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Post by savagegroove on Jun 25, 2022 17:30:35 GMT -8
Funny how Crue fans see a completely different show.
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Post by diva on Jun 25, 2022 17:48:09 GMT -8
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 25, 2022 18:52:06 GMT -8
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 25, 2022 19:29:51 GMT -8
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Post by wabowarrior on Jun 25, 2022 19:35:24 GMT -8
In fairness, after four songs, I went to have a burger during Motley's set in Orlando. Different strokes for different folks.
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Post by andylgr on Jun 25, 2022 20:24:41 GMT -8
I’ve noticed the obsession with some fans about trying to prove which headliner is better by posting to the world that they left early, weren’t watching the band or the crowd were sitting during their set. It seems to be mainly Crue fans doing it actually. Just really attention seeking posts. The funny is that Def Leppard are counting their money anyway whether they watched them play or not.
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Post by andylgr on Jun 26, 2022 0:25:25 GMT -8
Photograph
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Post by andylgr on Jun 26, 2022 0:25:47 GMT -8
BOTH
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Post by andylgr on Jun 26, 2022 0:26:17 GMT -8
Switch 625
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Post by andylgr on Jun 26, 2022 0:26:45 GMT -8
Foolin
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Post by tsmith on Jun 26, 2022 3:27:33 GMT -8
That's just the nature of these types of co headline tours. I mean, that was me with Kiss in 2014 as I had zero desire to see them and left after 2 songs. I've always liked Motley Crue so I'll be okay with seeing them. Truthfully though, I don't have much desire to see them either as I've seen them plenty over the years and they're basically the worst version of themselves right now. If I had my choice I'd much rather see Def Leppard doing their own headline tour. Then you know everyone in the crowd are Def Leppard fans. I’ve noticed the obsession with some fans about trying to prove which headliner is better by posting to the world that they left early, weren’t watching the band or the crowd were sitting during their set. It seems to be mainly Crue fans doing it actually. Just really attention seeking posts. The funny is that Def Leppard are counting their money anyway whether they watched them play or not.
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 6:03:03 GMT -8
Motley Crue & Def Leppard bring marathon Stadium Tour to PhillyMatt Bailey Poison & Joan Jett and the Blackhearts round out the day of 80’s hard rock What do you call a tour with four artists who are all headliners in their own right? You call it something that needs no explanation: The Stadium Tour. The amazingly energetic and face-melting super-concert with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Poison, Def Leppard, and Mötley Crüe kicked off shortly before 4 pm at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia. Classless Act opened the show with a high-energy 15-minute set. The first name on the bill, Joan Jett, began her portion around 4:40 pm. While the show is killer, it was clear in Philly that the logistics of such a monster bill mean that some fans are confused on when the show begins, and what time their favorite act hits the massive stage. So let us here at TMU try to help with that. Beware that all adverts for the tour say it begins at 4:30 pm local time — that is when Joan Jett is supposed takes the stage. You should look to your particular venue’s social media and website in the hopes of a finding a breakdown of parking, gates, and show times, as each is different. Before the tour launched, some venue websites had 4:30 listed as the gate time instead of the show start time. Upon examination, this seems to have been corrected. Indeed, this is a behemoth marathon of nonstop 80’s hard rock that has never happened before and will likely never happen again, at least in this capacity. Fans should give themselves ample time to make sure they catch the band they are most dying to see. Below, each set is discussed with start time so that you may plan accordingly. Classless Act is the most underserved act on the bill. The group began performing at 4 pm to a near empty stage. Though, their lead singer Derek Day had plenty of energy. It’s clear he envisioned himself performing to a full stadium. And perhaps one day, this group will be. Classless Act would have been better served performing on a B stage during the intermissions between the earliest bands. They were off the stage by 4:16, and were invited by Tommy Lee and Vince Neil to open the 36 date tour. Joan Jett and her Blackhearts took the stage at exactly 4:40, and were off shortly before 5:30 pm. Jett herself was quiet and reserved when speaking to the crowd. And the guitars she played were somewhat uncooperative in the 90-degree Philadelphia swelter. Rest assured, her vocals are as timeless as ever. Equal parts defiant growl and bright innocence, her iconic place in rock and roll is proven in her brief set. Her 45-minute churn of hit songs is worth braving the the heat and sun. If her guitars have to do it, so should you. Poison wins the award for most affable band of the evening. It should come as no surprise though. Bret Michaels and company have made their reputation as being the nicest guys in rock. But that personability goes hand-in-hand with a catalogue that fans are eager to hear. Never before have I witnessed a stadium at near-capacity at 6 in the evening for a concert. But Poison seemed to have legions of fans in attendance, on par with the headliners. The four original members — Michaels, Rikki Rockett, CeCe DeVille, and Bobby Dall — were as tight as ever. Each shone on there own, with Michaels handing over the spotlight to DeVille and Rocket for brief solos, and Dall having great byplay with the lead singer. A hometown show for Poison, Michaels name-checked Pottsville, PA and other more rural area for the Mechanicsburg native. Their set began at 6 pm and lasted an hour. Fan Favorites “Unskinny Bop,” “Every Rose has Its Thorn,” and “Nothin’ But a Good Time” closed out their energetic hour. As the sun began to set over the City of Brotherly Love, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott stormed the stage at 7:30 pm with “Take What You Want.” From there, the music never stopped coming. The group was excited to be back onstage after a two-year delay due to, what else, that pesky COVID. The joy they experienced on stage that evening was best encapsulated by drummer Rick Allen’s constant smile. Elliott, for his part, had the best vocals of any band this evening. There must be something about Brits and the longevity to their voices.
