DEF LEPPARD Guitarist Phil Collen On MANRAZE Project - "I Had Lyrical Ideas And Musical Vibes That I Really Needed To Get Out"
July 25, 2011, 13 years ago
Guitar International's Rob Cavuoto has issued an interview with DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen, in which he discusses his MANRAZE project, among other things. A couple of excerpts follow:
Q: Do you think Manraze came out of the slowness of Def Leppard to produce and the need to get your creativity out?
A: "Partly, but more than that. Joe and I spoke about this years ago. The more popular Def Leppard became, the less we could experiment with stuff. We did that with Slang; we loved it and everyone else hated it. So we are painted into a corner. There’s no way we could have done what I’m doing with Manraze where you do a dub reggae song and then a song that sounds almost punk.
Similar thing happened with QUEEN, they started writing different types of songs, and people kind of shut off. It was weird. You’d think the fan would grow with the band, but that’s not always the case.
I had lyrical ideas and musical vibes that I really needed to get out, and we could never have done that with Def Leppard even though we’d attempted that before. For me the Manraze thing is great. It allows me to scratch the itch."
Read the full interview here.
Check out BW&BK; scribe Martin Popoff's new Manraze feature at this location.
