DEF LEPPARD Guitarist PHIL COLLEN - "Gone Are The Days When You Take This Big Old, Bloated, Self-Indulgent Writing Period"
May 5, 2009, 15 years ago
DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited. An excerpt is available below:
Jeb: I have heard rumblings that after this touring (with POISON and CHEAP TRICK) Def Leppard may take some time off and write an album?
Phil: "Yes and no. Gone are the days when you take this big old, bloated, self-indulgent writing period. I don’t think we should do that. I think we should be writing on the tour. We are going to be bringing out the Sparkle Lounge on this tour, and even if we only get one or two songs, it is really important because it means you have started the album.
The big problem Def Leppard has is the same problem that a lot of the great bands of the 1970's had, like BAD COMPANY and LED ZEPPELIN, and that is that they would come off the road and start writing. They would take huge amounts of time off to write and it was really self-indulgent, self-important and boring. I think that is why the punk movement came in, because things got so dull. We have been guilty of that in the past. When we did the Sparkle Lounge album, we started writing and getting the ideas together while we were on the road. Doing that eliminates nine months of studio time."
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