Chords for Sounds: Donnie interviewing Def Leppard (1983)
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Leopard who received a fairly [Em] wet old welcome at Narara.
Joe, Rick, Phil, welcome [G] in.
Thanks.
Did that affect you to have to work under those conditions or have you done
plenty of that through this last American?
We've done one or two like that,
not [G] as bad.
I mean I've never ever seen rain like that.
[D] That was the worst?
24
years of being [Em] alive.
And is it true because I didn't see the actual
occurrence but someone threw water all over themselves and [Bm] that was
[G] so that you
would feel as bad off as the people out there?
I just said like you know if you can get
wet we can't.
[E] We were wet [Bm] anyway.
It was bloody hard.
Yeah.
It [F#m] was soaked.
[F#] Stages were like puddles all over [Em] the place.
I know the Rolling Stones do that sort of thing don't they?
Every now and again if they're out in a place where people are actually getting
wet they'll just [E] walk out in the rain and [A] say well we'd better compensate.
Very nice.
[E] Very nice of you to do [A] that.
You've had the [G] three albums and it doesn't appear
when [A] you look at the success the first couple [C] had over in the [E] UK and then [A] of
course the pyromania thing in [G] America it doesn't appear [E] that you had a hard
time at any time as a band did you master?
Do you remember some of the
tough times?
Oh yeah.
There's always plenty [B] of hard times looking back but [E] they don't
really seem that [Bm] bad at the time because [G] you've still got the [E] excitement of being
in a band and you know you can put up with a lot of things.
We've done some
classic gigs in front of ten people you know three in the morning stupid hours like that.
And about money you obviously had times where you really had to scrape a [Em] little.
Oh yeah.
[Bm] How long have you been together?
[E] Six [Em] years now.
Just over six years.
And so it was a couple of years before [Bm] you got to record?
[Em] Yeah it was about two or three years.
We did a record on our own which I mean doesn't count I suppose [A] but I
mean it does it in a sense.
We did this self [E]-financed EP.
We'd only played like
six [Am] gigs and we thought well we don't [F#] want to play this kind of [E] circuit you
know the working men's clubs or we [Am] do cover versions all the time or little
[B] places where you can't even get your gear in.
[E] So we went and did a record [Em] just
for the hell of it and it turned out to be pretty good actually and we sent it
around all the music papers in England radio stations [E] and they picked up on it
and started playing it a lot.
Which got us our first management which got us our first deal
[G] and it all snowballed from there.
I'm sorry but [B] England sort of got behind you very
early [E] but it [Bm] tends to have done [E] a reverse [Bm]
about face since Pyromania.
Why
do you think that [G] happened?
[E] Well the English press are a bit funny.
And in England it definitely goes in trends [A] like say America [E] you know you could
have been successful for ages but in England it's different.
[Am] One week you
have Culture Club [E] and the next week you have Adamant and literally like that.
With the punk thing happening at the time you first started out was that [Am] really
hard for you to [B] sort of push your way through?
I think it actually helped us
looking back because there was only [A] a couple of bands [D] that [B] was playing our
type of music.
There was us and maybe a band called Iron Maiden and [E] so in
that respect it was [B] a little bit easier because people probably take a little
bit more notice of you because you [G#] weren't doing the normal [F#] thing.
Everybody
was like starting punk bands you know because it was a pretty easy thing to do.
And I think that's why we [A] probably [E] stood out a little [Am] bit more.
ACDC, [Em] where is the tie [C] there because you have the same producer on Pyromania?
I
[F] think you've got the same [E] manager now or a [Am] guy that did work with ACDC
was managing [G] it.
So is that where [C] all that link up came about?
[Am] Basically it was yeah we were being [G] managed originally by these two guys
[C] from Sheffield in England.
One of them worked [A] for a record company.
He thought he knew it all [G] and didn't.
The other one ran [C] a record shop and they thought
[B] they'd pulled some strings by getting us on the ACDC tour and in actual fact it was
Peter that set it [A] all up because he wanted to manage us.
[D] So we [F#] got in with
Peter that [B] way.
We were supported by ACDC in England.
Mutt Lang [A] was Peter's friend
obviously.
[E] Peter played him our first album and [Am] he said I'd like to do their
second album.
And [E] that was it.
And good luck at Salinas tonight.
Which is where you are.
Let's [Am] have a look at Rock of Ages.
Def Leppard, we thank them very [G] much.
Thanks guys for joining us.
