Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I just got back from seeing DL at the Joint in Las Vegas. What a fuckin' show!!! This was the third time in as many years I've seen them, and this one was the best. I knew it would be. The venue is great. People were going nuts. Anyway, thought I'd share. I wish I had brought my camera, I was told I couldn't. Then when I got there everybody had their cameras it was no biggie. So I was bummed about that. Great show!!!!!!!!!!!!! :peace:

I took my son to see them this summer and the show did rock!  : ok: I tried to tell everyone, but they just teased me that they are "has beens". ::)  Well, they don't know what they missed.  We were in the front row and I was pissed that I didn't have my camera too.  I didn't even think of taking it and everyone around me had one!  :-\

Def Leppard rocks!

I took my son to see them this summer and the show did rock!  

How cute. Anyway, once I heard someone calling Def Leppard:"British Metal", and I was like:"what???!!!?"......I judged them by their mid 90s(and so on) releases but then I heard their first album and that "British Metal" thing made total sense. Once, I played one of the songs from that album and my friend thought it was Maiden(British Metal).

Yea, I hate when people rag on them. My wife got tons of shit when she told people at work she was going to see them (again). Then right as we walked out of the show, into the casino, this lady looked at me and said, "Who did you just see?" and I said, "Def Leppard" and she just laughed and walked away. Why do people throw things away as soon as they aren't on the radio all the time? DL never stopped making great music  (like many other groups) actually.

People can rag all they want, but in SLC the place was almost packed. The arena. And two years before in SLC it was sold out. So what can you say? People were going apeshit at the Joint. I loved hearing "rock of ages" and "women". The guitar sounds they produce live just can't be redone on their records. I was blown away by their guitar work the night before last.

Anywho I can't wait til I'm in LV. I'll be at the joint once a month! I swear it. That's a freakin' great little venue that gets big acts.

Maybe BotAxl's hired Guns' could open 4 them, cause they both SUCK!

Haha, shit I'd go see the Doobie Brothers if I could! I'd see Chicago too if Peter Cetera was the lead singer!

Yea, the 80's haters are strange. Most are my age, which to me is really weird. You know most of them loved these groups back in the day. I think they don't want to admit it out of pride. Like they are so above that and all grown up now. Yea whatever.

Just like you said 14k people means something! Seeing a group in SLC (of all places) where the arena is almost sold out says something too.

Anyway, it was fun as hell. Not as intense as the GnR concert I saw back there, but still one helluva concert! :peace:

I seen Def Leppard in Billings, MT back in 99' and they rocked! The place was sold out 9,000 strong. There were lots of young people at that show, weird.

Def Leppard rocked in late 80's and early 90's when they played Rock and in stadiums. You know Def Leppard is a stadium band, and what I have heard they won't play there anymore. Great band still today, although isn't their music nowadays little bit poprock??

I really enjoyed the mix of people at their concerts. I had younger kids in their teens, then another guy who was easily 48 right next to me. Parents had brought their kids too. I was going to bring my daughter but I thought I couldn't bring her in the joint. But then when I got there I saw two kids. So then I was bummed I didn't take her, or call and check. After it was over I realised I probably had more fun without her. lol :rofl:

Yea their latest album took some getting used to. It seemed to be missing guitars! Nothing real heavy that shined on the thing. I put it down and then made myself listen to it a few more times. Then I really liked it. It's not like their other stuff, it's more "adult" if that makes sense. I dont' think I would have liked it if I was 15 years younger.  I still wish it had been harder though. I still appreicated it though.

Their album before that, "Euphoria" I thought sounded like it came right out of 1988. It was great and lyrically strong with the exception of one or two songs. I listened to that album non stop for almost a year, I thought it was that good. Just as good as Hysteria IMHO.

I had a mullet just like him back in the day! :hihi: :hihi: :rofl: :rofl:

But it's wasn't called a mullet then! It was all cool in 1987!

I'm seeing them on the 23rd of this month....what has been posted has really boosted my expectations, i was listening to Hysteria when it came out and it's a truly awesome album,

however i can't deny their new stuff 'X' etc is.....er.....like some boy band stuff.... a little disheartening..i hope they go back to what made them great, rock n fuckin roll.

I agree with you.  I don't like "X" - waaay too boring for me.  Good thing is that they only played one song from that album during the entire show!   It was mostly Hysteria, High and Dry, and Pyromania!  :beer:

Don't worry, you won't be disapointed. Just like she said, it's mostly all older stuff. They played maybe 1-2 from X, "Slang", and that was it of the newer stuff.

Tell me how you liked them after the show. You'll have a great time, promise. :peace:

hah, Brian Johnson rocks. That guy is awesome, I think he's right about this situation. X is quite different style of music than other albums they've made. Brian this one is for you  :beer:

yea it only has a couple good songs...I was kinda dissapointed when I bought it and listened to it..it didn't really sound like Def Leppard ( the voice's were the same, just not the sound )..just wasn't the same.

Any news on a new Def Leppard album and the direction it may take? I don't want more 'boy band' offerings like X

Yea they played "Slang" and "Promises". And off of X they played "Now". I like promises ok on the album, but in concert that song is great.

They said the LV show was the last for the US leg. Which I didn't know until I got there, so that was cool. I think the go back to UK, but not for sure. But they are definately still touring behind X for a while.

Saw them yesterday, they were absolutely amazing and the crowd was unbelievable. My ears are still ringing 12 hours later, they sounded fanastic in every song running through every one of their classics. U lot told me it was gonna be good and i wasn't disappointed!

Best Leppard Record Retroactive, good rock, good melodies, good covers, good production, My fave leppard record  :yes:

Yea yea yea! I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. I would love to see them again in a small setting like I did. Fuckin' great! When you are seeing them in concert, it hits you all of a suddem how many great songs they have! Great performers and they seem thankful at the end of the show for the fans-they really do.

Your right. The desert song is my fav of all time! Tight album.

Haven't got retroactive...that will have to be my next purchase.

Yea, tell me what you think of the desert song. Lots of songs on the album have that older sound, which I like. The desert song is like none other...it kicks ass!

l saw them on the 24th...absolutely awesome... wish l'd had the money for tickets to the last UK gig.. they had a special guest for the last song of the encore...Brian May.. my mate phoned me so l could listen in...
they did Now.. and also four letter word from X when l saw them

I like Ring of Fire, from retroactive but desert song is so cool!!, also from the inside is a must hearing song!  :yes:

Damnit how good is the retro active album?! Awesome! Possibly their best album, so many great tunes and its a b sides and rareities album, wow!!! I think it will be staying in my cd player for some time to come!!!!!

Haven't pick up your fave yet?, Mine is Ring of Fire  : ok:

Did that guy open for them on your show too? Just a guy with tons of tats and a guitar. He was really good whoever he was. One song Vivian came out and added some electric guitar and it sounded awesome.

Yep, he's name is Ricky Warwick and Joe Elliot produced his album 'Tatoos and alibias'. He was okay but i was just there for the Leppard!!!!

As for retro active so many songs on their i like...its very differetn from their other stuff in parts, some fantastic guitar work throughout, i don't really have a fav so many to choose from , i love em all..but if i had to chose 'Miss you in a heartbeat' just does it for me. This could honestly be their very best offering only Hysteria and Adrenalize run it close. I know have all Leppard albums bar 'Slang' and 'Euphoria'...wow i built up quite a collection.....

I forgot about that guy!  :P I could have done without him.  The best part was when Vivian joined him.  : ok:

He's a long time friend of Joe's.

The bit where Vivian joined him was good though...i ain't a great one for acoustic songs...of course there's some u just can't not like like 'Patience' , 'One in a million' and of course various Leppard numbers!

I can't belive it two version of 'Miss you in a heart beat' damn that song is currently my fav song in the whole damn world! Both versions rock!! Really moving song.

Leppard are such a good group, if only they had kept it with their latest three releases.....Hysteria and Adrenalize were both so successfull (Hysteria's 17 million haul and apparently Adrenalize hit 12 million) Leppard were on the verge of becoming truly legendary (if they weren't already).

Leppard: please go back to rock with the next album, i want another album of retro active quality!

X sounds like a Backstreet Boy record.  :rant:  :nervous:  :rofl:

Yeah i thought exactly the same, they went way of course after their greatest hits cd in 1995

I borrowed that CD before I went to see them this summer and I couldn't even listen to the entire thing.  I was hoping like hell that they wouldn't play those tunes and thankfully they didn't - well, maybe one.

I must admit while i bought the album almost as soon as it was released i don't think i have ever listened to it all the way through......

why did they do it, they have been doing rock for 20 years so why suddenly change to this pop ballad kinda crap? Surely they are rockers at heart, i couldn't imagine playing a style of music i disliked for 20 years......

I am yet to hear from any one that liked the album......

maybe i will give it another chance sometime....

I kept listening to it and it grew on me. But it doesn't sound like the DF I know. I like the songs, they are well done, but not what I expected, or want to hear again. I also wonder if I would have liked the album at all ten years ago when I was 22, instead of now.

Biggest thing missing from that album...guitars!  :rant:

Yeah guitars were deffinetly needed!

The album just lacked that attitude, there was none of those edgy rock tracks they had done so well before, and the ballads were too 'pop', Leppard are awesome at writing ballads but maybe they went too far with X......

Well with the tour now finsihed (finished on the 24th in Russia!) they must be thinking of a new album......

I would give you 100 dollars if you actually sat through the whole CD.

Would u give me a 100 dollars to listen to it????




Damn

Why? Do you hate me?  ;) :hihi:

Def Leppard's first four albums were good. When Steve Clarke died, though, the band died with him.

Fuck you man, Def Lep rocks....


Slang is good too!!!!!

I'm just stating my opinion.  The old DL rocks, but I don't care for anythig after Hysteria, although Retro-Active is cool.  

Hmm.....

Everthying up their GH was fantastic after that theu did slip quite dramtically........

I really think Adrenalize is another under rated masterpiece.

Man i am in the minority, i think Slang is there best album, it doesnt sound like old Def Lep but it has some of there best songwritting IMO, RetroActive is a close second, I like X even though it doesnt rock too much but if it had a decent push from there label it would have been a big album, of course i like all of there stuff , with least favorite Adrenalize, They are coming out with a new cd before summer of 2004 , i hope it rocks. :beer:

Boo! Adrenalize rocks! Your fav is slang? Oh dear..... : ok:

Hey you are not alone. Slang was really good I thought. I liked it because it was different. In my gut I knew that it was an album they'd do and then return to the old format. The songs are very cool. My least favorite (on that album) was "Slang" itself. I thought it was ok.

Where did you hear they were coming out with a new cd before the summer? I hope it kicks ass like the old days!

On there official site defleppard.com there is an interview with Rick Allen, they are releasing an album in the Spring, then touring the festivals in Europe, then a small US tour. My favorite song on Slang, lets see Turn To Dust or Work It Out, I like pretty much everything with minus Breathe A Sigh.

An album in the spring? Wow that would be quick. Hopefully they will go back to Hysteria's style popmetal.....

After a couple of weaker efforts i am sure they will be putting their heart and sole into this one to get it right. We eagerly await.

what also sucks about the 80's haters is that they don't know what the fuck they are talking about. Def Leppard, though they had success in the 80's, was not only an 80's band. That would be like judging Aerosmith's career by Permanent Vacation. I think Hysteria is one of their best albums, but those that came before, especially High n Dry are fucking awesome too. It really sucks that the 80's glam movement had to plague so many bands who happen to have released successful albums at that time.
It's similar with guns n roses-- when people criticize UYI, they are like "Don't Cry was such a sell-out song" "November Rain was such a sell-out song" and don't even realize that those songs were either done or in the makings before Appetite ever came out. Morons.
But, i saw Def Leppard in NYC on their spring tour this past year and they fucking rocked!!! the place was mobbed and i got to go backstage (unfortunately, only Phil showed up but he was very gracious and a cool guy). i am not as crazy as their music post-Hysteria (i think all bands loose that something when they mature), but the concert was awesome and they haven't lost anything.

Wow, they aren't slowing down at all are they? Good for them. I can't wait to hear more DL.

I just hope they don't rush out an album.....they are sadly fading into obsurity and need some grade a material to turn that boat around.......

Well again the places I saw them were packed. And that was SLC Utah and LV Nevada. Which are two totally different markets.

The reviews for the last album were actually good. Believe it or not. They mentioned that the sound was lighter, but the critics were nice to their latest work.

DL can't get a fair shake I think. For instance Slang wasn't well recieved, but then when they came out with Euphoria they said it sounded like the same old stuff. So I ask people/critics: what the hell do you want?

Bottom line is that they sell lots of tickets still and that's good enough for me. People laugh at me when I tell them who I went to see, but who cares about those people.

I'd love to hear some yelling and screaming on their next album!

Whats everyones fav leppard album: my top three are

Hysteria
Retro active
Adrenalize


though there is very little (if anything) betwee them

Ok here is my list favorite to least :

Slang, i think if they would have released this in 92 instead of Adrenalize it would have been huge, also gave them some extra life selling records.
RetroActive, very good album Desert Song is fucking great, plus kick ass cover.
Hysteria: great album
X: I like it, alittle poppy but good album.
Pyromania: kick ass
High N Dry: kick ass
On Through The Night , good debut,Wasted rocks
Last two is tough i like both Euphoria and Adrenalize but they both seem rushed, Euphoria has it moments Paper Sun, Day After Day and Promises, so i ll give it the edge over Adrenalize, Tear It Down is good like the original version better.

Top 5:
Retroactive
Hysteria
High n' Dry
On Through The Night
Pyromania

Hysteria
Pyromania
Euphoria
Retroactive

Something like that.... :beer:

Not to change topic, keep puttin in your fav Leppard albums, but i would also like to know your fav songs

mine would have to be

1. Women
2. Miss you in a heartbeat
3. Photograph
4. Animal
5. Hysteria

Though even as i'm writing that i'm thinking of all the others...its when u try and make a top 5 of their songs it hits u how many of them i really like...hmm, will have to do a top 50 next time.....

My personal top 5:

Ring of Fire (I listened it like 24 / 7 and never get tired of it)  :yes:
Hysteria
Animal
From The Inside
Rock It

 :peace:

Favorite songs man this is a tough one:

Desert Song
Turn To Dust
Work It Out
Truth? original , if you havent heard this it rocks, like to see a whole album of stuff like this.
Pearl Of Euphoria
Me and My Wine
Rocket especially live  :beer:

Oh yeah for those who like Def Lep there is a kick ass picture of Joe Elliott with the guys from Velvet Revolver on there oficial site it is under the photos but it is near the bottom , check it out : ok:

Dude, I can't find it....

when you goto the gallery page, all of the x tour phots come up , it is near the bottom, ill try to link it if i can for ya.

haha...well that makes more sense now, since I was looking at the VR site photos!!!!!!! :hihi:

Wow that was a cool pic. Not a great one of him personally, but a great one of all of them together. Great pic for this thread right?

I liked the picture of Joe with the Blue Man Group in LV. That was some funny shit there!


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My top five DL songs...Let me think and post tomorrow.

Yeah Joe Elliott looks a bit rough in that picture, maybe him and Slash tied one on , I am glad you found it  :beer:

I been listening to X again, first time in a year or so....u know it ain't so bad! Okay its not great either but there are some really catchy tunes on that, go listen to it again, its not so bad....

No it's not. It's put together well. I'd just like more yelling and guitars!

Don't we all.....i can't wait for the new album, i'm probabaly even more excited about that then Chinese Democracy......

They said it's the best they can do now. To me X is a little "pop". But it ain't bad.

Wha? How can that be the 'best they can do'?

These are essentially the same people who churned out albums like Pyromania, Hysteria, Adrenalize and retro active....u don't forget how to make great music.

They tried something radically new with X, they tried to be pop, it didn't work because they changed what they do best, as soon as they go back to their roots they will be make to their best.

