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By Doug Fox

The band introduced one new song to the set, opening with the up-tempo proclamation "Undefeated," one of three studio tracks tacked on to the end of its current live album, "Mirror Ball." That album, incidentally, contains one track, "C'mon, C'mon," recorded at USANA Amphitheatre during the band's last visit, in 2009 - a fact pointed out by lead singer Joe Elliott mid-set.

Other than that, the rest of the set was primarily filled with hits from the band's two most successful albums, 1983's "Pyromania" and 1987's "Hysteria." The band has been pumping out those classics every night live since then, and it showed as everything about Wednesday's performance seemed in perfect sync - from their head to their feet, yeah - and from the music itself to the way band members roamed the stage working the crowd into a frenzy.

The hits flowed freely one into another - "Let's Get Rocked," "Animal," "Foolin'," "Love Bites," "Rocket" and on through the night as Elliott served his role as rock 'n' roll ringmaster.

The playing styles of guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell make a nice complement. Collen is more flamboyant, strutting around the stage shirtless in sparkled boots while brazenly flooding the night with a torrent of tasty lead licks and main riffs. Campbell, although very active in his own right, is more understated in his delivery and can often be seen at his stage right microphone with eyes closed in apparent reverie, lost in the moment and his own playing.

By Daily Herald 2011.

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