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By Mark Bialczak

The crowd at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino Event Center happily went along for the ride Tuesday night as lead singer Joe Elliott, guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell, bassist Rick Savage and drummer Rick Allen poured all of their energy into the hits that made Def Leppard on the cutting edge of the sound that merged the steamy world of hard rock and melodic hooks of sing-along pop.

The band, from England, put on all the prized trappings of a big rock show, including swirling lights, a busy video screen and a stack of extra amps on the stage that made sure the volume needle was pinned deeply in the red zone, just short of what it takes to make your nose bleed.

It sounded like the 1980s all over again, and the fans, ranging in age from on-the-retro craze teens to been-there-and-got-the-big-hair-to-prove-it 40s, sang along to hits that included "Foolin'," "Hysteria," "Armageddon It" and "Animal."

For a classy touch, Def Leppard served a pair of delicious covers. Elliott said the songs came from their young years, when they were the ones watching from the crowd. They treated Badfinger's "No Matter What" with total devotion and David Essex's "Rock On" with happy abandon.

By The Post-Standard 2005.

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