The best moments of the evening were when the five-some stripped down to a smaller drum set and a few acoustic guitars. The power of their song choices really blasts through when production is stripped away.
Also, Allen had the most badass moment on drums for the night (Sorry Tommy). The one-armed wonder killed a solo with just his singular stick and two feet. Beat that, Mr. Lee.
At the end of their set, Leppard closed out with “Photograph.” Fittingly, they displayed pictures of fans in their Leppard concert tees…from that very venue! It seems a photographer patrols the stadium concourse, looking for fans to snap pics of. They then end up on the big screen!
Leppard recently released a new album, Diamond Star Halos, and Elliott promised fans that Def Leppard will be leaping back to the area very soon. The trek is also rumored to be extended into 2023 to cover Europe, although no official confirmation has been declared.
Mötley Crüe managed to shred out 14 numbers in their 90-minute set that began at 9:30 pm. The stage, set with spiked lighting trees that moved up and down, as well as upside down microphone stands hanging from the lighting rig, was full-on metal. The Crüe returns to the road with two elephants in the room: the first being that Vince Neil’s voice has received less-than-stellar appraisals of late. There’s no denying that Neil’s voiced has thinned with age and use. But fans will be pleasantly surprised to find that most of his tone has returned. He can hit all those high notes. Still, the sound mix seems to want to drown him out to compensate. From what could be heard, this is unnecessary. The second elephant is Tommy Lee’s rib injury. A disruptive factor that Lee has made fun of throughout these first few stadium dates, Lee actually seems on the mend. He drummed about half of the show, switching with Tommy Clufetos, who’s been filling in for Lee as he recovers. Lee also started “Home Sweet Home” off by demonstrating his skills on the keyboard. The band, aware of the time constraints, wasted no time powering through their hits. “Shout at the Devil,” “Dr. Feelgood,” and “Girls, Girls, Girls” were all present. On the vertical stage screens, the band showed themselves through the years, with clips from previous tours, studio footage, and more. The closed the seven hours of music with an amped-up “Kickstart My Heart.” They also teased new music is coming in 2023 with text on the screens. This tour — this stacked bill, in particular — is not to be missed. Every act displayed what has kept fans coming back for 40-plus years. Eighties hard rock is the music of an entire generation. A generation that defined themselves by their favorite bands. And whether they were singing longingly with “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” thrashing their head as Joan Jett freed herself from cares about a “Bad Reputation,” or blasted off with Def Leppard in a “Rocket,” it was clear that for the tens of thousands of fans in Philly, they will always be connected to the music. Source
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 6:35:04 GMT -8
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 6:35:46 GMT -8
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Post by diva on Jun 26, 2022 6:42:29 GMT -8
Funny how Crue fans see a completely different show. They need to be grateful about this tour with Leppard or their band would have stayed retired. They’ll retire again when this tour is over while the Leps will continue to release new music and keep touring. The Leps aren’t relying on scantily clad much younger women on stage either to make their show more exciting. Considering how badly the Crue aged, it’s creepy having these young women on stage with them.
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 6:52:07 GMT -8
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 7:01:22 GMT -8
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 7:02:04 GMT -8
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 8:16:57 GMT -8
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 9:44:42 GMT -8
Love this kind of video!
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Post by savagegroove on Jun 26, 2022 10:58:01 GMT -8
Funny how Crue fans see a completely different show. They need to be grateful about this tour with Leppard or their band would have stayed retired. They’ll retire again when this tour is over while the Leps will continue to release new music and keep touring. The Leps aren’t relying on scantily clad much younger women on stage either to make their show more exciting. Considering how badly the Crue aged, it’s creepy having these young women on stage with them. I agree with all of this. It makes me ill to see Crue fans so outright disrespect Lepp. Crue makes me physically ill on so many levels. If they were able to put on a decent show then that would be one thing. Too many Crue fans are just plain upset that Lepp are bothering with new songs. One guy said this was an 80s tour only and Lepp needs to change their set to play only 80s music. I reminded the guy this was called “The Stadium tour”. Not the 80s cruise. Sorry. When a band has had hit albums in each of the last five decades, they can play what they want. We know who will come out on top. What’s on stage will do the talking for us.
