{"id":29853,"date":"2024-07-05T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppards-phil-collen-is-ready-to-get-his-rock-star-on-at-summer-stadium-tour-with-journey\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:02:54","slug":"def-leppards-phil-collen-is-ready-to-get-his-rock-star-on-at-summer-stadium-tour-with-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppards-phil-collen-is-ready-to-get-his-rock-star-on-at-summer-stadium-tour-with-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Leppard\u2019s Phil Collen is ready to get his \u201crock star on\u201d at Summer Stadium Tour with Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-03\/Getty_PhilCollen_070324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Live Nation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Def Leppard<\/strong> is getting ready to launch their Summer Stadium Tour with <strong>Journey<\/strong>, and guitarist <strong>Phil Collen<\/strong> is excited for what\u2019s in store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The two bands\u00a0previously toured together in 2018, and Collen tells ABC Audio that it&#8217;s a pairing that works well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe always do great with Journey, even when Journey\u00a0are not doing great with themselves,\u201d\u00a0he says, adding\u00a0he\u2019s a \u201chuge fan\u201d of the band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Collen says that with the recent 40th anniversary of their third studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Pyromania<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, fans can expect\u00a0the set list to \u201clean heavily\u201d on that album.\u00a0He also says they plan to clean things up from some of their previous tours, noting, \u201cWe&#8217;ve got rid of a lot of chaff.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I say that, I mean, you know, stuff that bands do that you don&#8217;t realize you&#8217;re doing,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe don&#8217;t need to waffle on and do this here and audience participation\u00a0that lasts so long that you could actually fit another song in there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He notes, \u201cWe&#8217;ve kind of really surgically\u00a0&#8230; chopped things up and made it just way more exciting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tour marks another summer Def Leppard\u00a0is\u00a0spending headlining stadiums, and for Collen there\u2019s nothing better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI think when you start playing, that&#8217;s the dream is to be able to do that and, you know, the bigger the better,\u201d he says. \u201cYou get your rock star on. &#8230; It&#8217;s really cool.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Def Leppard and Journey\u2019s Summer Stadium Tour, with special guests <strong>Steve Miller Band<\/strong> and <strong>Cheap Trick<\/strong>, kicks off Saturday in St. Louis. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/defleppard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>defleppard.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Live Nation Def Leppard is getting ready to launch their Summer Stadium Tour with Journey, and guitarist Phil Collen is excited for what\u2019s in store. The two bands\u00a0previously toured together in 2018, and Collen tells ABC Audio that it&#8217;s a pairing that works well. \u201cWe always<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppards-phil-collen-is-ready-to-get-his-rock-star-on-at-summer-stadium-tour-with-journey\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}