The same thing happened to "Slang" when they wanted to try something new. Now it's like "pop-heavy style"? even more pop.
 Well, those were Elliot's words. DL played a new style and did their best in that way. At least Elliot thiks so. I'd like to hear smthg like Pyromania, Adrenalize... damn anything but Slang.

Leppard need to go back to the pop metal that made them great, songs with passion, great hooks, some loud guitars.....they can also mix in the ballads in there too, cos lets face it, no one does power ballads like them.

Scorpions do, but their ballads are toooo sweet.
Here's my five of fav. songs:
1. Foolin'
2. Desert song
3. To be alive
4. Gods of war
5. Kings of oblivion
Of course there are many others favourites.  :yes:

Slang arrived today...i'm listening to it now....not sure what to think about it yet........

Edit: It rocks, i'm really impressed, some very strong songs on there, real rock'N'fuckin'roll, a good overal album.

It really is a good album.

I like that song that goes "With all the guilt that's it your head...." kind of a harder (for that lp anyway) song. The rest of the songs are great songs to cruise to at night. Just roll and listen.

Too many slow songs. But for one album it's Ok

I agree!   Atleast they don't play them in concert!  ;D

It's cool that this thread got so long - I really like DL!  ;D

I think its great their are still passionate Leppard fans kickin about, i am back into them in a big way, they really are an awesome group, gotta say at this moment in time only Guns N Roses would rank higher for me.

I can't wait for the new album.

I don't know if anyone said this yet, but if you did I'm sorry.  What has 10 legs, 9 arms and sucks?????  DEF LEPPARD.  Thats really mean, but I felt I had to say it. :smoking: :smoking:

Its just a joke one of my friends told me.  Nothing to get angry about.  Beside I never said I hated Def Leppard did I???  I actually don't mind them.

Why u! :rant:

Thats actually very funny :hihi: but u leave the Leppard alone!!!

I'd say DL ranks higher for me (right now) because I get to see them and listen to their new work. Their website is great too. They really care about the fans.

Uh oh..don't go pissing Dizzy off.

So do they have a wokring title for the new album? Anybody know?

They do seem to care about their fans, last year they toured all of Eastern Europe, even though they wouldn't be making any money from it, just so their fans their could get to see em.

Oh,come on,it sounds just like this!! :rant:

Latest Leppard news:
Happy new year! The first news of 2004 deals with a popular rumor that has been floating around for a while now. So, to set the record straight.... No matter what you read on any web site, no matter what you read in any article, no matter what you hear or see on any station, and no matter what anyone tells you: Def Leppard has NO plans of doing a 2004 tour with KISS. There are no concrete touring plans at all and the band has given their top priority to working on their next album, the follow-up to 2002's "X". If and when there are any plans for any Def Leppard tours or shows, then it will be published on the TOUR-page.

Source: defleppard.com

That's great. They are really staying busy aren't they? After all this time and they are just cranking out music and touring. Really cool.

Just got 'Euphoria'....now have all 10 Leppard albums :beer:

Wasn't that impressed though...i think that probably rates as their weakest effort....bit to slushy really needed a bit more steel to it.....

Nah...keep listening to it you'll like it more. Demolition man is great I think. Then the next four tracks are just ok after that. Paper Sun opens up real well and the rest is great IMHO. I also got a hold of this album at a turning point in my life so maybe I'm more bias. I've got some wonderful memories with it. :)

Ur right it has grown on me, its got a very 'Leppard' sound to it and there are some good songs on their...

Paper Sun seems to have a glossy production to it, but it holds the classic DL sound very very well. IMHO.

Paper sun sounds like its straight off Retro active, which is a good thing

Promises is a good song too

Edit: listening to Retro active again - never releasised there is a hidden track on their, a third version of 'Miss you in a heartbeat' - electric, acoustic and piano version

Thats great for me cos thats my fav Leppard song : ok:

I really thought promises was even better live.

How do you get the hidden track? Just keep letting the last CD play?

Its just seconds after the last song (two steps behind, electric) about 4.50 into the song, its an even more acoustic version than the first version.

I bet I've heard it before and not really thought about it. I rarely look at the songs listed on CDs anymore.

I'll go listen to it and see if it jumps out at me.

Retro active is such a good album! I think it might even be my favourite Leppard album!

I haven't stopped listening to it since getting it several months ago, why aren't these songs on Hysteria and Adrenalize? How were they missed off? Imagine what those 2 albums would have been like if they had stuff like 'Desert Song', 'Ring of fire' and 'Miss you in a heartbeat' on them?

Possibly the only example in history where the 'B-sides' album has been as good as the rest of the artists stuff!

Yea another album like that would be awesome. It puts 'x' to shame.

If X wasn't the end of Def Leppard a covers album will be.

This would indicate a shocking lack of ambition by the band, it would seem they have happy to live with their fading status rather than make a comeback.

Hopefully this isn't true...

Maybe lack of new ideas or creavity crisis... hope not.

Must be, that is very worrying....

edit: listening to pyromanai - is it me or does Joe Elliot on Leppards first three albums sound just like the vocalist on Ac/dc's highway to hell album, am i going crazy or am i on to something? Okay not on every song but on the real rock ones they sound identical.......

I like Slang, the full album is an evolution for Def Leppard... the bad thing came after that, when they force their way to get back to the old times and try to sound like they do in the 80's.. the last 2 albums sound repetitive.. boring !!!

I saw them in the Slang tour and was a great show.

They had released an album in Japan (1-2 years ago) I think that had all older songs. It was most of Def Leppard and the Spiders (I can't remember). One of the songs they covered was "All the young dudes". Look on their site. I'm sure their is info about it somewhere. I'm too lazy to look right now.

Edit: The name of the side group is Cybernauts

http://www.defleppard.com/cybernauts/home.html

I keep meaning to buy this album, but I forget. I wonder if that post is about this group, just misinformed, or they a really are going to release an album under DL.

I saw them at the Chronicle Pavilion in Concord (that's in the San Francisco Bay Area) last year and they fuckin' rocked. It was my 2nd concert ever (first being GN'R on New Years' Eve @ the Joint).  

X is an awesome POP record. But it has no business whatsoever bearing the Def Leppard name. Gravity, Now, and A Girl Like You are great songs.

One of the songs they played on the sound system before Def Leppard went on was GN'R's Coma.

Snap, when i saw them over here GNR's Coma played, that was a plesant surprise.

X isn't a terrible album as a one off - but i'd hope there next album has a bit more 'attitude' to it

Girl like you is a great song. There is a part, just a glimpse, near the end that is them going off on guitar. I love that part, they should have taken that sound and lengthened it. Not to mention including more of it on the entire album. X is still a good album to play on a drive, I can listen to it with my whole family. :)

I still liking Retro Active such a cool record, specially Ring of Fire! any other leppard record lke that??  :yes:

I guess for that particular sound it's Pyromania, Hysteria.

Retro active is something special, possibly Leppard's best album and to go toe to toe with Hysteria is quite something.

I know, I'm listening to it right now.

I am starting to think "The Desert Song" is one of my all time favorites. I don't know what it is about that song. But it sends chills over me. Just awesome.

I thought id bring this thread back kids.  Up until recently i had only heard one song by this band and i hated it i think it was called 'Lets Get Rocked' so anyway i decided not to delve further into their catalogue since this one song had sucked so much.  I was watching 'People You Love To Hate' on SCUZZ a few weeks ago (it's the only way you can see Extreme these days :) )  Anyway they played 'Animal' and i thought was great since then i have heard 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' and some other class songs like 'Love Bites' & 'Comin' Under Fire'.  Anyway since this thread is so damn big im guessing this board has a lot of fans so what do you guys recommend i get first to start my Def Leppard collection? e.g. Best Albums etc.

I'd say start with Hysteria and Pyromania. Hysteria is tied with AFD for being my all time favorite album (even though they are polar opposites).

What sucks and has 9 arms... Def Leppard

Def Leppard are my fav active band - awesome back catelogue, Stoned ur in for a treat.

Best albums - Hysteria and Retro Active, only UYI 2 surpasses them - amazing guitar work, hooks galore, great stuff - these two albums espicially don't have a single weak track, this is pure gold from cover to cover and i don't think any band has put out two such consistent albums - Miss you in a heartbeat is as emotionally devestaing as Estranged and 'Women' and 'Run Riot' are the best damn guitar rock tracks ever.

I have had Pyromania in my cd player continously for some time now yet another classic - infact anything from High 'n' dry, Pyromania, Hysteria, Adrenalize and Retro Active are fantastic. There latest albums require some effort to get into but have their charms - they haven't put out a bad album and i can't wait for album no.11.

Yea Hysteria is pretty damn amazing.

Check out "Women" on that album (one of my favs ever from them). Talk about a kick ass song. I mean, major kick ass! :peace:

What has ten fingers and half a brain? You!

I'm not a huge fan, but I have a few albums. I like "Two Step Behind"

Apparently the new album is scheduled for the last week of December :beer:

Yeah, but from what I hear it's yet another greatest hits compilation (check out the news section of www.defleppardsol.com). I don't know why? I mean, they haven't even had any "hits" since The Vault GH compilation was released. What's worse is that the single from it will be Long Long Way To Go. Now, I'll be really happy if the record company actually puts some effort into promotion this time around and it becomes a hit, but I personally find it hard to get excited about it because I've had Long Way since the day X came out. Maybe I'm being cynical, but I can't help but see this as just another attempt from the record company to milk money out of fans. Island/Def Jam records have shafted Def Leppard and its fans so many times that I'm not surprised by this.

Also, the last week of December is the worst time of the year to release an album. Wouldn't any sane marketer release it before that so people can buy it as a Christmas gift?!?! It's like they are mocking this band. If I was in Def Leppard, I would have filed a law suit against the record company a long long time ago. Nobody gets pushed around and screwed over by the music industry more than Def Leppard. But I guess they deserve it if they don't stand up for themselves and do something about it.

Def Leppard do seem to have been screwed by their label - they just haven't had the promotion and have slowly disappeared because of it (okay the music hasn't been stunning either) - i think it was the label that pressured them in the 'pop' direction X ended up as.

Joe Elliott doesn't think its a GH so don't worry - i think that 'rumour' is false - Joe claims its a new album and their working on it at the mo, he wouldn't be drawn on what they're trying to do with it though

08.06.2004 : :PYROMANIA GOES DIAMOND
More than 20 years after its initial 1983 release, the RIAA certified Def Leppard's breakthrough album "PYROMANIA" at the Diamond level last month. A Diamond award is honored to artists who have an album or single that has sold 10 million or more units in the US alone. For Def Leppard, this is their second Diamond award; when the award was introduced in 1999, "HYSTERIA" already received it for 12 million US sales. 


Well done to the lads, classic album which i have had on heavy rotation for some time.

Is it new bro? Or GH?

Joe's latest interview

Why is there so much mystery surrounding the next album, can't you just give us some updates? There's so many rumors!

Well, it's exactly that, it makes rumors go out of hand! We've learned over the years that to let too much of the info out at once can come back to haunt you later on. People ask us "so what happened to this, what happened to that, that's not what you said last week!" And, as it happens, no better example than this next album: we had a plan....we HAVE a plan, but it has changed, and plans keep changing. So, we just don't announce anything until we know 100% that it's gonna happen.
So, the reason why we haven't been giving any updates on the next album, is simply because of all the plans we have, none of them are sure to happen at this moment.

When was the last time a fan bugged you when you really wanted to be left alone and how did you handle that? Or, how do handle such things in general?

Boy, tough question.... But in general, when a fan bugs me when I'm eating, that really gets up my nose!! Also, if I'm trying to have some quality time with let's say, my old lady and someone is following me everywhere I go, it's really hard not to turn round and say "Er.... please go away!!!" But hey, I know what it's like to be a fan myself so I usually try to be as polite as possible. So if anybody ever hears that I was, er, 'rude' to a fan, chances are they were overstepping the mark BIG time as I'm normally pretty patient!

What are your thoughts about re-releasing re-mastered versions of your back catalogue, perhaps with some bonus tracks for each album?

Actually.....it's kind of in the process of being planned as we speak! It will take quite a bit of time though, as I'm the only one who has a collection of all our demos, alternative tracks and all other so-called 'rarities'. I'll need a great amount of time to dig 'em out and go through them, but it will happen sooner or later.....though 'later' seems more likely than 'sooner'!

When Steve passed away and the band knew they had to find someone to replace him, did Pete Willis' name ever come up?

Hmmmmm.....no, can't say that he did!

What question that people keep asking you in interviews are you most sick of?

That would be "Where did you get the name of the band from!?" for sure! I swear.....one more time!!!!!!!

Where did you get the name of the band from?

Fuck off!!!

Have you ever forgotten which city you were in during a concert and said the wrong thing while up on stage?

As in "Hello Cleveland"?? Luckily, no, never! However, I have seen some of our support bands do it.....won't mention any names though!

If fans want to help promoting, what is the best way for them to do that?

That's easy! First, buy whatever new product we have out, that goes without saying. Second, very important: call your local radio station and ask them (nicely, yes) to play it - never underestimate the power of radio!
Another great way to promote us: tell ALL your friends that we're the best band in the world, and if they don't agree, there's something wrong with them! OK, that might be a bit of a stretch, but it's worth a try!!

During the in-the-round tours, did you always share a laundry basket/flight case with the same person on your way to the stage?

NOTE: during the "HYSTERIA"- and "ADRENALIZE"-tours, the band's stage was placed in the middle of the arena, so the band had to be creative to get from dressing rooms to the stage without the audience noticing. The solution: laundry baskets ("HYSTERIA"-tour) and flight cases ("ADRENALIZE"-tour), secretly containing the band members, were being taken to the stage by the road crew a couple of minutes before showtime.
Yes, on both tours we all had our 'partners'. During the entire "HYSTERIA"-tour, I went out with Steve in the laundry basket every night. Apparently I was the only person who could deal with his claustrophobia! I told him jokes, reminded him of funny stuff that'd happened recently, and so on.....it wasn't so hard anymore after about 2 weeks!
On the "ADRENALIZE"-tour, it was always Viv and me in the flight case. 

When did Def Leppard (if ever) get closest to breaking up?

To be perfectly honest....never! Of course, we've had the odd moment where one of us was "out of sorts" but that's quite normal, it's been 25 years so far after all. But that's exactly the great thing about this band: we believe in each other, we support each other, and we stand by each other to the best of our abilities. Maybe, one day, there'll be a chink in our armour, but as of now, there isn't one, thank God! So no, we never really got that close to calling it a day!

What advice would you give to a band trying to make it these days, and how different is it now to when Def Leppard were starting out?

I hate this question, so well done whoever got it in! The best advice I can ever give is "don't listen to advice"! From the start, we always knew what we wanted, so when we got 'advice' from certain quarters, we used to humour them by listening, but then once they'd left the room, we'd burst into hysterics, because those people simply didn't know what we were about, so to speak!
There are a few exceptions though..... The only people we've ever listened to were Mutt because we were SO close to him, our management because we've been with them for so long, and Brian May, because, well, he's Brian May! He's always had our best interests at heart.
For me personally, Ian Hunter has always been great because he doesn't sugarcoat things, but he absolutely knows what's going on from an artistic point of view, so it always makes sense.

Any chance for any live shows this year?

I'm sorry to say that that's probably not gonna happen, no..... Then again, if you look at the first question, I've learned that until we're NOT asked by the 31st of December, anything is possible! But as of right now, it doesn't look like it.

I hope the GH rumor is false also, but Joe doesn't really say anything as to whether the next album will be GH or not in that interview. He does seem to imply that they no longer plan to do a covers album by saying the plans have changed. I always thought the covers album was a dumb idea.

Def Leppard's 3rd album, Pyromania went diamond last week in the States. 10,000,000 copies sold.

It is their second Diamond album behind Hysteria. Go Def Lep.

I liked their X album, does anyone know if it has went Platium yet?

X has not gone Gold or Platinum in the U.S.

