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Blackfoot/Def Leppard @ Warner Theatre By Washington Post

The Warner Theatre is still standing.

Proving, perhaps once and for all, sturdiness of an earlier, grander era od American architecture, the old building last night without the music of Blackfoot and Def Leppard.

Backed (or, rather, almost surrounded) by a wall of speakers which took up half the stage, the musicians flailed away at their guitars and drums in a show which tested the limits of musical, as well as structural, integrity.

Def Leppard opened with a set most notable for its paucity of redeeming musical quality.

Melody, harmony, rhythmic and dynamic nuance were simply not part of the group's musical sensibility.

Quasi-blues solos, an imitation of Mick Jagger's stage act, and plodding beats were, however, and each was delivered with mindless abandon.

Def Leppard and Blackfoot are heavy metal at its best, which is to say rock music at its "worst".

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