DEF LEPPARD: New Video Message From JOE ELLIOTT

January 8, 2011

A short video message from DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott in which he talks about 2010, 2011 and Steve Clark — the original DEF LEPPARD guitarist who passed away exactly 20 years ago (January 8, 1991) at the age of 30 due to a combination of alcohol and multiple prescription drugs — can be viewed below. A posting on DEF LEPPARD's web site states: "Our apologies for the miserable quality of the video clip. The recording itself is not old — Joe's camera equipment is!"

DEF LEPPARD is putting together a live album culled from its 2009 tour that may include some new material as well.

"In the old days, a band would call in the Rolling Stones Mobile [mobile recording studio owned by the musical group THE ROLLING STONES] and record a gig and hope that it worked well — and probably cheat and re-record it all," Elliott explained to the Artisan News Service. "In this day in age, you record every show onto a hard drive. So we've got the entire tour backed up onto three or four hard drives. So we have the unenviable task of listening to probably 50 versions of every song we've ever played. We've got our sound guy from the studio, who's a fanstastic engineer and a great co-producer, he's actually listening through to all the versions of the songs and kind of rating them on a 1-10 level of performance and excitement, if you like."

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