cbspock
08-12-2002, 06:27 AM
Here is a recent interview with Def Leppard.....
http://launch.yahoo.com/read/feature.asp?contentID=209892
LAUNCH: So how much credit is Mutt Lange due for the Leppard sound? Most people refer to him as if he's a sixth member of Leppard.
PHIL: He's the best. We owe so much to him. The whole [rock/pop, multi-layered vocals] thing was really his idea. Hysteria was taking it to another level. Songs like "Rocket," "Pour Some Sugar On Me"...everything was a buildup to that moment, and that's really when we became stars, because that's when everyone started copying us, from R&B bands to all the pop stuff--*NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, all that. It was multi-tracked backing vocals. Queen did that, but it was in a different way; Mutt just took it really over the top and made the style different.
LAUNCH: You and Mutt developed a reputation for taking a long time in the studio...
PHIL: Yeah, Pyromania was about 11 months. And Hysteria took a long time because we had a lot of problems with that--Rick had his accident, we didn't know what the bloody hell we were doing. But now technology is helping us. The whole ProTools thing is like, "Ah, thank God!" Now we pretty much take a year for an album, which is what everyone does these days.
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Ok, I think Shania & Mutt have set the "new" record for taking a long time in the studio...lol :p
-Chris
http://launch.yahoo.com/read/feature.asp?contentID=209892
LAUNCH: So how much credit is Mutt Lange due for the Leppard sound? Most people refer to him as if he's a sixth member of Leppard.
PHIL: He's the best. We owe so much to him. The whole [rock/pop, multi-layered vocals] thing was really his idea. Hysteria was taking it to another level. Songs like "Rocket," "Pour Some Sugar On Me"...everything was a buildup to that moment, and that's really when we became stars, because that's when everyone started copying us, from R&B bands to all the pop stuff--*NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, all that. It was multi-tracked backing vocals. Queen did that, but it was in a different way; Mutt just took it really over the top and made the style different.
LAUNCH: You and Mutt developed a reputation for taking a long time in the studio...
PHIL: Yeah, Pyromania was about 11 months. And Hysteria took a long time because we had a lot of problems with that--Rick had his accident, we didn't know what the bloody hell we were doing. But now technology is helping us. The whole ProTools thing is like, "Ah, thank God!" Now we pretty much take a year for an album, which is what everyone does these days.
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Ok, I think Shania & Mutt have set the "new" record for taking a long time in the studio...lol :p
-Chris