DEF LEPPARD's Joe Elliott - "Mutt Lange Was Somebody We Wanted To Work With From Day One, But He Wasn't Available"
June 5, 2009, 15 years ago
InTheNews.co.uk has issued an interview with DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott. The following is an excerpt from the interview, conducted by Lewis Bazley:
Q: How important was Mutt Lange's production to defining the sound of Pyromania?
A: "Very - that's why we employed him. It's the difference between a good actor working on a low-budget film and then getting the lead role in Pirates of the Caribbean! Mutt was somebody we wanted to work with from day one but he wasn't available. We managed to get him for High And Dry, which was a great record for what it was but we hadn't really found our feet. It was on Pyromania that he said 'Let's make a record that nobody else has ever made'."
Q: What did he mean?
A: He talked about using all the technology in the studio that rock bands are scared to go near and making the album the way the HUMAN LEAGUE would, for example, using samples, and synthesisers and textures. QUEEN were another band that weren't scared of using the studio, which they took from the BEATLES and the BEACH BOYS, so we wanted to be more like them but also be a kickass rock 'n' roll band live. We were like two different bands."
Read the entire interview at InTheNews.co.uk.
