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rockfenris2005 04:08 pm UTC 10/13/13 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim vs Def Leppard - Jan 02:49 pm UTC 10/13/13 |
Mutt Lange also produced the monster Shania Twain album "Come on over" from the 90s. Gosh, I remember hearing those songs on the radio all of the time back then. "That don't impress me much" was Number 1, I think. I remember hearing that constantly, and "Man, I feel like a woman". It was just a huge, huge, huge album. I wouldn't be surprised if it's on the list of top 100 greatest selling albums of all time or something. > In the old interviews Jim mentions he was offered to > produce Black Sabbath and lots of heavy metal bands in the > 80s. It seems that Jim likes certain things in heavy > metal, power chords, Marshall amps etc. The bigness and > power of the sound. He's had long hair most of his life so > he looks like the players of the genre too. > > Jim seems to like Led Zeppelin. The fast ending of 'All > Revved Up' being his "tribute" to Zeppelin. > > > I'd say Mutt Lange is an expert in making commercial hard > rock/pop records that sound good on the radio. Wouldn't > say he's a heavy metal producer. I think he recently > produced Nickelback. > > There was a program on VH1 called 'Ultimate Albums' which > had an episode of Def Leppard's 'Pyromania'. Very > torturous recording process according to band members with > all the multiple takes. It took a very long time to > complete the album. Leppard guys wanted the "big" sound > they had on 'Pyromania' (that took ages to get) and Jim's > way of doing thing seemed to the band, I guess, > "sloppy"... > > All the drums were programmed on 'Pyromania', so the > drummer Rick Allen didn't actually play on the album. > That's why Jim was confused when Allen said to him "I > really want to play on this album"(mentioned in Jim's > Amherst speech). > > There is one photo (perhaps the only one)of Jim and Def > Leppard in the studio. It's quite telling. Jim's smiling, > Joe Elliot looks uncomfortable and I think there was only > one member of the band smiling along with Jim. > > Have you seen the photo? > > I remember Jim saying he was fed up with the band but > couldn't quit the project because then he wouldn't have > been paid what they eventually paid him. He had to wait > until they fired him. > | |
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