Wednesday, 18th September 2013
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Def Leppard members Joe Elliott/Rick Savage appeared on Star Radio 107.9 on Sunday 15th September and the full audio is available.
Joe and Sav talked about the VIVA! Hysteria London premiere, the Las Vegas residency/how it came about, rehearsing for the shows, Ded Flatbird and some interesting setlist talk.
The full 6 minute interview can be heard below.
Star Radio - Joe Elliott/Rick Savage Interview Quotes
Joe - "We haven't played (Don't Shoot) Shotgun ever and the funny thing. And I'm being honest I seriously mean it. I think it's better live than it is on the record."
Ded Flatbird/Future Setlists
Joe - "Yeah the first song that we played in Vegas was Good Morning Freedom. Which we hadn't played live for 33 years and obviously by saying that two of the guys in the band had never played it at all. In fact when I suggested it Phil said Oh I don't know it. So I sent him an mp3 of it and he went. Ah it's brilliant!."
Sav - "It wasn't even on any album it was the B-Side of a single in England. It gave us the opportunity to do songs like that. We'd never be able to have if we were just doing a normal Def Leppard tour. It would be great for us but half the crowd would be going Oh I don't get this or you know it's kinda cool but why aren't you playing Armageddon It? or whatever. So it gave us that space to actually play songs that we wanted to do that were kind of rare and deep and really for the die hard fans. The real hardcore fans that had been with us since you know '79. And that was the great thing about creating your own support band."
Joe - "And I think it did actually kind of pull a stick from up our butts a bit as well because when we went to Europe I think we did play Good Morning Freedom a couple of times in Spain or somewhere and it was like It's OK it works. Which we would never have done so again - yeah in France - you get a learning curve you know and you go you know what - we were always like I hate that three minutes where two people are digging it and ten thousand are going I don't know it and then it's like you could lose that fear and go OK so we're educating them and that's what we're doing here and we'll see it how works."
- VIVA! Hysteria 2CD/DVD @ - Amazon.com
- VIVA! Hysteria DVD @ - Amazon.com
- VIVA! Hysteria Blu-ray @ - Amazon.com
- VIVA! Hysteria MP3 @ - Amazon.com
- VIVA! Hysteria 2CD/DVD @ - Amazon.co.uk
- VIVA! Hysteria DVD @ - Amazon.co.uk
- VIVA! Hysteria Blu-ray @ - Amazon.co.uk
- VIVA! Hysteria MP3 @ - Amazon.co.uk
- Listen again to the interview at - soundcloud.com
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