More correct transcript of Radio show
SETLIST
Sweet: Fox On The Run
Def Leppard: Action
The Faces: Poor Old Richard
David Bowie: Watch That Man
Joe/Viv/Phil Live Acoustic Set
T. Rex: Get It On
Dio cover w/Steve Jones: Rainbow In The Dark
Man-Raze: Skin Crawl (studio track)
Shabby Tiger: Slow Down
Chickory Tip: Son Of My Father
Showaddywaddy: Hey Rock And Roll
(Joe/Viv/Phil Live) David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Fastway: Say You Will
Cybernauts: Moonage Daydream
Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers: Lavender Blue
Clock: What's Wrong With You (Viv vocals)
(Joe/Viv/Phil Live) w/Steve Jones on box drums: Pour Some Sugar On Me
Mick Ronson: Angel No. 9.
[Steve: Host] Before Lep & talking with guest Dicky Barrett (of Mighty Mighty Bosstones) about Lep:
Steve "We got Def Leppard comin' in."
Dick "That should be good right?. I'll tell ya they're like the nicest guys...anytime you meet those guys they like invite you to their house..."
Steve "I've known 'em years. "
Dick "Sweet guys though right?"
Steve "Very sweet. We played soccer (on) sunday and Joe Elliott was in town and I was like 'why don't you come on the show' and he was like 'ohh alright'. And here they are."
Dick "And they got their instruments as well I saw. I saw people setting up."
Steve "Yeah, we're gonna be doing some acoustic stuff. I don't know what we're gonna be doing but.."
Dick "You gonna be singing? you gonna be playing?."
Steve "I brought my guitar just in case. But Phil and Vivian have brought their acoustics."
(After Action & The Faces) Steve: Host "And In the studio we have Def Leppard."
Phil "Hello."
Joe "Good evening Good Morning."
Steve "How are you?."
Phil "Good."
Joe "We're groovy. My legs still ache actually after the other day."
Steve "After playing footy?."
Joe "Yeah. Great goal by the way!. I meant to tell ya..stonking 25 yarder."
Steve "Yeah. I haven't stopped thinking about it."
Viv "I'm sure (sarcastically)."
Steve "What d'you mean?."
Viv "You don't get many do ya? So you'd need to be thinking about it for a while."
Steve "I always get 'em. You're never there. What ya talking about? You're always driving around in your Porsche."
Viv "Yeah. Dead on."
Steve "Flash Sod."
Viv "My used Porsche."
Steve "Yeah that old one. D'you remember I had a real one?."
Viv "Yeah. I remember you had a real punk rock automatic covertible transmission Porsche..."
Steve "Whatever I do mate's, (is) Punk Rock."
Viv "Yes. Yes Steven."
Steve "You do understand don't you? (in posh accent)."
Viv "Yes. Yes Darling."
Steve "What you guys been up to?."
Joe "We haven't been up to a lot recently..."
Phil "We was in Germany. Couple of weeks ago - month ago."
Joe "Celebrating 50 years of rock 'n' roll on ZDF. It was a very bizarre show. It was us and The Cure and Chris De Burgh..."
Phil "..and Joe Cocker... "
Joe "Joe Cocker."
Phil "..and Chuck Berry...it was really weird but it was a lot of fun. But I got sick. I got this sinus thing and it's like...I've had it for ages."
Steve "The Flu thing?."
Phil "Yeah. Horrible. But then after that we're gonna tour this summer like June I think we start."
Joe "We got 2 albums in the can. We got a 'Best Of' coming out soonish..."
Steve "Who produced them?."
Joe "Well, we did."
Steve "So you don't ever talk to old....M....
Joe "Mutt? Yeah, well obviously with the 'Best Of' a lot of the stuff is stuff that Mutt produced But there's a bunch of stuff on there that's come out since...we haven't worked with Mutt since...we did 3 songs with him in '99. He's busy doing Shania all the time now..and who can blame him?"
Steve "Yeah I know. I'd like to do her too... What was it like working with him? I know this is probably a boring question."
Phil "I think it's great it's actually like an education. It's like fun. And a lot of people go 'Oh he's a perfectionist' and all that. Not really, just he knows what he's doing."
Steve "We ain't interrupting you are we Viv?" (to Viv who's been doodling away on his acoustic/tuning up.)
Viv "Yeah you guys just keep on.."
Steve "Jesus."
Phil "Keeping on rocking on over there...So no, no it's always fun and he's so good it's just amazing. He's really cool."
Joe "He just wants to get the best out of ya, y'now and it is a bit...it can be a bit frustrating..."
