You simply must check out Wasted live 1983 from Dortmund, Germany. It is with original lead guitarist Steve Clark. Even though Vivian Campbell are doing a great job Steve's solo are more rough and heavy. On RU-vid it's called Def Leppard Live from Germany part 2. There are a time stamp in the description
Steve was the emotional part of this band back then...but on this very concert IMHO Joe really hit it hard,as to prove something to London or generally english crowd. In the 80s the music fans in england didn"t really get the band...Brian May came out to prove "em wrong when he introduced the band on stage during Freddie Mercury tribute concert in 1992.
Huau... special thanks to let people know about the origins of Def Leppard with this song. This is why they were also part of the New Wave of the British Heavy Metal 80’s scene.
@@charlesfitzgerald9631 What we consider hard-rock today was also heavy metal then. Bands like Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy were also part of the metal world from the 80’s. Sometimes the midterm was Hard’n’Heavy or Heavy Rock. But Def Leppard grew with the same vibe as Iron Maiden, Saxon and Judas Priest. They were part of that british movement.
Ahhh back when Def Leppard was harder. I honestly loved their first 2 albums on On Through The Night and High N Dry. After that they got pop and more radio friendly, which a lot of people liked, but I personally didn’t like the direction they went, which I understand is more about succeeding to make more albums and money. I remember going to bed with the cassette of On Through The night and waking up in the morning with my headphones on my nose. Lol.
You should check out their album "Retro Active", it's songs that were recorded during the Pyromania and Hysteria sessions that didn't make the albums (some covers, but mostly originals, including some from their very early days) most of it has that raw energy from the Pete Willis days.
@@jasonkadlec3929 no sir. He lost his arm in 1984. Pyromania was in 1983. A year before he lost his arm and it was “Mutt” Lange who steered them away from their edgy rock sound and more “radio friendly “ sounds so they were already in transition before his accident. I won’t say they were trashy, just not as hard as their first 2 albums, which I preferred as a teenager.
@@yotaman2112 I am aware of when he lost his arm. I was just pointing out that three extremities instead of four would limit what he could do with his craft. Yes, Mutt certainly steered the ship from metal to AOR, which is basically what they became. Good thing AC/DC didn't stick with him.
Hysteria isn't DL rather Robert "Mutt" Lange featuring Def Leppard soo completely overproduced but they made millions on it so they can laugh all the way to the bank everyday!!
Look folks , this is the Album "On Through The Night" that Def Leppard wouldn't touch in Concert for years after Steve Clark passed away . It's nice that they've seen the light finally , and realized that this was a heart stopping album from start to finish . It has influenced countless Hard Rock / Metal bands after it came out , is one of the big reasons they got into the RNRHOF , and needed to be played .
This was when they had a lot of potential to be a solid British metal band, before they got with Mutt Lang and went the Pop-Rock route. (BTW, nothing wrong with pop-rock, just not as raw)
@@chopps75 Well They had to evolve away from this album because Mutt Lange was producing AC/DC and Def Leppard at the same time . The Guys in Def Leppard wanted to move on from sounding similar to AC/DC , and be more Pop Metal in Pyromania , and Hysteria .
@@Mysterio-Solar Oh I know that they wanted to go in a more Popish direction, I wasn't saying that that was a bad thing, just not the direction that I would have chosen for them. (I actually love Def Lepp, as they were my first serious musical influence)
The album "On Through The Night" is full of great songs like Rock Brigade, Overture, It Don't Matter and Sorrow Is A Woman but IMHO every Def Leppard album is full of great songs.
Here's the things that I live for.. Les paul ,Jackson,Drums thick rocker chick's and Def Leppard..Wolf Hunters ,I thank you for playing my 5 uncle classic song.
The last video was a great adaption of a classic song from them but this is a straight out banger that follows the original from their first album closer. Great stuff, they are a freaking awesome band that I have listened to countless times since 1980. Rock On! 🎸
If you guys want to react to an amazing live Def Leppard performance, you have to take a look at Rocket live in Sheffield, 1993. It's absolutely fantastic.
Fun fact Steve Clark thought up that riff on the bus on his way to the spoon factory they used as a rehearsal room before they were signed, the story goes Steve came in didnt speak to anyone and went and plugged in his guitar and knocked out that riff , he said later he didn't want to talk to anyone as he came in in case he forgot the riff in his head , the song Wasted is rarely played and is off there debut album " On through the night "
Check out Def Leppard behind the music! It’s super cool to see the behind the scenes of what happened though all the years start to finish and told by the band and everybody involved.. it’s amazing
I was 15 when On through the night came out, omg it was like a shot of adrenaline. Wasted, Rock Brigade, Hello America, it was fantastic, followed by High n Dry, that's a 1 2 punch.
i went to this tour at sheffield arena uk this was the stand song out of the night and the intro was slightly diffrent to the london o2 with joe introducing steve clark(rip) mum who was in the crowd
Vivian Campbell is the most underrated guitarist in the history of music. His riffs n solos when he was he was with Dio is what made me fall in love with the guitar. His days in Whitesnake were good but he was just a fill in n didnt get to showcase what he had. He joined these guys in 92 after Steve Clark passed away n they are a perfect match. No egos in this band just great musicians making great music.
Neither guitarist who plays this song originally is even in this version of the band. Guitarist Pete Willis was 16 when they recorded this song in 1980.
You should check out We Are by ONE OK ROCK (Live at the Tokyo Dome for the Ambitions Tour). Their lead singer Taka has one of the best live voices out there. Severely underrated
"Low-Energy Jeb" would not approve. The studio version of this came out all the way back in 1980. Def Leppard did a Las Vegas residency a few years back in where they played some of their early songs (which was killer.) One of their older songs that is pretty raw is called "Let It Go" I hope you get to hear it one day.
Yeah, the guitar work is impressive, but I like the simplicity of the work that Steve Clark and Pete Willis (The Original guitarists) on the studio version of the song.
Pete Willis was a mastermind Phil Collin wasn't on high n dry or on through the night they just canned Pete cause he couldn't control his drinking issue
The REAL Def Leppard! Their first three albums were fucking GREAT heavy rock / metal albums. Then I don't know what happened to them? Did they willingly want to become a joke band? I have no idea, but the songs from the first three albums are fucking AWESOME! Honestly I think the members of Def Leppard are living in some sort of bubble that doesn't understand that the commercialized bullshit they've been coming out with all these years is NOT liked. Everyone wants Def Leppard to STOP being that idiotic band, and get back to their roots. I don't think it will ever happen, but I keep hoping.
You should check out the video from 1980 when they were teenagers doing this song and a few other early Lep songs. It's a classic in a different way than this one is.