It's truly an amazing feat when a band achieves even one Diamond record, but two is truly astonishing.  Way to go, Def Lep.   : ok:

Van Halen also have two Diamond awards.  One for VH1 and one for 1984. : ok:

it looks more and more like the Best Of rumors are true:
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=1813778

The new best of is bizzare - its essential just a re-release of ''Vault'' under a new name (exact track list) except ''limited'' edition varieties have a disc 2 with i think one new song and their newer stuff plus vast amounts from Pyromania

I'll be getting it - but they could have done this a little better

Also i think they are releasing all the videos on dvd..again

----------

I have started listening to Euphoria again - damn this is one good album, one of my absolute favourites - okay there is some incredibly cheesy stuff on here - but 80% of this album is pure gold and stuff like Promises and Goodbye is some of the best stuff they have done - the album is proof that Def Leppard didn't ''die'' musically when Steve Clarke passed away - i think Euphoria is as good as their best stuff.

On October 25th 2004, one of the biggest British bands in the world, the multi-platinum Def Leppard, will be releasing a "Best Of..." album in the UK, Europe and Japan (a North American release is currently pending). A "Best Of..." DVD will be released worldwide on October 26th.

The CD will come in two formats - a single CD containing 17 of the band's biggest hits such as ANIMAL, POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME, LET'S GET ROCKED and WHEN LOVE & HATE COLLIDE, plus a limited edition double CD featuring another 17 classic songs such as FOOLIN', WASTED, ANOTHER HIT AND RUN and one new track - a cover of the Kinks? WATERLOO SUNSET.

The DVD will feature all the promotional videos made by the band since 1983, plus a number of hidden bonus tracks, such as the 8 minute video of WHEN LOVE & HATE COLLIDE.

TRACKLISTING SINGLE CD
9868551
POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME
PHOTOGRAPH
LOVE BITES
LET'S GET ROCKED
TWO STEPS BEHIND
ANIMAL
HEAVEN IS
ROCKET
WHEN LOVE & HATE COLLIDE
ACTION
LONG, LONG WAY TO GO
MAKE LOVE LIKE A MAN
ARMAGEDDON IT
HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED SOMEONE SO BAD
ROCK OF AGES
HYSTERIA
BRINGIN' ON THE HEARTBREAK

TRACKLISTING LTD. ED. CD 2
9868511
ROCK! ROCK! (TILL YOU DROP)
WATERLOO SUNSET
PROMISES
SLANG
FOOLIN'
NOW
ROCK BRIGADE
WOMEN
LET IT GO
TOO LATE FOR LOVE
HIGH 'N' DRY (SATURDAY NIGHT)
WORK IT OUT
BILLY'S GOT A GUN
ANOTHER HIT AND RUN
STAND UP (KICK LOVE INTO MOTION)
WASTED
DIE HARD THE HUNTER

http://www.bestofdefleppard.com/

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=14582.120

U want this thread.

As for the best of - i made my views there.

Euphoria was awesome, I'll say it again. The first track "Demolition Man" really is great and gets you pumped. I think it's the next few tracks are kind of weak, but after that, to me it really sounds like the DL of the old.

Promises wasn't one of my favs, but when I heard it live in concert I loved it.

GH is such a crock, I won't buy it, no way.....I already have vault 2x's. Once for me and my step-daughter has a copy too.  :hihi:

Oh well...they'll release something again sooner or later...they always do. I'm so glad they stuck together, and grateful when they tour, I cought 'em 3 times in the last 3 years.

Yeah I love that album. It's one of the best albums that came out of the 90s. I really like Back In Your Face.  21st Century Sha La La La Girl is one of the best songs ever! And Paper Sun is just amazing!

Yea I forgot to mention that one.....21st century girl is great.

Paper Sun has a classic DL vibe to it, I think anyway, with great guitarwork near the end. It's an awesome song while you are on the road just driving.

Euphoria really is classic Def Leppard - if it had come out 10 years earlier it would have sold zillions

Promises and Goodbye are awesome and most of the tracks are of the highest order - there are a couple though that are cringe inducing, but overall Def Leppard proved with Euphoria they stil have it and can recreate the Def Leppard sound even without Steve Clarke

Well I haven't heard that record, But I guess Is a Must so I'm going to get it.  :yes:

I agree this GH's thing is a crock, i really dont know what is going on with these guys, i suppose this New GH's is a record company idea, because i have read that Phil Collen and Viv Campbell absolutely had nothing to do with this, not real sure what to think about Def Lep anymore, they get a little momentum going and dont release any new material for atleast three years, I would have been happy with another Retro Active type of record, there are some really great songs that didnt make the cut from the Slang, Euphoria and X records that i am sure alot of people would really dig. I guess they are also still planning to release the "covers" disk as well, i just wish they would release a killer rock record,  i always like to support a band , but i definitely will not be buying this new Best Of, anyhow whats up Punk  :peace:

From Def Leppard.com

Only a little over a week after the band's "BEST OF" compilation album was released in the UK, it has been certified gold: at this time, more than 120,000 copies of the album have been sold already. Once again, thanks for all your support!

That's truly amazing! For an album that was released 9 years ago - then simply turned out with new artwork, Def Leppard are clearly still huge in the UK - okay i'd imagine sales will slump after good first week sales but all the same not many band's achieve such high first week sales over here as that.

And yes, i bought it - strangely there is two version -  a two disk one and a one disk version which is just vault + long, long way to go.

The next album is a covers album of songs from the 70's - it says in the album notes - Waterloo Sunset (on disc two) is decribed as a 'teaser' for this album

Fuck's sake Leppard - enough covers and GH's - we want Hysteria again!

Ive bought the 2CD Best Of - Its sweet. Animal, Promises, Love Bites, Photogrpagh etc. they rule. I prefer the Pyromania/Hysteria stuff. Steve Clark is a legend (RIP) - the stuff theyve done without him (apart from Prmoises) pretty much sucks. I got the Historia/In The Round In Your Face DVD and they ruled during the Hysteria era. Steve live is amazing!

I like toe older stuff better too. After Steve Clarke died they got a little soft.

Check out the 1st album, On Thru The Night. It rocks harder and has more energy than anything else they have ever done. Definitely a different sound too.

The 2CD best of is class.  I have never really heard much by the band a number of months back i started listening to them, then i kinda stopped getting this 'Best Of' has really got me back into them i love every track even the 'Let's Get Rocked' track that i previously disliked, i do though also have X and i really think it's dodgy, very few decent tracks on it.

I like Def Leppard with clarck, but the album that really rocks for me is Retroactive and that album some songs are made with campbell listen to the solo from the inside is just from the inside  :peace:, very inspiring

Ah this thread returns!

Def Leppard are just so fantastic - sometimes i like them more than GNR

Once apon a time i thought Def Leppard post Steve Clark was dead on its feet - but now, Retro Active and Euphoria are just so damn good, Euphoria is living proof there was more to the band than Steve Clark and when they wish to they are as good, maybe better than ever - the guitar work on Euphoria is their absolute best.

X takes many listens to get used to - but there is some gold there, but its their weakest album no contest.

Next album is (sadly) a covers album.

I don't think they would have evolved much differently had Steve lived and remained in the band. They really had little choice but to soften and change their sound in order to remain current. What's sad is that even though they put out music that was current (especially in the cases of Slang and X), it still flopped because their damn record company wouldn't promote them.

Not sure why they don't just change label to someone with a little more faith in them....

I think they still owe their record company a few records under their contract, but still, they should find a way to sue and get out of it. They should do what MOtley Crue is doing. Getting out of Elektra was the best thing that happened to Motley.

Island/DefJam is just making a mockery out of Def Leppard. They made them make X too much of  a pop record by adding songs like Long Long Way To Go (which Def Leppard didn't even write), but then went back on their word that they will promote it. That song ended up not even being released as a single in the US. So not only did they not have a hit single but they ended up alienating many of their current fans. At least if the record was heavier, it could have gone gold, like Euphoria did, just based on die hard fans buying it.

It is sad the band dies away because of the record label, releasing the same 'best of' twice surely rates as the strangest release in 21st century music history. Only a best of that was a blank cd could have been more dubious - we're they trying to make it blatant they were after the fans money?

Well i suppose when u have two diamond albums who cares about sales.

Well I rather want a new CD kinda experimental, instead a CD that was forced to get out by the record company  :-\, I hope for the best of Leppard that get out of this without too much trouble.

DEF LEPPARD vocalist, JOE ELLIOTT appeared with KID ROCK at Chi in Los Angeles for an impromptu set last Sunday. The duet took place while they were celebrating Kid Rock's birthday at in West Hollywood, with celebrity guests such as Justin Timberlake. They performed a rendition of Pour Some Sugar On Me with Kid Rock rapping during the middle section of the song. Joe managed to play the drums for a 45 minute mayhem fest, which included AC/DC's Back in Black, and TED NUGENT's Cat Scratch Fever.

Fuck, can't believe a decent vocalist would lower himself to perform one of his bands greatest songs with Kid Rock and have the guy rap over it...ruining the damn thing.

Hey! Kid Rock is okay.

Looks like there covers album is almost done - they have about 22 songs done - of which i haven't heard of any of the originals.

Here is the list of covers they are set to inflict on us:

10538 Overture   (original by ELO)
20th Century Boy   (original by T-Rex)
Don't Believe A Word   (original by Thin Lizzy)
Drive In Saturday   (original by David Bowie)
Hanging On The Telephone   (original by Blondie)
Hellraiser   (original by Sweet)
He's Gonna Step On You Again   (original by John Kongos)
No Matter What   (original by Badfinger)
Little Bit Of Love   (original by Free)
Rock On   (original by David Essex)
Stay With Me   (original by The Faces)
Street Life   (original by Roxy Music)
The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll   (original by Mott The Hoople)
Waterloo Sunset   (original by The Kinks)
American Girl   (original by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
Heartbeat   (original by Jobriath)
How Does It Feel   (original by Slade)
Kick Out The Jams   (original by MC5)
Roxanne   (original by The Police)
Dear Friends   (original by Queen)
When I'm Dead And Gone   (original by McGuinness Flint)
Winter Song   (original by Lindisfarne)

Can't wait to hear this, i'll love to hear their versions of American Girl & Kick Out The Jams

 :) I'm not sure which band I dislike more......  This one or BJ's.

but Def Leppard contributed more worldwide for music in a timeframe, stylewise, that was less copied...  **cough** a little less.

-BP **

Thanks for that :P

Def Leppard were the the band that did pop metal better than any other band - they could also put together riffs and solo's better than virtually any band before or after. If that's not ur thing - doesn't make them a 'bad' group. Hell i don't like Bland Sabbath, doesn't make them crap though.

Can't wait to hear Dear Friends, American Girl, Roxanne, Don't beleive a Word  :peace:, they are way too cool

Selling 17 million copies is not that good!?? You gotta be SHITTIN' me!? Artists of today struggle to go platinum one time.? "Appetite For Destruction" and Metallica's "Black Album" were bonafide juggernauts.? Not too many albums in HISTORY can be compared to either one and using their stats to try to short-count an album that sold 17 million is ridiculous.

I'll give you that Def Leppard are not what they once were - but who is?? I mean shit - look at Metallica (do I really need to even go there?).? But you can't deny that they were huge in their day and for several years afterwards.? Not liking their music is fine but that doesn't solidify your insinuation that they didn't achieve great success.? They pioneered what would become "80's rock".? GN'R, Metallica, Motley Crue, and many others were all influenced by them.

Bah, bash Def Leppard if u will but they have sold just 3 million albums less than GNR (32 to 35) in the US.....

So, look at how many albums those talentless bastards from American Idol sell.  Does that mean that they are a great influential artist?  Probably not.  Does it mean that the majority of American gobble up all of this crap because the advertisements say it's cool?  Yes, absolutely.  Album sales numbers don't mean a thing unless your an exec from the company.  What really matters is if the band or the music has staying power, which Def Leppard does not. 

Maybe not in America where rock music today is like a bunch of 12-year old fags playing in the back yard.  Longevity is something most every band has a hard time achieving now days.

But, in Europe Def Leppard are still very popular.  That kind of rock never faded when the Seattle movement plagued the U.S.

So Tool, Audioslave, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Chili Peppers, Green Day, COC, NIN, etc. are a bunch of fags?  Who had all the make up and the froo froo haircuts?  Engalnd and Sweden have good taste in music but the rest of Europe is known for what?  The Scorpions?  Gorky Park?  Grunge was about the music, glam was about everything but the music, that's why it is gone.  Thank God!!

Yep - pretty much (except for Tool and NIN).? Then you got all this faggy punk wannabe shit all over the radio all day and night.? With a few (very few) exceptions here and there - rock music is at an all-time low.? And being about the music is definitely a thing of the past.? Most all artists these days are only driven by the money (instead of money AND music).

Genius - and who said they did?



Time to recharge your brain i think

Def Leppard are in their 25th year - still selling out all their shows, still touring, still releasing albums, still having gold records

But ur right - no staying power ::)

That seems to be the trump card that everbody uses on here.  Well so and so sold 23 million compared to 12 million by ??


It's easy to sell out shows at 500 seat venues.  Are they putting up the numbers that U2 are?  Hardly!  Are they inspiring the next generation of music greats?  No, I pray not!   Maybe I should clarify, for those of us that have moved on since the 80s Def Leppard has zero staying power.  Times have changed, so has music but DL remain hopelessly the same.  I used to listen to all the hair metal crap in HIGH SCHOOL not as an adult.  I think people grew sick of it because it's hard to relate to riding your Harley down the Sunset Strip, high on coke, and partying with whores.  Music with substance instead of music on substances!!

Agreed

More like 10,000 seats a show. : ok:

And as I've said a couple times now - Def Leppard have ALREADY inspired many bands in a newer generation years ago.  And before you go off on another tirade about how "well they obviously aren't doing it anymore" and all that non-sense take a look at AC/DC.  The band has one of the most successful rock albums of all time ("Back In Black") under it's belt and have inspired musicians of all genres somewhere along the line.  But is it fair to say that because they are no longer influencing new musicians like they did 20+ YEARS AGO that they are nothing?  I think not.

And as for this: "I used to listen to all the hair metal crap in HIGH SCHOOL not as an adult.  I think people grew sick of it because it's hard to relate to riding your Harley down the Sunset Strip, high on coke, and partying with whores."  With that one statement you've proven you've never even heard DL's music - so why are you trying to argue with invalid ammo?

Let me break this down for you (as I've already done in previous posts):  Def Leppard were five kids who got together and rocked.  They never were this "hair metal crap" you speak of.  There never would've been such a category if multiple wannabe bands hadn't tried to sound like them in some way.  I can definitely understand why you'd get sick of all the sunset strip, hair rejects - so did I.  And there's a reason why Def Leppard are still playing in my CD player from time to time right now and all the other wannabes are not:  STAYING POWER.  ;)

One last thing - you claim that you and many others got tired of the 80's "hair metal crap" and have moved on.  If that's the case why are you still hanging around a GN'R board praying for the new album?

(http://www.i80s.net/images/def_lep_002.jpg)

Not hair metal then? Also why are 95% of their songs (maybe all) something to do with love? Could they not write anything better?

Def Leppard were five kids who got together and rocked. They never were this "hair metal crap" you speak of.

Oh yeah, Def Leppard are real hard core when it comes to rocking, they are very agressive in their music*

*Smell the sweet sarcasm

                   
Posted on: Today at 03:53:46 PM Posted by: usurper

Isn't "Photograph" about a stalker? :beer:

Exactly.  It's really funny when people who have literally no idea what they're talking about get on here and mindlessly bash something for the hell of it.

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=20376.msg346572#msg346572

Not what they used to be?

haha, yea right.

I have seen them 3 times in as many years.

1st show = sold out.

2cd show = sold out

3rd shot (arena) =95% capacity

I have 4th row tickets to see them in about 3 weeks. All tickets that were left (about 4 weeks ago) were in the very back, near the top. I'd say it is safe to say that one will sell out too.

The ages at their concerts are like 10yrs -55 yrs. It's people bringing their kids now, which I think is great.

They were before hair metal and should not be lumped  in as such.

They are a great band, and still sell 'em out.