Viv "Did he do that?, that you played yesterday that '5705..' City Boy...He produced that right." (breaking in talking about City Boy's "5.7.0.5.")
Joe "Yeah. He did."
Viv "That thing that you said was stadium rock or.."
Steve "Whatever I don't know. It sounded like it with the intro..."
Joe "That song when it was first written. The first demo of that song it was actually called, er get this, it was called 'Turn On To Jesus' And Mutt said nah, ya know it's never gonna be a hit. So he made them think of something else and they came up with a number. That was the best thing that they could come up with."
Steve "Were they. I didn't know much about them were they an English band?"
Joe "Yeah. They were kind of like...you know like Barclay James Harvest were always regarded as like the poor man's Moody Blues. Well they were the poor man's 10CC."
Steve "Right. Gotcha."
Joe "Yeah. They were English. I think they were from Birmingham (Berrmingham..) (mocks accent/others join in)."
Steve "Yeah I always wondered..cause I heard these stories about Mutt Lange. About how, ya know was he driving you crazy cause..I thought you'd just got tired of him, and that's when you started doing your own albums."
Joe "No you get tired of it when you're doing it only because you're young and you wanna get out there. You see all these bands putting albums out and all of a sudden you're still sitting and waiting. I remember Jagger made a comment once. We were recording in Holland and er we were doing 'Hysteria' and er..."
Phil "Mick...he he. Our mate Mick..."
Joe "Mick yeah. He came in to do his first solo album and we were still finishing Hysteria when he came back to do his second one, ya know. Argument would be like who bought either of his albums...but you know it was worth the f***in...scuse my French, it was worth the effort."
Steve "Would you, would you consider having him produce another album?."
Phil "Absolutely, Yeah. But ya know he doesn't really like producing very much anymore."
Joe "I think it would be more realistic that we might do a couple of songs with him. Go over, work for a couple of weeks get a couple of songs maybe 3 songs out of him then do the rest on us own. You look at all the greatest records in the world and there's only two or three tracks that ever get played. Um I think we've reached that stage at our age where we don't wanna be spending 3 years making a record."
Steve "Especially this day and age it would cost a fortune."
Joe "Yeah you don't need to anymore all the equipment we've got. We spent a lot of time on that record doing stuff that you can do now in 5 minutes but they didn't have the equipment back then. So you had to physically do it. You ever seen 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'?"
Steve "The movie?."
Joe "Aye, yeah there's some dance scenes in there and you think they must have took weeks to work out, I saw it last night for the first time he he..., like nowdays they'd just super-impose everything on a blue sceen, just one person doing it. Back then it took forever because they didn't have any other way of doing it. It was still like that even in the 80s. How's that song coming Viv?" (who's still playing away...)
Viv "It's going good thankyou. It's blue."
Steve "He's a noisy sod isn't he?."
Joe "Yeah you put a guitarist on a stool with a guitar and they tend to play 'em."
Viv "Yeaah." (after an end note...)
Joe "Especially when they're as good as these two are."
Viv "Oh please Joe."
Steve "They're rubbish the pair of 'em. I'll knock they're socks off with my 8th notes."
(Viv starts playing a Sex Pistols riff and Steve sings along "Pretty, we're pretty vacANT!")
Joe "We actually had a great idea for a band called 'Sex Tramp'. Where we played Sex Pistols songs but we sang Supertramp lyrics over the top."
Steve "Brilliant."
Joe "So you end up with....'Dreamer, must have been a dreamer...'" (Joe playing and singing)
(Steve joins in with 'DreamER!!!' in Pistols style vocal)
Joe "That's exactly it! You must have been in on the conversation. Yeah we never got round to doing it but one day we will."
Steve "Let's do that again."
Joe "Sex Tramp. You play it better than me." (to Phil)
Phil "What? where you starting it?."
Steve "God Save The Queen..." (go into 20 seconds of Steve singing 'Dreamer' over Phil playing guitar)
Phil "Sex Tramp. First gig."
(First part of show ended)
(back from break) Steve: Host ...with my guests Def Leppard. And we're gonna attempt to do a verson of T. Rex's 'Get It On' is that correct?"
Phil "We are Indeed."
Joe "Now this is a song we've played live on acoustics ah, 10 years ago. This should be a bit of a laugh. We did it in, I saw...we were in Japan on our last tour and we were in the Hard Rock Cafe and this thing came on the TV it was us it was live from Thailand or somewhere (Viv chips in "Singapore") Singapore. We didn't even realise we'd done it we'd actually forgotten so it was like watching other people. Pretty weird and we did 'Get It On' then and it was alright."
Viv "Are we in tune?."
