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Def Leppard @ Great Woods By Boston Globe
Save the barefooted Allen's customized drum kit, Def Leppard is the same as they ever were.
Moderately aggressive, reasonably melodic, fairly reliable and very unsurprising.
Creativity does not run rampant in this band.
On their side Def Leppard is closer to the AC/DC school of thought than they are the Bon Jovi beauty school.
Against them; they don't really have a stamp, a personality that sets them apart.
They offer fist-waving good times in songs like 'Women', 'Animal' and 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' and a neat laser show.
You look at Elliott's T-Shirt, which reads 'Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols' and wonder, 'what's the connection?'.
If it's meant as an endorsement of the 'Pistols explosive chaos, why is none of that present in a Def Leppard show?.
Why do they play tired old games like who-can-yell-loudest?.
Def Leppard is, essentially, a middlebrow, hard-rock band.
They get points for not being pretentious, but they lose points for having nothing more to offer than the standard-issue fodder.
The exception, one supposes, is 'Gods Of War', an antiwar statement of sorts.
The lasers were particularly effective, the chemical smoke was apt, and the band worked up a warlike onslaught at the song's end.
Soon, Elliott made noises about 'enough doom and destruction' and Leppard was deep into the generic boy-girl rockers.
By Boston Globe 1988.
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