Friday, 21st February 2014
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Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell was interviewed this afternoon by 107.9 The Fox radio on the Robbie & Dave in the Morning Show and a transcript is available.
Vivian talked about the Dublin recording sessions, the Slang Deluxe Edition, the original 1996 album, Rick playing acoustic drums, the VIVA! Hysteria residency/film release and working with Mutt Lange.
The full 12 minute audio can be heard below along with a transcript.
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Robbie & Dave in the Morning Show - Vivian Campbell Interview Quotes
2014 Dublin Recording
"I am actually calling you from Dublin in Ireland. I've been here for a few weeks now. We are actually all here, the whole band. We're working on a new record. It's going very, very well I'm glad to say. We have eight solid song ideas done and you know we're doing this in instalments. We're here until the 1st March and then we'll be coming back here in May to do another three weeks. So we'll do it in dribs and drabs but it won't be ready this year because we're notoriously slow."
New Album Release?
"I would say it'll be about a year from now. It is about time it's long overdue."
New Recording Sound
"The way we're doing actually the recording here in Dublin at the moment we're - is again the first record that we've done since Slang where we've set up and played in a room in real time cause normally we just do it one guy at a time. It's really tedious you know with Def Leppard records it's like sausages. You'd never eat them if you knew how they were made. It's true of a Def Leppard record it's a painful, painful process one guy at a time. But no this time out we wanted to try and capture some of the energy that the band has when we play live. So we set up a kit and Rick is playing in the room with us again. So - and it's yielded good results cause we wanted top get back a bit more to the rock element. So we knew that the only real way to do that was to go old school and play as a band and in the first week we were here we cut four rock tracks."
"Now we're kind of at the painful part of the process where we're starting to over analyse it and think well we've got the rock element covered now we need to do something - so now it's getting more methodical and a lot more boring. So that's why we're gonna be doing it in instalments otherwise we'll bore ourselves to death!."
- Def Leppard - Robbie & Dave In The Morning 2014 Show Page
- Def Leppard - Radio 2014
- Def Leppard - 2014 Album News
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