Sunday, 21st July 2013
Pic by DefDazz/Darren
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show last night on Planet Rock.
This weeks show included classic songs by Thin Lizzy, Slash and Def Leppard.
The full playlist is shown below along with a few of Joe's on air quotes.
The show is available until next Saturday using the On Demand feature. The show is also repeated on Tuesdays at 9pm.
The Joe Elliott Show - 20th July 2013 Playlist
- 01 - Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (2010 Remix)
- 02 - Foreigner - Dirty White Boy
- 03 - Rival Sons - All The Way
- 04 - Slash - Standing In The Sun
- 05 - Scorpions - Crying Days
- 06 - Cheap Trick - Stop This Game
- 07 - The Motors - Dancing The Night Away (Joe's Vinyl Version)
- 08 - Alice Cooper - Ballad Of Dwight Fry
- 09 - David Bowie - Cracked Actor
- 10 - Def Leppard - Come Undone
- 11 - Ricky Warwick - Tattoos & Alibis
The Joe Elliott Show - Quotes
Show Intro
"Last week Quebec City in Canada, this week the Emerald Isle. Welcome everybody to the Joe Elliott show on Planet Rock coming to you this week from my home studio, Joe's Garage in Dublin, Ireland. The Def Leppard tour is over. We finished on Wednesday night in Canandaigua, Upstate New York which was one day short of the 35th anniversary of the first ever Def Leppard gig at Westfield school in Sheffield. A gig attended by all of 50 people maybe who stood as far away from the stage as they could possibly get compared to last weeks gig in Quebec where an astonishing 85,000 people came. A bit of a contrast. Talking of first ever gigs we weren't really going down that well until we played this song for an encore."
Thin Lizzy/The First Def Leppard Show
"I think it's safe to say that it was a bit of a learning curve for Def Leppard when we played that song in front of about 50 kids at Westfield School. They hadn't been remotely interested in anything that we'd play before because we'd written all these weird songs, actually pretty much everything that ended up on On Through The Night, weird to them at least. But when we came out and played that song, that song being Jailbreak. The title track from Lizzy's 1976 album that is indeed the 2010 remix that I did with Scott Gorham, when we played that they went crazy and it kind of gave us a direction to go in. Now I mentioned the gig in Quebec. Fantastic audience, huge audience and very, very responsive. Kind of gratifying to play in front of so many wild and crazy people. Our opening act that night was Foreigner and the weird thing was there wasn't one original member in the band on that particular show cause Mick Jones couldn't make the gig. He's now back in the band and will be rejoining the group for the European dates. Mick Jones great songwriter as can be heard in this next song."
David Bowie/Def Leppard/Show outro
"Two songs with a similar lyrical theme there about things falling apart. The latter from Songs From The Sparkle Lounge Def Leppard's 2008 album with a song called Come Undone. And before that from Aladdin Sane we heard David Bowie and Cracked Actor. So once again we come to the end of the show it's been a real pleasure as always. I shall be back with you next week as usual. Till then I'm gonna leave you with this. The title track from Ricky Warwick's first ever solo album Tattoos & Alibis. Until next week take care, see ya!"
- Listen to the show (until next Saturday) at - planetrock.com
- Previous Show - 14th July 2013