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Hi this is Nick from Total Guitar, we're backstage at Download 2009 with none other than Phil
Collen from Def Leppard and Man Raze, Phil. >>How you doing?
>>Great, great to see you and thanks very much for coming on. You're going to play for
us now I think, 3 of your favourite riffs from Def Leppard.
>>Sure yeah, I'll do that, actually there is something it's on my website, I was trying
to show how you do the beginning of Pour Some Sugar On Me, and I said that I, when I've got an amp,
because I was doing it in a hotel room like this, I said I'd do it on an amp and I've
have an amp now. So this is like Pour Some Sugar On Me like a little country riff at
the beginning
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That's one riff, that'll do yeah. >>Could you slow that first one down?
>>Yeah. It's kind of like got these grace notes. When we first done it Mark Lang he
plays with his fingers, he's always been into country and stuff and he'd be going...
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But I couldn't do that back then, so I did it with a pick. So it's, so there's a lot of that.
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And I use a metal pick and play pretty hard, these are pretty heavy strings they're 13
and 56, so it's manly stuff we've got going on here! >>Great well how about another one? Another
Def Leppard riff perhaps? >>Rocket is kind of cool, again off of the
Hysteria album.
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Again it's a groove it's got a, it's called a, what groove is that? Help me!
>>I've got no idea! It just sounds groovy. >>That's it. Ok so we've got that pretty slowly
so we could, what else would you like to play for us?
>>A third one, I'm just trying to think what..a good one. I mean Turn It Up is great but it's
not really a riff it's just like chords, it's just
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And that's pretty much it it's just a chord thing. I'm just trying to think any cooler
riffs >>So in Man Raze are you exploring your more ***
side. >>It is, I mean I've always played agressively
even when I've been shredding. I'm hitting every note and I use a metal pick which does
actually add to the sound, it makes it a bit brighter and everything. Man Raze, yeah, is
a bit more that way, I mean the riffs are probably a little simpler but I mean same
deal. >>Because you're singing at the same time?
>>Yeah I am, which really makes a huge difference, the Shadow Man which is a...
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It's something like that anyway, have a listen to the record, Shadow Man!
>>Well that's fantastic, thanks very much Phil Collin backstage at Download with Total Guitar.