Hi there. As you're obviously a Def Lep fan, please check out my cover of "Photograph" and let me know what you think? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bjjJlKSwSv4.html Please like and subscribe to help the channel out. I aim to upload new videos at least every fortnight. Thanks - John
Yes Phil and Joe are the best but Rick savage has a unique voice and does some duos with Joe live and once I saw him do the lead singing on a live song. Rick Allen actually sings backup rarely but has a nice voice too… Vic cambell can also sing well….there is a song where they each sing a line… “we belong” it’s cool bc in all the years you never heard them singing on a recorded song individually.
In 1983 I was 13 years old and lived a sheltered life just outside Tulsa Oklahoma. MTV was new and the world was something it is no longer. I turned on the tube one day after school one day and snuck the channel changer over to MTV, a channel I was not allowed to watch. I had to get my fix after school before mom got home. Def Leppard's "Photograph" came on and it blew me away. I never saw anything that cool in my life. Phil in his leather jacket playing that Ibanez changed my life in an instant. I begged my mom for my first guitar which was a piece of crap Arbor copy of Phil's Destroyer. I got that guitar at Fiery Brothers Music. They actually sold the Ibanez there but I had to settle for the cheap copy. It got me going and my life was never the same. Phil and Steve are the reason(s) I picked up the guitar. I went on to play in bands and even become a guitar teacher for awhile. it's just a hobby these days, but Def Leppard had a HUGE impact on my life and I am still a bit of a kid on the inside trying to be those guys. Phil, if by some weird twist of fate you happen to see this.....Thank you
Awesome story of your life man..I am same age as you brother...when I first heard the photograph cassette I was blown away....I had to play guitar too...I got an old beat up harmony sunburst electric guitar and amp from my brother who took it on trade with a buddy..it didn't have strings but I learned the ways quick and played that thing till my fingers bled... great memories and glad we were part of those days.
Your story IS MINE! :-) I was 14 when I picked up a guitar. Changed my entire life (every aspect of it). Music, once you understand it and play it, changes you forever. Can't be captured in words but those who play guitar and absolutely LOVE it every second of it, will understand what I'm trying to say! Cheers to all guitar players out here, known and unknown!
Awesome story man! My dad is 52 and raised me on all this stuff, I got a stack of cds from him when I was about 11, On Through the Night, Highway to Hell, KISS Double Platinum, Diary of a Madman and Master of Puppets blasted through my speakers for quite a while, I found Avenged Sevenfold (y’all can laugh if you want but they got some bad ass guitarists lol) and I got a $70 electric guitar for my 14th birthday been playing for 10 years and I don’t know where I’d be without my axe!
Hysteria is one of the greatest examples on how to layer different guitar tracks tastefully. R.I.P Steve Clark, he was a great composer that complemented Phil's playing a lot.
Alan James H. Zamorano I have a signed program from the hysteria concert from the world tour . It has the whole band including the late Steve Clarke signature, my sister was at it as I was too young to go lol . My sister got me into them . I was jealous as sh&t. I never got see them till the mid 90s during the slang tour .
Some of these guys choice of voicing a of chords are the most tasteful in rock! You really don’t appreciate it until you try playing it! It’s so pleasant to the ear! You go to tackle it and end up saying what in the hell are they doing here 😂
I was like 10 years old when this album hit, and it absolutely blew me away. I'd run home after school and park myself in front of MTV. I started trying to grow my hair long and my mom made me cut it. Once. After that I wouldn't cut it again. A couple years later I was actually playing in a band with some older kids. We thought we were rock stars in our little part of the world, lol.
I can’t help but notice the sadness that comes over Phil’s face when Steve Clark is mentioned. They were like brothers. It always makes me sad as well. I have to say that Phil Collen truly is a guitar playing legend and a sincerely nice man. All of the Leppards are nice guys and their tenacity and determination to keep moving forward through extremely tough times makes Def Leppard the toughest band in the world. They have worked their asses off for decades. Much respect to them all!