Have a good [F#] stay.
[F]
Joe, Rick, Phil, welcome [G] in.
Thanks.
Did that affect you to have to work under those conditions or have you done
plenty of that through this last American?
We've done one or two like that,
not [G] as bad.
I mean I've never ever seen rain like that.
[D] That was the worst?
24
years of being [Em] alive.
And is it true because I didn't see the actual
occurrence but someone threw water all over themselves and [Bm] that was
[G] so that you
would feel as bad off as the people out there?
I just said like you know if you can get
wet we can't.
[E] We were wet [Bm] anyway.
It was bloody hard.
Yeah.
It [F#m] was soaked.
[F#] Stages were like puddles all over [Em] the place.
I know the Rolling Stones do that sort of thing don't they?
Every now and again if they're out in a place where people are actually getting
wet they'll just [E] walk out in the rain and [A] say well we'd better compensate.
Very nice.
[E] Very nice of you to do [A] that.
You've had the [G] three albums and it doesn't appear
when [A] you look at the success the first couple [C] had over in the [E] UK and then [A] of
course the pyromania thing in [G] America it doesn't appear [E] that you had a hard
time at any time as a band did you master?
Do you remember some of the
tough times?
Oh yeah.
There's always plenty [B] of hard times looking back but [E] they don't
really seem that [Bm] bad at the time because [G] you've still got the [E] excitement of being
in a band and you know you can put up with a lot of things.
We've done some
classic gigs in front of ten people you know three in the morning stupid hours like that.
And about money you obviously had times where you really had to scrape a [Em] little.
Oh yeah.
[Bm] How long have you been together?
[E] Six [Em] years now.
Just over six years.
And so it was a couple of years before [Bm] you got to record?
[Em] Yeah it was about two or three years.
We did a record on our own which I mean doesn't count I suppose [A] but I
mean it does it in a sense.
We did this self [E]-financed EP.
We'd only played like
six [Am] gigs and we thought well we don't [F#] want to play this kind of [E] circuit you
know the working men's clubs or we [Am] do cover versions all the time or little
[B] places where you can't even get your gear in.
[E] So we went and did a record [Em] just
for the hell of it and it turned out to be pretty good actually and we sent it
around all the music papers in England radio stations [E] and they picked up on it
and started playing it a lot.
Which got us our first management which got us our first deal
[G] and it all snowballed from there.
I'm sorry but [B] England sort of got behind you very
early [E] but it [Bm] tends to have done [E] a reverse [Bm]
about face since Pyromania.
Why
do you think that [G] happened?
[E] Well the English press are a bit funny.
And in England it definitely goes in trends [A] like say America [E] you know you could
have been successful for ages but in England it's different.
[Am] One week you
have Culture Club [E] and the next week you have Adamant and literally like that.
With the punk thing happening at the time you first started out was that [Am] really
hard for you to [B] sort of push your way through?
I think it actually helped us
looking back because there was only [A] a couple of bands [D] that [B] was playing our
type of music.
There was us and maybe a band called Iron Maiden and [E] so in
that respect it was [B] a little bit easier because people probably take a little
bit more notice of you because you [G#] weren't doing the normal [F#] thing.
Everybody
was like starting punk bands you know because it was a pretty easy thing to do.
And I think that's why we [A] probably [E] stood out a little [Am] bit more.
ACDC, [Em] where is the tie [C] there because you have the same producer on Pyromania?
I
[F] think you've got the same [E] manager now or a [Am] guy that did work with ACDC
was managing [G] it.
So is that where [C] all that link up came about?
[Am] Basically it was yeah we were being [G] managed originally by these two guys
[C] from Sheffield in England.
One of them worked [A] for a record company.
He thought he knew it all [G] and didn't.
The other one ran [C] a record shop and they thought
[B] they'd pulled some strings by getting us on the ACDC tour and in actual fact it was
Peter that set it [A] all up because he wanted to manage us.
[D] So we [F#] got in with
Peter that [B] way.
We were supported by ACDC in England.
Mutt Lang [A] was Peter's friend
obviously.
[E] Peter played him our first album and [Am] he said I'd like to do their
second album.
And [E] that was it.
And good luck at Salinas tonight.
Which is where you are.
Let's [Am] have a look at Rock of Ages.
Def Leppard, we thank them very [G] much.
Thanks guys for joining us.
Have a good [F#] stay.
[F]
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Leopard who received a fairly [Em] wet old welcome at Narara.
