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By Bob Saar

Leppard's music, although of the same basic guitar bass drums vehicle that all heavy metal heroes adhere to, is more primal and less cerebral than Poison's; the Les Pauls and Stratocasters are not passed to stagehands in exchange for acoustic guitars; pianos are not employed.

This is straightforward arm pumping rock anthemia.

Rick Allen's legendary drumming - he plays most of his specially designed drums with his bare feet laid down a solid foundation for Leppard's hits, including "Armageddon It," "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and "Love Bites."

Leppard was distinctly louder than previous bands this year. The sound pressure level measured at the audio tent, about 30 yards from the stage, was above 100 decibels.

That would put the music at more than 130 decibels in front on the stage in the VIP area.

The bottom end was particularly heavy, but savvy concertgoers used to Steamboat Days' high energy weekend bands wore earplugs.

By The Hawk Eye 2003.

By Criss Roberts

"I would hate to be called a nostalgia act," said Joe Elliott, lead singer for Def Leppard in a recent interview with the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. "For one thing, we're still creating and playing new and original material. We've put out albums in 2002, 1999, 1996 - we're still putting out records and touring.

"And we're not playing small clubs. We're playing arenas and large theaters."

This tour is in support of "X," the band's 10th studio album. There certainly will be some choices from that, but Def Leppard has no intention of leaving its hits off the program.

"Of course, when we get into the home stretch of a show, there are certain songs - I don't want to say we have to play them because we don't, but there are certain songs we will play, like 'Pour Some Sugar on Me,' because we enjoy playing them," Elliott told the Pioneer Press. "And we don't want to disappoint people."

By The Hawk Eye 2003.

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