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Def Leppard's Joe Elliott meets Joe Dirt on a new episode of 'Fly On The Wall'
'Dude, I was on your side! It was Kid Rock. It wasn't me!'
This week, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott joins the Fly On The Wall podcast to talk about his musical beginnings, rock legends, and of course a fellow Joe -- Joe Dirt -- with hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade.
Joining the show on a rainy day off of touring while in Cleveland, in between band business and a visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says the weather reminded him of growing up in Sheffield, England.
“If we'd have grown up in California, we would have had nothing to aspire to,” he admits. “As kids, when we used to see on the three channels that we had in the U.K. -- BBC 1, BBC 2, and ITV -- we would get ‘Starsky and Hutch’ or whatever programs are on, ‘Dukes of Dukes of Hazard’ was more Midwest, but we'd get the roller skating guy in Venice Beach or wherever he was and all the palm trees and the bikinis and think, ‘I really don't see that where I live.’”
David Spade remembered getting a chance to see Def Leppard up close when they performed in Los Angeles at the famous Whiskey a Go Go. “It was the first show that we did for the ‘Diamond Star Halos Tour.’ We went out in the stadiums with Mötley [Crüe], so we launched the album by playing the first time that we'd ever played there,” Joe recalls. "Because we, as being a British band, we weren’t sluts of the boulevard in the ‘80s. We didn't do the Troubadour or the Roxy… We went there to see a few bands, but never played there.”
Growing up, Elliott first got bitten by the music bug when his mother bought a guitar and taught herself to play. “It was a 20 quid guitar,” he explains, “and she probably paid a pound a week for it. And I used to be sat there fascinated with this woman... teaching herself to play Pete Seeger-type songs, Bob Dylan and John Baez… and she had a really sweet voice. She's a really great singer. My mum, bless her. She's still alive. 92 years old, doesn't sing so much now. But she was great.”
“She was only 36 years old, you know, and I was just sat there thinking, ‘Well, I've got to have one of these,’” he continiues. “Rightfully so my father said, ‘Well, if you learn to play your mum's, we'll think about getting you one for Christmas.’ So, I spent the next six months or whatever it was trying to learn what my mum was doing, which is essentially about four chords. And as this book said, I think if you know three chords, there's 2500 songs right there. Once I'd learned to play, the first thing I ever learned to play was ‘She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain’ because it just started to be the first thing my mum learned."
“Consequently, for the next six months, all I did was play around those and say, ‘Oh, there's another song there that I can do.’ So, I never really learned to play the guitar,” Elliott admits. “I learned to play the four chords and then that progressed literally as I joined the band. Really, I was about 18. I learned to play better chords and more different chords and stuff, but… it was never my thing… I was happy enough to be the rhythm player like, you know, Malcolm Young in AC/DC or Bob Dylan for his own music or whatever, just to accompany my voice.”
Towards the end of their chat, David Spade needed to tell Joe Elliott a story that happened during the making of his 2001 comedy Joe Dirt. For those unfamiliar, Kid Rock was in the flick playing the bad guy role opposite Spade’s simple and lovable rocker character.
As Spade explains, “Dirt loves Def Leppard, right? So, we cleared wearing a Def Leppard shirt -- Joe may or may not know the ins and outs of this kind of stuff, but we have to clear it with somebody. So I wear, as Joe Dirt, this Def Leppard shirt and you have to use a shirt in a positive manner. It's kind of part of the deal. You can't be derogatory. You can't say negative things.”
“Now we're doing a scene and Kid Rock and I are in an argument. And when I leave, I said, ‘Hey, yell to me ‘Def Leppard sucks,’ because that's like the worst dagger you could say to me. So he goes, ‘Def Leppard sucks.’ Then we're not allowed to use the scene because we're breaking the deal with Def Leppard. Either me or someone got on with someone from the record company, maybe never got to Joe, explain the situation and they said, ‘Oh, so the good guy likes Def Leppard? Yeah, that's fine. You can keep it.’”
David says “that would have been gone, and that's one of my favorite things in the movie: A) He was part of Joe Dirt, the band was, and B) we got that one in.” Dany Carvey also remembers, “I think I wore a Def Leppard T-shirt as Garth under my flannel. It was a very cool T-shirt.“
“You may well have forgotten this, but in 1998 maybe 1999,” Elliott says to Spade, “I met you in the Riot House, and it was just after that film had come out. You don't remember? Because we were both drinking, and I remember I went up to you and I said, I’ve got to do this just for fun, I said, ‘I heard what you wrote.’ You looked and you went, ‘Dude, I was on your side! It was Kid Rock. It wasn't me!’ Cut to about 15 minutes later, we were talking at the bar, and then we just looked over and there was Chris Rock, Kid Rock, and Justin Timberlake all at the bar, and we all stood as a five for hours talking about everything. Chris Rock broke into singing “Foolin,” and then he looked at me like, ‘Dude, Black man can't like your music?’ It was hilarious. Then me and Kid Rock went down to a nightclub to watch this band called Kids in America, who did '80s covers and he dragged me up on stage to do ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’ with them, and right in the middle bit, when he goes to this little breakdown guitar, he went into a rap over the drums, and then we seamlessly came straight back into the song like we'd rehearsed it 100 times.”
Listen to the full episode with Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott -- now playing on Audacy -- and follow along with Fly On The Wall featuring Saturday Night Live alumni Dana Carvey and David Spade going behind the scenes and reminiscing about their most memorable stories and moments with friends of the show. In each episode, you’ll hear from your favorite cast members, hosts, writers, and musical guests as they share never-before-told stories about their careers.
