Sunday, 29th April 2012
Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen was interviewed recently during the Morning show on 95 KGGO radio and spoke about new music and the 2012 setlist.
Phil was promoting the 28th August show in Des Moines, IA.
In an eight minute interview Phil talked about the tour with Poison/Lita Ford, the Rock Of Ages movie, choosing support acts, multiple generations attending shows, the setlist, staying in shape for the tour, being a vegan, the Physical Mechanix DVD, recording new music on the road and what music he has on his iPod.
95 KGGO - Phil Collen Interview Quotes
The same setlist on this tour?
"No we're gonna add some stuff. Just recently like last November we played Japan and we'd been used to playing for like an hour and a half. And all of a sudden we had to play for two hours so we had to add ten songs. Over the period of while we were in Japan."
"So yeah we gonna be putting some of those in, some different tracks. You know and we've got the new song 'It's All About Believin'' which I'm sure we're gonna be playing that as well. So we're gonna rotate it and I think we'll have fun with it and it's gonna be slightly different this time around."
A new album's worth of new music? Maybe before the end of 2012?
"Yeah well for sure we're gonna have this thing called the Sparkle Lounge. Backstage we have little amps and a little drumkit and we work songs out. And I think for some reason if this stuff's in there we'll actually go in there when someone has an idea and kind of work it. So they'll be stuff ready by the end of the year for sure."
Visit the show page below and listen to the full interview via the 'Audio/Listen Again' link.
Def Leppard Radio 2012 - Morning Show Page
Def Leppard - 2012 Radio
Def Leppard - 2012 Album News
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