Rick Savage
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"Richard "Rick" Savage" is the bassist and one of the founding members of the England/English Rock music/rock band (music)/band, Def Leppard. He is called ""Sav"" to avoid confusion between him and the other Rick in the band, drummer Rick Allen (drummer)/Rick Allen. He and lead vocalist Joe Elliott are the only remaining original members of the band. The two of them, plus Allen, are also the only members of the band who have performed on every album.

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But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

I'm sure it's the same with yourself that when your relationship is good, it changes the way you view the rest of the world.

There's so much that has been before the human race, and just contemplating that and then the earliest forms of communication, hand claps, body slaps and then ultimately the drum, which was really the first way that man could imitate the first sound they heard: their mothers heartbeat.

And really, it's my home life that my own personal foundation is based on and not necessarily the life within the band.

You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still get an itch on my elbow or whatever.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I persevered with them.