By Bill Brotherton Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - Added 2m ago At this time last year, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott opined that popmetal band Poison was more interested in its image than its music. Poison’s Rikki Rockett fired back, challenging Elliott to a bare-knuckles fight. How times have changed. Barely a year later, it seems Def Lep and Poison have kissed and made up - they’re now touring together. Tuesday night at the Comcast Center, a near capacity crowd had nothin’ but a good time as the triple bill of hard-rockin’ Def Leppard, glamour boys Poison and power-pop oddballs Cheap Trick relived the days when hair was huge and worries were few. Headliner Def Lep made their desires known right away - they came to rock. In fact, the band’s first three songs were “Rock! Rock! Till You Drop,” “Rocket” and “Let’s Get Rocked.”... [read full story]
|
RELATED
|
|
Remember that scene in "The Wrestler" when Marisa Tomei's gold-hearted stripper recalls the good-time glory days of '80s hair metal? Well, if there was one show you could expect to find that cinematic Jersey Girl at this...
Cheap Trick. Then Poison. Then Def Leppard. Friday night’s lineup at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center were bands that dominated radio play through much of the ’70s and ’80s, who could fill SPAC as individual bands back then.
BY GLENN GAMBOA | glenn.gamboa@newsday.com Def Leppard arrives at the 2009 Country Music Television Music Awards at Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo / June 16, 2009) You don't need to be bonked in the head by a...
The summer concert season is in full swing but I haven’t been to a show since March! The good news is that I have tickets to a few shows coming up but the first on the list was the Def Leppard/Poison/Cheap Trick show last night...
Rick Allen, Rick Savage, Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Music Bands from UK, Rock Music, Music, Music Bands, Def Leppard
