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Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:00 |
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 Jam!Music reports that it wasn't quite mass hysteria that greeted hard rock legends Def Leppard last night, but it still came pretty close.
Actually, it came even closer to Hysteria -- the landmark 1987 album that spawned seven consecutive hits for the Brit-rockers, six of which were scheduled to be squeezed into last night's set list.
The sequencing strategy was shrewd, given the quintet is already on record as confirming they sometimes have trouble with live shows, since fans -- particularly the casual ones -- don't always go crazy for their lesser-known tracks.
But that wasn't a problem with last night's crowd of 8,000-plus, most of whom seemed just as content to rock out to the new stuff as they did the proven hits.
It helped that the band -- fronted by arena-rock veteran Joe Elliott -- kicked things off with the one-two punch of Rocket and Animal (both from Hysteria, natch), before testing the waters with C'Mon C'Mon (from this year's Songs from the Sparkle Lounge disc) and the power-ballad Foolin', from their breakthrough '83 album Pyromania.
Follow-up Make Love Like a Man gave Elliott a chance to strut around the unadorned stage while guitarists Phil Collen, Vivian Campbell, Rick Savage (bass) and Rick Allen (drums) recreated Def Leppard's trademark multi-layered sound. And the singer practically beamed with pride while introducing Nine Lives, the group's new crossover attempt with country star Tim McGraw.
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