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Def Leppard @ Civic Arena By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Def Leppard, the English heavy metal quintet, had one of the hottest vocalists going in Joe Elliott.
It has a fine sound system and a precision light show.
It even has a fair number of good songs in its repertoire.
But all that happened in the Civic Arena last night, as Def Leppard and Krokus played for 14,000 fans was a four-hour scream along.
'Say yeah!' exhorted Joe Elliott, when his turn came, and the band played backup to the audience's shrill chorus.
'Is that all the noise Pittsburgh can make?' Elliott challenged, and the fans redoubled their efforts.
Whenever the cheerleading lapsed, though, and the noise died down, there was not much left.
Once they had established their sound, each band maintained a stubborn sameness for the remainder of the set.
In their songs, in their arrangements, in the beat, in the guitar solos, above all in volume.
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1983.
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