Joe "I don't know. Are we?."
Phil "Not really."
Joe "We might have to tune up."
Steve "D'you want me to tune 'em up for ya?."
Joe "If you could play a song..Yeah that would be nice."
Steve "The one I got was in tune when I bought it. "
Joe "Who was it..who's mother that thought that the tuning heads should be in a straight line?."
Phil "A mate of mine actually."
Steve "That's funny, That is funny. Cause I've thought that before as well."
Joe "You could play another song off the records. Play another song and then we'll do it."
Steve "Yeah. Let's play another song we got one cued up. How about a bit of Bowie 'Watch That Man' take it away me old son."
(plays song)
Steve "You're listening to Jonsey's Jukebox on Indie 103.1 with Def Leppard in the studio. Viv, Phil and Joe. You ready to do a but of uh 'Get It On'?"
Joe "Yeah. For a laugh."
Steve "Take it away then."
( play Get It On acoustic: Steve on box drums.)
Steve "There you go."
Joe "We made it up as we went along. What's new..."
Steve "Very good. That was fun."
Phil "It was indeed."
Steve "Did you enjoy that Phil?."
Phil "Absolutely. I did."
Joe "Getting a few licks in there?."
Steve "Let's do a. a Rainbow Down The Pub." (meaning Dio's 'Rainbow In The Dark')
Joe "HA HA HA." (after Viv plays one note and stops.)
Phil "He does know this honest."
(All start playing the song with Phil singing and Steve doing mock Ronnie Dio screams)
Phil "Help me here cause I don't know the words...." (after singing the first two lines) "..and there's a dragon and a dungeon..."
(all together "And the top of the morning to ya, ..have a pint then, Like a Rainbow Down The Pub" - lasts about 2 mins/very funny. Viv plays a solo part.)
Joe "Tight. Ohh good lord."
Phil "Nice, nice. There ya go."
Viv "Met-al."
Phil "A very metal moment."
Steve "Fantastic, Fantastic. Did you write that Viv?."
Viv "Er a bit of yeah."
Steve "What. The guitar part?."
Viv "I did all the guitar parts yes."
Steve "You wrote the music?."
Viv "Yeah."
Steve "And old Ronnie James did the vocals and wrote all the lyrics."
Viv "Yes he did that was his gig."
Steve "How tall is he?."
Viv "Um not very."
Steve "Like what? 4 an' 'alf?."
Viv "Nahh he's probably a bit more than that. 5 something." (all laughing in background)
Steve "5 with platforms on."
Viv "Yeah I don' know. I never actually took a measuring tape out ya know."
Steve "Is he a nice guy?."
Viv "Do I have to answer that?."
Steve "No..."
Joe "Can he take the fifth?."
Steve "So is he horrible?"
Viv "I'm taking the fifth."
Steve "Alright. I'll take the five foot."
Viv "Phil took the five this morning, all the way from Orange County."
Joe "I'm a nice guy."
Viv "Joe's a nice guy."
Phil "And he's tall. He's 6ft 2"..."
Steve "You're very tall. Very tall. What else shall we, You wanna play something else? Or shall we break it up a bit?"
Phil "Let's break it up a bit."
Joe "Yeah Let's break it up. We can do Ziggy later on. We know that. We can do 'Ziggy Stardust'."
Steve "Fantastic."
(back from break) Steve: Host "...with my guests Def Leppard here. And um Phil what you been doing?"
Phil "I've been. I've got another band as well I've got a band called Man-Raze."
Joe "One's not enough for him."
Phil "I know!. Absolutely."
Joe "2 Cars 2 Houses. 2 Bands."
Phil "4 Houses actually."
Steve "2 nuts..."
Joe "200 guitars..."
Phil "Um yeah so we're doing this thing Man-Raze. It's Cookey, Paul Cook on drums and he's great and Simon Laffy he used to play in Girl with me. Back in the 80s, the early 80s."
Steve "I've got that album, I've got a Girl CD. I should have brought that."
Phil "Have ya?. There ya go yeah so we're doing all this stuff and it's like a lot of it we're doing in Simon's spare bedroom. Like just recording it mechanically. And there's a little studio, Westbourne Grove Studios, a little rehearsal room [in West London]. And we actually went down there and recorded the drums live on some of the stuff. And we've just been..they're all different stages all the songs and that. But it's a blast ya know. It's three-piece, classic three-piece and I'm singing. You know (it's like) anything from like The Police to kinda Nirvana, it's different. You know, it's kinda, it's just fun."
Steve "Did you like doing it London?."
