the Pete Willis era of the band will always be the best, he is my favorite member of the band Pete Willis rules!

@TenMinutesLyne

10 ай бұрын

What a load of crap, Pete should never have apologised, a clasic case of DARVO. Pete played 90% of ALL the guitars that were layed down on that album, he was capable and the guitarist of choice for Mutt. When the writing and tracks were layed down, it is then they decided they did not need him. Apart from a small solo he did on BGAG, Steve and Phil then did the solos. Steve did very little on the guitar work, approx 10% and Pete was the one under pressure, no wonder he blew.

I love Pete Willis for how humble he had always been after being fired. He had so much talent. I love how he always says "it's the best thing that ever happened to me." It takes a lot of courage to admit your faults.

High & dry is my favorite too , I'm 51 and bought in 81 when I heard Let It GO,good heavy sound

@DarthTerminatti

4 жыл бұрын

High and Dry is a rock n roll classic!

@junior007a7

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I'm 51 also I love the band too!!

@troy528986562

3 жыл бұрын

I saw them when they filmed let it go in salt lake City Utah I was right up front it was a great show I'll never forget it I told Joe as he stopped between songs work the stage like you just did and you'll be successful and they were

Wish we could have seen Pete when they got inducted into the Rock N Roll hall of fame.

I always thought it would have been great if Pete came back after Steve's death

They were never the same after Pete was unceremoniously kicked out.

@daveg4236

Жыл бұрын

Pete fired himself

High and Dry was hands down their best album to me. I am 45 yrs. old and when I go to a bar with my younger buddys, I always put Saturday Night High and Dry on the jukebox!!! They cannot believe that it is def leppard!!!! Everything is so poppy nowadys!!! Pete rocked!!!

@legion1188

7 жыл бұрын

Randy Rhoads thank you for Saying that

@jeromecabral7464

5 жыл бұрын

I have the high& dry on vinyl and 8 track my favorite songs are bringing on the heartbreak and switch 6:25 and you got me running

@dyr234

4 жыл бұрын

right, high n dry is a great record, saturday night, lady strange and let it go are always on repeat for me.

@johnhosley6646

3 жыл бұрын

Pete n Steve were a great guitar duo.. nothing against Phil..I'm a guitarist too n I love that raw rock n roll sound on lps like high n dry and gnr appetite for destruction n such

For me, the album High and Dry was their purist Rock album. Thank you Pete. I saw the band in Honolulu in 1983. “ Is anybody out there?” LIGHTS! Wow, great concert.

I remember these guys before Pyromania came out. They had some hardcore fans that kept going on about how good they were. What I really remember most is that they were young. I heard a truant officer was going after the drummer for skipping school. When I saw Photograph on MTV I tipped my hat to those guys who told me Def Leppard would hit it big....they were right big time.

Pete drank just like Steve did. Steve was even sent home a few times to sober up and dry out. What happened to Pete was that he then got stuck on double guitar duty and came in completely obliterated. Mutt was pretty much the guy that was behind his ouster. Lets face it, when your record costs 2-3 million to make it shouldn't come as a shock. I can only imagine the pressure those two were under at such young ages..

Pete Willis was the heart of that band!! They havent done anything woth it after Pyromania

@magnuswettermark8293

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. He founded the band.

In your opinion, Pete Willis was NOTHING?! In my opinion, there'd be NO On Through The Night and High N' Dry WITHOUT PETE!

@VELOCITYSTACK666

4 жыл бұрын

AngelofAnguish hes on pyromania a lot too writing and rythm..

@donfromong1926

10 ай бұрын

Pyromania was Pete’s album as well. Those are his riffs on every song except Die Hard the Hunter, that was Steve’s. Mutt ran those songs through an old Tom Schultz Rockman and softened up. He wanted every song on the radio. He got his wish and the band caved on Hysteria. Bob Rock = Metallica Black album = Metallica sucked from then on. Mutt Lange = Hysteria = Def Leppard sucked from then on. It’s not a secret.

