Def Leppard Live in San Francisco
It's a Saturday in mid December and you would figure that the most that would be going on is a little Christmas shopping or tree decorating for the holidays. This is the San Francisco Bay Area and of course that isn't the case. I fell into a dilemma that was of choices, not of caroling or putting Christmas lights on the house, but events that I wanted to attend on a windy and stormy Bay Area day. You had Peter Gabriel in Oakland, Ozomatli at the Fillmore, Def Leppard at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and my company's Christmas party at the Marriott Courtyard (yeah, I know that's a lame last one).
Was there a choice? Not really considering I have never seen Def Leppard live before and have been an avid fan since the '80s. I mean this was the band that helped me get through high school with my sanity left in tact (to an extent). I have stayed true to Def Leppard through all of their popularity and obscurity from mainstream audiences to radio purgatory over the last two decades. Their most recent release in 2002, X, which marks Def Leppard's return to form as a power pop/rock band is a great album that won't get the airplay it deserves and won't be featured on MTV's TRL thus only allowing the die hard fans to enjoy it's catchy rhythms.