Phil "Yeah. Cause I hadn't spent anytime there for like 20 years and I hated it when I left years ago. But I had to go back, me Dad pased away last summer. So I was there for like 3 months and that's when we started all this stuff up.And it was actually kinda fun being back in London. But it's horrible and bleeding cold out there."
Steve "Oh I know mate I know."
Phil "Its vicious
Steve "That's why I like the old palm trees and movie stars. Swimming Pools.."
Phil "Very Punk Rock..."
Steve "..and Crumpet.." (Joe laughing away...)
Viv "Yeah and the automatic Porsche convertible. Don't forget that."
Steve "Eh. I don't have it anymore. I got rid of it for the kids."
Joe "For the kids maan..."
Steve "I gave it away to a punk rock orphanage. Poor punk rock kids..I gave it away...charity" (laughter)
Viv "So they could strip it down and sell it for parts? Is that how it works?."
Steve "Yeah something like that. Um yeah so you got a bit of stuff."
Phil "Yeah. I've got some stuff for you."
Steve "Man-Raze."
Phil "If you play track 1. That's called 'Skin Crawl'. And I don't know if we've got time later on to play anything else. But there ya go that's the most finished song out of the lot of 'em."
Steve "So it's Paul Cook on drums, the geezer from Girl..."
Phil "Simon Laffy..."
Joe "The geezer from Girl..." (laughing)
Steve "And you're singing?."
Phil "Yeah."
Steve "Let's hear it."
Joe "Exclusive."
Steve "What's it called?."
Phil "'Skin Crawl' this is. By the Man-Raze!."
(plays 'Skin Crawl' by Man-Raze. lasts for just under 4mins. Slang-Era type rocking sounding tune/very good stuff. Cross between the Truth? (Original & Studio Versions) without the harmonies.)
Steve "You're listening to Jonsey's Jukebox on Indie 103.1 and that was er Man-Ray featuring Paul Cook on drums...it sounds so not like him. So is that not him on that track?"
Phil "Well. We programmed this stuff as well on that track."
Joe "But he programmed it right?."
Phil "Yeah he's doing stuff and actually we've done a version where he's playing along to that but we haven't, ain't slotted it in yet. We're doing bits and pieces, the next track on there half the chorus is missing but it's got real drums all the way through it. But you know they're all at different stages. This is all unfinished stuff."
Steve "Are you gonna,,what you hopin' to get a deal from it?."
Phil "Yeah we actually, we wanna put it out. Ya know we got like 9 songs together at the moment."
Steve "And are ya gonna go on the road, Maybe?."
Phil "It'd be nice to do some gigs yeah."
Joe "Can we support ya?."
Phil "I dunno. I'll have to have a word with my manager." (Joe laughing)
Steve "Talk to my lawyer..."
Joe "That's it. Get your lawyers to call my lawyers and we'll see what we can get."
Steve "So where are you living now Joe?"
Joe "Dublin and spending my time between there and here at the moment." (perhaps writing for Lep stuff?..)
Steve "What do you like about Dublin? The Tax thing?."
Joe "Well that was...it wasn't so much Dublin. it was staying out of England er 20 years ago. We'd done 10 months out and our lawyers said 'You'd be stupid to go home now' You know you can keep it all if you stay and you never know how long it's gonna last and coming from the working class thing ya Dad's going 'That amount of Tax, that's my life!' So 2 months in Dublin didn't seem like hard work. But it pretty much was because we were all drinking heavily at the time and tryin' to follow up an album that was huge and we were feeling all that crappy pressure. But I actually fell in love with the place. I just liked the people. I'm about 13 miles outside of Dublin. It's just real green and open there's like 4 milion people in the entire country but it's the same size as England where there's 40 million people. It's nice but then when I want to get nuts I come over here."
Steve "I did a show in Dublin with Phil Lynott once. We were The er..."
Viv "Greedy Bastards."
Steve "The Greedy Bastards and we did a show at that..some place that burnt down. The Starlight?.."
Viv "SFX?."
Joe "Yeah I know it."
Steve "And I remember getting hammered on the old Guiness there and the night before the gig we went to see...some club where there was a band playing and they had all the Irish instruments and I got up on stage and smashed a geezers violin up, to pieces. That's what smeone told me the next day anyway." (laughter)
Joe "Bet it sounded good though."
Steve "It did 'kin smashed up yeah. And U2 opened for us, that was their first show apparently."
Phil "Really?." (14th gig according to a U2 site: 1st Dec1978 The Stardust. w/Gary Moore, Brian Downey, Scott Gorham, Paul Cook.)
Joe "Wow fantastic."
Steve "Yeah but I had a good time there."
