Tuesday, 16th July 2013
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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was interviewed by TK99 radio in May and the full interview is due to air tomorrow.
The full interview will be broadcast TOMORROW (17th July) between 3-7pm ET. A four minute clip was played during the 3rd May show with Rick also kindly asking Joe my question about "Emm Gryner".
Read a transcript of the chat below.
Listen to the show at - tk99.net - (NOTE - time constraints prevented the full interview being aired)
TK99 - Joe Elliott Interview Transcript
DJ Rick Deyulio Preview Quote
"On the way I have an exclusive interview, just got off the phone a little while ago with Joe Elliott. Def Leppard's legendary lead singer. And we'll talk with him, I'll play the interview for you. Just a clip of the interview today. We'll give you the extended interview as Def Leppard comes to town some time in July we'll play an extended clip of the interview. Really good stuff, talked with him for a little while and a real good guy and so I think you'll enjoy the interview."
VIVA Hysteria! - How did that go and will we see any more of that sort of thing?
"It went extremely well. It was one of the most rewarding projects that we've ever been involved in. I'll be honest, the lack of travel is such a blast. We literally would walk up and down from a service elevator on to the stage. It was just amazing. Vegas has become very rock and roll. You know I think the dead wood's been blown away now. There's people going to Vegas now these days who don't know who Frankie, Deano or Sammy Davis Jr. were. Now it's Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, Prince, The Who, Cheap Trick, Rod Stewart, Elton John. I mean it's really opened up into a rock and roll residency place. And the kids really seem to dig travelling there because people go to have fun in Vegas and gamble. Why not go to have fun in Vegas and rock and roll. To do 11 shows and to showcase an album like Hysteria in that environment is just brilliant. There's really no better place to do it. It's not something that you could really tour as well, because part of it is the fact that you are in the one venue and it makes it kind of insular and very unique."
"But yeah would we do it again? absolutely we would. Would we play Hysteria from start to finish on a tour? maybe. But I don't think it would be the same. I think we could do it and I'm sure that we will do it on the odd show and if we're in the mood. But the great thing about it is because we're not promoting any new music right now it gave us an opportunity to dig very, very deep for the opening part of our set into our back catalogue. So we were pulling stuff off On Through The Night, High 'n' Dry even old B Sides from 33 years ago."
The Hysteria tour you guys played In The Round and I had read this great little story that in order to get you guys out to the stage without you being mobbed by fans that they had to put you in large clothes hampers? Now is this true and is it true that Robert Plant was at one of the shows?
"Yeah laundry baskets. It's very true. Every night we would be pushed out in the hampers and it was the only way to get us through the audience. What they'd do is they'd be pushing them backwards and forth all night long but just once we'd be in them. You could see through little cracks occasionally and see people were looking and they'd go they're in there!, they're in there!. But they'd been saying that for the previous nine runs as well. So they didn't really know what was going on you know. That was the only way of doing it."
"We played the Rosemont in Chicago. Robert came down and we bet him 10 quid he daren't push one of them out. So of course you know he had to disguise himself to a point. I think he dressed himself up as a pirate you know and shoved a cushion up the front of his shirt to make him look like a big roadie and the further he got through the crowd without being noticed he started peeling back the layers cause I think he actually wanted to be recognised by the end of it. He got his ten pounds cause he did it. Funnily enough he had me reciprocate the bet about a year and a half later I bumped into him in New York and he was just on his way up to Albany and he said do you wanna come? I've got a private plane and all this stuff so there I was on his plane and he bet me 10 quid that I wouldn't go out and do the mike test. So in front of 10,000 kids, dressed as me, I walked in font of all the backing vocal mikes going 'one, two', 'one, two' and not one person sussed it. It was hilarious, we've had a few bets mostly over soccer. That was the two musical ones we got involved in. Funny stuff."
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