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Def Leppard @ Salt Palace By Deseret News

If there was a drawback, Saturday, it was in the sound system, which on occasion was fuzzy and sistorted on some of the guitar runs by Steve Clark and Phil Collen.

But the crowd didn't seem bothered by the problem and continued to roar and shout its approval both between and during the songs.

The two-night stop in Salt Lake City is part of a national tour promoting the band's latest album 'Hysteria'.

It is the band's first album in nearly five years, and judging by sales - some 6 million copies to date - the album is a hit.

Using a center-arena stage, a kind of concert-in-the-round, Def Leppard broke quickly.

A curtain that shrouded the stage dropped to the ground in a burst of flashing light and smoke and the five-man band was on its way.

Fans crowding the standing-area only sections on the east and west sides of the stage surged forward and seemed to move as one as they danced to the hard-driving music.

And dancing wasn't limited to the floor.

Fans were dancing in the aisles and on their seats in the sold-out Salt Palace.

To enhance the music, a light show featuring laser-like beams focused on the ceiling of the arena created ever changing patterns.

There were swirling patterns, polka-dots, graph-like patterns and even one resembling an electro-cardiogram gone haywire.

By Deseret News 1988.

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