MAXINK: How did playing with Styx and Foreigner come about? You know I feel very blessed doing what I do and you know what? It’s probably not something that lasts forever, but we keep making new music and we keep being given the chance to go out on the road, so it’s really a great way to live. The band is what I chose to do and my family seems to fit in really well with what I do and they’re really excited for me. But before then, there’s like a longing where I want to stay and spend more time with the family and just finish up things that I’ve started. When I’m sitting on a plane and I’ve resided myself to the fact that I don’t have a choice, then I get excited about it. MAXINK: How do you balance family with life on the road? There’s got to be a push and pull somewhere. When I’m off the road, I feel like a part time rock star-between the dogs and family-now I’m starting to get back into tour mode again. This last week is just thinking like what I need to take with me on the road. It’s going really well, but it’s kind of hectic.
Rick Allen: Actually no, after I drop the dog off, I’m off to rehearsals and just sharpening everything up, putting in some different songs…it’s good. MAXINK: Is week just about spending time with family and friends before another long haul? Rick Allen: It’s amazing what happens when you sit in front of an audience, no matter how tired you feel, you seem to find the energy for somewhere. The resilient Rick Allen spoke to Maximum Ink, in his ever-cheery English accent, before Def Leppard churns the wheels of their unusually long three-year tour towards Summerfest 2007. Two years later, Allen miraculously took the stage again, this time playing on a specially customized electronic drum kit which compensates for his handicap. On New Year’s Eve, 1984, Rick Allen walked away from a lethal auto accident with only one arm-a death knell for the career of a drummer. But their success did not come at a low price. With their trademark trickling vocals and opulent guitar riffs, the multiplatinum, Union-jack clad lads from Sheffield are one of the biggest-selling bands in the world. Joining the Leppards as a nineteen-year-old pup himself, Allen rode the effervescent wave of Britain’s heavy-metal renaissance on the brink of the eighties. Then again, Rick Allen is no ordinary rock star. Not so for Def Leppard’s thunder man Rick Allen, who woke up at seven o’clock to take his little cairn terrier, Ricky, to get his hair coiffed and paws manicured. Of all the places you imagine rock stars go, the dog groomer is probably not one of them.
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