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Def Leppard Guitarist: "Everyone is still copying Britney"
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When you hear today’s bands, what kind of legacy stamp can you hear that has transferred from Def Leppard’s music to the music of today?
When anyone has a big album, everyone copies it, whether it’s Nirvana, Def Leppard, Lady Gaga, everyone absolutely copies it. Everyone’s still copying Britney Spears, it’s really interesting. She actually started a huge trend and they’re still trying to do this. I listen to the L.A. radio stations and there’s all these girls singing about being a bad girl and all this stuff and it all wants to be Britney. It’s very interesting.
With Def Leppard, I definitely heard the vocal thing and I’d hear Boyz II Men, they had some stuff that I’d go, wow that’s exactly the same as us — they’ve copied the stacking, actually where you put the vocals. And you know, even that wasn’t a new thing, because a lot of bands would do that in the ’50s and ’60s, but we just took it to a different level with the amount of vocals you put in there. So, it was mainly that and guitar licks, my guitar, that signature kind of muted guitar thing that’s a melodic rhythmic thing.
I kind of borrowed it off Eddie Van Halen but just pushed it to a different bracket with that as well and you’d make it melodic and put it in songs like ‘Animal’ and ‘Love Bites,’ stuff like that. So, you’d hear other bands doing all of that stuff, but mainly the vocal thing I think and obviously the snare drum thing. It would just come to affect a whole generation, certainly of rock bands, but also pop and R&B really.
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