These guys were SOOOOO gorgeous back then!!!!! Steve & Pete were amazing!!!! Joe and the other guys did Pete Willis a big favour for letting him go because we all know that he was going to have ended up with the same fate as Steve! Unfortunately for Steve, it was much too late! He hurt too much and couldn't take the pain anymore! We will always love him & he will forever be in our hearts! ❤❤❤❤❤ DEF LEPPARD FOREVER!!!!! Chelle 🌹

Pete was what Ed King was for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Both departed their respective bands but really made some fantastic songs and intuitive guitar parts. I just think Pete just melted under the intense recording sessions with Mutt Lange for Pyromania. Then had a few choice words for him on that last day in the studio. Def weighed the options lose Mutt or lose Pete. Mutt was chosen.

Def Leppard is one my all time favorite rock band. I like On Through The Night album. But my all time favorite albums are High n Dry,. Pyromania,. Hysteria and Adrenalize. I do like Retro-Active.

Def leppard need to record one last heavy metal record. Pete Willis is ok to write material now and I guarantee he would help. For the rock fans!

@daveg4236

Жыл бұрын

Why? Def has Viv

No Pete no Def Leppard

"The famously Pitch-perfect David Coverdale"

Great documentary from an ICONIC GROUP. Amazing how RICK ALLEN sounds more AMERICAN THAN BRITISH. HE SPEAKS FROM THE HEART!!

11:42 - David Fricke was right about how record companies didn't want to spent a ton of money, unless they know they'll make it back and more.

Pete was the one who put the riff and the metal.. I stop buying def leppard records because of that.. I prefer to listen the old albums..

@cfg2704

5 жыл бұрын

Me too, I hate when bands get soft because they start making more money that way. Happened to Metallica, motley, Aerosmith etc. Pantera probably the most successful metal band to stay strong .

@CorpseGrinder1967

5 жыл бұрын

Yep! And if they were really brothers and cared about Pete, they would have helped him, thats what family does. Instead, they just kept saying get help and when he couldnt or wouldnt, they let him go. They should have banded together and helped him as A BAND.

@dyr234

4 жыл бұрын

pyromainia is a good album if you just want to bang your head and rock out after a couple of beers or smoke a bowl, but their early stuff like high n dry, on through the night and first strike was some of the best stuff.

@frasiercraine1776

4 жыл бұрын

Most riffs were Steve. Not Pete. Seriously. It's well known.

@ivanduc72

2 жыл бұрын

@@frasiercraine1776 exactly: "Wasted" riff came from Steve. I think Steve and Pete were excellent on putting together energy and melody and the first two albums are really heavy. The problem - in my opinion - is when John "Mutt" Lange, who was the producer on "High'n'Dry", began to work heavily on the songs (is listed as co-writer on many) and influenced a lot the way Def Leppard played on "Pyromania" (still a good album, but not fresh as On Through or High) and afterwards they went down a too melodic and soft way.. And that's Mutt Lange kind of music. In fact he produced Bryan Adams's "Waking up the neighbours" and that record sounds exactly like Def Leppard from '87 on. He's the ruin (musically speaking).

i love rick allen hes such a legend

I think Def Leppard booting Pete Willis was what saved his life.

@michellegoncalves7860

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!! It wasn't what he wanted, and I am sure he was very heartbroken about it, but it was what ended up saving his life! PETE, YOU ROCK! ❤ Love from your#1 fan/girl Chelle 👄👄👄👄

8:25 Wait a minute....they sent Steve Clark home for 2 weeks to sober up, and left all the guitar work for Pete Willis, yet when Pete came in drunk they fired him? Thats just fucked up.

@JIF882

6 жыл бұрын

I guess it's because Pete screwed up a solo.