Joe, Rick, Phil, welcome [G] in.
Thanks.
Did that affect you to have to work under those conditions or have you done
plenty of that through this last American?
We've done one or two like that,
not [G] as bad.
I mean I've never ever seen rain like that.
[D] That was the worst?
24
years of being [Em] alive.
And is it true because I didn't see the actual
occurrence but someone threw water all over themselves and [Bm] that was _
_ [G] so that you
would feel as bad off as the people out there?
I just said like you know if you can get
wet we can't.
[E] We were wet [Bm] anyway.
It was bloody hard.
Yeah.
It [F#m] was soaked.
[F#] Stages were like puddles all over [Em] the place.
I know the Rolling Stones do that sort of thing don't they?
Every now and again if they're out in a place where people are actually getting
wet they'll just [E] walk out in the rain and [A] say well we'd better compensate.
Very nice.
[E] Very nice of you to do [A] that.
You've had the [G] three albums and it doesn't appear
when [A] you look at the success the first couple [C] had over in the [E] UK and then [A] of
course the pyromania thing in [G] America it doesn't appear [E] that you had a hard
time at any time as a band did you master?
Do you remember some of the
tough times?
Oh yeah.
There's always plenty [B] of hard times looking back but [E] they don't
really seem that [Bm] bad at the time because [G] you've still got the [E] excitement of being
in a band and you know you can put up with a lot of things.
_ We've done some
classic gigs in front of ten people you know three in the morning stupid hours like that.
And about money you obviously had times where you really had to scrape a [Em] little.
Oh yeah.
[Bm] How long have you been together?
_ [E] Six [Em] years now.
Just over six years.
And so it was a couple of years before [Bm] you got to record?
[Em] _ _ Yeah it was about two or three years.
We did a record on our own which I mean doesn't count I suppose [A] but I
mean it does it in a sense.
We did this self [E]-financed EP. _
We'd only played like
six [Am] gigs and we thought well we don't [F#] want to play this kind of [E] circuit you
know the working men's clubs or we [Am] do cover versions all the time or little
[B] places where you can't even get your gear in.
[E] So we went and did a record [Em] just
for the hell of it and it turned out to be pretty good actually and we sent it
around all the music papers in England radio stations [E] and they picked up on it
and started playing it a lot.
Which got us our first management which got us our first deal
[G] and it all snowballed from there.
I'm sorry but [B] England sort of got behind you very
early [E] but it [Bm] tends to have done [E] a reverse [Bm] _
about face since Pyromania.
Why
do you think that [G] happened?
[E] Well the English press are a bit funny. _ _ _ _
_ And in England it definitely goes in trends [A] like say America [E] you know you could
have been successful for ages but in England it's different.
[Am] One week you
have Culture Club [E] and the next week you have Adamant and literally like that.
With the punk thing happening at the time you first started out was that [Am] really
hard for you to [B] sort of push your way through?
I think it actually helped us
looking back because there was only [A] a couple of bands [D] that [B] was playing our
type of music.
There was us and maybe a band called Iron Maiden and [E] so in
that respect it was [B] a little bit easier because people probably take a little
bit more notice of you because you [G#] weren't doing the normal [F#] thing.
Everybody
was like starting punk bands you know because it was a pretty easy thing to do.
And I think that's why we [A] probably [E] stood out a little [Am] bit more.
ACDC, [Em] where is the tie [C] there because you have the same producer on Pyromania?
I
[F] think you've got the same [E] manager now or a [Am] guy that did work with ACDC
was managing [G] it.
So is that where [C] all that link up came about?
_ _ [Am] Basically it was yeah we were being [G] managed originally by these two guys _
[C] from Sheffield in England.
_ One of them worked [A] for a record company.
He thought he knew it all [G] and didn't.
The other one ran [C] a record shop and they thought
[B] they'd pulled some strings by getting us on the ACDC tour and in actual fact it was
Peter that set it [A] all up because he wanted to manage us.
[D] So we [F#] got in with
Peter that [B] way.
We were supported by ACDC in England.
_ _ Mutt Lang [A] was Peter's friend
obviously.
[E] Peter played him our first album and [Am] he said I'd like to do their
second album.
And [E] that was it.
And good luck at Salinas tonight.
Which is where you are.
Let's [Am] have a look at Rock of Ages.
Def Leppard, we thank them very [G] much.
Thanks guys for joining us.
