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Posted on 08/01/2025 7:17:15 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Def Leppard is gearing up for another Las Vegas residency, and frontman Joe Elliott admitted that narrowing down the setlist is “always a challenge.”
“We've kind of grown into a routine of what we like to call the A, B and C list,” the longtime frontman explained during an interview with Houston Life. “And your A list is your crown jewels, the ones that if you don't play them, you wouldn't get out the building alive. And then there's the B list of interesting stuff. And then the C list is, like, 'Oh, that's interesting. They haven't played that one in 40 years.'”
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Aww poor babies, people pay good money to their shows, what crybabies.
Wow that’s a nice toxic attitude.
I didn't like the over-produced sound of their fourth album "Hysteria" but that album propelled them into the stratosphere and made the band richer than their wildest dreams so what do I know?
Same for Mötley Crüe. Loved their first two albums and then the band said, "Let's sound like Poison and get rich!" And so they did.
Def Leppard’s Hysteria album was part of the soundtrack to life when I was in first year university in 1989 in Sherbrooke, QC, lol.
So you want a jukebox on stage.
Oh my bands that got rich with hits, shouldn't play them in concert.
Whatever.
I was a limo driver in the late ‘80s and had them in the car leaving a concert in Allentown Pa. Very professional guys. They were talking sound checks and what to do better for the next gig. I wasn’t a huge fan but after that conversation they earned my respect for their professionalism.
> So you want a jukebox on stage. <
Yes. 🙂
And that’s why I actually prefer tribute bands. They know what their audiences want.
But as I noted before, your mileage may vary.
High N Dry was mine.
That's one risk of doing cover songs - you might never write and perform one of your own to match or exceed it. After that, you have to play the best tune you never wrote lest listeners think you're just phoning it in with your other songs.
You also can't stray to far from the original and your cover version that became popular because listeners now hold you to it, whereas if it's your own song, especially modified over time, fans embrace what you've done with it.
Except they didn’t get rich because it was a cover. Slade made a LOT of money on Quiet Riot playing that song, which was forced on them by management, and released as the lead off single against their protest. QR, not so much.
If I pay huge bucks for a show, yes, I want to hear the hits. I have no problem having them throw in stuff from the new album or something obscure they feel like playing.
If they want to play only stuff that nobody likes, how about charging $10 for the show; since they’re doing concentrating on their desires, not those of the majority of the fans?
And worse when it wasn’t even their idea and they thought they’d sufficiently tanked the recording to keep it off the record, and instead the record made it the lead off single.
I generally feel bad for Quiet Riot. Banging around for years, Ozzy snags their amazing guitar player, they finally get it all together and their only hit is a song they hate, random deaths. Snake bit band.
Poor Ram-Jam, forced by their own fans/rioters to sing their only hit, concert after concert, year after year, decade after decade...
Mine certainly does. I’ve played in front of audiences and I can tell you that if I’m playing a song I can’t stand or is real stale, then its very hard to play.
I am not an expert on music royalties or residuals, but "Come on Feel the Noise" is Quiet Riot's biggest hit, they should perform it in concert, despite their bitter feelings.
Like AC/DC, they were better before Mutt Lange ruined them.
Why spend any money at all then? Just put the CD on the player and rock out.
Def Leppard might not even be in the top ten. In no order:
Led Zeppelin
The Who
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
Queen
The Rolling Stones
Deep Purple
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
The Police
Black Sabbath
The Beatles
The Kinks
The Animals
T. Rex
Duran Duran
Cream
The Yardbirds
The Zombies
The Clash
Fleetwood Mac
Yes
Jethro Tull
Supertramp
The Hollies
I am not an expert on music royalties or residuals, but “Come on Feel the Noise” is Quiet Riot’s biggest hit, they should perform it in concert, despite their bitter feelings.
Well the guy that sang it, can’t do it anymore (nor anything else, for that matter)
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