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By Wade Coggeshall

They played every single from their definitive 1987 release Hysteria, with extended vamps on "Love Bites" and "Rocket." Aside from the mini acoustic set of "Two Steps Behind" and "Bringin' on the Heartbreak," the night was all about arena rock and the English band's melodic and heavily polished sound.

No surprise, the near-capacity audience reveled in it. I hadn't seen a crowd that into a concert in a while. No doubt there's a strong nostalgic factor to a show like this. And that was the only problem with it. Most acts would give anything to have a body of work like Def Leppard's. But how much longer can they rely on songs that came out almost 15 years ago? Aside from the tracks "Undefeated" and "Switch 625," both of which are on Def Leppard's first live album Mirrorball released this year, everything performed here, while all classic rock radio staples, come from a long-ago era. All their albums from the '90s and '00s were ignored.

By Wade Coggeshall @ Nuvo 2011.

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