Ron Nevison: [What About Love] was written by Jim Vallance and was given to me by Capitol Records president Don Grierson. I remember specifically being up at Nancy's house in Snohomish, Washington, rehearsing, and when I played that song, Nancy left the room.  She wasn't happy with that song at first for Heart. They hated the treatment and production of the demo, and I think it was more the vocal they hated.

Because the vocal in the demo was so wimpy, and I said, 'Listen, here's the way it's gonna be: I am not going to force you to do any song.  But also, when you listen to a demo I don't want you to listen to someone's wimped-out vocal, because you guys are the greatest singers in the entire fuckin' rock world. So I want you to think of this demo as musical notes on paper.  Pretend I handed you a lyric and music sheet, and you're gonna play it as a band, and if you can't make it your own, I'm not gonna make you do it'.  And suddenly it came alive, and there was a lesson there. 

A producer can listen through and past that.  I was only listening to melodies and notes, not to vocal performances and production.  A lot of people aren't capable of seeing past that, but Don Grierson was and I was, and I didn't have to make Heart do it.  They started playing it, and once Ann and Nancy heard it on tape, the went, 'Oh ... okay'.  It became much more their song by the time we'd gone from pre-production to proper recording. 

I'll never forget the day that their managers came into the studio, right after I cut the basic track at the Record Plant in L.A., which was just a rhythm guitar, keyboard and vocal on it.  They flipped out over it, and the girls were almost over the moon, everybody was, at how good it had turned out.  And I hadn't even mixed it yet.  So the lesson there is always jump to conclusions slowly.