Back in the early ’90s, future Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Def Leppard were performing at the same festival as legendary horror rock icon Glenn Danzig. Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell previously told MuchMusic that after Danzig told his wife to “get the f*ck out of the way!,” singer Joe Elliot kicked Danzig in the rear end knocking him down causing him to drop a bowl of soup.
If that sounds sort of farfetched, it’s because it is, and the band’s other guitarist Phil Collen revealed to The Jeremy White Show what really went down. “Yeah, we were doing a festival in Europe,” Collen said. “And, actually, it wasn’t really me.”
“Vivian Campbell’s ex-wife was just getting out the back of a van and she bumped into Glenn Danzig and he had some soup. And it spilled the soup and he got all pissy. And him and Viv were having all this thing. And I remember I said to him, ‘Dude, I’ll get you another soup. It’s fine. It’s totally fine.’ And I didn’t in the end, because it got a little heated vocally. But that was it. And it never ended up in a punch-up or anything… And then it was kind of defused. It’s, like, ‘Well, dude, I’ll get you soup if you want.’ And, yeah, didn’t happen.”
Collen continued: “Like all these things, they get blown out of proportion, I’m sure. I’m sure if I saw Glenn Danzig it’d be great. It’s like, yeah, dude, who cares? Yeah, I’ll buy you a soup juice or something. It’s, like I don’t care. It’s no big deal.”
Danzig previously said the initial story was “a total fabrication. Anyone who knows me or my past knows that I never walk away from a fight,” he said. “It’s true that an altercation occurred, but we never came to blows, as reported. As a student of martial arts, I am quite capable of taking care of myself. Next time, they won’t be given that respect.”
Collen’s full appearance can be viewed below.