@@codybowman8901 There are better guitar players than Alex Lifeson and more humble successful musicians. So what? There are also better critics than you and better def leppard fans.
One of the greatest guitarists Britain has. Oddly he is rarely lauded as such. He knocks many so called guitar gods into a cocked hat. Nice bloke too. Quite rare to find a famous person as grounded and genuine has Phil Collen. Heres to many more years of success. I certainly won't be the only one to acknowledge that Leppard and their ilk form the story of my life and played a part in shaping who I am today aged 58. Thanks guys.
Phil and steves mindblowing riffs are timeless , def leppard reached the who's stratosphere for greatness . I know this as I can go back and listen to any of their amazing albums and be transported to the first time I heard them decades ago . True legendary bands never age . the rolling stones , AC/DC , the who , led zeppelin , Metallica and def leppard . These bands have the greatest riffs and will be engraved in music granite forever .
When he played Foolin it made me go back to the mid eighties again and all things in my life were, although briefly, good again. That sounded so clean to me, awesome.
Man, I'm not sure why I got into Phil Collen so late in life...I guess because he wasn't as flashy or as eager for the spotlight as some other guitarists of his time so easier to overlook. But I've been a fan o Def Leppard since I was a kid of about 9 y/o and they are one of those bands that to my ears gets better with age. Everytime I hear Phil's guitar sound and his playing I feel like, "Yes, that's why I wanted to play electric guitar in the first place!" Radical, gnarly, bodacious, yet super smooth and clear. Also always fairly understated. F***in' nice!!!
John Henry Guitar Lessons I wish I would have been into him about 10 years ago when I first started playing. I’ve never been a big deff fan but I respect the heck out of them. Phil plays so cleanly it’s amazing!
I have watched many Phil interviews over the years and he is consistently a very nice, down to earth & pleasant guy. Much respect for Phil, I love his wide vibrato phrasing in particular. Also, he is a great melody writer and still to this day plays machine tight live with the rest of the band.
I love it when a rock star can come down to earth to take the time to help some of the fans who enjoy learning more about music and playing skills... So laid back and makes it interesting if you are learning the riffs
This band was a gigantic influence on me. I loved everything they did. They're still spectacular and play live extremely well. They were all sort of around the same age as me so I felt a kinship to them in that way. I still think Pyromania and Hysteria are two of the greatest rock albums ever made.
People say he’s not a good guitarist because he’s not good st shredding but he puts so much energy and emotion in all the notes and he’s great at writing songs and riffs
Who in the world would say he isn't a good guitarist? He and Viv Campbell are both EXCELLENT creative guitarist and this coming from someone who's played for 40+ years. Def Leppard poached Phil from another band BECAUSE he was so good.
Phil and Steve were the best guitar team. Steve was just a monster rhythm player. People idolize Malcom Young but Steve was right up there. His phrasing and feel were/are unbelievable.
To be fair I've never heard Leppard bad mouth any former band members. In fact the only person ever I've heard them make negative comments about was Jim Steinman. They said them at the time and that was that, over and done with. This obviously does not include any comments regarding footy vs Iron Maiden.
+hughcdavies Joe often speaks crap about Willis. Too bad cause Pete had a big part in that leppard sound we havent really heard on album since retroactive.
How cool is it that top musicians share like this ! Growing Up in the 80's I never in a million years thought I could ever get a personal lesson from one of the greats ! I LOVE YOU TUBE !!!
Phil we love you man. Been a fan of DL since I was 19 and I’m 56 now. You guys have always been my favorite rock band. The band is so humble and gracious to its fans. Thanks and never break up guys. DL forever!
Im so glad i was born 83 and started listen metal in 88 or 89. These bands are my favorite. Def leppard motley crue alice cooper kiss god these greatest 70s and 80s are what metal is and should still sound like. Phils one of the best guitar players for sure
I heard the Pyromania around 1987 (14 years old or something), and this album and Band stil stays relevant to me. I am actually starting to learn some songs on the guitar and discovering how amazing their tunes are.