How many acts from the last 20 yrs can still do that?

Not many.

I said 95%, not all

 : ok:

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Only one event SOLD OUT, they are playing those gigs in less than a onth, they are playing small stadiums, closing statement: THEY SUCK

Posted on: Today at 01:19:02 PM Posted by: usurper

Velvet Revolver aren't soldout all the time- do they suck too?

Kayoss, unfortunately I have heard DL's music.  I am even man enough to admit that I bought Hysteria on cassette when I was 16-17 yrs old.  The Strip, coke, whores comment was a generalization of the whole scene, of which, like it or not, DL were a part of the Hair Scene.  Is it truly staying power for you or are you stuck in an age?  The glory days, huh?  I sure here a lot of DL influenced bands on the radio now days, the shitty songs do have a certain DL-ish quality.  I grew up and my music tastes did too.  Don't worry you're not alone, I think there is a support group for all those that still have mullets, tight stone washed jeans, and jean jackets with band patches on them.  You've missed some good music, I feel bad for you.

As for the why am I here question, GNR were different from DL and all the others because they weren't pussies and they didn't write shitty fluff songs.  They have a timeless sound where as DL is absolutely from the 80s.  GNR is the anti-DL.

And who is that?? Foo Fighters?? Chili Peppers?? New-age Metallica?? Seether?? The White Stripes?? Offspring?? Queens of The Stoneage?

Haha - save your sorrow, son.? While you're "tick-tocking" and healing "scar tissue that you wish you saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw", and gettin' stoned with your fellow queens I'll be spinning hardcore thrash (real metal), Def Leppard, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Ozzy, etc.? Not because of some need to hang on to a past point in time - but simply because it rocks and the shit listed above shouldn't even be typed in the same sentence (notice I didn't? ;) ).

I bet you're one of those guys that loved Metallica until they gave up their white trash look and then you started with the sellout stuff.  With the exception of the Offspring, any one of the bands that you named play circles around DL.  Lars could have no arms and still be better than Rick Allen.  DL's music is so bad that one of their guitarists drank himself to death so he wouldn't have to hear it anymore!  Rick Allen was listening to it when he crashed his car.  "I can't believe I helped create this bloody awful shite."  was the last thing he said before the crash.  Only DL can make Bryan Adams seem like a deep thinker.  I am sorry but the only people who listen to DL in the States are girls and fags.  Which one are you? 

There's some hope for you, you did mention Ozzy.

How old are you?

9?

Was I talking to you Punk?  No, didn't think so.  Just go outside, work on the old Camero and jam out toyour lame ass DL collection and all the other shite music that probably constitutes your cd collection.

At least VR can sell out more than on event, and yes both bands suck

My thoughts exactly.

Never understood guys like you.

If there is a thread about a group that I do not like, I don't post. Simple as that. If I did, it would be with gloves on, not to totally insult people who do like that group.

Oh well, guess I'll go do an oil change on my Camero and listen to Def Leppard.....

I was never much of a Def Leppard fan although I know the lyrics to most of their songs.

I saw the collection on sale today and it is a very very impressive collection at a nice price as well.

My brother totally burnt me out on DL when i was a kid, if i hear that fucking "fa fa fa fooling" song one more fuckin time IM gonna go fuckin crazy!

I can see their appeal though but i never could quite get into them.

Hey gilld1 I just got done changin the oil out of my camero. It would have been faster but the block I was using fell over I had to rejack the car up. Good news was that I got to listen to the best of DL 3 times in a row! I'm going next to get my top of my hair trimmed (gotta keep in long in the back) so I took a picture before I left.....












(http://tinypic.com/5al6di)

fuck yeah dude

business in the front, party in the back!

Rock On metalheads!

No...sweeet child wasn't a fluffy pop-ballad

Idiot

Go back to your trailer.

Why so angry?

I'm saying the concerts I saw, they all sold out. They were large arenas (except LV-GnR played there too) where any big band would play.

To me, that is pretty good for an older band

Again though, I must ask. If you do not like the band, why come to the thread? Just to say they suck? Don't you have something better to do? Why not be a gentleman?

I don't go to threads (or websites) about bands I don't like and talk about how much they suck.

Why be a dick?

CamaroMullet: The CamaroMullet used to have full reign over the mullet brethren, but that was back in the 70's and 80's. This species has fallen from grace since, but can still be seen enjoying NASCAR events and shopping at Kragen, or up in the attic cooking up crank.

Distinguishing features include: a molester mustache (peach fuzzy), tight-fitting acid wash jeans, and an ever-present key ring hanging from the belt loop.

It is not recommended you confront the CamaroMullet, for they are very aggressive and cannot be hurt (this might be due to the frequent use of methamphetamines, angel dust, etc.).

Mulletude: 10
 
Aggressiveness: 10
 
Hobbies: primering cars, bar fights, picking scabs, losing teeth.
 
Sightings: Kragen, Grand Auto, working on a Camaro on their front lawn.
 
Favorite Band: Def Leppard
 

Slc, that is funny shit!  I hope the Camaro keeps holdin' up for you, classic guys need classic rides.  Good to see that you have a sense of humor about the lifestyle that you have chosen!  On a DL related note, Rolling Stone said in their review of the DL Grtst Hits that DL's popularity could be summed up in four words, "The ladies liked them."


Izzy, why do you once again show us how unintelligent you are?  I was saying that GNR DID NOT write fluff songs, you dumbass.  Learn how to read you illiterate fool before you cause an accident some day.  Don't be ashamed of your lack of reading ability.  Thousands of adults out there are just like you.  Even our own president cannot read so don't worry you're not alone.  There are many programs available for dumbasses like you, just look them up in the Yellow Pages.  Oh shit, my bad, I forgot you can't read to look them up.

Well I guess they lose all credibility since "the ladies liked them." Because women have no clue about music, and whether or not it is quality or crap, right? That example offends me. It seems that all the bands from the 80s, with the exception of Metallica and Iron Maiden, were considered "chick" bands. No men purchased Def Leppard albums, only women. Wow, I had no idea. Oh wait, on a Rolling Stone related note, they had the Backstreet Boys on their cover. They know rock n' roll.

You seem to know an awful lot about those.

Yeah, but my house cant move

Pump the brakes Journey.  Get pissy at RS not me, I'm just relaying the message.  I'm just having some fun with a DL fan but if you want to be offended then go right ahead.  Stick around and I'll offend you again. 


Hey, why does everyone have love for the 'hood but not the trailer park? 

Seems we have something in common after all. ?Who would've thought?

What the common link?  Mullett?  Traler?  Both?......

This is me in 2000 one week before I got on the Springer show. The young lady next to me is my Mom. We are in the camero in this pic too, which is totally cool. The best part about it is my DL bumper sticker on the back.

The Springer show was one of my biggest moments in my life. It motivated me to lose weight because I saw the tape of me with my shirt off and I was embarrassed. I lost 45 pounds in 8 months on the Koolaid/Moon pie Diet.

I say one of the biggest moments, because I am buying my second trailer this Wednesday. It's actually a double decker trailer with a ladder through the middle. So I will have my one trailer in Utah rented to my cousin, and then my double decker trailer down here in Florida.

Totally bitchin!!!

(http://tinypic.com/5b8wsl)

You have to be kidding me.....

Yeah, but somebody stole your trailers tires, I dont live in a trailer.

And what makes you think I do?  The fact that I like certain bands from the 80's (along with the 70's, 60's, and 50's) and I don't particularly care for most of the rock coming out today?  Just shows how ignorantly one-dimensional your way of thinking obviously is.  I'm almost sorry that me spinning certain CD's bothers you to the point that you'd get on here and run your mouth to the extent you've tried to go (you're short one post aren't you ;) ).  You and your friend gildy whatever need to focus more on the things that ail you mentally and affect your maturity before lashing out at other's for things so trivial such as musical preferences.  You know absolutely nothing about me and I'd almost resent you getting on here and pretending that you do if it wasn't the internet (the gateway for pussies to act like badasses).  And for the record I don't sport a mullet, I don't live in a trailer (never have), but if I did I surely wouldn't let a couple of cyber-punks like you two idiots make me feel bad for it.  And I sure as hell don't conform with anyone over anything.  It doesn't matter whether a band is in or out with the general population or whatever decade it happens to be, if I like their music I'm going to own their albums.  If you have a problem with it that's just it - it's your problem, not mine.  Get over it.

"You have to be kidding me....."

Dude I would kid you about my real estate investments. That is what is so awesome about America! Some people say college degrees are important, bullshit dude! Hard work pays off in this country.

I don't want to seem like I'm showing off but here is my trailer in Utah that is rented to my cousin. This is after I fixed it up. It was a real dump when I first got my hands on it.

(http://tinypic.com/5beoeq)

I know you are probably thinking "Hey look, he's got two cameros", and the answer is, yes I do. I've got two (again hard work bro!  : ok:). The one in that picture doesn't run though, so I let my cousin's kids play in it. Anyway, when I get my new doubledecker this wednesday I will put this killer Def Leppard wallhanging in the living room. Holy crap is it going to be awesome!

The best part about this deal is I talked this guy into leaving his milk crates so I have an instant tv stand. What a sucker that guy was.....

All you need to do is to get those cars in a driveway, paint your trailer and clean up your lawn (make it greener, clean it up) and I bet you can sell it for a good price!

Goddamn SLC u have outdone yourself with this one! :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:


some of the funniest shit Ive ever read

Kool Aid and Moon Pies! :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

chill Kayoss u actin a little too defensive dude

U gonna make people think u really do live in a trailer with a mullet.

nothing wrong with it man if u do, shit I grew up in the Projects with a mullet, now that is hardcore shit right there!

Hey Gayoss, want some cheese with that whine?  If you can't take a little good natured teasing about your favorite sissy ass band then perhaps it is you that have mental ailments.  Do you self-identify with Joe Elliot and the boys?  Does Love Bites touch you the the point whre you think that you wrote the song and no truer words have ever been written?  The internet does not make me a bad ass, I'd make fun of DL to your face.  You seem awfully mad in your last post, is it because we hit the nail on the head?   Denial is more than the river in Egypt.  See you at the record store on Tuesday, you mullett having, tight stone washed jean wearing, Camaro driving, Budweiser drinking, trailer park king.

Somewhere......


There is an empty sandbox.

D ain't kiddin....

He used to live down the road from me.

Then a week later, he was on another street.

The next week...another.

I mean...the guy moved a lot.

(http://tinypic.com/5bpetg)



(Hope you don't mind me showing that bro.)

God Damn You SLC

if the George Dubya's Govt sees me living this good, my welfare check is gone! :hihi: :hihi:


how am I gonna keep my mullet tight and my Camaro revved up on gasoline if the govt cuts off my welfare?

Im a real rocker dudes, check out these holes in me stonewashed jeans!

I still hot roll my pants legs also!


metal fuckers!!!!! rock on!

fuck yeah dudes I dont know bout u but im totally fuckin ARMAGEDDON IT!

peace and mullet grease my Peeps! :hihi: :hihi:

My above post clearly states that I don't and wouldn't be ashamed if I did.  If people are under that impression it means they obviously can't read which indicates they have more serious problems than I originally thought.

Exactly.


And gilded (or is it "ass-raped"?),

You can quit trying to scapegoat your way out of the reality check I laid on you earlier.  Obviously I can hang just fine or I wouldn't be responding.  And if you manage to come up with a half-intelligent comment worth refuting I'll be happy to put you in your place again.  Until then, fuck off Nut-Waste!!

And have a pleasant day. ;)

Hmmm....Gayass likes DL, lives in a trailer, drives an 81 Camero, has a mullett, and now he wants to sodomize me!!  Must be from West Virginia!!

SLC's wedding pics from his first wedding (thats his second cousin)




(http://www.mulletsgalore.com/motw/images/mullet_wedding/image001_mg.jpg)




Hope u didnt mind me posting these!

KUJO'S HIGH SCHOOL PHOTO


(http://www.mulletsgalore.com/assets/images/picturebooks/03_raspberry_tort/joegrump.jpg)

this is some funny shit. :rofl:

I'm laughing too hard to even make a come back on this one, but its coming.

SLC, you are the king after this thread, I bow to you :beer: :rofl:

Before this thread gets locked...............

I found a CD that D posed for the cover.................


(http://www.radionow931.com/pics/nigel/mullets_marlboros.jpg)

 :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:


this thread is the greatest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good comeback Kujo!

Since we will probably all get banned for this thread anyway, how about extra credit for the person who has the balls to post a photo of Jarmo with a mullett? :rofl:    :peace:

oh my god! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

(http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:IQO4A-_c9-kJ:www.gso.uri.edu/news/BayNotes/Mullet.JPG)


  Jarmo with a mullet

This is D's band lineup.

They are totally bad ass.

A cross between Bon-Jovi, and the cast of "The Goonies".

The first single is titled: Mullitia....

(http://tinypic.com/5cevxe)

After my wedding Kujo and D watched my trailer. I came home and found these two all wasted on my couch.

Totally passed out.

Naked from the waste down and with a big bowl of jello on the floor :-\ :P.


(http://tinypic.com/5cey47)


My dog wouldn't come out from under the trailer for two weeks !

Kujo loves the jello, he wouldnt have it any other way.


Timothy is gonna get pissed, but U all gotta check out his pic *sorry dude*


(http://www.ratemymullet.com/mullets242/6.jpg)

Dude Kayoss promised me to not post this, but fuck dude, I cant help it.

(http://www.ratemymullet.com/mullets242/72.jpg)




sorry Kayoss.

Man I miss my Mullet. :'(




Hear is a pic of  D ,when he was just a little guy .     


(http://www.mulletjunky.com/webimages/kidstrype1.jpg)




Sorry D.

Dude I gotta scan a pic of me, when I was in elementary school i for real had a kick ass mullet and i had the coke bottle lense eye glasses.

I look hilarious!

Everyone go to www.ratemymullet.com

funny shit!

Guys I had to go deep undercover to find this


I think this skullet  is self explanatory

check it out!



(http://www.mulletjunky.com/webimages/braidedgangstaskullet.jpg)

nice find D :beer:


D you should definatly post a pic of your mullet. :yes:


cause  (http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-Ccce9VPp1kJ:www.rivalgearusa.com/MulletsRuleCollege.jpg)

D, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl

(http://www.mulletjunky.com/webimages/tripmullets.jpg)

Thats sickingly repulsive

This is like Harry Potter "the lost mullet years".

*****

Back to Def Leppard...I remember seeing an interview with the lead singer and seeing him joking about having a mullet back in the day, "of course it wasn't called a mullet then."

That ain't even right.  :rofl:

Has anyone noticed that the Backstreet Boys and Def Leppard now both sound exactly the same as each other?

They have the same guys writing songs/producing for them

True story

ps. we have three Def Leppard threads now

That's a lot of Def Leppard threads.  But yeah the first time I heard shit from X and Slang I thought to myself..."They sound like a fucking boy band now."  It sucks, the old stuff (On Through The Night-Pyromania) still rocks, but damn did they loose their way.  Some friends saw them a few years back and they said they weren't even a good live act anymore.

i havent heard what everyones talkin' about, only radio shit...is it really a boy band sound???

Yeah at least Def Leppard arent playing polished pop rock like Bon Jovi huh..  :confused:

I like Slang and X. There's a lot of good songs on them. But X is essentially a pop album, and I wish that they would go back to their rock roots.

By the way, only 2 songs were written by boy band producers (Unbelievable and Long Long Way To Go), the rest were all written by Def Leppard.

I think the 'Slang' album is one of there best. Great writting and the rawness was a needed change. I wish they would do an album with the rawness of 'Slang' with some more hooks and catchier chorus'. The 'Euphoria' album was a big disapointment except for 'Paper Sun' and 'Day After Day'. Viv Campbell needs to play some more solos like the Day After Day solo. 'X' was a good pop record, the song 'Cry' was a step in the right direction, i thought. 'X' should have been huge, it isnt my favorite but the whole ablum is full of 3 minute pop rock radio friendly singles. If they would have had any support from there label 'X' could have went platinum. Maybe some of the side projects VIv and Phil are doing will rub off onto the next Leppard studio album. Phil's side band Man-Raze completely surprised me, very good modern rock sound , it is better than anything Leppard have done in years, and Viv's solo album is imo one of the better releases thus far this year.