@499370mlw

6 жыл бұрын

It's just that Pete had the balls to tell mutt to go f himself 👍👍

@victorcederholm5336

3 ай бұрын

I have always found this strange. They have two guitarist with alcohol problems. One is considered family and can do what he wants and the other one is a problem and is fired? We are missing some information here. I have always wondered why they didnt care for Pete the way they cared for Steve.

@tK10643

2 ай бұрын

They were in the studio 5 months recording Pyromania. This was way too long a process for Willis to endor. Lots of pressure from Mutt to fire Willis from what I gather.

I always thought it was hypocritical that they kicked out Pete Willis. Especially since they gave Steve a two week break and then get mad at Pete for partying to much.

@allsystemsgo8678

9 жыл бұрын

***** That really doesn't excuse the hypocrisy of kicking out one guy for having a drinking problem while the other guy has the same issue/problem. Pete had a huge impact on their songwriting, which is pretty obvious when comparing their post-Pyromania output.

@TheBSPolice

9 жыл бұрын

Pete Willis was apparently a confrontational/violent drunk. Steve may have had his share of problems, but he wasn't confrontational or offensive about it.

@richiestorey3168

8 жыл бұрын

Steve never went on stage drunk

@legion1188

7 жыл бұрын

Richie Storey Steve was always drunk on stage but Steve was a quiet drunk and my dad was an o we opinionated which yes I can defend on the ground that her and Steve started the band and my dad was writing a lot of the guitar pieces, but the whole point of this book is not to sugarcoat my dad cos he will even admit it was a lot his fault but I get the feeling he is as a bit sour cos he thought they was all friends and they abounded him for a chance with mutt, but you have to remember at that time my dad was the only one in a relationship (my mom Lindsay) and I think he missed her and while that isn't a defence it can hard to be away that long of you ha e someone to miss.... that being for the record and he is sat next to me now while I'm writing he admits he was a pain in the ass, but also said joe and mutt was like a pair of talentless bully's most of the time now my dad is a small guy so he alway said he felt he had to stand up to the especially cos joe couldn't even get lyrics that someone else wrote him right a lot of the time

@davestuddaman8127

6 жыл бұрын

So uh Deadpool, was your pop an angry drunk or not?

I'll never forget the picture of Steve on High n Dry....He had his guitar necklace on, he loved that necklace and he lost it while performing during the Hysteria tour. He said he felt it when it broke apart but he couldn't stop to pick it up. He said he hoped at least a fan got it!!!

KZread's Closed Caption feature is awesome. Opening lines, "If you might recall is a very quickly, I suppose you could go into the studio at the wasted on the elmo, or whatever. Delivery Nicole did all of the students who don't go and that's the only problem with that." >.>

I WAS an old def leppardfan not anymore. Phuq to them.

I MISS MTV !!!!!!!

@rhondacausey4838

3 жыл бұрын

I freaking miss "Headbanger's Ball", shown at midnight till 6 a.m. (if I remember correctly) on Friday & Saturday nights!!

Pete Willis/Def Lep Palladium NYC 1982 High &Dry Tour- they came on 2nd before Saxon.

0:18 Rick is talking about Pete's issues playing guitar, then they show a KRAMER NIGHT SWAN which was Vivian Campbell's signature model.

@DefLeppardVanHalen

6 жыл бұрын

Pete was playing a white NightSwan earlier on the program on part 1.

@deanladue3151

3 жыл бұрын

Pete also played that particular model while he was in Roadhouse.

Pete Willis y Steve Clark Lo Mas Grande Que Tuvo Def Leppard.

For God's sake, it's Lange! Mutt Lange! Not Lang-EH!

First tape I ever bought...maybe the best metal album ever.

Joe: whats too polished? Answer: Too polished means listen to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

Yet it still was Willis and Clark's formulaic guitar sound, and last glimpse of the old. Yet really no second chance for Pete. I could see if Def offered Willis to write and compose future songs just no longer a full membership anymore or touring in the band. Clark got the chance to dry out and return. Not even a consolation prize for Pete which is unfortunate.

