DEF LEPPARD Bassist Rick 'Sav' Savage Suffering Kidney Infection
May 16, 2008, 16 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Andy Coleman from Birminghammail.net:
DEF LEPPARD bassist Rick 'Sav' Savage is not looking his best when I meet him the morning after the band's intimate performance at London's Carling Academy Islington. There were just a few hundred invited guests and competition winners in attendance and Sav says: "It was like the club gigs we did before the debut album came out in 1980."
But Sav adds that he went on stage in some discomfort - and he's still suffering.
"I've been a little under the weather with a kidney infection which leaves me weak," he reveals. "When we came off stage I told the others that I wouldn't want to do that kind of show every night for a living!"Adds frontman Joe Elliott: "There wasn't room to swing a cat on stage. It was a bit like Manchester United turning up at Wycombe Wanderers.
"Being so close together on stage you hear the sound in a different way. It takes time to adapt."That's because the band swiftly rose to arena and stadium status - and have never looked back.
"We were never artists that looked to get our music across in an intimate setting," agrees Sav. "We thrive on playing big gigs."Read more here.
