Pete Willis Interview from 1989!

[Seshmeister]

I think that was a one off gig with the original members of Def Leppard at their hometown arena.

I seem too remember seeing an exert of it in a TV documentary about the band...

[Top Jimmy]

Yeah, Vivian Campbell is like having Sammy Hagar playing guitar in your band...

You guys are SO fucking full of SHITE on this one...

seriously...
This guy owns John Sykes & both Zakk Wylde AND Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.)
before Dio ever sings one damn note in this tune....

Randy Rhoads was a fucking GOD, but he never had a riff as FAT as this...
...and don't start talking about classical music, man.
this songs rips your head clean OFF, man......
This ain't no opera, man, no way....

Fucking hell, Zakk owes ten years of his career to the pinch harmonics in this song,
and you fucking know it.

Dio had the right guy for the job.

Get fucking REAL guys.



As for joining Def Leppard?

Dude gets a good paying gig playing guitar in a band
whose fan base is primarily slutty chicks and/or milfs...
(ok by now gilfs too, but whaddyagonnado? take out the teeth and gimme a gummer gramma!!)
I don't see the problem on damn bit.

He absolutely fucking OWNS it right here, OWNS it.

and the solo? What the hell you gonna say?

OWNS it.

There, I said it.
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[Terry]

You guys are SO fucking full of SHITE on this one...

seriously...
This guy owns John Sykes & both Zakk Wylde AND Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.)
before Dio ever sings one damn note in this tune....

Randy Rhoads was a fucking GOD, but he never had a riff as FAT as this...
...and don't start talking about classical music, man.
this songs rips your head clean OFF, man......
This ain't no opera, man, no way....

Fucking hell, Zakk owes ten years of his career to the pinch harmonics in this song,
and you fucking know it.

Dio had the right guy for the job.

Get fucking REAL guys.



As for joining Def Leppard?

Dude gets a good paying gig playing guitar in a band
whose fan base is primarily slutty chicks and/or milfs...
(ok by now gilfs too, but whaddyagonnado? take out the teeth and gimme a gummer gramma!!)
I don't see the problem on damn bit.

He absolutely fucking OWNS it right here, OWNS it.

and the solo? What the hell you gonna say?

OWNS it.

There, I said it.
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Vivian was the fucking bomb when he was with Dio.

No dispute over that.

He has wasted whatever talent he displayed back then in the years he's been with Leppard.

No dispute over that, either.

[Diamondjimi]

You guys are SO fucking full of SHITE on this one...

seriously...
This guy owns John Sykes & both Zakk Wylde AND Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.)
before Dio ever sings one damn note in this tune....

Dude, put the pipe down and step away from the computer. Seriously!

Randy Rhoads was a fucking GOD, but he never had a riff as FAT as this...

False!
Every riff Randy had on the Ozzy albums BLOWS this riff outta the fuckin water!

...this songs rips your head clean OFF, man......

Mmm , not really. "Stand up and Shout" (ever heard of it) kicks it's ass..IMO..

Fucking hell, Zakk owes ten years of his career to the pinch harmonics in this song,
and you fucking know it.

Uhhh no ,Chief...
Zakk (the most redundant & obnoxious pinch squealer of them all) and all the rest of 'em should be paying John Sykes for trademark enfringment.
Don't believe me? Ever heard of Tygers of Pan Tang? Check out a very young Sykes on the "Spellbound" album ('81) He wipes the floor with Ms. Vivian.

While we're on the subject of pinched harmonics... A tip of the hat also goes to dudes like Rhoads,EVH,Michael Schenker,George Lynch,Billy Gibbons for exploring this technique may back when....

Dio had the right guy for the job.

Well , I'll hand it to ya there. That's one fact ya got right.

Get fucking REAL guys.

I am!

As for joining Def Leppard?

Dude gets a good paying gig playing guitar in a band
whose fan base is primarily slutty chicks and/or milfs...

