Def Leppard - Me & My Wine

[WARF]

Def Leppard is NOTHING without Pete Willis!!!

Here's Me & My Wine... a song only released on the UK version of HIGH N' DRY!!!

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[WARF]

Bring back PETE WILLIS DAMNIT!!!
YOU FUCKING SUCK WITHOUT HIM!!!!

[WARF]

Vivian your a FUCKING SELLOUT!!!
Go listen to HOLY DIVER!!!!

[WARF]

Joe Elliot could have been the greatest frontman from the UK ever!
And you turned into a PUSSY!!!
I WANT PETE WILLIS BITCHES!!!!
Why the fuck did a bunch of alcoholics fire an alcoholic?!?!!

[FORD]

Actually, it's on the US version of High & Dry too. Or it least it is on my copy. Along with the pussified "remix" of "Bringing On The Heartbreak" - which stripped Pete Willis' rhythm guitar out and replaced it with synthesizer bullshit.

This video was actually made after Pyromania, which is why wuss boy Phil Collen is miming to a guitar part which he never recorded.

Def Leppard went downhill the day they fired Pete Willis, there's no doubt about that. And I find it hard to swallow the hypocrisy of a band that would later lose another 1 1/2 members to alcoholism actually fired Willis for drinking. I'm more inclined to believe Mutt Lange had something to do with it. Look at the way he pussified Foreigner. He did the same to Def Leppard, it just took a couple albums before it was obvious.

[ELVIS]

Nice...

[WARF]

Hmmm... I don't have me & my wine on my vinyl, casette or CD version.

It must have been remastered with, "Me & My Wine" added to it.

Seriously, FORD the whole band was ready for the BETTY FORD clinic!

Burn in hell Mutt Lange!

[BITEYOASS]

Well here is the "Bringin on the Heartbreak" Video from the Pete Willis days:

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[BITEYOASS]

Hello America!

http://www.gofish.com/video.gfp?gfid=30-441

[FORD]

Here's another theory I had....

In the older videos, it almost seems like Def Leppard is trying to look like Ac/Dc somewhat. Hell, the first time I heard "Let It Go" on the radio, I thought it WAS Ac/Dc.

Obviously they altered Joe Elliot's appearance a great deal before Pyromania was released. Maybe Pete (who was approximately the same size as Angus Young) wouldn't subject to the makeover?

Kinda crazy, but it wouldn't be the weirdest thing to ever happen in rock n roll.

Nor was Pete the first drunk to get fired from a band of drunks. Dave Mustaine beat him by a few months. And I'm sure there were others.

[Terry]

Pete wasn't able to get pretty enough for the upcoming Pyromania vids, so they shitcanned him (only half-kidding).

Read where Willis came in to lay down some solos for Pyromania, and he was bombed, so Lange threw him out of the studio and told him not to come back until he sobered up. Shortly after that, Elliot fired him. Nice, eh?

Post-Willis, Pyromania is about the only Lep album I can even deal with now. Rest of it is too overproduced and Bon Jovi-ish.

High N' Dry was Lepps last good album, agreed.

[WACF]

Originally posted by WARF
Hmmm... I don't have me & my wine on my vinyl, casette or CD version.

It must have been remastered with, "Me & My Wine" added to it.

Seriously, FORD the whole band was ready for the BETTY FORD clinic!

Burn in hell Mutt Lange!

I bought High 'N Dry shortly after Pyromania and my copy is the same as Fords.
They must have reissued it with the extras after Pyro sales took off.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Excellent thread WARF!

Original Lepp rules.

I too can still stomach Pyromania (save for maybe sissified 'Photograph'), but after that, its all shit.

Even Hysteria. Utter crap.


How about Adrenalize?? "Make Love Like A Man". WTF?????

[WARF]

There are atleast one good song from Both Hysteria and Adrenlize...

From Hysteria, "Gods Of War"

Adrenlize, "Tonight" (Could have been a pyromania leftover.... almost classic...

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Was the "Me & My Wine" video intentionally ridiculous? Because if it was, well they hit the bull's eye there...
I can't believe they could shoot that at the time of Pyromania, I think of the "Rock of Ages" vid that WARF posted as well a few months ago. That one was something else.
As for the track itself, well, I'm sorry but, I find it highly dispensable. It doesn't matter not to have it on my copy of "High 'n' Dry", really.