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By John Katsilometes

No matter how many times you've seen a band in concert or played its music, there are moments that catch you off-guard. For instance, last night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard introduced the band's longtime drummer Rick Allen. Allen's story of course is that in 1984, he lost his left arm in a car accident, but the band waited for him to recover, and now he pounds away with his right arm and two specially designed foot pedals to simulate the drum sounds his left arm once created.

Elliott, mustering considerable force behind his weary voice, said, "He's been sitting back there all night and hasn't said a word! But now he'll talk!" And Allen leaned forward to his mic with, "Gunter glieben glauten globen!" This bit of lyrical gymnastics from "Rock of Ages" was discussed at length back when "Pyromania" was released in 1983, when such issues mattered to rock-obsessed teenagers. What's it mean? Who says it? Is it something profane? The answers came to be it means nothing; it's just gibberish from a band with a keen since of humor. And in the band's live show, Allen recites the band's most famous lyric, which is only appropriate because of the astonishing recovery he made to continue performing now for 25 years since that accident.

It was a fun moment, and a fun show, too, put on by rock warhorses Cheap Trick, Poison and finally Def Leppard at a near-capacity Grand Garden Arena. If you were looking for four hours of high-volume rock 'n' roll nostalgia, you came to the right place.

By Las Vegas Sun 2009.

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