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Def Leppard @ Carver-Hawkeye Arena By Daily Iowan

But in these late '80s, heavy metal's gone upscale.

Led by bands like Def Leppard and Bon Jovi, heavy metal lite has become a slickly packaged mixture of youthful aggression and formulaic songwriting designed solely to be crammed into the waiting, yawning cake-holes of the MTV generation.

At Carver-Hawkeye Arena Tuesday night, before some 16,000 freshly-scrubbed members of that generation, Def Leppard delivered a technically astounding musically proficient, professionally paced two hours of sixth or seventh generation hard rock.

Lost somewhere in the gee-whiz hi-tech glitz that is modern concert wizardry, though, was the fact that Def Leppard is a mind-numbingly dull band.

Drawing mostly from their two most recent records, Def Leppard gave the crowd exactly what most had come to see - near note perfect renditions of hooky, anthemic songs delivered with swaggering, posing bravado at disabling volume.

By Daily Iowan 1988.

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