Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan discussed Mutt Lange re-recording Def Leppard’s vocals himself in a new Creative Independent interview.
“The relationship with producers can be weird. Most of them are just day camp directors, unfortunately. That’s why I couldn’t work with most of them because that’s their modality. Support the ego, hype man in the corner, and then secretly when the artist is out getting laid and doing cocaine they go in and fix things. I’ve talked to those guys through the years and their stories are wild.
They’re like, ‘Oh, yeah. So and so would leave the studio and I’d just stay up all night, fix everything, and even go sing vocals myself.’ What’s the famous thing? Mutt Lange would go in and sing the Def Leppard guy’s parts and the guys from Def Leppard wouldn’t even know it was Mutt Lange imitating them singing? That crazy level of whatever-ness.”
He added, “I need a producer and I resent needing a producer. I do. Not to bring up the merits of my production skills but I resent needing anybody. That’s part of the maturity thing, I guess. Knowing when you need people and admitting it.”
