day 241: Love Bites

Love Bites, by Def Leppard.

Making an executive decision to leave this song raw, because the temptation to overproduce the heck out of it with backup vocals and guitar solos and the robot voice in the beginning and end, and… well, honestly, that sounds like fun, but I don’t think it will make my performance any better, because the whole falsetto hard rocker lead vocal thing might just be something I’ve aged out of.

I’m also mildly surprised at how long it goes on! Maybe there was a radio edit. šŸ˜‰

The best thing about Def Leppard is that when we were 11 at summer camp and there was an airband contest and we couldn’t resist the literal interpretation, so we poured sugar on the singer (I think I was a tennis-racquet guitar player), and mopped it up ourselves to avoid punishment. But that’s another song.

This one was probably a slow dance option that summer, and boy, did we ever not know what to do with our hands.