Who cares? Their last good album was Pyromania. Yeah, 25+ years and 3 good albums that were made in the first 5 or so. Some bands just don't know when to call it quits...

Quit you're bitchin'!  Do you ever have anything good to say about music?

Def Leppard rules.. they should do something to get big again... I don't think they care too much or they wouldve done it already tho. If Motley Crue could come back...  ::)

They fell apart with Adrenalize. I remember being like "whaa?!"

Some Retro Active stuff was ok too. Haven't heard X...

Adrenalize is their weakest album, but some songs on it like White Lightning are really good.

Retro Active is on of their best IMO. Desert Song, Fractured Love, Ring of Fire are some of the best rock songs ever.

Yea right....

I have a lot of time for Adrenalze - they choose badly with the singles (as Leppard have always done!) but virtually all the tracks i really like - except white lightning

Retro active contains Leppards best material, and why they marketed that as a b sides album - again, they were idiots with the singles - two steps behind and action are below par.

An album in the style of Ride into the sun, ring of fire and desert song would be very welcome

My fave album once again is Retro active, Agree with Izzy saying they choose bad singles cause I think the best on that record is Ring of Fire, Fracture Love, From the Inside (what a freaking solo!  :o)
As a Adrenilize is ok but I prefer better Retro, and I still listen their old records and new ones so I can keep in track with them  :peace:

Odd how Retro Active was the b-sides to Adrenalize and yet they turned out better.....

Quit you're bitchin'!  Do you ever have anything good to say about music?

Yes. I also have bad things to say about mediocre albums. When bands put out albums just to make money, they're no longer artists, but products. Def Leppard went from a NWOBHM band to a pop-rock band, which is just artistic progression, but their pop-rock to pop-pop was a $ellout. They're no better than Limp Bizkit now from an ethical point of view, even if their music is slightly better.

Right never understood why they kept those songs as b-sides, I wonder who make that kind of choices  ???

The only Def Leppard album that can be considered "pop-pop" is X, and that's their worst selling album.

And in theory selling a lot should not equal bad music. On the contrary, good music should sell a lot. The reason that is not the case is because the music industry is an oligopoly. Because of that, the powers that be can basically take any mediocre "artist" and build them up to sell millions. There is no competition between artists. If Limp Bizkit had to compete against Def Leppard, Def Leppard would trounce them music-wise and hence sales-wise. But they don't have to compete against them because every time Def Leppard puts out an album, the general public doesn't even hear about it.

If the recording industry was not consolidated into 4 big companies that don't have any major competition, and if MTV Networks was not a monopoly, things would be completely different.

People who depend on television and radio for music have bad taste anyway. Even if indie bands were played, they wouldn't be popular.

How? Doesn't Kerrang! and metalhammer cover them? What did they do back in the day?

Didn't they have a new video all over MTV not so long ago?

Let's not forget Limp Bizkit only broke it in the UK for what, two albums. The first two didn't even chart. Fuck both of them anyway.

Try building a new rock n' roll band up. Try selling todays rock n' roll to a public who would rather see Tommy Lees balls than experience anything new.

Not in the US. I don't know of many people that read Kerrang and metalhammer. I wouldn't even know where to buy a copy of those magazines.

most true indie bands are crap

Ahh, but the ratio of crap:quality is lower. It's 99:1 for mainstream music, and 90:10 for indie.  :)

Well dont read the thread. If you dont like them fine. Chill out.

I agree with you on that . I am listening to Retro right now. Desert Song may be the best song they have written, i cant believe they shelved that, it did actually get alot of airplay here when it was released. I just like the whole vibe of that song as well as the album. The only complaint i had with it was three versions of Miss You In a Heartbeat, other than that, it should have been the proper studio release and the stuff on Adrenalize should have been the b sides. Adrenalize isnt that great imo. Tear It Down and White Lightning are pretty good but the rest is just way too produced and polished. I like the more organinc sound of Leppard. I still remember how disapointed i was when i first heard Euphoria, a big step backwards imo. Slang was a great change and still to this day i think it is there best album, in recent interviews they have been saying they are going back to a more organic and heavier sound again, i sure hope they do.

I too never quite understood some of the choices they have used as singles also. Actually there is quite alot of things they have done regarding promo and what not that left me scratching my head. Hopefully with this change of management things will be different.

Its fair to say they have played a big part in their downfall

What the hell where they thinking at the PEAK of grunge releasing 'Make love like a man' and 'let's get rocked' as singles! Those are their two silliest songs - and at a time when people wanted harder and heavier material!

Exactly. Imagine if they would have put out Desert Song instead. LGR is a fun song at gigs and all but MLLAM is just awful. Looking back on it now it is hard to believe.

Again the management was awful. Q Prime really made some poor decisions. They should have been let go a very long time ago imo. It seems that there is a lot of positive changes going on in the Leppard camp. Hell, Ross Halfin even mentioned it in his online diary, so things must be changing because he tells it like it is, with no bullshit that is for sure.

Okay, most bizarre Leppard single

I'm torn between ''Make love like a man'' and ''Back in your face''. They were both preferred over vastly better songs and both don't seem to be liked by anyone....

Let's Get Rocked...that was the only song i ever associated with the band for years since for some reason it was the only one i saw on TV and i despised it with a passion it wasn't until i heard some of their good songs i started checking out their albums so thanks to that song being a single i stayed away from their music for years...

That song is very silly (but great live)

There are a few songs of Adrenalize that seem rather daft - they do grew on u, as with many Def Leppard releases its not meant to be a deathly serious experience, just a bit of fun. In the right frame of mind even the daftest Leppard song is great.

As it happened Adrenalize spawned 7 singles from 10 tracks....though some were video singles only (like Women - why the hell wasn't that a chart single!)

I think Back In Your Face is the worst song they have ever done. The music in the song is actually good, but the lyrics are absolutely terrible. Total crap. The Euphoria album was not that great. I was so disappointed after the first listen, after the great lyrics and music on Slang , how they turned back to that , i cant understand. trying to get back all of the fans who didnt like Slang because it didnt sound like another Hysteria or Pyromania. Retro and Slang are imo there two best albums.

I hear slang once, also the came to Ecuador to promotianate the album I really don't like the album, even though lyrics were great I still don't like that album, I've heard euphoria that album have quite good songs, not their best but I think is better than slang.  :peace:

I thought Euphoria had some decent songs.  Kings Of Oblivion was a good one.

Tough break for u Americans - the rock of ages DVD has just 19 tracks whereas the European version 29 + hidden tracks

Not quite sure why they are doing that - and its been delayed again too, typical eh?

Also - for those that have the European version, how the hell do u find the bonus tracks, i can't seem to find them....

This sucks, what are the extra tracks on the European version?

European version is PAL? cause if it so I can't see it here and that'd suck  :-\

I've saw once a page that had all the instructions of how see the extras, if I can find it I'll post it ;)

Yep it is PAL, nice to have every video they have done - their early ones are hilarious!


 :)

Def Leppard typically releases bonus tracks in Europe because they usually don't tour there. Europe gets extra tracks, America gets tours.

Hey Izzy I found this extras in the DVD Historia

http://www.gamewinners.com/dvd/DefLeppardHistoriaInTheRound.htm

and this on the DVD: Best videos

http://www.gamewinners.com/dvd/DefLeppardBestOfTheVideos.htm

Hope it helps  : ok:  :peace:

Thanks - i'll give that a try :)

DEF LEPPARD will be the featured musical guests on the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show on Monday, November 21. The band will reportedly perform outdoors on the program, which airs on the ABC network.

On December 4 at 8:00 p.m., VH1 will premiere the 2005 edition of their annual "Big In....." show, which will include a live performance by DEF LEPPARD. Other artists scheduled to perform are BECK and INXS, while artists such as Jeremy Piven, Jessica Simpson, Kate Beckinsale, Lindsay Lohan and many others will also be present.

That is great news . The Vh-1 show is a great opportunity for them to promote the Yeah! album. I just hope they dont fuckin play PSSOM or No Matter What. I think there are some really great songs on the Yeah! cd. I would like to see them play Hellraiser, that song smokes, heaviest song they have done in years.

It looks as though this new management team is really working to promote the band and get them back in the spotlight. I am really anxious to see how well they promote the Yeah! cd, anything is better to the promo there albums received in the past . I think if Slang was promoted right that album would have been huge. Actually the same goes for X, although it really isnt my favorite, i have to admit there was a ton of songs on there that could have been huge singles.

They better hurry up and release that Yeah album - i need more Leppard!

 According to PunchJump.com, DEF LEPPARD will appear at Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2005, which will take place on Nov. 18 and air on Dec 10. Other celebrities set to appear at the event include THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, 50 CENT, MISSY ELLIOTT, The Rock, Vin Diesel, Tony Hawk, and Michael Chiklis.

No Clarke= No dice.

Steve Clarke was the bands best songwriter, came up with the best riffs and was their biggest asset.  They have sucked ever since he died. The chemistry, song writing and playing between Clarke and Willis is what made early DL so great. They were wounded with the loss of Willis and have been a shadow of their former glory since the death of Clarke.

He didn't play on Pyromania or Hysteria or Retro Active - their three best offerings...


Nope....


Very true - but all they really lack is the hard guitar edge Clarke gave them, they have the ability to match him, they just need to be heavier - so many of their songs would work with a harder edge from their guitarists.

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On a side note people - how good is Vivian Cambell in ur opinion?

I haven't heard his work with Dio - but i've never been sure what to make of his Leppard work.

Willis did play on "Pyromania." Look inside the booklet. He's listed as playing on "backing tracks on all songs". He also co-wrote four of the albums ten songs. Come to think of it, if Willis played on the album, I'm not sure what Collen was left to do, though he's credited as playing guiar too.

Liked VC's work with Dio.

Apparently the reason he was fired was because his solo in Photograph was so bad.....

His solo in "Photograph" is better than all the cheese DL has released since.

"Slang" is really the only post-Clake CD that I like.

No, the solo on Photgraph isn't his - after all it rocks!

Apparently his version was awful and they fired him and got Phil or Steve to do a new solo....

I bought Dio's HolY Diver album to get an idea on what Vivian Cambell can actually do (hell, he hasn't shown anything good for Leppard...)

I just picked up Def Leppards "Rock of Ages" and it's awesome!!! I haven't heard most of these songs in years (I actually didn't own anything by them at all) I stopped listening to them after Adrenalize was released, but before that they kicked ass. They've had a few decent tunes since but nothing to match early stuff. High and Dry used to be my FAVORITE album. (before GnR existed :hihi: )

Phil Collen turned out to be a really good song writer for them too, and Joe Elliott has always been in there too. But no doubt that Steve was an awesome musician and his death really hurt the band. I think he brought the most 'hard rock' to the band.

Indeed - as 'best of's' go its got a damn good track list (i imported it, i got all three 'best of's'....)

DEF LEPPARD's official web site has been updated with a brand new interview with the group's frontman Joe Elliott. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Q: What was your general impression of the "Rock of Ages" tour?

Joe: "From our point of view, it was definitely an extremely big success! I was a little sceptical at first about co-headlining with anybody. As much as we did have a lot of fun playing with BRYAN ADAMS, to me it was kind of like, 'OK, does this mean we've lost our standing to a point where we're not capable of headlining?' But once I sucked it up, I got it. I thought it worked fine for COUNTING CROWS and LIVE ? didn't seem to do them any harm to go out together, and it certainly didn't do BOB DYLAN and WILLIE NELSON any harm either. No one ever thought any of them weren't able of going out on their own. So once I got my head around it, it all worked out fine and from all points of view it was a roaring success!"

Q: Were you OK with the fact that you were touring on the back of a "best of" album?

Joe: "Yeah, a bit. We didn't have no new material to promote (save one new track on the 'Rock of Ages' album), so for me, it was a bit like treading nostalgia ? which is the one thing that I've always promised myself we'd never do! I don't really want to do that, ever. So we all insisted that we'd do at least a couple of things we'd never do before. In the 85 minutes that we'd get to play our set, we chose to do the two song from our upcoming covers album. 'No Matter What' was also on the 'Rock Of Ages' album, of course, and then there was 'Rock On'. So besides all the hits, we did manage to present some new material as well, which was OK."

Q: After co-headlining with BRYAN ADAMS for a bunch of shows, you turned headliner around September? How come?

Joe: "In all fairness, and with absolutely no disrespect to Bryan, it was pretty obvious we had to be the headline act. At the beginning, nobody knew how it was gonna go but judging by all kinds of things, such as T-shirt sales or the reaction on ticket sales, most of the people were coming to see us. Because of that, the band's confidence went up a lot of course! The promoter's confidence in the band goes up, people wanna book you back, put you in bigger venues.....and all of a sudden we're playing the New Jersey Continental Airlines Arena again!"

Q: Could this tour with BRYAN ADAMS have worked in Europe?

Joe: "It's very different... He suffers in America the way we suffer in Europe. If this tour would've taken place in Europe, we'd definitely be opening for him, no doubt. He still plays stadiums in Europe, but can't really do that in America."

Q: You changed management in the middle of the tour. Was that good timing?

Joe: "It was very stressful! It turned out to be really hard, since there's a lot of history with (previous management) QPrime. As much as there's been a lot of frustration with the way they wanted to promote the band, I think that their version of us had grown apart from our version of us. Doing the whole switchover thing to HK Management was really difficult. One or two of us are not necessarily as brave to make a massive decision like this in the middle of the tour ? you don't need the hassle. It wasn't overly pleasant to do it, but we dealt with it."

Q: On to this year, then. What are your plans, expectations and hopes?

Joe: "The only thing that's really set in stone is that we're having a photo shoot for the new album next week and after that, we're taking some time to get away from all this. Even though it's been quiet since the tour ended, we have been working so we need a little time off, write some songs and then collectively get together after that. The idea is, we got this covers album pretty much in the can already. We can start working on the next one so we can leapfrog ourselves. And instead of having lots of downtime, by the time we go out on the road on the next tour, we might have got half of the next album written ? some of it even recorded, who knows! With that, when we go start working on the next record, we're a step ahead of ourselves. Put it like this..... with the BRYAN ADAMS tour, we had two identical stages. When we were playing a show, the stage for the next show was already being set up because if we would have only one stage, there wouldn't be time to disassemble the stage, ship it to the next town and build it up there within one day. So when we were playing one show, the other stage was traveling or being set up in the next town already. Basically, the Friday stage would be used on the Sunday gig. The Saturday stage would be used on the Monday show, and so forth. We're trying to do that with the albums as well now. Does that make sense?"

Q: What's the current status on "Yeah!" the long-awaited covers album and the subsequent tour?

Joe: "I think it's still scheduled for release in May, so organizing promo might be starting around March already. It's not gonna be full-on right away, but more like a day here, a day there, a weekend here, a week there..... We're supposed to be going out on the road in the summer, but keep in mind that there are places where we can get too soon. For a band to play a town where they just played some 4-6 months ago, you have got to be U2 or GREEN DAY, for people to want to see you again so soon. For us to go out this summer, it's gotta be something really special, so we have to make a big deal prepping this properly."

Pete Willis "left" the band because he was a drunk... and that's what happened.

He was a decent guitarist and they could probably use him now.

On Campbell... I think he's alright, but not a Steve Clark.

Did anyone else here like Slang? Or am I the only one? Most people hate that album. I really like it.

Yeah, I hated Slang.  It sounded like boy band shit to me.

DEF LEPPARD and JOURNEY will be teaming up for a U.S. tour this summer. No dates have been confirmed at this time.

I thought the same thing, he was supposed to bring a more heavy vibe to Leppard but it was too high hopes  :-\

DEF LEPPARD will kick off their 2006 summer North American tour on June 23 at the Tweeter Center in Camden, New Jersey.