Joe "It's a good place. It's a lot better now than it even was then. It's a lot more cosmopolitan. They're just opening Starbucks there now it's catching up ya know. But the charm for me is when you get out of Dublin and it's just like..."
Steve "Cows and..."
Joe "Yeah it's just like 50 years ago. People leave the key in their frontdoor and you can let yourself in for a bottle of milk."
Steve "You can?! What's the addresses?..." (laughter)
Joe "You don't get drive-by shootings that often. It's pretty cool."
Viv "Drive-By Shellaillagh." (laughter)
Joe "That's it Drive-By Shellaillagh." (Viv says something in Irish accent after this..)
Joe "But I used to hate this place (LA) and then I realised it wasn't the place it was the people. And it was like the late 80s when it was all the big hair and spandex."
Steve "Cocaine and shoulder pads, yeah."
Joe "We spent our entire life being branded into that kind of category by the press and running away from it..."
Steve "Jeans with holes in..."
Joe "We don't belong in that category. We don't believe we belong in there and I hated all that 'Hey man wanna party?' And luckily it's all gone away."
Phil "But we are gonna bring the shoulder pads back...I think."
Joe "Yeah, I'm gonna wear them under my trousers though."
Steve "Knee pads..."
Viv "Knee pads yeah."
Joe "I'm gonna bring in knee pads."
Steve "When you're in the middle of Ireland do you have satellite?...Sky News and all that.."
Joe "Oh yeah we got everything. Soccer, you name it, we've got the lot. That's the one thing I miss here. If I want to watch a game I've got to get up at 7am and drive to Santa Monica to be able to watch it somewhere."
Phil "Can't you go to Steve's?."
Joe "I haven't been invited yet."
Steve "You're invited. Who D'you support?."
Joe "Thanks I'll be round tomorrow morning. Sheffield United."
Steve "You're not coming over then!."
Joe "Oh come on we're in the Boys league. You're not a West Ham fan are ya?." (meaning out of the Premiership and in one of the lower 4 Divisions.)
Steve "No. Chelsea."
Joe "Ah well there ya go then so you've got nothing to worry about." (Chelsea are top of the Premiership.) Viv (singing) "Blue is the colour. Football is the game...apparently.. is that how it goes?"
Steve "Ya just jealous Viv."
Viv "I used to be a Chelsea fan when I was a kid."
Joe "He was a Chelsea fan until about 5 years ago when he decided to support Leeds."
Viv "No 12 years ago."
Joe "Was it that long? Good grief."
Steve "You was a Chelsea fan?."
Viv "I was a Chelsea fan as a kid. I had an Ian Hutchinson kit with like the number 10 on the shorts and all that stuff."
Joe "He was the guy that was double jointed and he could throw the ball for a mile..."
Steve "And why did you change to Leeds?."
Viv "Cause when I discovered when I heard Marc Bolan I gave up football. And I didn' play football until I was 27. I just lost touch cause I was over here for years and lost touch with football and Chelsea. Then when I joined Def Leppard you know they watch a lot of football so they said 'Who do you support?' And I though well geez I don't have a team anymore and Leeds United were doing really good. I always remember Leeds you remember 1970 the FA Cup? and the replay."
Steve "I know why you went with Leeds...you fancied Billy Bremner's legs."
Viv "Yeah so Leeds were always a team I had a lot of respect for and it also was a time when they were top of the Prem..so. Or they'd just won the last First Division." (which became the Premiership)
Steve "So are you still supporting them now?."
Viv "I don't know now they went to the Boys league I don't..."
Steve "You're back to Chelsea?. Fairweather."
Viv "No I just like watching football or playing it you know. I don't really follow a team anymore. I think i'll give up the football for a while. (in accent with Joe) "Gordon, 8 bloody 1!."
Steve "We have a good laugh though down at Hollywood United."
Viv "Yeah it's good, some good players ya know...um."
Steve "Thanks!." (laughter)
Viv "I wasn't talking about you! I was thinking of a few of the other lads but there you go Steve."
Steve "I know you meant me."
Viv "Well at least you and I we've got Brazil shirts we can be pretty flash."
Joe "Yeah you look good."
Steve "You can get away with murder in a Brazil shirt."
Viv "Yeah they think you're good if you've got a Brazil shirt." (Brazil are the best national team in the world.)
Steve "Shall we play a song and then come back out of that song and do a bit more acoustic stuff?. Oh Shabby Tiger you gotta hear this. This is a blinder this is, take it away me old son."
(After break & songs) Steve "...and that was Showwaddywaddy with 'Hey Rock And Roll' Classic two bobs worth. And then we had Chickory Tip from The Best Of Chickory Tip and Joe was telling me there's a better song than.."
