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Steve Brown on being DEF LEPPARD guitar player
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saying some stuff about De Leopard. How
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did you get that gig? I mean, you're
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like an emergency call. You still are,
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right? Uh for for De Leopard.
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>> Yeah. And and other bands as well, other
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people as well, other artists. But um I
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met Phil and and the De Leopard guys
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back on the on the Hyster back in 1987
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888. Um and we became great. Phil and I
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became great friends. You know, I've
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always said Phil is like my British
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older brother. And now all the guys in
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the band, you know, that's what I that's
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what I call them, you know, my my Brit
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British brothers, if you will. And um
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when Vivian got diagnosed with cancer in
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2013, it was it was an easy call, you
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know, because Phil has been such a
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supporter like John Bonjovia, my music,
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and he was always pushing, you know, and
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trying to help, you know, that him and
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Joe were big fans of uh PJ and I, we had
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a band in the early 2000s called 40foot
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Ringo, which is a real power pop thing.
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It was like, you know, a cheap trick on
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steroids, if you will. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
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>> And um and we were supposed to go out on
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tour with De Leopard, but it just never
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worked out financially. We couldn't
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afford to do it. But um you know, when
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when Viv got diagnosed, you know, it was
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an easy call because I'd been around
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them so much. And you know um we were
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like family, if you will. And Phil was
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the one who basically said, you know, I
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got the guy Steve and he sings great, he
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plays great, he looks great. He was so,
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you know, perfect. And and then, you
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know, a year later, uh, 2014, September
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2014, I'm at Wimbley Stadium in the UK
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playing my first gig with De Leopard,
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uh, you know, in front of 90,000 people.
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>> Amazing. Uh, did did you did you tour
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with them? I mean, how many how many
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gigs did you play with them?
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>> I played over the last 10 years. I
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played like 16 shows, you know, some
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private stuff and the public stuff. And
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I, you know, and I filled in for both of
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them, you I had done most of my shows
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were filling in for Viven, but I did
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three shows in 2018 on the Journey De
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Leopard tour filling in for Phil, which
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was uh you know in 24 hours notice I
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went up and you know saved the day to
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help my friends out you know and most
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importantly help Phil and his wife Helen
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in a in a in a in a crisis situation.
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And uh you know that's I'm always there
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for them you know and and they know
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that. But you know, one of the most
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incredible things and like de leopard
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and like Bonjovi, it's always great when
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you get to fill in for a band that their
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music is some of your favorite. You
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know, I've told people all the time, you
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know, Kiss Van Halen, Bonjovi, De
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Leopard. I don't even have to learn
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those songs. I know them. It's part of
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my being. Yeah.
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>> You know what I mean? It's part of my
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It's in my blood. It's in my DNA. So,
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um, you know, but there's, you know,
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playing with those guys, there was
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nothing like it, you know. Uh, I
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remember the first real gig that we did,
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um, with that one that I did with De
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Leopard. I I remember like at the end of
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the show, Photograph is one of as the
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last song. And I remember looking over
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to my left and going, "Holy [ __ ] I'm
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[ __ ] playing Photograph with De
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Leopard." you know, it wasn't like, you
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know, because I played in tribute bands
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and played in cover bands and played
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photograph, but this was like looking
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over and seeing, you know, Sav, Joe
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Elliot, and Phil rocking out and then
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look back and seeing Rick Allen and I
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was just like, "Holy [ __ ] this is
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[ __ ] unbelievable."
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>> It It hit you right there. Right.
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>> It did, man. And it never ever ever got
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lost on me. You know, I was never
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nervous because, you know, those guys I
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I've been friends with them and I know
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their show so well, but it was still it
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was one of those moments where you just,
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you know, your blood just goes a your
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heartbreak goes up a little bit more and
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I was like, "Yeah, this is it, man."
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>> Wow, man. Uh, what's your favorite
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record of Death Leopard?
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Um, I mean I mean personally it's um
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hysteria for a number of reasons just
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because of the production. I still use
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it in my studio when I'm referencing
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other songs. Like if I'm mixing a song,
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I'll put on one of the songs of Hysteria
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and go, "All right, I'm in the
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ballpark." I know if I get close to
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that, uh, I I'm doing good. Um, but
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yeah, Hysteria, but uh, you know, High
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and Dry is extra special because there's
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something about that record that, you
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know, at the time when that came out, it
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was just I I just wore the hell out of I
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still have the vinyl. Um, but I I love
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them all, you know? I mean, I really do.
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I mean, Rock Brigade was the first song
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that I ever heard from De Leopard when
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that came out, and that is still one of
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my favorite songs. And what's funny
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about that, every time I played with
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Leopard, I would always go up to Joe and
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Sav. I go up to Joe and say, I go, "Go,
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Joe, can we just play Rock Brigade
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tonight, please, just for me?" And he
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go, he go, "Sorry, mate. Regretfully,
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no. We can't do it." And I like
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I just want to play Rock Brigade once.
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