http://www.app.com/article/20090704/ENT/907040303/1031/Ent/Rockin++triple+bill+connects+with+Holmdel+crowd Rockin' triple bill connects with Holmdel crowd By Alex Biese - STAFF WRITER - July 4, 2009 Remember that scene in "The Wrestler" when Marisa Tomei's gold-hearted stripper recalls the good-time glory days of '80s hair metal? " '90s sucked," she and Mickey Rourke concluded. Well, if there was one show you could expect to find that cinematic Jersey Girl at this summer, it would have been Wednesday night's super-rocking alliance of Def Leppard, Poison and Cheap Trick at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Before the final song of the evening, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott asked the adoring crowd a fairly straightforward question: "Do you want to get rocked?" Now, that's not really a question Elliott needed to ask, because if you bought a ticket to this show, it was with the expectation of getting rocked. However, the audience still responded with nearly deafening cheers, as they had done for most of the evening. (The song that followed, incidentally, was the aptly titled "Let's Get Rocked.") So, how much did the show rock, exactly? Well, take a gander at the titles of some of the tunes played during Def Leppard's arena-shaking 16-song set: "Rock of Ages," "Let's Get Rocked," "Rock! Rock! Till You Drop" and "Rock On." For fans whose summer soundtracks still consist of the Def Leppard's back-to-back '80s classics "Pyromania" (1983) and "Hysteria" (1987), there was plenty of reason to rejoice on Wednesday night: The band busted out four tunes from the former, including "Foolin' " and "Photograph," and six from the latter, including "Animal," "Love Bites" and the title track, all of which showcased the band's still-impressively tight vocal interplay and musicianship. However, the highlight of Def Leppard's set came at its center, when Elliott and guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell strapped on acoustics and were joined by bassist Rick Savage at the end of a ramp that extended out into the crowd. What followed was a miniset that featured a strong version of "Two Steps Behind," which the band followed by playing the first half of 1981's "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" in a campfire fashion before returning to the electric axes and being joined by drummer Rick Allen to finish the song off. Copyright © 2009 Asbury Park Press.