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Joe Elliott Comments On NFL Microphone Incident - Audio

Wednesday, 1st October 2014





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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was interviewed yesterday by PYX 106.2 radio and talked about the microphone incident at the NFL performance in London.

Joe talked about the NFL performance/microphone incident, his houses in Dublin/County Kerry, the Summer Tour 2014, not using backing tracks, keeping his voice in shape and a story about his ex-wife.

Listen to the full 5 minute interview below. It was originally scheduled for 26th September but got moved.

PYX 106.2 - Joe Elliott Interview Quotes

NFL Microphone Incident

Yeah it was huge there was 90,000 in there and god knows how many watching on television. It was yeah it was a big moment. There's three games this season they're doing over in the UK at Wembley. Yesterday it was the Oakland Raiders against the Miami Dolphins."

"If you're on tour and you kind of blow your voice. You've still got to get up the next day and figure it out. That's why a lot of people cheat. I just go - I work very hard to keep mine in as best shape as I can. So we've never used tapes. I mean if anybody actually saw the NFL yesterday you'll know damn well we don't use tapes because the mic packed in towards the end. Had that been (on tape) there'd be a vocal all the way through the song - for the last 10 seconds of Sugar there was no vocal because the mic blew up you know. And you know you just - we'd rather take that consequence of like it going wrong than have it reliably brilliant every night because it's not real."

Acts Using Backing Tracks

"I wasn't aware that Motley were doing that but I mean it's up to them. I know a lot of these acts like Britney Spears and Beyonce and Madonna do it because they dance more than they sing and they're gonna sound out of breath with all that dancing. It's kind of almost theatre so you like kinda let that go. But when it comes to rock bands I'd really much prefer to hear them real. Yeah if Ozzy's voice is out a bit or my voice or whoever because they've been on the road for six months. It kind of makes it real and we're the last of the dying breed of musicians anyway that play that way."






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