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By Justin Gimse

The boys kicked the show off with “Let’s Go,” the lead track off of their most-recent, self-titled album. I hadn’t heard it yet, and it sounded like pure Leppard. Having gotten the crowd’s attention, the band kicked into “Animal” from the “Hysteria” album. At this point, I could tell that the band was already feeling it, and the audience reaction was a big pop.

One of my favorite opening riffs to any song is from “Let it Go” from Leppard’s “High ‘n’ Dry” album. This would kick off song three, and I now found myself beginning to feel like that kid again, watching them on the television. The band followed up with “Dangerous,” the second track off their new album and it did the job just right.

Up next, the band tackled “Foolin’” from “Pyromania.” Since it has long been one of my favorites, I had wondered whether they would tackle the song. The vocals by Joe Elliott involved some serious high-end screaming back in the day, and as everyone knows, Father Time plays no favorites when it comes to that much wear and tear on the vocal chords. While Elliott laid back a bit on the high-end stuff at the Tacoma Dome, his bandmates actually came through with heavier vocals that made the song happen just the way it should.

“Love Bites” from “Hysteria” was up next and it was time to slow things down. Back in the day, the crowd would have been a sea of lighters in the air, paying tribute to the band. That doesn’t happen in 2016. Instead, it was a sea of cell phones lit up and pointed toward the band. I may be a little too old school, but something about that just doesn’t wash right with me. However, the song was phenomenal.

By Tacoma Weekly 2016.

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