Rick Savage
Rick Savage
Richard "Rick" Savageis the bassist and one of the founding members of the English rock band, Def Leppard. He is called "Sav" to avoid confusion between him and the other Rick in the band, drummer Rick Allen. He and lead singer Joe Elliott are the only remaining original members of the band. The two of them, plus Allen, are also the only members of the band who have performed on every album...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth2 December 1960
album anytime coming cos people tour
So you kind of know that anytime we want, we could do a tour without even an album to promote, which is kind of reassuring, cos that's what most people are coming to see - just us doing the old classics.
call tendency wake weakness
I think it was a wake up call for everybody. Yeah, they could see that I had a weakness and a tendency to overindulge.
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I feel so incredibly vulnerable and exposed when I have to talk into a microphone and bare my soul so to speak.
beginning felt previous
With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I persevered with them.
paying sheriff toward
We are more than paying our own way toward sheriff services.
boy cause felt prove wrong
Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.
behind problem resolution stand
This is very serious. We're going to stand behind the resolution of this problem as a town.
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There's so much that has been before the human race, and just contemplating that and then the earliest forms of communication, hand claps, body slaps and then ultimately the drum, which was really the first way that man could imitate the first sound they heard: their mothers heartbeat.
memory negative
Sometimes it's a negative because I still have a memory of some of the things I could do... when I still had two arms.
elbow itch limb nerves running signals though
You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still get an itch on my elbow or whatever.
great keeps mixing
It was great to do something different, so mixing it all about keeps things fresh.
based foundation home life personal within
And really, it's my home life that my own personal foundation is based on and not necessarily the life within the band.
changes relationship rest sure view
I'm sure it's the same with yourself that when your relationship is good, it changes the way you view the rest of the world.
gets happens public
But it just so happens that when you're in the public eye, everything gets reported.