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Def Leppard doesn't offer any surprises in Irvine, but that's OK By Steven Fryer

The highlights were “Let It Go” with Collen playing that killer opening riff with aggression, “Foolin’” had plenty of guitar crunch, and “Love Bites” was appropriately dramatic.

There was the usual “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak”/“Switch 625” pairing just like it goes on the “High ‘n’ Dry” album. Campbell played the late-great Steve Clark’s riff that starts “Armageddon It” and got an on-stage kiss from wife and baby. That was a heartwarming moment, knowing that Campbell has been working through Hodgkin’s lymphoma the past three years.

Def Leppard still is playing David Essex’s “Rock On” from its fine 2006 album of ’70s rock covers “Yeah!” There are better songs on that record that would be fun to hear live again, but “Rock On” gives Savage and Allen some interplay opportunities that were enjoyable.

Elliott made a couple of comments about Irvine Meadow’s demise and the property’s probable future as residential development. “We need houses,” Elliott said. “But not here.”

By OC Register 2016.

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