Def Leppard, Journey at Tweeter
The Sheffield-steely glam of Def Leppard and the album-oriented rock of Journey have zip connection. So, despite being '80s media stalwarts under VH-1 sponsorship, it was hard to tell what Friday's sold-out pairing of those rock elders at Camden's Tweeter Center was meant to convey to its crowd - a mix of over-40s and young teens. Other than that there's no age limit on an audience's ability to ape guitar pyrotechnics and look stupid doing it. And that the mullet is indeed a tonsorial staple of all generations.
Def Lep - MTV's first metal darlings - happily refuse to age gracefully. Instead, the mussiest of hair bands (a compliment, that!) chop-chop-chopped and shugga-shugga swaggered through gutsy glam stuff with equal amounts of icy precision (their signature helium harmonies) and groovy sloppiness (their punchy rhythms).