I had a couple of listens at pyromania and it's a good album but their's no doubt that pete was a great player, regardless of the drink.

This album was a GREAT album, it really was. But although it sold over 6000000 copies in the US, it barely sold anything in their home country, the UK.

Too polished is right!! The raw, punch in the face, strait up rock is what drew me to them! Too bad about Pete Willis and Steve Clark. While Pyromania had a few good cuts, it was just too pop. Oh well, we’ll always have High n Dry and On Though the Night 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Bollocks, Steve Clark was the heart of the band.

Only 11 months to create an amazing album like that, and they thought it was taking long? 30 re incarnations wouldn't be enough for me to create a piece of art like that.

great Def Leppard classic

I love pete leppard....after that musical vasectomy

summer of 82, nobody probably thought of rehab.......they were so young , and under pressure and I'm sure Mutt had already cashed his check and didnt give a damm about some young rock star who couldnt pull it together......so the band made a decision (under duress)......I feel for the young Rock Star......I miss him and his hard rockin edge........Someone is to blame.......but who ?? give it some thought........

just saw Def Leppard with WHitesnake today in Prague...I love hearing that story Joe told about David Coverdale

@rhondacausey4838

3 жыл бұрын

Well, share with the class the story for those of us who were absent that day...please.

@requinproductions5955

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhondacausey4838 if you mean the story from this video, ultimate albums, Joe was recording "Pyromania" and was really stressed out about the recording , doing take after take for Mutt Lange, so he took a break, and next door David Coverdale was recording a Whitesnake Album, and doing it in on take, so he noticed Poor Joe, and took him out drinking and tried to give him some advice, something like, just let go and don't worry so much

@rhondacausey4838

3 жыл бұрын

@@requinproductions5955 I just wanted to thank you for the timely reply to my post. I liked the story, but I'm sure that there's more to it than that. In RnR, there always is...I guess I'll just have to settle for now. Rock rules.

'SAV' is one laid back Leppard along with the rest of the entire Def Leppard clan.

Pete Willis rules!!! Pete Willis is DEF LEPPARD OF THE EARLY 80S. The rest of the years that sound was gone the minute Willis was gone

@TenMinutesLyne

6 ай бұрын

I agree and this video was put out there to justify their actions.

I love Def Leppard and I really love Pete Willis! So I agree with everyone , but their still on top with out him.

The truth is all of us have flaws and to put Pete down for alcohol was just wrong. No one in any recording, rock n roll band, and as far as that goes: Any style of music at least one member of group, was influenced at some point or time with some form of high - induction.

I heard in 83, at each show they made $100,000 a night, off merch...ONE NIGHT

@copykonsmusic1065

5 жыл бұрын

They were mega stars in 83. Think Michael Jackson level. Pyromania was tied with thriller.

pete, the sound of def leppard, once he was gone, good or bad health and mental wise he was the sound of def leppard pre mutt Lang and the def twain sound

I remember seeing them at Compton Terrace in 1984 in Phoenix

When Steve died why didn’t they bring back Pete Willis?

@GorditoCrunch343

5 жыл бұрын

Probably didn't want to be back in that kind of environment again.

@davidhenrylake2047

5 жыл бұрын

They begged him several times to return after Pete left Gogmagog.

@michellegoncalves7860

5 жыл бұрын

They should have, but if I was him I would have said no thanks!!!!! Oh well, it was for the best that they let him go, because it's what saved his life! I mean, as much as I really miss Steve Clark, I have to say that I'm really happy that Pete Willis is still alive! I really love you Steve and miss you so much! Pete, I think that you're very beautiful! I love you! ❤💋❤💋 ❤💋❤💋❤💋❤

@jameshardy9008

5 жыл бұрын

They couldn't find him, he was only 4' 8" tall :)

@countcharl

5 жыл бұрын

@@jameshardy9008 5' 2"

We weren't losers one of us was!

Pyro 40th, 2024!

After Def Leppard, Pete played with the band, Roadhouse.

