DEF LEPPARD Frontman Joe Elliott On Upcoming Tour - "I Doubt Very Much We’ll Play The Same Set Two Nights In A Row"
June 22, 2009, 15 years ago
Rollingstone.com is reporting:
POISON frontman Bret Michaels was forced to reschedule a pair of solo gigs citing “injuries suffered at the Tony Awards June 7,” but according to DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott, Michaels is still on for the June 23rd launch of Def Lep’s summer tour with Poison and CHEAP TRICK. “I bet he’s had worse in bars,” he tells Rolling Stone. “We all have, really, at some point in our career. Some irate boyfriend that thinks you looked a bit too hard at the girl in the third row.”
Def Leppard are heading into the tour fresh from their buzz-generating performance with TAYLOR SWIFT at last week’s 2009 CMT Music Awards, and Elliott says the band has assembled some career-spanning sets, to keep things fresh for those who’ve seen the group in concert in recent years.
“We’ve got 90 minutes to try and keep every Leppard fan out there happy, because they’ll all get, ‘Oh, they should’ve played this, and they should’ve played that,’ ” he says. “I think if we played all night, there’d be someone saying, ‘Well, they didn’t play that B side from 1983,’ or whatever. What we’ve done is, we’ve got a tour set that’s going to change. We’ve got certain songs we’re going to flip out every night, but I doubt very much we’ll play the same set two nights in a row.”Read more here.
