Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott told
The Irish News that while he's honored to tour with the likes of Styx and REO Speedwagon, don't expect to see his band on the road with any of the bands who shared chart space with it during the
Hysteria era. "We refused to go out with Poison or Winger or Warrant or any of those shite bands," he said. "It's a real pity that a lot of the newer bands we've dug over the years haven't actually dug us. But that's just music, man." Those "newer" bands include Stereophonics and Manic Street Preachers, just to give you an idea of Elliott's internal timeline and, uh, general assessment of what isn't "shite." Well! Let's see what is and isn't "shite" in your eyes, readers. I picked my favorite songs from each of the artists Old Joe disses—as well as one from his own band, and one from each of his U.S. touring partners this summer. Which do
you prefer?
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Poison is suing Capitol Records over what the band believes are unpaid royalties from its entire tenure on the label. The band's rep claims that the suit is merely a CYA move so that they don't run out of the statute of limitations on claiming their cash, and that the two parties are trying to "work this out amicably." Maybe it's my melted-by-a-long-week brain, but I sense that "amicably" is code for "reality show"! Like Nothin' But A Cash Grab, where Bret Michaels and various Capitol accounting employees get in a wind tunnel and grab money swirling around them! Or maybe Don't Talk Dirty To Me, which follows CC Deville as he tries to be as nice to the honchos at the label as possible—and if he manages to make nice for 20 minutes, he wins back the royalties from a song? (The 20-minute time limit is in effect so each episode can end with a CC comedy routine, natch.) [