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Def Leppard's Joe Elliott meets Joe Dirt on a new episode of 'Fly On The Wall'
'Dude, I was on your side! It was Kid Rock. It wasn't me!'
This week, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott joins the Fly On The Wall podcast to talk about his musical beginnings, rock legends, and of course a fellow Joe -- Joe Dirt -- with hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade.
Joining the show on a rainy day off of touring while in Cleveland, in between band business and a visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says the weather reminded him of growing up in Sheffield, England.
“If we'd have grown up in California, we would have had nothing to aspire to,” he admits. “As kids, when we used to see on the three channels that we had in the U.K. -- BBC 1, BBC 2, and ITV -- we would get ‘Starsky and Hutch’ or whatever programs are on, ‘Dukes of Dukes of Hazard’ was more Midwest, but we'd get the roller skating guy in Venice Beach or wherever he was and all the palm trees and the bikinis and think, ‘I really don't see that where I live.’”
David Spade remembered getting a chance to see Def Leppard up close when they performed in Los Angeles at the famous Whiskey a Go Go. “It was the first show that we did for the ‘Diamond Star Halos Tour.’ We went out in the stadiums with Mötley [Crüe], so we launched the album by playing the first time that we'd ever played there,” Joe recalls. "Because we, as being a British band, we weren’t sluts of the boulevard in the ‘80s. We didn't do the Troubadour or the Roxy… We went there to see a few bands, but never played there.”
Growing up, Elliott first got bitten by the music bug when his mother bought a guitar and taught herself to play. “It was a 20 quid guitar,” he explains, “and she probably paid a pound a week for it. And I used to be sat there fascinated with this woman... teaching herself to play Pete Seeger-type songs, Bob Dylan and John Baez… and she had a really sweet voice. She's a really great singer. My mum, bless her. She's still alive. 92 years old, doesn't sing so much now. But she was great.”
“She was only 36 years old, you know, and I was just sat there thinking, ‘Well, I've got to have one of these,’” he continiues. “Rightfully so my father said, ‘Well, if you learn to play your mum's, we'll think about getting you one for Christmas.’ So, I spent the next six months or whatever it was trying to learn what my mum was doing, which is essentially about four chords. And as this book said, I think if you know three chords, there's 2500 songs right there. Once I'd learned to play, the first thing I ever learned to play was ‘She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain’ because it just started to be the first thing my mum learned."
“Consequently, for the next six months, all I did was play around those and say, ‘Oh, there's another song there that I can do.’ So, I never really learned to play the guitar,” Elliott admits. “I learned to play the four chords and then that progressed literally as I joined the band. Really, I was about 18. I learned to play better chords and more different chords and stuff, but… it was never my thing… I was happy enough to be the rhythm player like, you know, Malcolm Young in AC/DC or Bob Dylan for his own music or whatever, just to accompany my voice.”
Towards the end of their chat, David Spade needed to tell Joe Elliott a story that happened during the making of his 2001 comedy Joe Dirt. For those unfamiliar, Kid Rock was in the flick playing the bad guy role opposite Spade’s simple and lovable rocker character.
As Spade explains, “Dirt loves Def Leppard, right? So, we cleared wearing a Def Leppard shirt -- Joe may or may not know the ins and outs of this kind of stuff, but we have to clear it with somebody. So I wear, as Joe Dirt, this Def Leppard shirt and you have to use a shirt in a positive manner. It's kind of part of the deal. You can't be derogatory. You can't say negative things.”
“Now we're doing a scene and Kid Rock and I are in an argument. And when I leave, I said, ‘Hey, yell to me ‘Def Leppard sucks,’ because that's like the worst dagger you could say to me. So he goes, ‘Def Leppard sucks.’ Then we're not allowed to use the scene because we're breaking the deal with Def Leppard. Either me or someone got on with someone from the record company, maybe never got to Joe, explain the situation and they said, ‘Oh, so the good guy likes Def Leppard? Yeah, that's fine. You can keep it.’”
David says “that would have been gone, and that's one of my favorite things in the movie: A) He was part of Joe Dirt, the band was, and B) we got that one in.” Dany Carvey also remembers, “I think I wore a Def Leppard T-shirt as Garth under my flannel. It was a very cool T-shirt.“
“You may well have forgotten this, but in 1998 maybe 1999,” Elliott says to Spade, “I met you in the Riot House, and it was just after that film had come out. You don't remember? Because we were both drinking, and I remember I went up to you and I said, I’ve got to do this just for fun, I said, ‘I heard what you wrote.’ You looked and you went, ‘Dude, I was on your side! It was Kid Rock. It wasn't me!’ Cut to about 15 minutes later, we were talking at the bar, and then we just looked over and there was Chris Rock, Kid Rock, and Justin Timberlake all at the bar, and we all stood as a five for hours talking about everything. Chris Rock broke into singing “Foolin,” and then he looked at me like, ‘Dude, Black man can't like your music?’ It was hilarious. Then me and Kid Rock went down to a nightclub to watch this band called Kids in America, who did '80s covers and he dragged me up on stage to do ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’ with them, and right in the middle bit, when he goes to this little breakdown guitar, he went into a rap over the drums, and then we seamlessly came straight back into the song like we'd rehearsed it 100 times.”
Listen to the full episode with Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott -- now playing on Audacy -- and follow along with Fly On The Wall featuring Saturday Night Live alumni Dana Carvey and David Spade going behind the scenes and reminiscing about their most memorable stories and moments with friends of the show. In each episode, you’ll hear from your favorite cast members, hosts, writers, and musical guests as they share never-before-told stories about their careers.
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