Phenomenal guitarist. I grew up listening to his solos on the Pyromania album. Amazing phrasing and sense of melody, not just jamming off a pentatonic box like I would do lol.
I've been a Phil fan for 30 years now and I would love to get just ONE lesson from him. And to be able to play a PC-1. If only for 5 minutes. Siiiiiiiiiiigh
When I was younger, I thought Eddie Van Halen was a rock genius until I heard Def Leppard in 1982. Now, my favorite ax whealers are Phil Collen, Vivian Campbell and the Late Steve Clarke.
I just covered photograph. I also noticed the melody on the chorus sounded like it had a single guitar playing those notes, now Phil confirmed it! awesome. The bass line to Stage fright also sticks in my head almost 4 decades later.
Love Jackson, played one, and totally hooked, just my favorite guitar company....Gotta be Pre- Fender era....Japan or USA, even bottom end guitars were kickass.
Good lesson for young guitarists - learn how to sing, it just might get you the gig 😉 I love Phil’s sense of melody and constructing multiple guitar parts that fit together so perfectly. I love these guys!
Freaking awesome guy, I wish I can meet him and jam, Steve as well but unfortunately he's jamming in heaven, Phil is so under rated and deserves better, one of the best guitarist in the world that help Def Leppard rise to the top, thank god the band hired him, great guy, great musician, any band will definitely shine with Phil, he's one in a billion, thanks Phil for being a great guitarist and a great human being, the whole band is a god send, LONG LIVE DEF LEPPARD!!!
I have studied guitar tab books and I thought Eddie van Halens music was hard to decipher and follow and play. THEN- I studied a book on Def Lepard and and saw what real hardship is for a new guitarist. Glad to see him on here explaining the Genius Music.
DIOSpeedDemon if *I* can understand *and learn* all of Def Leppard's songs surely you can. And I suck!!!! lol. (I also haven't played in over 25 years)
DIOSpeedDemon you couldn’t have said that any better. Def Leppard’s music is so thought out and the tone and everything just makes it so much better! Def Leppard has so many small details that make their music very tasteful! For example, Hysteria, has so many orchestrated guitar parts.
Phil Collen is a tremendously underrated player. He never got recognition for it, but he was one of the most soulful, emotional and melodic shred-style players of the '80s. His work on "White Lightning" could almost have been Gary Moore, the fills on "Love Bites" are classic blues emotion, few solos soared the way the beginning of "Let's Get Rocked" did, and how many shred-capable guitar players had the restraint to stick to three notes on a solo like he did on "Rocket"?
Love the sound of Phil's,guitar and his,willingness to,share his knowledge, jus seems like a decent kind guy who loves his craft. Love to just BS with him,for a few hours.
I recognize that guitar, I was watching Pawn Stars one evening and someone brought one of those into the shop..What was really kool was is that Phil and Joe Elliot came in to check it out and see if it was a real Phil Collin signature model..It was and Phil played a couple of licks on it and to me that was the highlight of the show..Can't seem to remember what the gent got for it for pawning it off, but it was a bad ass guitar nonetheless..
I remember years ago I was living in the mountains and Def Leppard came on to do rock line wzzo 95.1 that was like the coolest thing ever, Def Leppard was on that radio station and given a great interview and everything like that.
Absolutely spectacular player. Excellent tone, note choice, timing, vibrato, and ability to write. I always thought Phil was unfairly underrated because he never made his playing about him; it was always about the song. Because of that, you tend to think of Def Leppard as a whole, instead of just focusing on the particular brilliance that he brought to the band. Which is kind of apropos I suppose; I think Phil prefers it that way. ;o)
Been playing "Photograph" for many, many, years and recently was led to believe I was playing it wrong after seeing how others play it. Thankfully, Steve put me straight and yeah - been playing it right. :)
no..... he..... doesn't. Not to mention he's not even the third best guitarist the band has ever had. Even Willis, when sober was better. High n' Dry (Exhibit A)