Have a good [F#] stay.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Joe, Rick, Phil, welcome [G] in.
Thanks.
Did that affect you to have to work under those conditions or have you done
plenty of that through this last American?
We've done one or two like that,
not [G] as bad.
I mean I've never ever seen rain like that.
[D] That was the worst?
24
years of being [Em] alive.
And is it true because I didn't see the actual
occurrence but someone threw water all over themselves and [Bm] that was _
_ [G] so that you
would feel as bad off as the people out there?
I just said like you know if you can get
wet we can't.
[E] We were wet [Bm] anyway.
It was bloody hard.
Yeah.
It [F#m] was soaked.
[F#] Stages were like puddles all over [Em] the place.
I know the Rolling Stones do that sort of thing don't they?
Every now and again if they're out in a place where people are actually getting
wet they'll just [E] walk out in the rain and [A] say well we'd better compensate.
Very nice.
[E] Very nice of you to do [A] that.
You've had the [G] three albums and it doesn't appear
when [A] you look at the success the first couple [C] had over in the [E] UK and then [A] of
course the pyromania thing in [G] America it doesn't appear [E] that you had a hard
time at any time as a band did you master?
Do you remember some of the
tough times?
Oh yeah.
There's always plenty [B] of hard times looking back but [E] they don't
really seem that [Bm] bad at the time because [G] you've still got the [E] excitement of being
in a band and you know you can put up with a lot of things.
_ We've done some
classic gigs in front of ten people you know three in the morning stupid hours like that.
And about money you obviously had times where you really had to scrape a [Em] little.
Oh yeah.
[Bm] How long have you been together?
_ [E] Six [Em] years now.
Just over six years.
And so it was a couple of years before [Bm] you got to record?
[Em] _ _ Yeah it was about two or three years.
We did a record on our own which I mean doesn't count I suppose [A] but I
mean it does it in a sense.
We did this self [E]-financed EP. _
We'd only played like
six [Am] gigs and we thought well we don't [F#] want to play this kind of [E] circuit you
know the working men's clubs or we [Am] do cover versions all the time or little
[B] places where you can't even get your gear in.
[E] So we went and did a record [Em] just
for the hell of it and it turned out to be pretty good actually and we sent it
around all the music papers in England radio stations [E] and they picked up on it
and started playing it a lot.
Which got us our first management which got us our first deal
[G] and it all snowballed from there.
I'm sorry but [B] England sort of got behind you very
early [E] but it [Bm] tends to have done [E] a reverse [Bm] _
about face since Pyromania.
Why
do you think that [G] happened?
[E] Well the English press are a bit funny. _ _ _ _
_ And in England it definitely goes in trends [A] like say America [E] you know you could
have been successful for ages but in England it's different.
[Am] One week you
have Culture Club [E] and the next week you have Adamant and literally like that.
With the punk thing happening at the time you first started out was that [Am] really
hard for you to [B] sort of push your way through?
I think it actually helped us
looking back because there was only [A] a couple of bands [D] that [B] was playing our
type of music.
There was us and maybe a band called Iron Maiden and [E] so in
that respect it was [B] a little bit easier because people probably take a little
bit more notice of you because you [G#] weren't doing the normal [F#] thing.
Everybody
was like starting punk bands you know because it was a pretty easy thing to do.
And I think that's why we [A] probably [E] stood out a little [Am] bit more.
ACDC, [Em] where is the tie [C] there because you have the same producer on Pyromania?
I
[F] think you've got the same [E] manager now or a [Am] guy that did work with ACDC
was managing [G] it.
So is that where [C] all that link up came about?
_ _ [Am] Basically it was yeah we were being [G] managed originally by these two guys _
[C] from Sheffield in England.
_ One of them worked [A] for a record company.
He thought he knew it all [G] and didn't.
The other one ran [C] a record shop and they thought
[B] they'd pulled some strings by getting us on the ACDC tour and in actual fact it was
Peter that set it [A] all up because he wanted to manage us.
[D] So we [F#] got in with
Peter that [B] way.
We were supported by ACDC in England.
_ _ Mutt Lang [A] was Peter's friend
obviously.
[E] Peter played him our first album and [Am] he said I'd like to do their
second album.
And [E] that was it.
And good luck at Salinas tonight.
Which is where you are.
Let's [Am] have a look at Rock of Ages.
Def Leppard, we thank them very [G] much.
Thanks guys for joining us.
Have a good [F#] stay.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _