Audio - Interview - Vivian - Eagle 96.9 Sacramento - 31Jul2019

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Def Leppard Heads to Vegas. Kat Chats With Guitarist Vivian Campbell

2019 continues to be another influential year for legendary British rock ‘n’ roll icons Def Leppard. In addition to being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame® on March 29, 2019, the band will be taking over the Las Vegas Strip later this year with their exclusive headlining residency show running August 14th through September 7th. Guitarist Vivian Campbell talks about the year that it has been.

This interview was conducted July 15th.

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Vivian: "We actually have a really busy schedule up here because we are rehearsing songs for our Vegas residency which starts next month. We want to make the Vegas show very different to our normal touring show. We're blowing the cobwebs off a lot of songs that we haven't played for maybe 30 years or more and a couple of more recent songs that we've actually never performed live. We're also hoping that every night in Vegas is a little bit different than the night before so we need quite a deep catalog to pull from. So it's a lot of work."

Vivian after describing what they did for Viva! Hysteria: "This time we had to figure out how to go even better on it. So we really gotta work on the catalog of songs and a different way to present this show. It's still a work in progress, but we've got some really good ideas and I think we've got some really good songs."

Vivian: "That's one of the things that will be great about this Vegas show is that we're playing some songs that we've never played before. We're playing some deep album cuts that are, perhaps, more guitar-centric.... Some of those songs we haven't played in close to 30 years or something or 25 years. So it'll be a lot of fun to do that."