DEF LEPPARD Singer Joe Elliott Talks About '80s Glam Scene Slam On Sixx Sense
September 14, 2010, 14 years ago
On the September 10th edition of MÖTLEY CRÜE/SIXX A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx' syndicated radio show, Sixx Sense, DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott talked about the comments he made during a press conference at the Sweden Rock Festival 2008, when he was asked about the 1980s glam metal scene. Check out the show below:
Elliott's remarks during the June 6, 2008 press conference at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden can be read as follows (or click on the video below):
"If you actually look at the way that the 'glam' bands, if you want to call it that, from Los Angeles dressed themselves up, they totally missed the point. When English glam bands from the '70s came on Top Of The Pops, it was almost an afterthought to what they were actually doing - music always came first, and then they'd be like, 'What are we gonna wear?' . . . BOWIE was very image-driven, and maybe the music came second, but a lot of the other bands, it was always about the music - the image thing was just something that they did to just upstage other bands on Top Of The Pops; that's what they used to do. So we were never driven to do the mascara thing or whatever these bands did. They didn't have any substance musically, I don't think, in comparison to us, so we didn't feel we needed to do it. Bands that do that are doing it to cover up the fact that there is no substance in their music. The only band - and I'm not saying it because we're here - the only band that did pull it off was HANOI ROCKS. I thought they were a good band, and they looked… Michael Monroe was one of the best. And I think Andy McCoy (Hanoi Rocks guitarist) does the best kind of (THE ROLLING STONES') Keith Richards... so much better than Mötley Crüe or POISON or any of those bands. They were real - the rest of the guys, it was all a bit fake for me."
