So I met Eddie Van Halen, when I was rehearsing with Girl. It was in Joe's demos and stuff, and I, and I used it and sounds really cool. And it's kind of rare that a guitar does that. So this guitar was - the intonation was perfect on it. Otherwise it just starts to get really wonky and, and, tuning wise. He's always saying, you know, we're going to do overdubs, so everything has to be in tune. That's such an important thing, you know? Especially when you're recording with Mutt. Or because it had a humbucker, you know, you could do all the other stuff, like you know. You could get it to sound like Jimi Hendrix. You know, all the Hysteria stuff like - it just had a clean Fender Strat sound. It was just very versatile as well." Here's more from Phil on his relationship with this very special guitar: "Well, it had a kind of a sound that you could do everything on. It would just have these amazing different tones in it and others thing. It would stay in tune, it reacted, it would respond. He describes Felix as "kind of a road warrior. Felix helped define the sound of Hysteria, and Phil used it on more records than any other guitar he owns. Courtesy of the Lorelei Shellist Private Collection.īunny-slippered Phil Collen sits atop a guitar case playing his beloved 1978 Fender Stratocaster "Felix." He's in the Booterstown Band House in Dublin where Def Leppard began work on Hysteria in 1984.
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And I didn't want to push back on him because you know, I mean it, it would have been disaster, disastrous if he had fallen off." 4圆 color print. So it was like at certain times, it got really quite challenging to play, because he was, he was obviously a little afraid of heights, you know? And like I say as we got, as we got further up in the air, he would push further in.
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And as the, as the riser went higher and higher and higher, Sav would start to push into me. So I'm looking one way, he's looking the other. And I'm standing or sitting you know, looking into my kit. You know, Sav was standing behind me, looking out. Probably up to about you know, probably about 30 feet above the deck. The scariest part of the show for me was the whole riser during the middle section of Rocket would start to go up into the air. Rick Allen reminisces about the experience of riding those Hysteria risers up into the air with Sav: "It was pretty unique you know, having four front rows. The band really got their steps in at these shows, playing upstairs, downstairs, at all different angles, ensuring that everyone was delivered mad rock 'n roll all around. Rick Savage tunes up before another mind-bending Hysteria Tour performance in this rare behind-the-scenes sound check snap.