Joe "Yeah. 'Good Grief Christina'. It's rock!."
Steve "That was a better one?."
Joe "He he Yeah as a ten year old kid it was yeah. Oh dear."
Steve "I remember them,. the outfits thing. Look at these guys they're outrageous with them two bob..."
Joe "Yeah but can you imagine that they actually really meant it?. I mean surely trying them uniforms on for the photo shoot they must have been goin' 'Please No! don't make me wear this'."
Steve "Well the week before they were probably brick layers or something..."
Joe "Well I suppose if it was their one 15 min spot..."
Steve "That song we played was 'Son And Me Father'...'Son Of My Father'. And then we started out the two bob three with Shabby Tiger 'Slow Down' was the name of that song. Did you enjoy them?."
Joe "Gorgeous. Yes, marvelous."
Phil "Thoroughly." (both sacastically)
Viv (chips in) "No!."
Joe "Shabby Tiger was great but the name of the band is better."
Viv "I liked the Chickory Tip one I remember that. Little memories."
Steve "What memories do you have as a kid Viv...of music?"
Viv "Oh well you know..."
Steve "Who did you like on Top Of The Pops?"
Viv "Well like I said before T. Rex...Marc Bolan. 'Telegram Sam'."
Steve "That's what did it for you..."
Viv "Did you play that?. Well you were whistling that yesterday. That was my big song. Did it all for me. Bye Bye football."
Steve "When did you first start playing guitar?."
Viv "About 9. 8 or 9 and um.."
Joe "He's one of them that practiced."
Viv "Yeah well I did then, I started practicing again recently though."
Steve "You don't need to practice mate."
Viv "No it's alright. It's good to go in different directions I've been playing the blues a lot you know. ."
Steve "Ugh blues..."
Joe "Woke up this morning..."
(Viv talking about his influences and Rory Gallacher.)
Steve "I've got to get one of his albums actually."
Joe "I never really listened to Rory Gallacher he didn't make it across to Sheffield."
Phil "To Ireland!." (laughter)
Steve "Can you give me a da, da da da, da da. Anyone on a guitar, in E."
(Viv plays and Steve sings: started with "I woke up this morning, I had a wank..." etc...short Blues type song.)
Steve "See, Easy."
Viv "Wow when you have talent like you..."
Steve "You can make it up as you go along."
Viv "But for the average Joe it's..."
Steve "He's talking about you Joe."
Viv/Joe (at same time )"I'm/He's not the average Joe..."
Joe "Yeah i'm on your side there. That's the blues for me."
Steve "Yeah you've heard it once. They're like Ford Capris, you've seen one you've seen 'em all.."
Viv "That's not true." (plays his guitar)
Steve "How about a little Bowie..Spiders.."
Phil "Sounds good to me."
Steve "Spiders from Cornwall.."
Joe "Why don't we do er..."
Steve "We got Def Leppard here in the house and they're gonna do Ziggy played guitar..."
Joe "This is 'Ziggy Stardust' in the key of... (Steve) Z."
Viv "Slightly in tune."
Joe "Good enough. We're alive and live only."
Steve "Alive alive O."
(Viv/Phil/Joe/Steve play 'Ziggy Stardust' acoustically Steve played along with each song. Joe's vocals sound really fresh.)
Steve "What's that?." (after Viv or Phil started playing a riff)
Joe "That's you."
Steve "Is that Supertramp, are we doing Supertramp again?."
Joe "hehe Sex Tramp again. Yeah we must tell everybody about Sex Tramp. "
Steve "We'll be back in a minute."
(After break) Steve "...with my guests Def Leppard. And er Is that right? Breaking News...Paul Rodgers from Bad Company and Free is joining Queen..."
Joe "Queen yup. It's not actually breaking news it's been on the odd website. But yeah Queen and Paul Rodgers have got together. I don't think (John) Deacon's involved he's kind of gracefully retired from it."
Steve "The bass player."
Joe "But Roger and Brian are going out with Paul Rodgers and somebody else on bass I guess doing Bad Company and Queen songs. I don't think they're making an album. I think it's just like a live European Tour. And they're gonna see how it goes and what kinda reaction they get."
Steve "Make a bit of dosh."
Joe "Yeah I guess so I think what it is more is the fact that they've not actually been able to perform you know for 12 years. Other than just like little gigs and they're probably missing it you know."
Steve "Wasn't..weren't George Michael gonna join Queen at one point?."
Joe "Yeah there's been all sorts of rumours George Michael, Robbie Williams."
