Friday, 16th May 2014
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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was interviewed by Kallaway On The Rise of 95.5 WIFC radio earlier today and the full audio is available plus a transcript.
Joe talked about the new album recording, playing new material in concert, the Summer Tour 2014 with KISS and the Down 'n' Outz.
Listen to the full 6 minute interview via the link below.
Kallaway On The Rise - Joe Elliott Interview Quotes
2015 Studio Album
"We are not on the road. We - Def Leppard are actually in the recording studio writing and recording new music for a new album which will hopefully be out early next year. So we get together to rehearse about mid-June and then the first show is on the 23rd." - (Joe said 24th again)
Summer Tour 2014
"It's no pressure at all. It's totally fun. I mean socially we like these guys. We get on, we've met them over the years. We've never toured together but we know them. It was pretty obvious from the press conference that we did with them at the House Of Blues in LA about six weeks ago there's an enormous amount of respect from both bands to each band. So it's not like there's gonna be stories of sabotage and all that kind of nonsense. We don't feel any pressure at all because any pressure that we get we put on ourselves. We're not worried that we're on stage with KISS and like can we compete and I dare say neither are they."
"All we have to do is we're competing with ourselves if you like. We're competing with the record versions of the songs we're gonna play live and we have to make sure that we do them justice. That will happen whether we are touring with KISS, playing on our own or touring you know Adam Sandler telling jokes, doing a comedy sketch - it would make no difference. I'd still have to sing Photograph and Sugar the way that the audience expects it to be done. So there is no pressure really we're just gonna go out there and have a ball because we won't be playing any new material cause we don't have any out. So it is gonna be kind of like a greatest hits set which is exactly what people want if we're gonna come and see Def Leppard and KISS on the same night. You know it's all about the hits and they're here to celebrate not to go for a lesson in new music or something like that."
"Next year with a new album out we will play some new stuff. But obviously we would do like what the Stones did. When they released Doom And Gloom it was on the radio 8 or 9 weeks before their first show so anybody that went knew it and you break them in. You've got to break them in."
- Listen to/download the full interview at - wifc.com
- Def Leppard - Kallaway On The Rise 2014 Show Page
- Def Leppard - Radio 2014
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