(ok by now gilfs too, but whaddyagonnado? take out the teeth and gimme a gummer gramma!!)
I don't see the problem on damn bit.

So much for artistic credibility. He was'nt hired for that ...
He was hired as .....( wait for it).......... Phil Colon's rhythm guitarist! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!

Oh fuck...that shit is funny ,right there!!!

He absolutely fucking OWNS it right here, OWNS it.

He hasn't owned much in a long time...

and the solo? What the hell you gonna say?

OWNS it.

There, I said it.

Lame riff ,good solo.........glory days!

[Susie Q]

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Wow, was he pissed or what?! The people kept amping him up to get him to talk about Campbell too, you notice that? After a while he got in a real bad mood and decided he had enough signing those plates.

Pete Willis, he was a good guitarist, but he wasn't PHENOMINAL by any means, in my opinion.

[kwame k]

Yeah, I agree but the twin attack of him and Steve Clark made Def Lep great. They lost a ton of balls when Pete left. I will admit I liked them all the way up to Hysteria.....after that, meh.

[Susie Q]

Yeah, I agree but the twin attack of him and Steve Clark made Def Lep great. They lost a ton of balls when Pete left. I will admit I liked them all the way up to Hysteria.....after that, meh.

Yep Yep! Me too...I still wanna catch them live. I will this year if it kills me.
Steve Clark....god rest his soul 'eh?

[kwame k]

Yup....I saw them on the Hysteria tour and Tesla opened for them...that was before Tesla broke big......great show and both bands were great. If you get a chance, see them......

[Terry]

Nah, Willis wasn't a guitar god, but he and Clark were the twin guitarists for the only Leppard lineup that had any balls...certainly the only Leppard lineup that deserved to be called hard rock or heavy metal.

[Terry]

Vivian "blowing away" John Sykes, Randy Rhoads and Zakk Wylde?

Would put them all more or less on the same level in terms of my own appreciation, with Zakk Wylde perhaps a little bit lower on the scale than the other three.

[Seshmeister]

You guys are SO fucking full of SHITE on this one...

seriously...
This guy owns John Sykes & both Zakk Wylde AND Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.)
before Dio ever sings one damn note in this tune....

Randy Rhoads was a fucking GOD, but he never had a riff as FAT as this...
...and don't start talking about classical music, man.
this songs rips your head clean OFF, man......
This ain't no opera, man, no way....

Fucking hell, Zakk owes ten years of his career to the pinch harmonics in this song,
and you fucking know it.

Dio had the right guy for the job.

Get fucking REAL guys.



As for joining Def Leppard?

Dude gets a good paying gig playing guitar in a band
whose fan base is primarily slutty chicks and/or milfs...
(ok by now gilfs too, but whaddyagonnado? take out the teeth and gimme a gummer gramma!!)
I don't see the problem on damn bit.

He absolutely fucking OWNS it right here, OWNS it.

and the solo? What the hell you gonna say?

OWNS it.

There, I said it.
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Wow you must really like those three chords...

[ELVIS]

The first six seconds sums it all up...

Dumb ass...

And an awesome guitar player...

[ELVIS]

Why do some of you idiots always stray way off topic with bullshit about this guitar player or that situation ??

I mean, what the fuck does Vivian Campbell have to do with this thread ??

And of course, Hagar had to be mentioned... After all, this is a David Lee Roth website...

[ELVIS]

Cambell= Bitch!

What does Campbell equal ??

[Hellraiser!!]

Vivian Campbell kicked some ass on Holy Diver and Last In Line.

Dude wasted what talent he had after Dio. No self-respecting guitar player would play second-fiddle to Phil Collen, fat paycheck or not.

He kicked some serious ass on Sacred Heart too, after that he fucked up everything....of course I'm a big Whitesnake fan, but I don't think he did something really impressive with the band, except touring for a great album aka Whitesnake 1987....