After last year's success of co-headlining with BRYAN ADAMS, the 2006 trek will see DEF LEPPARD co-headline with JOURNEY (plus other guests will appear at selected shows). Tickets for some shows will go on sale through Ticketmaster on April 1.

Upcoming DEF LEPPARD tour dates:

Jun. 03 - Milan, ITA - Gods Of Metal
Jun. 07 - Oberhausen, GER - Rock The Nation
Jun. 09 - S?lvesborg, SWE - Sweden Rock
Jun. 12 - Z?rich, SWI - Hallenstadion
Jun. 17 - Sheffield, UK - Hallam FM Arena
Jun. 18 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo
Jun. 23 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center
Jun. 24 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach
Jun. 27 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
Jun. 28 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
Jun. 30 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion
Jul. 01 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata
Jul. 03 - Hershey, PA - Hershey Pavilion
Jul. 04 - Raleigh, NC - Alltel Pavilion
Jul. 07 - Bristow, VA - Nissan Pavilion
Jul. 08 - Virginia Beach, VA - Verizon Amphitheatre
Jul. 10 - West Palm Beach, FL - Sound Advice Amphitheatre
Jul. 11 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
Jul. 13 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain PArk
Jul. 15 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Amphitheatre
Jul. 16 - Nashville, TN - Starwood Amphitheatre
Jul. 18 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center w/Journey
Jul. 19 - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amp
Jul. 21 - St. Louis, MO - UMB Bank Pavilion
Jul. 22 - Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Music Theatre
Jul. 24 - Detroit, MI - DTE Music Theater
Jul. 25 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
Jul. 28 - San Antonio, TX - Verizon Amphitheatre
Jul. 29 - Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Centre
Jul. 30 - Houston, TX - C.W. Mitchell Pavilion
Aug. 15 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks
Aug. 18 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay
Aug. 19 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Amphitheatre
Aug. 22 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion
Aug. 23 - San Diego, CA - Coors Amphitheatre
Aug. 25 - Concord, CA - Chronicle Pavilion
Aug. 26 - Mountainview, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
Aug. 27 - Sacramento, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Aug. 30 - Portland, OR - Clark County Amphitheatre
Aug. 31 - Seatlle, WA - White River Amphitheatre

My only chance is to see them in NASHVILLE on the 16th. I can't afford tickets on the 1st of April though.

I'm seeing them in London, yey

Tickets go on sale this Saturday for the Tampa show.

I'll be up nice and early to snatch them up.

I'm seeing them in London too. Def Leppard and Tool, same week, same place. Busy week

Great to see them back home in the UK. I wish they would come across more often.

DEF LEPPARD have confirmed another batch of North American tour dates with JOURNEY. The newsly added shows are as follows:

Sep. 02 - Boise, ID @ Idaho Center
Sep. 03 - Reno, NV @ Events Center
Sep. 06 - Kansas City, KS @ Verizon Wireless Amp
Sep. 07 - Ames, IA @ Hilton Coliseum
Sep. 09 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheatre
Sep. 10 - Columbus, OH @ Germain Amphitheatre
Sep. 12 - Cleveland, OH @ Blossom
Sep. 13 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Post Gazette Pavilion
Sep. 16 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga PAG
Sep. 19 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun
Sep. 20 - Buffalo, NY @ Darien Center PAC
Sep. 22 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Hotel
Sep. 23 - Boston, MA @ Tweeter Center

They were great till the drummer lost his arm....loved On thru the Night, high n Dry and pyromania

I think the moment they lost their way was when Mutt Lange stopped producing their stuff - he gave their stuff a harder edge, later stuff like Euphoria is far too.....well, it needs that heavy guitar sound, it lacks that and ends up sounding far to pop.

eyeye not long till the new album and their tour yeyeye

I only recently heard the pre-Hysteria stuff, I was surprised at how 'metal' it is.  As heavy as almost anything from its time I'd say.  Another Hit And Run, what a song.

I saw them in concert. Fuckin amazing show :peace:

so you finally heard there good music :hihi: ;D

^ Thats the truth there. I saw them in '93 on whatever the hell they were promoting tour, and it was easily the worst concert I ever saw. From that moment on I never spent another penny on that band :no:

I bought Hysteria, and a concert ticket to see them with Bryan Adams, but the stage got hit by lightning on my way to the venue the concert was cancelled, and i got my money back

^ I would have prefered that they cancelled. They were scheduled for a Saturday at the Dean Dome. It had snowed that morning and the band was stuck in South Carolina. Of course we we werent told it was cancelled until we travelled further than the band would have to get to the arena.

Re-scheduled for the next night, drive all the way back to the Dean Dome( a two hour trip one way). No opening act, just house music. Def Leppard plays less than 90 minutes and hauls ass. Hope they enjoyed my $30 bucks because they will get nothing else from me.

Guess u either love or hate Leppard, and i love 'em - off to see them in June, cant wait, i love all their stuff, though Euphoria is a bit weaker than the rest

and for all those Hysteria haters - its pop metal, and the best pop metal ever released

ace riff/chorus/solo - all i want, all i need - if you demand orchestras, lyrics about trees and some guy singing in a really pained voice then Leppard aren't for u - they are music for ur heart, not your head

^ Thats what pissed me off so much, I loved all their music until I heard "Lets Get Rocked" the first time. Huge let down, that show was. Luckily GnR came in a few weeks later with Blind Melon and played the best show I have seen so far.

That song is hardly enough to wreck a show - its just a bit daft, its not the end of the world.

I do wonder what the band were thinking at the peak of grunge releasing Adrenalize, their most 'pop' album to date - was that arrogance on their part - seeing hair metal dying and thinking they could laugh in the face of grunge?

Bizarrely the band were writing and recording far heavier material and even released it on Retro Activ - why did they use Adrenalize to go back to their heavier roots? All very strange

That said Adrenalize has some damn fine stuff on it

Sorry, I didn't phrase that properly. I loved all their music on the CD's until the first time I heard that song on MTV.

The concert was a disaster right from the moment where they used the closing drumbeat of "Coma" in the house music to lead into their opening drumbeat of Lets Get Rocked

If memory served they were still using Coma when i saw them a few years back...

Well i got their new album - not really that impresive - they are just identical covers of some classic tunes - guys: ur supposed to add ur own 'touch'

I'm sure someone said this before...so shoot me for being to damn lazy to read 16 pages... I remember Def Leppard from my childhood...always used to consider them one of the "highlights" of the 80's... personally favourites are the works before Hysteria (but I always get preaches on that). Mutt Lange did do a good work back then... Anyway i consider them still alright to listen, even though their music has always been a little bit too commercial...like a little bit too "eMpTyV".(oh yeah, and if they'd come around, mayb i'd go to see them live).

---take it form a newbie---

DEF LEPPARD's official web site, DefLeppard.com, has been updated with the following article:

It's one down for DEF LEPPARD ? and a lot more rock to go.

The summer tour in support of the band's new hit album, "Yeah!", officially kicked off on Saturday night in Milan, Italy, when the band hit the stage as one of the headliners of the Gods of Metal festival.

And according to guitarist and vocalist Phil Collen, it was more than rewarding to be playing live, loud DEF LEPPARD rock n' roll again ? especially the songs on "Yeah!", the band's long-awaited album of cover songs by the glam-rock heroes of their youth.
"It was great," Collen said. "It's a little different. We haven't really played Europe properly for a while. We've kind of been away for a long time, so this is kind of a reintroduction for us with the European festivals.

"We were smoking, I thought, and it was really warm and it was really nice to be out there."

This is only the beginning of a long, fun summer for DEF LEPPARD.

They'll play three more festivals ? Rock the Nation in Oberhausen, Germany, on June 7, Sweden Rock in Solvesborg, Sweden, on June 9, and Arrow Rock in Lichtenvoorde, the Netherlands, on June 10 ? before playing shows in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Then they'll hit the United States for a three-month co-headlining run with JOURNEY.

"What's really nice about this is that back in the day, I always remember playing Europe in the winter," Collen said. "It was always kind of a bit dismal. We'd be driving there and it'd be pissing with rain. Just England in general, it's just raining all the time anyway, usually.

"But the weekend was glorious in Italy. It was beautiful. We're doing these outdoor shows and it's baking. It's a really great way to start off this tour, I've gotta say."

During the remainder of the tour, DEF LEPPARD will be promoting "Yeah!", which is packed with fresh takes on gems from the KINKS, BADFINGER, Marc Bolan and T.REX, DAVID BOWIE, SWEET, ROXY MUSIC, MOTT THE HOOPLE, FREE, THE FACES, BLONDIE and THIN LIZZY.

As Collen says, each song is infused with a healthy helping of the band's signature sound, which makes the new live show a potent mixture of DEF LEPPARD's greatest hits and a tribute to the groups that inspired them to become musicians in the first place.

"A lot of these songs sound like they could be us, which is different from a lot of cover albums," Collen said. "I think people do cover albums because the label wants them to or the angle is, 'We want to have a hit. Are we going to record another hit?'

"We didn't really do that. We've got a lot of these songs that are deep cuts, if you like. Some people don't know what they are. To be quite honest, we did this album for ourselves. It was actually quite a selfish thing.

"It wasn't because our fans wanted to, it wasn't because we wanted to show our fans where we come from, it wasn't because we wanted to please the record company. It was like, 'No. This is for us,' and that's the reason why. By doing that, there was no real pressure on it. It was actually a very fun album."

And what can DEF LEPPARD fans expect from the rest of the tour?

"We've taken it up a notch," Collen said. "It's not like we're going to be running around in tutus or anything. We're just upping it, making it more exciting."

The first DL album I probably won't be buying.

Oh well. I get to see them again this summer with my daughter.

I actually liked "Promises" and "HYENSSB"

"Lets Get Rocked" blows...

I like the older Def Lep. I thought Slang was good and everyone bashes it usually.

Izzy, could you post the setlist? I might see them if they come to my neck of the woods, but if its a real shitty setlist I wont even bother.

Have no fear! When i wrote that i'd just got the new album and hadn't been impressed with it at all and was concerned about the songs they were missing out to fit them in- however, a few hundred listens later to 'Yeah' and that totally changed, the new tracks dont weaken the set list but considerable strengthen it, you'll wonder how a set list didn't include 'Rock on' before!

I saw Def Leppard yesterday and they were magnificent - they were awesome the last time i saw them, but i think they were even better this time

They really are just wonderous live - after seeing that appaling pile of crap that calls itself GNR the other week the difference couldn't have been more profound

Every member plays his heart out - and unlike GNR - can actually pull off the songs and when they feel like improvising make it sound like it was always part of the song

The chemistry they have on stage is a joy to beyhold - and they do solo's between songs that are actually good!

The new tracks work fantastically live - its taken me a few weeks, but the first three songs on 'Yeah' + Hellraiser (all played) are really very very good and the rest of the album is enjoyable

The set list was superb, tracks that maybe dont work as well in the studio (lets get rocked) are something very different live and i'd forgotten just how great 'make love like a man' is - hell i'd forgotten how good all the songs were - the medley of photograph/animal/armagddon it was fantastic and the gig hurtles along at such a speed, its over far too soon

What makes the gig work so well is not just the reaction of the crowd but the fact that its so obvious the band are grateful for everything they have - when they play its because they want to be there (unlike certain other bands....) there are virtually no delays (just 10 mins between opening act closing and Def Leppard hitting the stage - with 'Coma' played in between!) They really play their hearts out and the crowd was superb

Definetly go see them - they were just as good last time i saw them - but in comparison with ''GNR'' its really opened my eyes

Best gig i've ever seen - and the addition of when love and hate collide was fantastic, great to hear that live

set list - not in any real order, but i've tried as best as i can remember

Hellraiser
Rock rock till u drop
Lets get rocked
Make love like a man
20th century boy
Hanging on the telephone
Let it go
Hysteria
Rock on
Promises
Rocket

medley:
Photograph
Animal
Armageddon it

Rock of ages

Encore

When love and hate collide
Pour some sugar on me

Superb - go see them, i only wish i had another opportunity to catch them this year but they only did 2 shows in the UK

What are you even doing on this site if you can't stand Gn'R? Don't you think your time would be better spent elsewhere?  ::)

P.S. I'll give Brian May's review a little more weight than your's any day of the week.  :yes:

..and i care  ???

A pretty good setlist, but why aren't they playing Foolin? :nervous:

They only play that on American tours - the song wasn't a hit over here - but to be fair Def Leppard have never really had any hits in the UK, or any successful albums - Joe was talking about that strange phenomenon stage - they just never broke the UK market...

I recently bought Yeah and I must say, it's an amazing cover album. Favorite track is Drive-in Saturday.

Is that one of the walmart tracks?

'Yeah' is an entertaining listen, the best tracks were all played live when i saw them :D Worth getting for sure - just a shame there wasn't more tracks really, a 2cd set would have been nice

I seen Joe Elliot do this interview..I forget where its from but he I found it pretty cool...He says near the end of it that this album was one of his own personal things he wanted to do,to show where the band came from and to prove for the 100th time to the media that there not a fucking heaveny metal band lol...its pretty funny

No it's track number eight on my copy. I bought mine at Target with the two bonus tracks "Action" and "When I'm dead and gone."

DEF LEPPARD has added more shows to its current North American tour with JOURNEY. The newly added dates are as follows:

Oct. 11 - Fresno, CA @ Save Mart Center
Oct. 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
Oct. 14 - San Bernardino, CA @ Hyundai Pavilion
Oct. 16 - Albuquerque, NM @ Journal Pavilion
Oct. 17 - Loveland, CO @ Budweiser Events Center
Oct. 19 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Ford Center
Oct. 21 - Fargo, ND @ Fargo Dome
Oct. 22 - Omaha, NE @ Qwest Center
Oct. 24 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
Oct. 25 - Green Bay, WI @ Resch Center
Oct. 27 - Moline, IL @ The Mark
Oct. 28 - Bloomington, IL @ US Cellular Coliseum
Oct. 30 - Memphis, TN @ Fed Ex Forum

Brandon Griggs of The Salt Lake Tribune recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell. An excerpt from the chat follows:

The Salt Lake Tribune: There's been so much drama and tragedy in the band's history. Does that ever overshadow the music and become a distraction?

Campbell: Not at all. We in the band don't concern ourselves with any of that stuff. It's absolutely not an issue. We don't consider ourselves cursed or unlucky. If you take any group of people and track them over 27, 28 years, there's gonna be some good times and some bad times.

The Salt Lake Tribune: I would think that playing in a band with Rick Allen would be pretty inspiring.

Campbell: It is. Rick's an absolute marvel. He may be a better drummer now than when he had two arms, in terms of his timekeeping. He's so locked into the groove. He's very, very inspirational to us and to a lot of people in the audience. We're very lucky to have him.

The Salt Lake Tribune: DEF LEPPARD has been going for more than 25 years now. You've survived when a lot of bands from that time have faded away or broken up. Do you have any explanations for the band's longevity and popularity?

Campbell: When you think about bands from the '80s, you think of bands like M?TLEY CR?E and you think of Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee and Vince Neil. They were all sort of bad-boy characters. Or you think about VAN HALEN and David Lee Roth. But when you think about DEF LEPPARD, most people really didn't know the guys in the band. LEPPARD has always been more about the music. It's the quality of the songs. We're very, very good at what we do. We work very hard.

The Salt Lake Tribune: And now you're all sober and in shape.

Campbell: Yeah, that's the other thing. We go to the gym. In any hotel in any city, you can find us at the gym. And nobody's got any drinking or drug problems. We're such a family band now ? everyone's got kids. It ain't the '80s anymore, you know?

Launch Radio Networks reports: DEF LEPPARD have been famous for taking years to make a new album, but that might not be the case for their next project. The band was working on new material while recording their covers project "Yeah!", and according to a message from lead singer Joe Elliott on the official DefLeppard.com web site, "Although it's way too early to make promises... we're gonna try and get a new album done in time to tour in 2007." Elliott said the band was thinking about dates in Europe, where they played earlier this year, as well as heading to Japan and Australia. The singer did caution fans that nothing was set in stone, writing "Of course, anything can change ? and lots of things probably will!!!! ? but as of right now, that's our plan."

