Ann and Nancy Wilson wrote this song about Mike Fisher, who was an original guitarist for Heart he eventually stopped performing and became their sound man - he and Ann were dating. Roger Fisher, who is Mike's brother and also played guitar in the band, is also credited as a writer on this song. According to Ann, she felt that the world was crazy and sometimes maddening, but her relationship with Mike kept her balanced. So I poured that frustration into the words of the song. I was in a very close relationship with Michael. When you're in that situation you just climb up into your love's lap and say: 'Oh God, what do we do about this world. Two days later I was better, and we started to set it to music. We were listening to a lot of Moody Blues back then. There was a song called that had this fast, fiery guitar rhythm. That was our idea for the groove. Then Roger Fisher came up with the really cool riff over A-minor to F, and that gave it some more beautiful momentum. According to the liner notes for one of their greatest hits albums, they moved to Vancouver when some of the male members of the band would have been subject to the draft in the Vietnam War. They returned to Seattle when there was no longer a threat of them being called up in the draft. Please or to post comments. So don't worry about it. Glad they left the country instead of ending up being drafted. I saw footage of it on YouTube. It did let everyone know that she can hold her own. Michael did play guitar for Heart for a short time, also bass. But quickly moved to running sound and managing. This was before they ever recorded anything. Over the years they have gotten understandably tired of answering questions about so many of these things, so who could blame them for making up little stories along the way. So in the book, Ann says Crazy on You was pretty much purely a sexual story between her and Michael Fisher. Michael was the band's 'shaman' or visionary leader. Roger played guitar and was later with Nancy. Derosier wasn't even in the picture yet. But was later the drummer and Nancy's kind of boyfriend. Though she says the chemistry was never really right there. Funny thing, Ann says her 'going crazy on' Michael was something she saw as the pinnacle experience. I couldn't understand at the time because two chicks were fronting a rock band and the write up was conducted by the raven haired one. Being in the Mediterranean at the time it was welcoming to hear because we had already hit port in Rota, Spain and the guitar players there I remember sounded much like the intro to this song. Anyway to make a sea story short I was inspired by this song to learn to play guitar. Good Luck to all and I let me go crazy on you believe that this song was dedicated to seafarers. I really wish the band would get back together with their original lineup and make another album. Anne's voice will never fail to send shivers down my spine. It is the most beautiful song that I have ever listened to. All female singers and artists should be grateful to Heart for not having to endure male chauvanism as they experienced it themselves. I mean, many died in wars to give us the very freedom that allows Heart to play and sing whatever kind of music they want. My daughter loves to show off on Guitar Hero with this song. Nancy sure can tear up that axe. Hard to see this as anything other than two young people being caught up in a war zone, dealing with responsibilities they aren't ready for. I just listened to the Bert Jansch song on Youtube. I can remember that day in '76 as though it happened yesterday. I decided I wanted to sing just like Ann Wilson. Now I cover Heart songs every chance I get. I just want to say that Heart is absolutely great. They deserve respect from a broader audience. Nonetheless, great song, and an all-time classic. That brilliant, intricate acoustic melody, followed by straight-ahead powerful electric power let me go crazy on you. Man, could that band make music. And this was their first album. And don't forget Ann's powerful lungs belting out that song. I still turn it up and let it blow me away. Sad thing is, I'm from Seattle and never saw them live. It sounds so much like the guitar of Steve Howe from the awesome group Yes. I can remember when this song came out, and I tried playing it on my guitar. My mother was so upset about the song, she forbade me to play any Heart song on the guitar. I like the way they take no prisoner in their music. I've seen them in concert several times and she played it. You can also see her on youtube playing it live. If I remember correctly, she said she played an acoustic with really bad action and her fingers were all messed up and stuff like that. But I've heard from friends that it was the male guitarist who played the intro. Maybe she was talking about the wild strumming and not the intricate main intro. Does anyone know the real facts, and has whoever did play that ever done anything comparable. You'd think that a band who has one of the best acoustic guitar pieces in rock music might want to include it in their acoustic show. This song is clearly about infatuation - probably sexual infatuation. It was his brother, Roger, who was the original guitarist. The band took them and Ann was really messed up on stage let me go crazy on you felt like she was a forty year old even though at the time she was only twenty-one. When she went to bed she was still feeling really nervous and couldn't go to sleep so she wrote down parts of the song. Nancy was sick at the time and when she got better wrote the melody of the song. Much like 90% of everything she wrote on the earliest days when they were together.
