and do, we already did a big benefit show, Rock Against MS. Mark Dean: That leads me on to my next question, do you have any touring plans in place, or is it still just early days for that? A lot of times it just kind of goes off beside the wayside, it’s like, oh, there’s all this stuff over there, so if we take each song out and celebrate each song individually, I think, that’s going to make the best sense for us, because it will give people time to get to know us.


I guess, people that know how things work better these days are advising us to not to put everything out all at once. We have a live, both live and studio videos of those, and so we’ve got a lot of content. Also, continue to make the new stuff, the new songs are going to come out sort of soon, we have one called, “ Not Giving Up,” that’s coming out next. That’s going to be our next order of business is to try to get out on the road. We have another song, a new song that we haven’t, a couple of new songs we haven’t finished recording, yet. Mark Dean: Of course, you’ve released one song from Roadcase, “ Get Loud.” I just wonder how much other new material the band have, and have you enough to record an album? I guess, you know, time is the great tenure of all things next. I think it feels right for now the way it is. I cannot give you what happens after that. I know that Ann’s going to be really dedicated to her Ann Wilson of Heart thing. Nancy Wilson: You know, right now, for the rest of this year, I know that I’m going to be really dedicated to Roadcase Royale. Does this mark the end of Heart, or just a temporary change of musical direction? Mark Dean: Both yourself and Ann are going out now with different solo tours, and your own solo projects. It kind of represents the two camps, the blends, the two camps like we are doing now. Prince’s New Power Generation, which were Liv and Ryan hail from, that’s kind of the “Royale” of it. Because “Roadcase” kind of represents the touring rock band.


What do we name our band? You know? Then, about two months later, after a million other ideas that we didn’t all agree upon, the closest thing we got to was Roadcase Royale. It was still really good, so we were like, okay, we better make this a real thing, we better make it real. Then, when me and Liv Warfield, and her guitar player, Ryan and my three guys from Heart started getting together we just kind of put a toe in the water, like, “well, okay, let’s maybe just get together for fun and see what happens, and try some songs out, and see what we feel like together, what we sound like together.” After the very first day of hanging out, and playing music, we were like, “oh, my God, we should do this with each other, we’ve got this wonderful, you know, we’re already speaking the same musical language,” and everybody was getting along really great, just like, whoa, this feels too good to be true, so we said let’s try to do it some more, so we did it some more. Which legally, I had to get it cleared, because titles are actually pretty tough to clear to get companies started. Nancy Wilson: I had already acquired a new production company called Roadcase Production. Mark Dean: First, how did Roadcase Royale get their name? You gave me a guitar pick, which I still have. Thank you for the rose, I appreciate that. Mark Dean: I’m sure that probably happens to you all the time. I gave you a rose when you played in Dublin on the Jupiter’s Darling Tour. We have actually met before, but I’m sure you don’t remember.
