{"id":3623,"date":"2016-04-05T08:16:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2019-03-24T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T00:56:05","slug":"kslx-phoenix-def-leppards-phil-collen-hangs-for-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/2016\/04\/05\/kslx-phoenix-def-leppards-phil-collen-hangs-for-a-few\/","title":{"rendered":"KSLX: Phoenix &#8211; Def Leppard&#8217;s Phil Collen Hangs For A Few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;ve always liked Phil. Seems like a fairly down-to-earth guy. Clearly part of one of the biggest bands of his era. And yet, comes across as humble. Early on, I had a chance to meet him &amp; Joe Elliott backstage at a Motley Crue\/Cinderella show. They, had just played the local outdoor amphitheater. I, was a young kid&#8230;just starting out. They both treated me like a professional (which I&#8217;ve always aspired to be. Maybe, someday). They even invited me to join them as they completely demolished Cinderella&#8217;s dressing room! Yes&#8230;I did. It was the best. Understandably, Phil doesn&#8217;t remember. His blood-alcohol that night was somewhere just south of &#8220;nuclear.&#8221; So&#8230;it&#8217;s understandable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A class act all the way&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3623-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/paulmuf\/KSLX\/PhilCollen.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/paulmuf\/KSLX\/PhilCollen.mp3\">http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/paulmuf\/KSLX\/PhilCollen.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Phil. Seems like a fairly down-to-earth guy. Clearly part of one of the biggest bands of his era. And yet, comes across as humble. Early on, I had a chance to meet him &amp; Joe Elliott backstage at a Motley Crue\/Cinderella show. They, had just played the local outdoor amphitheater. I, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neanderpaul.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}