The history of the cover is it was thrown to Def Leppard to do last year. But the problem was time. Once our tour was over, we all went our separate ways, so we had to politely decline.
Then, the next thing I know [ ] phones me and says, ‘You’re the singer in our new band. We’re called Kings Of Chaos.’ And the band is Matt, [ ] Duff McKagan and [ ] Steve Stevens.
So I still get to sing it, but with different people playing behind me. Matt sent me the backing track three weeks ago, just as Def Leppard were setting off on the road. I said, ‘Jesus, you couldn’t have sent it at a worse time.
You expect me to go into the studio and become a singer-god.’ When I’m on tour and doing six hours a day of rehearsals, by the time I’ve finished I haven’t got any gas left in the tank. But I have found little spots here and there on days off.
I did the vocal backstage at one of the gigs and it sounds great. As I speak to you, our sound guy is sat with his headphones on in his hotel room auditioning which vocal take is the best one to send over to Matt. So the band haven’t even heard me yet.
It’s my favourite track on . But it’s the one everybody forgets about. If you listen to it closely, compared to any other Deep Purple song, it sounds like the sort of thing Def Leppard could have written.
It’s not riffy, like most Deep Purple. Although we have done our riffy stuff, Leppard went very chordal and jangly around the time of [1983’s] . And then when you get to the.
