Last night, Def Leppard kicked off their Downstage Thrust Tour 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio. For a first night, there were few - if any - noticeable flaws.
The Brits opened their show with "Rocket," and continued with "Animal" and "Excitable."
"Foolin'" came next, and then lead singer Joe Elliot asked guitarist Vivian Campbell to join him on the catwalk.
Vivian obliged.
This is an old article from earlier this year regarding the upcoming summer tour:
The summer concert season just got a little more hot and sticky sweet.
Def Leppard, which sold more albums in the 1980s than any other rock group, is the latest blockbuster name added to the lineup for Rogers Sarnia Bayfest. The English pop-metal band will headline the concert July 21 in Sarnia's Centennial Park.
Tickets for Def Leppard - along with the previously announced Aerosmith show on July 19 and three-day passes to the festival - go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Campbell talked about what it was like replacing Steve Clark following his drug overdose, along with Def Leppard’s current tour with Styx and Foreigner, which stops at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater on June 30.
Last year, you released “Yeah!,” which was a tribute album to the band’s musical heroes. Are you working on anything new?
We just finished a new album. That will be mixed while we are on the tour. We’re also waiting for one, maybe two songs from Mutt Lange, our longtime producer and collaborator. We’re holding off on the release of the record until we get that done.
Def Leppard is "about 85, 90 percent finished" with its next album, which frontman Joe Elliott describes as "a very rock album" tentatively titled "Songs From the Sparkle Lounge."
"I'm not gonna say it's radically different to anything we've ever done," Elliott tells Billboard.com. "There's classic Def Leppard. There's stuff that sounds like it's going back to the middle, late-'70s AC/DC and new wave-type sounding stuff. There's definitely some moments on it where anybody that's familiar with our music will go, 'Whoa! I wasn't expecting that!' We've just been very adventurous, musically, on certain numbers."
Elliott says the "Sparkle Lounge" album title refers to a room the group maintained backstage during its 2006 tour dates, where the musicians would congregate with co-producer and live sound technician Ronan McHugh to work up and record ideas.
After a long hiatus due to many busy events in my personal life, I've started posting updates again. First thing is listing the tour dates for the 2007 Yeah! tour, including venue information and supporting acts.
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