Phil "George Michael actually done great versions of Queen songs. D'You hear him singing 'em? He's actually really good."
Joe "When he did 'Somebody To Love' at Wembley it was arguably better than Queen's version. I thought, it was brilliant. Of course 'Tie Your Mother Down' was the best thing all night. Oh that was me sorry..."
Steve "Maybe er was that a buzz doing that?."
Joe "Ohh yeah!. It really was it was wierd. The biggest buzz though for me and probably him as well(Phil) was going back on for 'Dudes' Cause we did backing vocals with Brian May."
Steve "'All The Young Dudes'..."
Joe "..with Ronson, Bowie and Hunter all on stage you know doing 'All The Young Dudes' which was pretty..as a three minute moment probably the best wank-off I've ever had."
Phil "It was great actually."
Joe "Yeah, really good."
Steve "Maybe er we should give Max Bygraves a call maybe he'd be the singer for Queen."
Joe "Yeah Max'd be good. 'Let me tell you a story'" (mimic's his catchphrase)
Phil "I think we should get back on a Jimmy Saville thing."
Steve "Tommy Bruce maybe."
Joe "Yeah, I like the look of this guy he's got..he's got a great chin."
Steve "Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers." (laughter)
Phil "So we got the boxer sorted out..."
Joe "Where do you find this stuff?."
(plays songs including the brilliant 'Moonage Daydream' (studio version) by Cybernauts, Plus a Clock song sung by Viv.)
(back after 4 songs) Steve "You're listening to Jonsey's Jukebox on Indie 103.1 here with Def Leppard in the studio and that was er was that you Viv?."
Viv "That was me. That was Clock. A little project wih myself and PJ. Smith from Dublin, Mark Schulman on drums, and Sasha Krivstov on bass and er that one also featured Manny Alvarez on guitar who wrote that song "
Steve "The band's called Clark?..."
Viv "Clock! It's like Cock but with an L."
Steve "Is that what it means?."
Phil (chuckling) "Cockle..."
Viv "No. no it's just Clock, Clock!. C.L.O.C.K."
Steve "Oh Cluck, like a chicken?."
Viv "No!. What are ya deaf or what?!" (laughter)
Joe "Like a big watch!."
Viv "Clock! C.L.O.C.K. yes."
Steve "Oh a Clock. Clock not Clark."
Viv "That's what I said Clock!"
Phil "It's the Northern Irish thing ya see..."
Steve "Jesus."
Joe "That's very good that."
Steve "Ere you watch it!."
Viv "We do a gig once a year just about, locally you know. Bit of fun."
Steve "So that was a bit of Clock. And er you should do that Bowie song 'Time'."
Viv "Oh yeah. Hey that's clever.."
Steve "We're getting there...that went over everyone's head..."
Phil "No, no Clock - time..."
Joe "Yeah that's very good."
Phil "Falls, wanking to the floor..." (one of the song's lyrics)
Joe "Yeah we did that with Cybernauts we can play that."
Phil "Yeah we could've done."
Steve "And then before that we had Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers doing 'Lavender Blue' and then we had was it Fastway before that? No it was Cybernauts, you and Phil doing...and Woddy Woodmansey."
Joe "Woody Woddmansey and Trevor Bolder ."
Steve "The backing band in the Spiders."
Joe "Yeah doing 'Moonage Daydream'."
Steve "That was a great version. And then before that then we had Fastway doing 'Say You Will'. And here we are."
Joe "Here we are again."
Phil "Right then."
Steve "Let's have a bit of Leppard."
Phil "Alright."
Viv "A bit of skiffel Leppard."
Joe "Skiffel Leppard actually Bo Diddley really..."
Phil "Yeah you need your box for this actually."
Steve "Am I drumming on this one?."
Joe "Yeah you can join in on this one. I might stand up it might be easier."
Steve (sings) "Lavender Blue...Dilly Dilly...Picadilly..." (Viv sings Dilly Dilly also)
Joe "Er..(plays note)..that would be the key right?."(Start playing for 10secs but Joe stops them..)
Joe "Hang on a minute i'm not in tune...."
Viv "Aye! Ya can't get the staff can you?. This didn't happen at the BBC."
(All play 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' acoustic/great version with drumming again by Steve.)
Steve (sings) "Lavender Blue...Dilly Dilly." (laughter)
Joe "Great drumming Jonsey!."
Phil "Very cool!."
Steve "That was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Very good."
Joe "You are Bo Diddley!."
Viv "Fabulous."
Steve "Are we gonna visit the?...and thanks for listening." (Goes into break)
(back after break) Steve "You've been listening to Jonsey's Jukebox on Indie 103.1 with my guests Def Leppard. It's been a pleasure having you guys here."