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Post by CindyJ on Jun 26, 2022 13:34:37 GMT -8
Nearly 7 hours of heavy metal from Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and many more in South PhillyThe headbanging nostalgia-fest also featured Poison and Joan Jett playing '80s hits on a sweltering June day at Citizens Bank Park. by Shaun Brady, For The Inquirer After a two-year wait, 90-degree heat wasn’t about to discourage the hard-rock faithful from turning out to Citizens Bank Park on Saturday for the straightforwardly named Stadium Tour. The monster package tour, co-headlined by Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard with marquee-value support from Poison and Joan Jett, was originally scheduled for the summer of 2020, then postponed twice for reasons that are by now all too familiar. “You can’t kill Mötley Crüe,” declared bassist Nikki Sixx during the band’s closing set, nearly seven hours after the show had kicked off. “More importantly, you can’t cancel Mötley Crüe.” It’s not clear that anyone has been trying to other than the band members themselves. When they last played Philly, at the Wells Fargo Center in 2015, the show was billed as the band’s Farewell Tour. Granted, retirements never seem particularly permanent in the rock world, but the Crüe had taken the typically over-the-top step of signing a so-called Cessation Of Touring Agreement to make the finality legally binding. Then, after the 2019 Netflix biopic The Dirt suddenly made the fading rockers relevant to a new generation of fans, they took the even more typically over-the-top step of physically blowing the contract up. Vince Neil’s vocal performance now at 61 was an improvement on his 2015 appearance, when he sounded atrociously out of shape, wheezing and mumbling through much of the set. On Saturday his thin voice pitched into a shrill shriek in the higher range (and was somewhat buried in the thundering mix to compensate), but he kept pace and even summoned some of the piercing vigor of old on classics like “Live Wire” and “Looks That Kill.” Drummer Tommy Lee also appeared to be on the mend after breaking four ribs just before the tour began. While Lee reportedly played only four or five songs on earlier shows, he was behind the kit for nearly half of Crüe’s set in Philly, splitting the gig with Tommy Clufetos, drummer on Black Sabbath’s most recent reunion tour. Lee also played piano for the hit ballad “Home Sweet Home” on a rampway projecting from the stage into the crowd. Def Leppard didn’t shy away from nostalgia — nearly half of the British band’s set was culled from their biggest album, 1987′s Hysteria — but they were the one band of the day that transcended it. (Even young Los Angeles band Classless Act, which played the thankless 3:45 p.m. opening set for a sparse crowd of early arrivals, was an energetic throwback to a Sunset Strip golden age.)
For the most part, an audience member who’d been cryogenically frozen at the first mention of the word “grunge” in the early ‘90s could’ve awoken on Saturday and still sung along with virtually every song of the day. But Leppard actually included four songs from their new album, Diamond Star Halos, which meshed perfectly with the classics.
The band’s refusal to concede that its best days are in the past went a long way toward making Def Leppard’s set the standout of the day. The voice of 62-year-old frontman Joe Elliott sounded virtually untouched by the decades, while the band threw itself into vital performances of career-spanning material, from “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak” and “Rock of Ages” to “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and power ballad “Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad.”
The five-piece band moved to the rampway for an acoustic mini-set that included Elliott’s solo rendition of “Two Steps Behind” and the country-tinged new song “This Guitar.” The mega-hit anthem “Pour Some Sugar On Me” brought audience members to their feet as the sun set for a rousing run of songs that ended Leppard’s appearance with “Photograph,” accompanied by vintage snapshots of the band.While Poison’s dopey sex-and-party glam has always fallen short of its peers, the band can’t be faulted for enthusiasm. Bret Michaels remains the consummate frontman, winning over the still-filling stadium with irrepressible charm throughout the band’s hourlong set. Michaels leaned hard on the band members’ Pennsylvania roots, name-checking Pottsville and Harrisburg while drummer Rikki Rockett sported a Phillies jersey. The midafternoon set drew entirely from Poison’s first three albums, flashing images from hairspray-laden early videos as the band played exuberant renditions of “Talk Dirty To Me” and “Nothin’ But a Good Time.” A video set to Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl” provided a brief history of Joan Jett before the 63-year-old rocker’s 4:30 p.m. set, from her early days in the Runaways to her 2015 induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Struggling with her guitars in the sweltering heat, the Wynnewood native presented the most raw rock performance of the day, tearing through “Cherry Bomb,” “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” and “Bad Reputation,” among other hits, with her black-clad band The Blackhearts. Source
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Post by andylgr on Jun 27, 2022 6:31:53 GMT -8
I absolutely love videos from the bands POV, imagine looking out on to a crowd like that every night.
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