First, the return of Loverboy. Then Def Leppard. Not to be outdone ...

Few bands can boast as strong a quartet of albums in their discography as On Through The Night, High n' Dry, Pyromania and Hysteria, regardless of where they peaked. I personally consider Hysteria to be their peak.

All the while surviving the drummer losing a limb, one guitarist dying via overdose and another being kicked out of the band for excessive alcohol abuse (which, by the way, has to be a pretty neat trick to get thrown out of a rock-n-roll band for alcohol abuse).

On Through the Night gets a serious run through tonight amidst the b-ball.

 

Def Lep may have peaked in 1983, but Hysteria was nothing short of a monster hit... Adrenalize didn't do that badly either, although nowhere close to the level of the other two...

 

Ask most people when Def Leppard last put out an album and you'll find out that most think it's been about 20 years since they did.

And guess what -- the Def is touring in Europe this spring WITH WHITESNAKE.

 

Saw Def Lep in concert last summer with Foreigner and Styx...Def Lep definitely stole that show.

 

Fixed.

 

Touche. Foreigner actually wasn't that bad (even w/out Lou Gramm) but Styx was awful.

 

Don't get me going on Fakeigner (hi Junkie!). Mick Jones and his merry band of traveling thieves. Grrrr.

 

I was definitely going to that concert for Def Lep, but some of my friends were there for Foreigner. I think they were all too stoned to care by the time Def Lep came on.

 

I mean, how many original members are even still in Foreigner or Styx? Sheesh, at what point does it cease existing to be that band, and essentially be a cover band for the most part?

In 50 years when all the members are dead, will there be still be a band touring called Friends of Foreigner, consisting of people whose parents may have once jammed with members of the original band in a roadside bar?

 

That's how I felt the last time I saw "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in concert.

 

There is no Foreigner without Lou Gramm.

It's like Motley Crue without Vince Neil, Poison without Bret Michaels, Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant, GNR without Axl, Motorhead without Lemmy, Metallica without James, Van Halen without DL ... wait ... shit.

 

There was also Slow and Easy, Slide It In and Fool for Your Loving from earlier in the Whitesnake oeuvre. And On Through the Night has two awesome songs in Hello America and Rock Brigade.