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By Luke Matthews

Singer Joe Elliott remarked that Def Leppard will have been together for 40 years this summer. Unfortunately, the tread is starting to show a bit on the Def Leppard tires. Elliott’s voice hasn’t held up quite so well over the years, so some of the notes that we all scream out in our favorite songs don’t quite have the same punch in concert like they used to.

That’s not to say the band is not still entertaining because they certainly are. Bassist Rick Savage still happily glides around the stage and Phil Collen is a supremely talented guitarist – one of the best from the 1980s. Plus there are still those moments where you get goosebumps as “Love Bites” or “Pour Some Sugar On Me” are played live. However, the band also continues to make new music and put a few too many new offerings into their setlist Monday night. Songs like “Dangerous,” “Man Enough,” and the opening pseudo-dud “Let’s Go” were not so much calls to rock than they were cues to hit the restroom and get another tall boy.

You have to credit Def Leppard that they’re still recording, but if you listen to the crowd reactions, you know that they came to hear the hits and politely congratulated the band on their new material. It must certainly get tiresome to play the same material year in and year out, but at this point in their career, the band has to know what the crowd really wants to hear.

By Star 102.5 2017.

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