Def Leppard's Joe Elliott tells us he wants to bring a 'mini-festival' to their co-headlining tour with Mötley Crüe and explains why 'contracts are there to be torn up'
After a short break for Christmas, Def Leppard will get down to planning what Elliott promises will feel like a mini-festival. “Now the hard work begins, now that we’ve signed the contract,” he tellsget torn up, I promise you. Now we’re off to design a production that will be as mind-blowing as the whole idea is.”Well, the grownups talk, and then they come to us with an offer that we can’t refuse or can. This is one we didn’t want to refuse.
This kind of tour is a celebration, so we’re not going to be digging into deep tracks, album cuts, and obscure B-sides like we tended to do when we did the Vegas residencies. When you’re on the one stage 12 times, you can pull out [the 1980 B-side] “Good Morning Freedom” or you can pull out really strange, obscure songs. But when you’re playing for 90 minutes, as opposed to two hours, you have to cut away some of the fat.
Not at all. We never felt we were part of it, but we were part of that generation. It’s the same way that the Who are in the same generation as Gerry and the Pacemakers, but it doesn’t mean that they have anything sonically in common, other than the sounds. I’ve never had a doubt, but we just had to wait our time. It’s been a turbulent career with this band. We’ve had great success. We’ve had some traumatic personal experiences to deal with. And we also had traumatic professional stuff, like the Nineties and the early [2000s] were tough for us. But we never stopped believing in what we were doing. We knew they just had to come around.
So with all these big bands and artists together on this tour, will you be doing a super jam at the end of the night with everyone? You had gotten Ian Hunter on stage with you at the Rock Hall induction earlier this year.
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