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell has posted the following message on teh band's official web site:

"It's that time again. I really have very mixed feelings about that time. I'm referring, of course, to the end of the tour. On the one hand, it's essential to go home ? especially as a parent. But there really is a strong sense of sadness associated with saying goodbye to a bunch of people with whom you've shared an intense association over several months.

"We all can relate to the sadness of saying goodbye, but for those of you not familiar with the lifestyle on a rock n' roll tour, let me explain a bit about what it is that Rick Allen refers to as 'submarine duty.'

"Due to the close proximity of touring and the circus-like nature of it, we all develop unique friendships that, in civilian life, would probably take years to nurture. It's a very surreal environment that often serves up bizarre situations that are ideal ice-breakers for getting to know a disparate bunch of people real quick. It's somewhat of a hyper-accelerated bonding process, all set against a Fellini-like backdrop.

"This tour in particular was even more intense, given the numbers of personnel involved between LEPPARD's and JOURNEY's crews. Most bands, it seems, have a clear line of demarcation that separates them from their road crews. LEPPARD have never adhered to this school of thought and thus we've always been proud of the fact that our crew enjoy their work with us as a result; we're all equal in it together...except that we're just better paid and get all the adulation and glory...but I digress. JOURNEY, I'm glad to say, seem to share this philosophy, and thus the whole nature of the 'Yeah!' tour 2006 has been one big mushy, feel-good, touchy-kissy, love-fest!

"Which is why it's so hard to say goodbye. Most of our own people we will see again, give or take a few. But the JOURNEY peeps will be lost to us, likely forever. We wish each and every one of them well, as we do you, dear LEPP-fans, for you, too, will be sadly missed. Till next time...what is it that Joe always says? Oh yeah; 'Don't forget us and we won't forget you.'

"Indeed, who could ever forget such an experience."

DEF LEPPARD members Joe Elliott, Vivian Campbell and Phil Collen have revealed their New Year's resolutions via the following holiday messages on the band's web site:

Joe: "My New Year's resolutions? Phew! Guess you have to make them..... Stop biting my nails, don't drink as much, watch my football team win the premiership... No, seriously, it would be to try and make a fuckin' great record!"

Phil: "Merry Christmas, happy holidays and all the best for 2007 for everyone! And, here's a kind of resolution: we're going to try and get an album recorded and finished in 2007. That'll be a new one for us!"

Vivian: "Season's greetings and best wishes to all LEPPARD fans across the globe! Wherever you are, we wish you a peaceful holiday and a great new year ahead! And speaking of the New Year, here are my resolutions for 2007: firstly, I really, really want to unpack my suitcase and feel like I'm not traveling ? at least for a little while. Secondly, I intend to keep the band beholding to our earlier agreement to finish a new album in the first half of 2007. The naysayers don't believe that we can do it, but we'll prove them wrong. There's much excitement and anticipation about the album, too, as I believe that we'll actually make a better record through working to a deadline rather than having the usual open-ended arrangement. Look forward to seeing you all next year!"

when def leppard came to Edmonton a few years ago i didnt know who they were, and a month after i became a big fan.  now they may never come back to edmonton  :-\

Me, I'm totally enjoying a Def Leppard rebirth of sorts.  After getting away from them after high school in the grunge era, I recently bought the re-mastered Hysteria, and rediscovered some of the killer songs from Adrenalize.  I'm glad the guys are still out there touring, recording, and doing what they love.  Talk about studio masters...they do know how to put a song together.     :peace:

im majorly getting into these, they are highly commercial but, i dunno, i just dig them alot.

According to the Port-Huron Times-Herald, DEF LEPPARD is the latest blockbuster name added to the lineup for Rogers Sarnia Bayfest, set to take place July 19-22 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The English pop-metal band will headline the concert July 21 in Sarnia's Centennial Park.

Tickets for DEF LEPPARD ? along with the previously announced AEROSMITH show on July 19 and three-day passes to the festival ? go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. Tickets are on sale for country star TOBY KEITH's July 20 concert.

About 20,000 tickets are available for each night's concert. Once they are sold, they are gone.

DEF LEPPARD has not yet announced any other tour dates for 2007.

"This is a big step for us," Bayfest organizer Michele Stokley said. "Basically they're starting with us as a date and working around us."

DEF LEPPARD's official web site has been updated with the following message:

"So, if DEF LEPPARD is not hitting the road with KISS this year (as previously rumored), then who will they go out with? Although there is no official word that it will be the case for ALL dates on the 2007 tour, we can spill that the band is currently in the process of booking shows in the U.S. and Canada with rock veterans FOREIGNER and STYX. That's all we can tell for the time being, but stay tuned: more details and show dates will be announced on DefLeppard.com as soon as they are confirmed!"

DEF LEPPARD was scheduled to begin recording its next studio album in January at frontman Joe Elliott's house in Dublin. Basic ideas were hashed out on the road during the band's extensive tour in support of last year's covers album "Yeah!", a first for DEF LEPPARD.

"We've got about five or six songs on the go, and there'll be 11 or 12 on the final version," guitarist Phil Collen told Billboard.com in December. "We're trying to get it out for next summer, which for us would be amazing. But we've never been this far along. We come off tour, wait six months, then we start writing. We've already got that sorted out.

DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott has posted the following message on the group's official web site:

"Let's talk a little about the next album. We've been writing while on tour, really. At most shows, we did have this room set up backstage that we called the 'Sparkle Lounge,' where we were trying new ideas out, record little bits. We [were] gonna try and go into the studio in the first week of January. Our initial plan was to get it finished in May, which would make a possible August release and then do some European shows, followed by other places, but I'm not sure anymore if we'll able to do that anymore!

"As for the musical direction..... It will probably not be too far away from where we've always been, but looking at where everybody's head is right now, it's definitely gonna be an album like 'Yeah!'. You know, up-tempo, three-minute songs. Not as experimental as, say, 'X' was. Which was a bit of hip-hop here, a bit of straight up rock 'n roll there..... Sav's got a great song that sounds a lot like Gary Glitter meets U2 meets LEPPARD, and I've got this song which sounds like AC/DC during their 'Let There Be Rock' period. You know, daaaaw-deh-deddle-deddle-dee-daaaaaw, that kind of thing, with the vocals like this [hums vocal line], almost like 'Rock And Roll' by LED ZEPPELIN.....meets AC/DC! Full-on rock.

"And then Phil's got this song, and Vivian want to sit down with me to finish this other song..... You know, we've got a lot of ideas. Some of them are even 10 or 15 years old, but weren't used earlier because only now we feel we can use them.

"To record an album in 4 or 5 months, which we are set to do, is not hard. AC/DC's 'Back In Black' was done in 5 months. 'Led Zeppelin II' took two days to record! See, nobody is ever gonna sell 15 million records again, so what's the point in trying to. All we want to do is to make sure there's at least 3 or 4 songs on the album that are absolutely top notch, and the other 6 have got to be really really good, but they don't have to be hit singles, the kind of classics that you hear on the radio. With any hit album, there's three songs that everybody knows ? on 'Pyromania' for example, we had 'Foolin'', 'Photograph' and 'Rock Of Ages'. The pop-buying audience doesn't know any of the other songs on the album, because they're not played on the radio. Our FANS know them, of course, but the average radio listener doesn't.

"So, that's the plan, but as always.....things might, and most likely, WILL change! We're only at the beginning, so anything can happen.....!"

wow - disturbingly honest

'we're just gonna do a few singles and then a load of filler cos no one will care....'

hey joe, i care!

why dont they do a real hard rock album like retro activ again?

i picked up on that too. i think he dropped a bollock on that one lol.

lets face it, they aint gonna be pyromania or hysteria again.

Especially with no steve.

was a very odd interview - not sure what he was thinking - was he suggesting a 'great album' was merely 3 or 4 great singles?

Def Leppard just dont seem to want to be successful  -what kind of talk is - 'we just need 3-4 great songs' - dont they want another platinum award?

Clearly there not aiming very high anymore...

It's a shame really  :no:

I saw that posted on Blabbermouth and it made em smile.

So he admits that Def Leppard is just another band who writes a few hits and fills up the rest of the album with fillers because they won't get played on the radio anyway?

Haha!

How about writing three songs that are awesome, then throw away the rest and keep writing until you have at least ten awesome tracks?



No wonder I never liked this band.  :hihi:


/jarmo

The stuff they did in the 80s is good jarmo, its just after that standards decrease...

I remember when Hysteria was popular.

That music did nothing for me.

They seemed to have the same production formula.

All weird sounding songs with the same kind of chorus thing in each song.





/jarmo

I think you have to go further back to Pyromania and earlier to get to when they were great. (Back when Rick Allen still had 2 arms ).

Seriously, they went into the writing process on Hysteria with the goal of a multi platnum album, not to have the goal to write a killer rock album. Thank  producer Mutt Lange for that.

Def Leppard have always been a band which just shouldnt work - a band with a one armed drummer, that seems oblivious to current trends, and need to be guided every step of the way during album production...

...but they do work, and if later offerings are weak its only because they climbed the mountain and realised there was no where left to go....

Joe's admission is surprising - but at this stage of the game he's just being honest  - would we rather he lied to us like Axl? Atleast the album recorded in a month for the quick paycheck wouldnt have been laboured on and 'pro-tooled' to the point where its the Phantom Menace of music

Hysteria is the pop metal album just about every mainstream rock band from about '78 - '92 was trying for - its pop metal perfection, and while many despise it - if your into that kind of music it really is the benchmark the rest are compared against - Joe knows he cant rival that, so why try? Would any of us be any different?


and here i'll ask for that select bunch of bands that dont base a career around songs so similiar you struggle to tell which album they were from

All 80's bands were the same -  riff-that-works-as-a-ring tone, chorus, obligatory guitar solo rinse and repeat? That was pretty much the 70's too and the late 60's - hell, thats rock - its formulaic, its predicatable, but do we care?

A similiar formulae is fine if you've got the formulae right to begin with


Okay the electronic drumkit is a distinctive but 'weird' sounding? That was 80's metal!

Def Leppard were superficial - but so was grunge, millionaires singing about their terrible lives - Leppard's sound is just honesty + riff

...and damn, if they aint the best band i've seen live. They may not care too much for new material but live is where they shine - you can tell they are having the time of their lives, and right now - i'm far more concerned with the live show

and Def Leppard live means they hit the stage 10 mins after the opening act - belt out all their songs with reverance, pull out improv solos that actually work and dont pause to draw breath - having seen another band *cough* with a somewhat different.....attitude, i can tell you whos philosophy on music i prefer.....

I stopped reading when I saw that.

Go listen to your filler albums if that makes you happy.  : ok:


Musical integrity.

Something lacking in Def Leppard....


Funny how a guy, who's usually so concerned with all the things that are "wrong", is here defending one of the bands who were responsible for making the 80s hard rock into the horrible radio pop it turned into.



/jarmo

Or were you told to stop reading after that? :hihi:


Way ahead of u - i've got UYI 1 playing :hihi:


Certainly now, but honestly - how many bands have a shred of integrity? Even your beloved bands churn out videos to be displayed on the altar of MTV....integrity? In it for the music? How much was that ticket again?




Now now, try to be civil - i could post sweeping generalisations too like, how about - pawn of GNR's management??



Def Leppard were riding the crest of a wave - they didnt contribute anything new, just understood how to do it better - they were the accountants of 80's music, they didnt bring anything new to the table, just made it more efficient, cut away the fat to leave an improved product

80's rock was just David Bowie, T rex and Queen fused with Van Halen guitar work - it was well in place before Def Leppard were even formed, and Def Leppard were always an attempt to stay true to 70's pop-rock

...and horrible pop radio? :hihi:? I love the stuff so of course i'll stick up for it

What a funny miserable person you are.

You remind me of Ross Halfin's blog. Whine, whine, whine but Def Leppard rules!






Integrity enough to to put out shit just to get on the radio?




That's because you have no idea what you're talking about. But that's hardly not surprising considering the things I've seen you post here.

Why are you even here if GN'R are so horrible and the live show wasn't any good?




For somebody who lacks taste you certainly are amusing.  :P

You come across as one of those pompous assholes who think they know better than anybody else because they went to the university.

But in the end, they have their own idols who they'll protect....


One more thing: Def Leppard? Hahahaha! No offense to anybody who likes them, but it's funny that this guy loves them. Mr Cool himself.... Fucking priceless.



/jarmo

def leppard certainly are pop, but they are quality pop, one of the few bandws with cheesy chorus's  that i like....

i generally go for heavier stuff with kick ass riffs.

But def leppard, are just an enjoyable band, there sing alongness works well for me, combined with there guitar riffs etc.

Hysteria is a great album start to finish, poppy sounding or not its a great listen when your in the right mood.

Many would say guns n roses were "hair metal", many would say axl sounds like a girl.

You know as well as i do, guns n roses certainly are not hair metal, there music is what its about, they're many other bands who are labelled "hair metal "pop metal" and are dismissed because of it, when actually alot of them, despite the image had great music and put on great shows......

I for one get sick of people dismissing so much 80s music under the basis of its classification.

Much of the hair metal bands of the 80's copied what Def Leppard did. They were the "A" list of the genre along with Van Halen who came before them. But usually whrn you copy another band and not make something original about it, you get Poision, Warrant, and the like. GNR came about at a good time in music when we were at the "C" level of pop/metal bands and blew them all out of the water.

i enjoyed posion though, i think some of there songs were quality, like fallen angel, cry tough, cool lyrics.

who's Ross Halfin? Might have to check his stuff out


opinion my dear friend, opinion - what is good music? Can you quantify that?


 I have no idea about Def Leppard ??? Isnt it enough to own their stuff, go their shows and read about them? What more can i do?


Indeed - saying Def Leppard is good - outrageous!


....not in the GNR section are we?

I come here for the off topic sections

and the live shows were awful imo, i saw them a few times - just to be sure ;)



so i'm wrong to like hair metal? :hihi:

Is hair metal one of the forbidden topics now?

I also love bands like Nirvana, AIC, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees - no taste right?


i was pompous long before i went to uni :hihi:

I take it you didnt go? U really should.

On a serious note, i refrain from personal insults as board policy dictates - for the children reading, maybe you should too? A disagreement doesnt need to become a slagging match


I cant like them and be cool? Damn.

Why does it bother you that people like different music to you?
 
Why are you in a Def Leppard thread just to slag them off?

i have to admit, i like jarmo, but he is sort of going against his own rules....

Really?

This guy is spreading lies about me in a fucking Def Leppard thread.



By the way Izzy, I did attend university.  : ok:

I don't care if people listen to Def Leppard or Warrant. I find it amusing how the one guy who I see complaining about everybody and everything has a soft spot for Def Leppard and Oasis.



/jarmo

Why?

Because a lot of people find things to complain about about those bands....

But not the guy who complains about almost everything.



/jarmo

Fair enough. Although I tend to think musical taste is just that, personal taste. Not really something to use to make fun of someone.

*edit* Not that I like Def Leppard or Oasis, for that matter.

As I said, people can listen to whatever they want. A lot of people would say I listen to crap too.

I just find it amusing because I've been reading Izzy's whiny posts for so long.



/jarmo

at the risk of sounding beligerant (and spelling beligerant wrong...)

...what lies would these be?

I had a quick flick back over my posts - not sure where i said anything of the sort, everything was phrased as a question or joke :-\


Kool, which one - and what did you study?



I complain about everything.....except Def Leppard and Oasis?

So i dont complain about everything..... :hihi:

Listen to 'Bring it on down' by Oasis, its real punk fuelled Mancunian rock'n'roll, might kick start an interest in them, and dont judge Def Leppard too harshly by 'lets get rocked', trust me, live, it works and the band did write it as a joke.

