DEF LEPPARD Frontman Isn't Ashamed Of Band's Signature Sound

Just released is DEF LEPPARD‘s new concert film and double CD, titled “And There Will Be A Next Time – Live From Detroit”. The DVD/Blu-ray was captured on July 15, 2016 in Clarkston, Michigan’s DTE Energy Music Theatre — still lovingly referred to as “Pine Knob” by Detroiters after its longstanding original name. Along with such era-defining hits as “Photograph”, “Animal”, “Pour Some Sugar On Me” and “Rock Of Ages”, the collection also features newer tunes, such as “Man Enough” and the set’s opening track, “Let’s Go”.

Frontman Joe Elliott told The Pulse Of Radio that the band has been together for so long, that they’ve come full circle and are more comfortable in sounding like DEF LEPPARD than ever before. “They have to have our identity in them or they might as well be Tom Waits, y’know, or R.E.M.,” he said. “We have a signature sound that we’re not scared of anymore. I think we were, right around the ‘Slang’ period of our career (in 1996). We were frightening to death of ourselves, I think — but not so much anymore. Y’know, so, they’ve got the classic LEPPARD trademark of big guitars, drums, vocal harmonies to the high heavens, y’know?”

DEF LEPPARD will return to the road this spring for a three-month run across North America. This new leg of dates follows the group’s massive 70-plus-city 2016 tour and is set to kick off on April 8 in Manchester, New Hampshire and wrap on June 25 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Joining DEF LEPPARD on select dates are POISON and TESLA.

DEF LEPPARD and POISON and first hit the road together back in 2009, and then again three years later.

DEF LEPPARD‘s latest, self-titled album came out in 2015.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net