For Def Leppard, it's all about well-packaged nostalgia
STRUTTING confidently about the stage, clad in the tight-fitting leather garb that's always been essential to the hair-metal dress code, the members of Def Leppard appear to have been cryogenically frozen in the 1980s, only to be thawed and dumped in present-day Sacramento for the Friday night show at the Arco Arena.
There are minor discrepancies, of course, between the boys then and the boys now.
The Sheffield quintet, whose 1987 smash "Hysteria" has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide, lost founding guitarist Steve Clark in 1991 to a fatal combination of alcohol and drugs, paving the way for ex-Whitesnake shredder Vivian Campbell (a brunette!) to hop on board after the 1992 release of "Adrenalize." Otherwise, the band hasn't changed a bit, save for a few added wrinkles.