Joe Elliott: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift have a lot in common
The multiplatinum masters of ’80s melodic metal Def Leppard recently released their self-titled album and are set to tour the United States starting this month.
Lead singer Joe Elliott talked to FOX411 about modern-day recording, where they got the idea to do all those impossibly stacked vocal harmonies, and their country connection with one Taylor Swift.
FOX411: I love the feel you and your producer Ronan McHugh got for this record. The sound is impeccable.
Joe Elliott: Yeah, thanks, it is a great-sounding record. The thing about making records in 2015 is you can make them sound any way you want. We could have made this record sound like the first Clash record, or we could have made it sound like [Pink Floyd’s] "The Dark Side of the Moon."
Ronan knows what to do to make it sound like we’re in Abbey Road, even though we weren’t. But all that is meaningless if there’s no song and no substance to work with in the first place.
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