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booth and nobody was there, and I got to meet Morgan [Rose, drums] and Clint [Lowery, guitars,] and he remembered seeing me play at one of the radio station shows in Pennsylvania. I remember thinking that was just the coolest thing.”Skunk AnansieJoe: “Just an absolute beast of a live band. I forgot who we were opening for, years ago. We were at the Astoria [in London], and it was just like, ‘Okay, this is it. This is what we need to do.’ We have a lot of friends in the Skunk Anansie camp; it’s the same crew and everything. The music is always the most important thing, but if you have good people around you and have a vibe, it’s cool.”I ask whether seeing strong women in rock growing up made them feel as though success in the genre was somehow possible.Halestorm. Image: PressLzzy suddenly recalls his Metallica fandom. “I remember seeing Metallica through my dad’s eyes because he was stationed in Europe at the time and was recording Rectal Cancer [sic]. He wrote down the tracklist, gave it to me and I remember Starlist in Paris, and my dad was like, ‘This film is going to be something you’re going to watch probably a million times.’ I remember thinking as a kid, ‘I’ll never get to see Metallica.’ Then, 10 years later [in 1999, the day after Cliff Burton died in 1986]. they played a show and my dad was like, ‘That video you watched, I was there so you could see what you missed.’ That changed my perception entirely. It was hard for them to find a partner like Skunk Anansie for a long time.”Nancy WilsonJoe: “The most badass of all. Heart is so iconic for American rock. Wolf is sick. I feel like that’s the tip of the iceberg for Wolf [Wilson, of Heart and White Hearts].”With just enough time for a quick selfie outside the Gibson Garage’s fabled guitar-shaped entrance, Hale and Hottinger disappear into a taxi. It’s already apparent how much Everest – and tours like Maiden and Black Sabbath – will leave the same evergreen memories for them that their heroes have given to their fans. In years to come, scores of bands might stand up as unheralded titans of their game and point at Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger as the ones who paved the way.