| re: Jim vs Def Leppard | |
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Evan 05:40 pm UTC 10/10/13 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim vs Def Leppard - rockfenris2005 01:19 pm UTC 10/10/13 |
| A quick Jim quote on the matter at hand. "We tried over 200 amps and every guitar amp they'd say, Ugh, that's too squawky. So finally I sent away for the multi-tracks of 'Pyromania'. And I was playing it one day - and the two guitarists come into the studio and say, It's still not right, it's still too squawky!" > > > > > Hee hee. > > > > Jim was the first producer of Def Leppard's classic fourth > > album Hysteria. An album that went platinum 12 times in > > America alone. > > > > I am still trying to find out exactly what happened and if > > anyone in the Jim community knows what happened I would > > appreciate them posting about it. > > > > Jim and the band fell out and he was replaced by Mutt > > Lange. Apparently Jim recorded them warming up and told > > them that just that would do. > > > > During the Classic Albums Hysteria documentary, one of the > > guitarists said that they had to sell two million albums > > "just to pay Steinman's fee". > > > > However, all of this is the story from Def Leppard's point > > of view. I would be very interested to hear Jim's side of > > the story. > > If you look at the Original Sin section of this site, > there are a few stories in which it comes up/Jim talks > about it. I still haven't heard Hysteria. > | |
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