DEF LEPPARD's VIVIAN CAMPBELL Talks LAST IN LINE Debut Album, Upcoming Tour
DEF LEPPARD and LAST IN LINE guitarist Vivian Campbell was interviewed on the November 16 edition of Eddie Trunk's SiriusXM satellite radio show, "Eddie Trunk Live". You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).
On the songwriting process for "Heavy Crown", the forthcoming debut album from LAST IN LINE, the band featuring Campbell alongside fellow founding DIO members Vinny Appice and Jimmy Bain, plus singer Andrew Freeman, who has previously fronted HURRICANE and LYNCH MOB:
"It was a moment of clarity for me, because here was the original DIO band sounding like the early records, but here was this great singer who didn't sound anything like Ronnie [James Dio] but yet he could put his own slant on these songs and make them his own. And that got me thinking. And that's kind of the first thing that got the ball rolling. And we sat down and we discussed [how] we were just gonna play some gigs and play these songs from the early albums. And that's what we did. And at that point in time, we weren't even thinking about doing new music. And we just continued to go out and do a few shows as and when our schedules permitted. And it was great fun, and we just really enjoyed it. But then, out of the blue, Frontiers Records in Italy offered us a deal, so we thought, 'Why not?' And that's when we started writing songs. And it just happened so, so easy — as indeed the 'Holy Diver' album did back in late '82, when we were writing that record. Usually, Vinny and Jimmy and I would go into the room early and Jimmy would have a riff, or I'd have a riff, and we'd just kick it around with Vinny and we'd come up with a musical bed. And then Ronnie would come down in the evening and he'd listen to it, he'd make a couple of suggestions, he'd open his lyric book, make some notes, and about a half later, he'd step up to the mic and started singing. And before the end of the night was done, we'd have a song, and it was a very quick process. And that's the same way we did this record ['Heavy Crown'], and it happened just as quick."
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