@legion1188

7 жыл бұрын

DefLeppardVanHalen yes he did play with that band cos I remember live in the recording studio with how and my mom In a old farm house that he converted into a studio and for lack of a better work .... fun house

@frasiercraine1776

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah and people rip Leppard for the direction they went after canning Pete. Pete was just as guilty for going soft. Listen to that album. Steve was the main contributor to the guitars in Leppard, not Pete.

@michellegoncalves7860

5 жыл бұрын

They are really good. I checked out some of their music, and they are awesome! 😆😆😆

Pete was very Hard Rock.........Joe ultimately wanted to ease up on the hard rock and soften it up .......js

The other day, I bought the "Deluxe Edition" of Pyromania and, in my opinion, in the midst of all the so-called "modern rock/metal" that's being marketed/promoted, today, it was like a "breath of fresh air!" In your opinion, where do you feel those "mistakes" are?

Lets get Pete Back Around, I really this is a good bloke and he should help or write some tunes with the band he started!!!!! Def Leppard, bring Pete in somehow he's a great player! His solo on Rock Brigade is Brilliant!

@legion1188

7 жыл бұрын

Steve J, he is writing songs now we will have to see if anyone wants them

@JIF882

6 жыл бұрын

Wrong. He's in real estate.

I didn't know Pete was in the band this long.

i've never thought of them as sounding like ac/dc; but when i first heard "let it go" i thought they sounded like kiss.

THERE'S ONE VERSION OF BEHIND THE MUSIC (I'VE SEEN ONE BUT WITH TWO DIFERENT ENNINGS) AND IT'S THE FIRST, WERE PETE SAYS THAT HE NEEDED TO GET OUT OF DEF LEPPARD, THAT MAYBE HE WOULDN'T BE ALIVE IF WASN'T GET FIRED...

Ok I love Phil but can someone please mention that STEVE composed 90% of the songs when he was in the band? Today lol, he actually receives the most total royalties than anyone else in the band. It's because of the compositions he created, chord by chord, words and lyrics....and even the tempo of the songs. And Joe has even said that Steve's RIFF's he played at the beginning of songs caught people's attention because they were so "catchy." Steve was a gifted and absolutely talented guitarist....but he never believed that. He was obsessed with any "mistakes" he made, but the band would say "WHAT MISTAKES?" Phil had stated that Steve never thought he was "good enough." And we wonder to this day why he ended up becoming an alcoholic....he thought alcohol gave him a feeling that normal people felt. But he was more than normal the whole time and he just didn't see it. We love you Steve, forever a LEGEND!!!

PYROMANIA!!!! Need I say ANY Bloody More?????

The irony is they fired Pete for drinking and it saved his life, kept Steve and drinking killed him!

Mutt LanGER! LMAO!

Steve was great-R.I.P.,Phil Coleen-hmmm,and Vivian Campbell-that guy hasn`t done anything good after Dio era!

@Diesel0807

3 жыл бұрын

Yup....

Del leppard was great. I gotta say though Mutt Lange sounds like ocd here how he handled it. Not everyone can work with that kinda producer. ya.

1st 3 Albums were the Best imo.

Bloated? Skynyrd? The Allmans?

I wonder what Pete Willis has done all these years...did he play with anyone else?

@connorstratton5961

6 жыл бұрын

Boujai12 he was in a band with Paul di anno, Clive Burr, and Janick Gers from Iron Maiden. Now he has a real estate company

Con-Trol Room.

That would be a good thing, excluding Bringin' On The Heartbreak.

my mother worked with Pete at BOC Rotherham

@cylcoco772

10 ай бұрын

Give us some story from tour mothet about Pete :)))

So it's ok that Steve was drinking himself to death but if Pete showed up hung over he was fired ? So who died of alcoholism? Wasnt Pete ! They sounded much better with Pete!

Pete really missed out...did he play with anyone else?

