Def Leppard is still largely composed of original personnel, with four of the five current members dating from their first hit album Pyromania. And those guys can rock! They put on one of the best concerts I've seen in a good long while. Like Journey, they played pretty much all of the hits from their glory days, and they sounded just great. Drummer Rick Allen was particularly amazing. The only down side was that lead singer Joe Elliot pretty much lost his voice about two-thirds of the way through the show - but he didn't back down one bit. They made us feel like they really wanted to be there playing for us and I left even more of a Def Leppard fan that I was before the show.Our now liquored-up dancing girls returned and got back into some seriously erotic dancing and just about when we (guys and girls alike) were paying more attention to them than to the concert, some security drone came down and hauled them away. It's just not the seventies any more; back then they'd have both had their tops off and the concert camera crew would have found them and projected them up on the screen (as happened more than once in my concert-going youth). We saw them later, though; either they just got griped at and released or they managed to slip back in.

And this is just the first concert of the weekend; at noonish I pick up my son and we head down to Dallas to see a bunch of emo bands as part of my birthday gift to him. I'm looking forward to that one too.

By Sic Semper Southern Man 2006.

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