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Slang Album Song By Song Part 1

Friday, 24th January 2014





Slang Deluxe Edition 2014.

Def Leppard will release the Slang Deluxe Edition in February and in 1996 Phil Collen told the story of the 11 original album tracks.

In May 1996 Phil went through each song giving a brief explanation of them.

In part one Phil talks about the songs 'Truth?' and 'Turn To Dust' both of which featured vocals by him alongside Joe's main vocal.

Slang Song 1 - Truth?

Phil - "One of the first songs written for SLANG, but after two years it started to sound a bit dated so we rewrote it and recorded it during the last three days. I think the panic and pressure in this case gave the song an extra and nervous excitement that it really needed."

Slang Song 2 - Turn To Dust

Phil - "A bit of an epic. The Indian flavor was inspired by the lead vocal melody and we built from there. We started with a sample of a sarangi (a bowed Indian instrument) from an album by Ram Narayan, which I bought during a trip to India. After we added guitars it became apparent that we needed other instruments so instead of limiting ourselves to a conventional approach we went for it! Recruiting a guy in England named Craig Pruess for strings and a host of other Indian goodies. We also added a dohl courtesy of Av Singh resulting in classical instruments co-existing with electric guitars and drums. We also have a version of this without drums, just featuring the strings and stuff (hopefully a "B" side or something one day). Anyway, the lesson learned from this one was: follow your nose and don't be restricted by boundaries."

All previous updates on this release and new music can be found in the Album News section.

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