@noahstephens2477

7 жыл бұрын

gogmagogg and roadhouse

EVERYBODY'S WONDERING WHAT DIRECTION WOUL HAVE TAKEN DEF LEPPARD IF PETE WILLYS WANS´T FIRED, I KIND AGREE WITH BEANO1EYE, THE FIRST ALBUMS WERE A LITTLE BIT HEAVIER, EVERY ERA HAS IT'S UPS AND DOWNS... SOME MORE UPS THAN DOWNS AND VICEVERSA...

ur kidding?????????

The Crue's "Dr. Feelgood" is too polished. Nikki Sixx loved mistake filled rock and roll but he was willing to give the perfect approach a shot so Bob Rock was hired. Even so they're too polished, they're still good albums. I don't like "Hysteria" as to me it's not rock it's pop. Even so Steve Clark was a amazing songwriter, without Pete Willis it seems the hard rock edge that made Leppard great was gone. There are some mistakes on Pyromania, but you gotta listen real close to hear them.

@Me37368

5 жыл бұрын

DoubleVisionandco i think it was pop rock

In my opinion, Metallica's "black album" is "too polished."

Pete Willis was nothing. Terror Twins are where it's at!

@michellegoncalves7860

5 жыл бұрын

Excuse me? You're an idiot buddy! If it wasn't for Pete there would be no Def Leppard!

Phil stepped in rest is lepp rock history 🇬🇧

Pete Willis forever! A good songwriter and guitarist. I mean the guy founded the band and HE is the one who must go!? Totaly sick if you ask me. And btw it wasnt the "alchoholic"who drank himself to death

@dinorocker8647

2 жыл бұрын

Well considerin' how much he did drink, he might've permanently drunk himself under the table before Steve did, I don't really know about the other factors that led to him bein' sacked, I wasn't there, so like all of us, I can only speculate.

11 months for a record is insane. They shouldn't have hired that hack Mutt Lange.

@melanieregodon2817

5 жыл бұрын

It's worth it

Funny when a drummer doesn't understand that "slightly out of time". is not ok.

So Pete Willis drank big deal. Mutt Lange is an asshole just ask AC/DC … Joe Elliot was jealous of PETE WILLIS-.there was friction between them. Pete Willis was a great song writer and guitarist.HE’s the reason for the heavy metal rock and that sound that gave DEF LEPPARD their signature … from ON THROUGH THE NIGHT TO HIGH N DRY TO PYROMANIA, Pete Willis was responsible for those albums. Phil Colleen made them PU🐱🐱y

I Love Music...YET..Criticism & Human Opinion Really DeTracts From The Symbiotic Value That Constructed Sounds Has Not Only On Our Sense Of Sound..But On Our Spirit As Well..If Music Criticism & Analysis Are Key AdvertiseMent Components Of Determining The SALE Of Music....Then The Industry Of Music & Capitalism RespectFully Shoulder The Bulk Of The Blame...IMO..

Mtv made def leppard famous. too bad it makes nothing now.

@donwilkerson7217

7 жыл бұрын

Are you serious? I still enjoy to this day almost everything they have done. Little old Utah sells out EVERY time they come here, oh by the way that is every year. Enjoyed the for the last four years strait. Still appreciate the comments. Yes my kids really likes there music too.

It’s a shame that they play this kind of crap. Both Steve and Pete had problems, you didn’t see the band pull the cord on Steve. Pete was Def Leppard. He wrote the riffs and the solos and everyone knows that. Mutt was the worst thing that could ever happen to DL. Had there not been Mutt we would gotten another 4 or 5 High and Dry’s and for 90% of hard core Def Leppard fans, that would have been just fine.

Para mi es solo un ebrio con talento desperdiciado.

I dont like all that keyboard shit and layered vocals. Embarrassing ABBA type shit.

The truth is all of us have flaws and to put Pete down for alcohol was just wrong. No one in any recording, rock n roll band, and as far as that goes: Any style of music at least one member of group, was influenced at some point or time with some form of high - induction.