Def Leppard Rocked the House in Greensboro!

So, me and Doug and Crazy John went to the Def Leppard, STYX and REO Speedwagon concert last night.  I'm a member of the Def Leppard fan club so I bought us floor seats near the front (row 19).  The stage setup during the DL show included a catwalk and a round "outer stage" the came all the way out to about row 13-14.   They played a couple of slow songs in the middle of the concert and did them acoustic, and four of the band members (obviously not the drummer) came out to the catwalk stage.  I went to the restroom during the "slow" set =)

They played a lot of songs from High N Dry (1981) - Let It Go, High N Dry, Bringin' On The Heartbreak, Switch 625, and Mirror Mirror - probably the most well represented album along with Hysteria.  And of coruse they played stuff from Pyromania (Photograph, Rock of Ages), but for me the coolest thing was hearing a live version of the instrumental "Disintegrate" from 1999's Euphoria.

I was a Def Leppard fan in the 80s, of course.  Hysteria was released when I was 15, and spent two years on the billboard charts.  But I never saw Def Leppard back then, I didn't get out to many concerts at all, really.  But I've now seen them 3 out of the last 4 years - in 2005 with Bryan Adams, in 2006 with Journey, and this year with STYX and REO Speedwagon.  I actually had tickets to last year's Raleigh date with STYX and Foreigner but wasn't able to make it.  But this is a band that I'll probably go see every time they tour.  They really put on a great show, and they still know how to rock.

All three shows I've seen, they've ended by saying "Don't forget about us, and we won't forget about you."

This is me not forgetting!  See you in NC next summer!