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Joe Elliott & Rick Savage (Def Leppard) · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Tebora, Mario Lopez, Johnny right now for one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite rock bands ever, Deaf Elepard, lead singer Joe Elliott
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  Speaker 2: and bass player Rick Savage. How are you, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 1: Very well, thank you, Thank you for taking the space.
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  Speaker 1: Getting ready to work for the day.
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  Speaker 2: It looks very impressive. I wish I was in that
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  Speaker 2: room right now seeing what's about to go down. And
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  Speaker 2: for over forty five years, you guys have been rocking out,
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  Speaker 2: still making music. Just dropped a new song called Rejoice.
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  Speaker 2: Please tell me about this one. What inspire this one?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've been.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of piecing together a new album for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years really now and still working on it. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we developed a whole new way of working during COVID
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  Speaker 3: where we could record remotely because we couldn't get together,
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  Speaker 3: and we really enjoyed it so much, so we've we
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  Speaker 3: carried on and we just keep writing and sending songs
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  Speaker 3: to each other. And this is one of the pilot
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  Speaker 3: songs that we've been working on recently. But because we've
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  Speaker 3: got this residency in starting next week, we thought it'd
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  Speaker 3: be cool to release a new song to tie in
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  Speaker 3: with that, and this one just seem to fit the bill.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited about that residency. It's happening in Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: kicking off at Caesar's Palace, your third Vegas residency. What
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  Speaker 2: can fans expect when they come out?
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  Speaker 3: Great thing about doing Vegas we find is that we
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  Speaker 3: can we can just push the envelope a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more than doing a regular tour. We do things that
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  Speaker 3: we don't wouldn't normally think of doing.
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  Speaker 1: The production is going to be brand new.
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  Speaker 3: We're playing were playing songs we've never played before, As
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  Speaker 3: Joe says, there's the new song Rejoice, a couple of
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  Speaker 3: other new ones as well.
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  Speaker 1: And songs that we've not actually played.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing a song called White Lighting that we haven't
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  Speaker 3: actually played since nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a big change up from the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of tours.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta imagine a residency gig is pretty much the coolest, Right.
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  Speaker 2: You're hanging out in one city for a month, playing
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  Speaker 2: the shows. You know where you're going to be and
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  Speaker 2: how they get on a tour bus.
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  Speaker 1: You like that they did the same bed.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're sleeping and saying that exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The fans company words on the other way around, I
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  Speaker 3: can see the appeal, you know. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: our third one, and we really enjoyed the first one.
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  Speaker 3: The second one was specifically just celebrating one album. This album,
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  Speaker 3: this one is much broader than that. But Asa says,
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  Speaker 3: we've dug deep and we get the opportunity to do
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  Speaker 3: that because it's it's Vegas. It's just a different headspace
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  Speaker 3: to touring.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have such a deep catalog in so many
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  Speaker 2: different hits. How do you come up with the set list?
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  Speaker 3: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure there's the mandatories. We're still fighting
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  Speaker 2: over it, and we're still fighting over it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, got one.
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  Speaker 4: We got one rehearsal day left here, and we're just
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  Speaker 4: about forming a set list because you want to make
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  Speaker 4: it different from you know, from the other the last
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  Speaker 4: set list that we did.
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's it's it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Challenge, especially if you're introducing new songs or songs that
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  Speaker 3: we're not played in a while.
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  Speaker 1: Where they fit. Yeah, but it's truck in there.
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  Speaker 3: It is tricky, but you know, there's still going to
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  Speaker 3: be the old, the obvious ones in there, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in their appropriate places.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's on. I mean, it makes it, it
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  Speaker 1: keeps it fresh for us as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I love it and I really enjoyed to
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  Speaker 2: remember back in the day the VH one behind the
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  Speaker 2: music they did on you guys. I was like, wow
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  Speaker 2: so much. And that's I'm talking about true rock and roll.
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  Speaker 2: If you could go back and perform one of the
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  Speaker 2: classic shows, would do you have a favorite sort of
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  Speaker 2: run in a certain city that you look back at fondly?
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a tough one because when you took
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  Speaker 3: a show on the road as we have done, like
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  Speaker 3: when we went out and the Round in eighty seven
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  Speaker 3: eighty eight, and then we did it again in ninety
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  Speaker 3: two ninety three, it's such a specific show that you
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  Speaker 3: just take it to different cities. It's once you'd actually
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  Speaker 3: look back on it, you can't really pick out one
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  Speaker 3: single show that stood out more. It's the overall presentation
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  Speaker 3: of that fourteen to fifteen months on the road that
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  Speaker 3: you'll remember as a success or a failure.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose if we were to pick it to be
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  Speaker 3: different for every badbody in the band, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the obvious one is not normally like the hometown gigs.
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  Speaker 3: If you can play your hometown and there's forty thousand
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  Speaker 3: people there, whether it be the one we did in
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  Speaker 3: twenty three or the one we did in ninety three,
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  Speaker 3: they're special because it's you know, you remember playing your
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  Speaker 3: first couple of gigs in front of three people and
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  Speaker 3: the dog, and then all of a sudden, there's forty four.
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  Speaker 1: Thousand people watching. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're the ones that you kind of if you
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  Speaker 3: do think about it, that you go, wow, yeah that
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  Speaker 3: was someone else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those full circle moments have you got to be
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  Speaker 2: incredibly special? I mean, almost five decades together. Is there
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  Speaker 2: a ritual or tradition you guys have that you do
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  Speaker 2: for the band or you just kind of don't even
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  Speaker 2: need to see each other and you show up when
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  Speaker 2: you hit it.
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  Speaker 3: Ye.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it's amazing how things have sort of morphed
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  Speaker 5: throughout the decades, you know, and we change as people,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you know, we have families that didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Exist when when we started, and you know, the landscape
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  Speaker 3: has changed so much. But one thing I don't think
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  Speaker 3: has ever really changed is that the chemistry within the
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  Speaker 3: five of us. Like when the five of us get
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  Speaker 3: in a room like this and we're working through songs.
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  Speaker 3: That process is always as he always has been, and
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  Speaker 3: it's almost like timeless.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It could be the end of the seventies or it
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  Speaker 3: could be modern day. It doesn't matter in our world
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  Speaker 3: because we're just doing the same old thing.
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  Speaker 2: I love to hear that. As a fan, I love
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  Speaker 2: to hear that you guys together. It's been a real pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking the time to speak with me
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  Speaker 2: today and listen. Everyone, be sure to go out to
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  Speaker 2: Vegas for this Deaf Leopard residency. It is kicking off
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  Speaker 2: February third at Caesar's Palace. All the info is at
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  Speaker 2: Deaf Leppard dot com. You can get it at on
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  Speaker 2: Mario dot com. Joe Rick, thanks so much for checking
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  Speaker 2: in and look forward to seeing you guys out there.
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  Speaker 1: I hope so come see it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure, Thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Take care.
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  Speaker 2: Wow with Mario Lopez