• Def Leppard

Posted: **Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:03 pm**

Is anyone else familar with this over looked Heavy Metal Album released in 1981 ?.
This changed the type of music I listened to forever.
This would be in my top 5 favourite albums of all time.
Does anyone else appreciate this masterpiece?.
Their first album On Through The Night was another good album.

Posted: **Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:21 pm**

I'm with you.

Pete Willis RULED. Notice how the ROCKING stopped once he was booted ?

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:17 am**

High n' Dry is a good album. I do prefer Pyromania and Hysteria though.

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:39 am**

surely an influence on the vinnie era kiss. look at the shirt the singer wears in 83..

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Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:41 am**

I think pyromania is an influence on lick it up album in a small way. I think Eric's drums sound from Killers and creatures changed on lick it up to more of the pyromania sound. for sure vv was influenced from def lep on the vvi stuff.

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:16 am**

poserboy71 wrote:I'm with you.

Pete Willis RULED. Notice how the ROCKING stopped once he was booted ?

I totally agree with you. Pete totally rocked and ruled. If he had of kept his drinking under control we might have had more solid rock tunes to listen too.
I still listen and enjoy some of their other albums but this is by far my favourite.

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:18 am**

doublev2 wrote:surely an influence on the vinnie era kiss. look at the shirt the singer wears in 83..

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Yeah too true !.

Posted: **Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:35 pm**

I havent listened to this in ages but I really did love this album.
Spent alot of time trying to learn these songs on guitar.
This one and Pyro are probably their best 2 albums.
I had(have) the TAB book which covered both of those albums.
Heaps of mistakes in it, but at least it showed you knew something if you could spot those mistakes.
Hysteria was good in the day but a little too poppy sounding now for my old ears.

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:33 pm**

That album is just a plain..straight up...rock and roll masterpiece......by far my favorite Leppard album.....Pete Willis was fantastic !!!

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:59 pm**

mfoster wrote:That album is just a plain..straight up...rock and roll masterpiece......by far my favorite Leppard album.....Pete Willis was fantastic !!!

Just what I wanted to hear. There is not that many of us who know about this album and its legendary status.

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2012 4:37 pm**

I've got an LP version where the last track, No no no (awesome song). finishes on the inside circle of the album and continues going NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO, forever if you can stop the needle auto returning.
Pretty clever i thought