'Ride into the sun' or 'Ring of fire' are the tracks to go for first with Def Leppard - and guess what, they are b-side ''filler' tracks

The one thing Oasis and Def Leppard have in common is an acceptance amongst fans that they produce b-sides that rival any album track - check out Oasis's 'Lets all make believe'

dont forget tear it down izzy, thats a badass one!

That's not hard when your album is filled with filler tracks.....  :P


By the way, you called me a "pawn of GNR's management".

Considering you know nothing about me, that's a bold statement to make.




/jarmo

From the videos I've seen on youtube they sounded great in england.

I saw Def Leppard live with Journey twice last year and they were great.  I must say though that Journey actually got a warmer response at the Tweeter Center in MA.  I think they're a very solid ban up until 1993.  They've had a few good songs here and there since then but for the most part they've been going by the release an album with a couple good songs mantra, which is strange.

Lol - good one :hihi:

Now i hold high standards for the bands i like, and i'll call a spade a spade - but Def Leppard really dont have filler tracks (well maybe on Euphoria ''Back in your face'' - what the hell was that?!?, and that was a single!)

Hysteria had 7 singles, yet the real gems are 'Gods of war' and 'Run riot' - neither was a single but they really should have been - thats a total of 9 songs that were or should have been singles from one album!


I really hope that isnt true, but removing articles because the band might disapprove? - What i said might not have been fact, but i dont think its a lie either - there is a worrying shade of grey where that comment falls


Perhaps thats true - but i've seen viewpoints contradictory to the band silenced, when just months before they were discussed openly, maybe your not a lakey to the band, maybe they havent asked you to do anything,

but,

the fact is what you have been doing is very much what the band would want

I dont blame you, if the band had taken an interest in my site i'd have moved heaven and earth to continue that association.

Its just a shame really, people only complain about the band because of the great love they have for them, its heartbreaking seeing potential wasted and being fed storiest you KNOW are patently untrue. Admit it, even you chuckle as you read the press releases.

thats why Def Leppard rock, they are so honest they even tell you in advance whether to bother with the album - kudos!

What does that mean anyway? The way one perceives music is subjective, if you were listening to shitty bands (just for the sake of argument ;D), you wouldn't realize it yourself.

Ok, I get it, GN'R lies to you all the time. You're one of those people.

I see.


On the other hand:





/jarmo

i just listened to the first post steve album by them. "adrenalize" IT ROCKS!

minus the ballads

fucking awesome album.

Yeah look at what you and walk listen to. :puke:

My point exactly. I can only hope to one day fathom the utter genius of M?tley Crue et al...

i dont quite get that comment.

in basic, you like or dont like motley crue?

It's not suppose to be genius, it's straight up Rock N' Roll.

so does he listen to all the death metal walk does then?

i find it funny him criticising motley crue, when they practically were the birth of it...they had satanic lyrics in some songs before most bands.

Also, whats so good about death metal, load of distorted guitars, double pedals, random man screaming and grunting bout how he and his cult need to burn the churches down in finland, blah blah....

^Good job with the immature & ignorant post. I'll have to consider if that's even worth responding to... Maybe later, if I'm really bored.

not really....just check out half the stupid bands from finland....

half of them dont even really believe in satan, just a marketing gimmic.

Are you saying Venom was influenced by Motley Crue?



/jarmo

i dont know of venoms history or what they play. though i do recognise the name.

However, crue did satanic lyrics (not all the time but sometimes) like near the start of there career so they were one of the first bands to do it that way.

Ya know, there was a point to that somewhere....

I think i'll stick to talking about Def Leppard in this thread though.

which tracks off adrenalize do you dig the most?

actully Steve Clarke co-wrote most of the songs on the album or at the very least was heavily involved in early work on them

I cant remember off the top of my head whether Vivian Campbell played on that album or if he joined after wards...

anyway it is a good album, though the easiest Leppard album to take a swing at - the bands decision at the height of grunge to do their most 'pop' album is bizzare even 15 years on - i'd have thought the death of a bandmate would have pushed them into a slightly more introspective album, but it seems it only increased their determination to resist grunge

'make love like a man' and 'i wanna touch u' are my favs, absurdly stupid songs really - but they always bring a smile to my face - 'white lightning' is the one song on the album i think they could have left out, its the only song i'd call 'weak' from their first 5 albums

i think steve wrote alot of it, but didnt play on it (though demo versions of them are available, tear it down with steve playing is so much better)

i like "heaven is" really enjoyable song.

Heaven is a wonderful song, very catchy..

I think MLLAM was another one of those inside joke songs.

Def Leppard sucks.  :-X

They're okay cheese. Everyone needs dairy once in a while. They're better than some other cheese bands.

But ultimately, that's all they are: cheese.

I'd classify you in between Neufch?tel and Morbier....but that's just me.

I like how you can never seem to respect other people's opinions.

I'm not a Def Leppard fan. You feel a need to try to personally insult me for that?

You started a thread about Def Leppard and it's open for discussion. Certainly you didn't expect everyone to agree with you.

But I'm glad you're up to date on your cheeses, SLC.

I don't understand why somebody would post in a thread just say they thought the band sucked.  ??? But that's just me.

If you think me categorizing you as a French cheese is a personal insult, then I'm sorry. Seems as if you are a bit touchy, try a stronger sunblock.

I guess you're right. Being a French cheese might be a nice life goal.

I'm just tired. I usually elaborate more on why I dislike bands, but I just think Def Leppard is rather corny. But, as I said, occasionally I listen to some stuff. My favorite song is one no one ever talks about - "Long Long Way to Go."

No fine cheese is complete without a beverage to compliment the wonderful earth tones which they embody. Although you don?t know it yet, it is terroir you desire, please allow me to suggest a bottle of our finest Chateneuf de pape?

Other than gnr, what bands do you think are really amazing then (miss out the obvious ones such as queen etc if you like those...)

Some bands I like:

The Beach Boys
Belle and Sebastian
Pavement
Television
Neutral Milk Hotel
Yo La Tengo
Aerosmith
Yes
My Bloody Valentine
The Replacements
Dinosaur Jr.
The Stooges
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Velvet Underground
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Rage Against the Machine
Slowdive
Jane's Addiction
Mot?rhead
Mogwai
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Mott the Hoople

lol you call def leppard cheese when you like one of the original cheese icons, the beach boys....

I bet you've never listened to Pet Sounds, have you?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys#Brian.27s_innovations_and_personal_difficulties

You realize that Lennon and The Beatles cited Pet Sounds as the inspiration for Sgt. Pepper? And that McCartney thinks "God Only Knows" is the most emotional song ever written?

high & Dry, pyromania and hysteria are brilliant...but after that there are only a handful of tracks i like...the dbl GH (Rock of Ages) is amazing :beer:

havent heard the new disk :-\

New one's kinda fun - they do a re-make of 20th Century Boy and it sounds better than most covers of the song.

i dont like the beatles so that means nothing to me lol....

Then maybe it would mean something if I said that Brian Wilson has more in common with Axl Rose than any other artist.

Check out the history of "Smile," an album that took 40 years to make.

I think you should possibly give up ever trying to have any sort of musical taste, and any dreams you have of being some form of musician.

im sorry. But ill dream to be what the hell i want, just because you disagree doesnt mean i should stop for you. Your just some random guy on the internet, who is notorious for being one the moodiest and annoying moderators on this forum.

I wouldn't take it too personally. He was just trying to point out how little you know about the Beach Boys.

Seriously, go buy Pet Sounds. Download it if you must. If you think they're "cheesy," this album will blow you away.

Then buy Smile by Brian Wilson, which was their 40-year project which fell apart when he had a nervous breakdown brought on by his drug use and tension in the band - the other members didn't like his musical direction, they refused to perform the songs, the band broke apart and he became a recluse for decades.

Sound familiar?  ???

haha, well aslong as axl doesnt turn up eventually on a charity gig extremely old playing it, ill be happy.

It wasn't how little he knows about the Beach Boys.

I don't like all their stuff, nor do I like all of the Beatles'.

It doesn't mean I don't appreciate just how good their musicianship is.  But I guess they don't have stupid haircuts and funny names so they're not cool.

There are some bands we both like, such as Agalloch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-7DaBOYk84, Symphony X, Atheist and Death. Then there are also tons of bands he listens to and I've never even heard of. Since you asked.


Like Jarmo said, maybe you should check out Venom. Additionally, your assumption of death metal containing satanic lyrics by default is dead wrong. Come think of it, I may own about two or three CD's altogether with satanic "content" :P


1) You don't know what death metal is. You're confusing it with black metal.
2) You are confusing Finland with Norway and its black metal scene in the early 90s (heh, were you even born yet?).
3) You've heard some death/black metal, and now you're generalizing it to match an entire genre. You don't know what you're talking about.


What the hell are you even talking about? I'd be very interested in seeing you list some of those bands, just to make sure we're on the same page here...

Hey - this thread is for Def Leppard, now if you hate Def Leppard thats cool, hell i'll buy you a pint - but keep it to another thread?

Now all music is opinion, and i'm sure The Beach Boys are a really fantastic band - but for the life of me I cant see what the fuss is about, songs about surfing? Ye gods! Pretty sure they invented cheese!

^How many times have you posted on a thread started by Walk, saying the music is shit etc. without even hearing it? Alright, maybe it was merited when it came to the "white pride" stuff, but he's made threads about some good bands as well.

Just saying you are the last person in this forum who should whine about the stuff above.

izzy, we cant like any of these 80s bands anymore, cause they are lame really, its all about the image, not the music clearly.... : ok:

yeah man, lets get into amazing musicians and song writers like pete doherty, he isnt about the image, hes amazing, the axl of this generation  ::)

I have often thought about starting a Def Leppard website/forum......

Anybody interested in starting something up, feel free to PM me....

well i just messaged you...but your avatar says banned?

Songs about surfing? You should really listen to Pet Sounds.

why dont you guys jsut start a beach boys thread :hihi:


So whats your fave Def Lep song?

Mine is prolly Rock of ages or high and dry

rocket or women.

i love those 2 tracks, then again i love animal also, and tear it down, and photograph, cant choose haha

There are so many, but the first that comes to mind:

Women

(Long) Long Way to Go.

Schmaltzy? Yeah. But I like the sound and the harmony and the lyrics - I don't know why it isn't more popular. It's not even in their top twenty on last.fm (or at least it wasn't last time I checked).

which album is it off?

snap - its all about that riff, what a start to an album!

as for the Leppard site - go for it! Leppard need a good home (waits for all the jokes - 'er yeah, the retirement home!', '1, Bargain Basement Road')

Run Riot is a close second for me

 

you mean some of those bands arent white power bands?

I just assumed because he was in to them :hihi:

Yep, life is full of surprises...

Not sure really - all I know is that it made their Best Of (the original single disc version), which is their only album I own. I've listened to others, but I only own the Best Of.

Run Riot.....anything off Hysteria.

The opening to Women was amazing, classic Leppard-totally bad ass.

def leppard live with brian may, pro shot 2006 covering t-rex

awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCltWFtcCio


queen (freddie tribute) with joe elliot and SLASH, slash owns in this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz3dK6gqZjU&mode=related&search=

id love to have this show on DVD

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=def+leppard+don+&search=Search

Following on the heels of their massively successful 2006 concert tour, DEF LEPPARD, one of rock's most exciting bands, have announced a mega summer concert tour that is set to hit all corners of the United States, as well as Canada. This year's outing will include 50 dates, kicking off on June 27 in Cincinnati and culminating on September 30 in Edmonton. STYX and FOREIGNER are scheduled to appear on select dates with tickets for the Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit and Boston dates going on sale Saturday, April 21. The tour is being produced by Live Nation.

2006 was a watershed year for DEF LEPPARD with the group's summer concert tour becoming a must-see phenomenon. It was extended three times due to overwhelming demand for tickets from concert-goers and quickly became one of the year's most successful live music events. 2006 also included a gold record for "Rock Of Ages: The Definitive Collection", marking the group's 10th album certification, as well as two critically acclaim album releases; an exclusive limited edition version of the group's classic "Hysteria" album and "Yeah!", a tribute to the band's musical heroes, that received raves from Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and USA Today and featured the group's now definitive cover of "Rock On".

With more than 65 million albums sold worldwide, not to mention two prestigious Diamond Awards to their credit, DEF LEPPARD ? Joe Elliott (vocals), Vivian Campbell (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick "Sav" Savage (bass) and Rick Allen (drums) ? continues to be one of the most important forces in rock music. The group's spectacular live shows are filled with hit after hit from their groundbreaking discography that set the sound for generations of music fans and artists. DEF LEPPARD's powerful rock anthems have become synonymous with their name and it' easy to see why rock fans keep gravitating toward their electrifying live performances. On their 2007 tour, the band is promising a highly-charged, no-nonsense set of rocking performances, packed with hits spanning its entire career.

Dates are as follows:

Jun. 27 - Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Jun. 29 - Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
Jun 30 - Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Jul. 03 - Bonner Springs, KS Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Kansas City
Jul. 04 - Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
Jul. 06 - Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
Jul. 07 - Burgettstown, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
Jul. 08 - Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheater
Jul. 11 - Walker, MN Moondance Jam
Jul. 13 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
Jul. 14 - Camden, NJ Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
Jul. 16 - Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre
Jul. 17 - Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Jul. 19 - Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Jul. 21 - Sarnia, ON Sarnia Bayfest
Jul. 22 - Farwell, MI Mountain Rock Festival
Jul. 24 - Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Jul. 26 - Minot, ND North Dakota State Fair
Jul. 28 - Cheyenne, WY Frontier Days
Aug. 11 - Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
Aug. 12 - Hershey, PA Hershey Park Pavilion
Aug. 14 - Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Aug. 15 - Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Aug. 17 - Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion
Aug. 18 - Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless VA. Beach Amphitheater
Aug. 21 - Raleigh, NC Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
Aug. 22 - Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
Aug. 24 - Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre
Aug. 25 - Atlanta, GA HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
Aug. 26 - Louisville, KY Kentucky State Fair
Aug. 29 - Selma, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Aug. 31 - Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sep. 01 - Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Centre
Sep. 03 - St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
Sep. 05 - Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheatre
Sep. 07 - West Valley City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
Sep. 08 - Grand Junction, CO Rock Jam
Sep. 09 - Englewood, CO Coors Amphitheatre
Sep. 12 - Ridgefield, WA Amphitheater at Clark County
Sep. 14 - Marysville, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sep. 15 - Kelseyville, CA Konocti Harbor
Sep. 16 - Reno, NV Reno Events Center
Sep. 18 - Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion
Sep. 20 - Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
Sep. 22 - Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Events Center
Sep. 23 - Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Sep. 26 - Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
Sep. 27 - Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
Sep. 29 - Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
Sep. 30 - Edmonton, AB Rexall Place

This was one of the greatest, albeit saddest, concerts events ever IMO. A broad showcase of incredible talent during that era.

Gonna see DL this summer again!!! Awesome.

yeah totally man!!! so many of them mixing together was just great too.

There were some awesome moments for sure. The biggest tear jerker was Seal singing "Who wants to live forever."

Def Leppard has sucked beyond belief for years, since around early '91 in fact....

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GAY!

Aren't you the one complaining when people come into the NIN thread and diss NIN?

Why do the same thing to another thread?

Nope. Don't care if someone disses NIN, as long as they are just expressing their opinion.


As for DL, I love old-school Def Leppard, but man, they really lost the plot after Clarke died.

And just look at the Yeah! album cover...man o man... Excuse the tired cliche, but a picture's worth a thousand words.

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That is just all kinds of wrong...and that's just the cover of the CD! Ever listen to X? What the fuck were they thinking?

Amazing that the kick-ass band behind Pyromania and High N' Dry would one day go on tour with Bryan Adams...

Cant believe they are about to go on tour again - that shows real dedication! They love what they do - and its very obvious if you've seen them live

Hope they head over here again - they dont show up in the UK much

Lol. Then you shoulda said that first Nixon! I'll give it to you.. I thought it was funny, I'm just keeping you on your feet.

i know this sounds so lame. but why didnt rick do a side shot lol?

LOL, yea, I know.