Edmonton, AB - Media Review Quotes

By Fish Griwkowsky

Yep, they played that one, too, to everyone's delight. So. Why the partial marks? Well, besides taking a little too long to start the hyperdrive, Elliott's voice was a little froggy, and the sound was downright amateurish at first.

Also, despite former Whitesnake guitarist Viv Campbell's assurances to Steve Tilley in the paper the other day, X is only Leppard's "best album" if by "best" he meant dullest and least likely to infect the airwaves. So all attention to it was an almost tedious aside.

Conversationally, Elliott stuck mostly to repeating the name of our city and asking how we were, which, I suppose, is better than talking about his children's foundation or something. "It may be getting colder outside, but it's getting warmer in here," he let us know. Then, "We're gonna try and tear the f---ing roof off this place!" and other generic lines a robot could recite.

But he made up for that with a nod to the Who's 'My Generation' during the 'Rocket' guitar solo, which earned many raised signs of the devil.

Strutting about somewhat calmly in leather pants and a sleeveless shirt with the White hand of Sauron slapped on it, Elliott also busted through the anthemic 'Women' and, my personal favourite cross-species love song, 'Animal'.

By The Edmonton Sun 2003.

Read the full review at - edmontonjournal.com

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