Joe "It's been a lot of fun actually."
Phil "A blast."
Steve "And what you got..."
Joe "I make no apoliogies for the tuning of my guitar either. I did this on purpose I wanted to be a Punk today so I wore my New York Dolls t-shirt and purpously cut my A string out."
Steve "I know, it's funny, when you asked me last week...What was your analogy of coming on air? Something to do with that other geezer what was his name you said?."
Joe "What other geezer?."
Steve "When I said come on the show you said it's like having a..."
Joe "Ohh. I said are you sure it's not gonna be like having Styx on the Death Metal show!."
Steve "No. no what was his name. The solo guy?..."
Joe "Oh Yngwie Malmsteen?."
Steve "No. he had a couple of hits here then went away. In the 80s."
Joe "Oh Richard Marx."
Steve "Richard Marx! You said it'd be like having..."
Joe "..like having Richard Marx on a death metal show. Nah it's been good. See we do have a, we do come from that era..."
Steve "You have good peidgree mate. Good pedigree."
Joe "Yeah baby. Yeah we knew Gary Holton. We knew all them proper punks." (Gary was in 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' (TV show) and sang in a punk band called Heavy Metal Kids, died in 1985.)
Steve "Yeah that's right."
Phil "He sang on the first Girl album. Done some backing vocals, Gary Holton."
Joe "Yep, there ya go. Heavy Metal Kids there's another band you ought to be playing."
Steve "I do mate."
Joe "Oh good. Alright, just checking."
Steve "Shows how long you've been listening."
Joe "I'm new!."
Viv "Did you know that Free were almost called The Heavy Metal Kids?."
Joe "Wow."
Viv "They wanted them to change their name when they signed to Island Records. They wanted them to be called The Heavy metal Kids. Bit of useless trivia there you go."
Steve "Thanks for that..."
Viv "Thanks for that..Yeah you're welcome! I'll stop by and give you more shit...(stops himself)"
Steve "I'll get your coats over there." (laughter)
Steve "Um so are we gonna ah one more song and that's it?. Is that right? We're gonna go out with the man Mick Ronson doing Thingy Number 9..'Angel No. 9'. And I'll see you all again Friday."
Joe "'Angel No. 9'."
Steve "I'm going down to Vegas hopefully..I don't know if i'm gonna be able to get back on time. It might be a stretch that, to get back here for tomorrow."
Joe "It only takes 4 hours. it's only 4 hours if you put your foot down."
Steve "I'm going there tonight..."
Joe "Are ya flying?."
Steve "...playing there "
Joe "Are ya driving?."
Steve "Flying"
Joe "'Scuse me! Private Jet?."
Steve "I think so."
Phil "Helicopter..."
Joe "Marvelous. Or one of them little what d'you call 'em things.."
Steve "Cessna's?."
Joe "No them James Bond ones."
Steve "Oh yeah."
Phil "They're great."
Joe "Cybercopter or something."
Phil "Is that real? Can you really get them? Or is that just on James Bond?."
Joe "Yeah, no, no they actually did work."
Steve "You gotta watch your arse though it catches fire."
Joe "Sinclair invented it. The guy that did that little car" (The C5.)
Phil "Okay."
Joe "Can't remember what they were called though. But anyway, I digress."
Steve "Nice bit of trivia for you there. Just watch your arse - catch fire from the butane." (laughter)
Steve "Anyway see you all again. Maybe tomorrow but definitely Friday with Fun With a Face and er have a great rest of your miserable Thursday. And er I'd like to thank friends my from Def Leppard for coming in once more."
Joe "Pleasure. Thanks."
Phil "It was great."
Steve "That was a lot of fun doing all the er..."
Joe "All The Young Dudes...All The Old Dudes.. he he."
(Someone plays the signature guitar part from the song and Steve/Joe start singing it..)
Joe (stops Phil) "It's in the wrong key. It's in D..."
Phil "What is it?."
(Start again from the "song about suicide part" Phil sings along this time. Lasts 30 secs or so)
Joe "Etc."
Phil "We love it."
Joe "We'll come and do that again sometime, when we have our Covers album out," (Good news...)
Steve "Indeed! Like a Rainbow In The Dark!!!" (In loud Ronnie Dio voice)
Viv "Like a Shellaillagh down the pub." (looked it up "'shellaillagh' -sha-lay-lee a blunt object used to settle disputes in Irish Pubs.")
Steve "Argh!!! Demons! See ya bye bye" (In same Dio voice)
(Mick Ronson's 'Angel No. 9' plays out the show. )
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