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Joe Elliott Pays Tribute To Jimmy Bain/Thanks Guest Singers

Sunday, 31st January 2016





Last In Line 2016.
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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott paid tribute to Last In Line bassist Jimmy Bain last night on his weekly radio show.

Joe mentioned Jimmy's death and talked about the "week from hell" the band experienced on the Hysteria On The High Seas cruise.

Jimmy passed away on 23rd January on board the MSC Divina from unknown causes.

Joe also hinted the band would not be playing another cruise event anytime soon.

He went on to thank the three guests singers who stood in for him during the second electric concert on 23rd January which he had to sit out.

The Joe Elliott Show - 30th January 2016 Quotes

Jimmy Bain

"But more tragically we also lost Jimmy Bain who passed away on the cruise. So tonight I'm gonna pay tribute to Jimmy Bain in many ways because he did play on a lot of material. So you're obviously well familiar with. Others maybe not so much. I did say last week that broadcasting from open waters was a first. It'll probably be a last. Talking of - here's Last In Line."

Last In Line

"From the soon to be released Heavy Crown album that is Last In Line. Featuring of course the late great Jimmy Bain with a song called Martyr. Now you know that Jimmy played on that but did you know that Jimmy Bain played on these next two songs also."

Ian Hunter/Kate Bush

"Yes it's fair to say that Jimmy Bain got around quite a bit. As well as those two songs that we just heard he was also of course in a band with Brian Robertson called Wild Horses. Now the Jimmy Bain story essentially is Vivian's to tell. But I've known Jimmy since I was a teenager. Having roadied for Wild Horses at The Limit Club in Sheffield where Jimmy and Brian Robertson paid me two pounds for loading their gear out. Also at Reading 1980 I believe it was. I hooked them up with their new guitarist John Lockton after Neil Carter left to join U.F.O. So there is history with Jimmy. The songs that we just heard there Kate Bush from the album The Dreaming back in 1982 with the song Sat In Your Lap and before that the original version of a song the Down 'n' Outz recorded on the My ReGeneration album. Ian Hunter with - Overnight Angels is the album 1977. The song England Rocks."

Rainbow/David Bowie

"So let's say one last final goodbye to Jimmy Bain the best way possible."

"It would appear that my radio show is slowly but surely turning into a weekly requiem for lost rock stars. There's the one from just a few weeks ago. the late great David Bowie from his latest album Blackstar. That's a song called Dollar Days. Great song. And before that from the album Rainbow Rising of course we heard Richie Blackmore's Rainbow featuring Jimmy Bain on bass guitar with the song Stargazer."

Eric Martin/Kip Winger/Andrew Freeman

"You are listening to the Joe Elliott show on dry land this week from Miami, Florida. Time for a little break and when we come back. I'm gonna pay tribute to a couple of guys who did a sterling job standing in for me. See ya in a bit."

"As you can possibly tell from my somewhat husky talking voice. I have what's known in the trade as a bit of a winter cold. Now the thing about singers is we can't change a string or pick up a new stick. They're like fingernails. You break one. It takes a couple of weeks to grow back. The voice doesn't fix overnight. So it's just something that we singers have to suck up and get on with."

"But unfortunately on the cruise I just could not pull my voice together. So I rallied around all the other bands that were on and there were plenty of them. And I have to say at the top of the show I played Last In Line. And I've got to be very honest here. Andrew Freeman did a fantastic job standing in for me having been in a Leppard tribute band once albeit as a bass player. He knew the words so that was easy. But Kip Winger and Eric Martin did a great job of reading the lyrics off a sheet doing Foolin' and Photograph. So I wanted to honour them and thank them publicly for doing what they did. As we just heard there. We heard Wild World the old song by Cat Stevens there from Mr. Big from the album Bump Around. And before that from the title track of their first album back in 1988 we heard Winger with Seventeen."

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