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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 11:18
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Sveiki!
Spriežot pēc DEF LEPPARD oficiālās lapas tūres saraksta 18.11.2003 grupa uzstājas Rīgā Kīpsalas Hallē. Fantastika!
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 11:45
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Kas ir Def Leppard?
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 12:36
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Def Leppard
Formed 1977 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Group Members Richard Allen Vivian Campbell Steve Clark Phil Collen Joe Elliott Rick Savage Pete Willis
Genres Rock
Styles New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Pop-Metal, British Metal, Hair Metal, Heavy Metal, Pop/Rock, Hard Rock
Tones Rousing, Refined/Mannered, Brash, Confident, Aggressive, Party/Celebratory
Labels Mercury (25), Polygram International (13), Phonogram (11), Vertigo (9), Alex (6), Universal International (4), Uptown/Universal (2)
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Def Leppard, in many ways, was the definitive hard rock band of the '80s. There were many bands that rocked harder, and were more dangerous, than the Sheffield quintet, but few others captured the spirit of the times quite as well. Emerging in the late '70s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the group actually owed more to the glam-rock and metal of the early '70s -- their sound was equal parts T. Rex, Mott the Hoople, Queen and Led Zeppelin. By toning down their heavy riffs and emphasizing melody, Def Leppard were poised for crossover success by 1983's Pyromania, but skillfully used the fledgling MTV network to their advantage. The group was already blessed with photogenic good looks, but they also crafted a series of innovative, exciting videos, which made them into stars. They intended to follow Pyromania quickly, but were derailed when their drummer lost an arm in a car accident, the first of many problems that plagued the group's career. Def Leppard managed to pull through such tragedies and they even expanded their large audience with 1987's blockbuster Hysteria. As the '90s began, mainstream hard rock shifted away from Leppard's signature pop-metal and towards edgier, louder bands, yet the group maintained a sizable audience into the late '90s and were one of only a handful of '80s metal groups to survive the decade more or less intact.
Def Leppard had its origins in a Sheffield-based group Rick Savage (bass) and Pete Willis (guitar) formed in their late teens in 1977. A few months later, vocalist Joe Elliott, a fanatic follower of Mott the Hoople and T. Rex, joined the band, bringing the name Deaf Leopard. After a spelling change, the trio, augmented by a now-forgotten drummer, began playing local Sheffield pubs, and within a year they had added guitarist Steve Clark, as well as a new drummer. Later in 1978, the recorded their debut EP Getcha Rocks Off and released it on their own label, Bludgeon Riffola. The EP became a word-of-mouth success, earning airplay on the BBC. The group members were still in their teens.
Following the release of Getcha Rocks Off, Rick Allen was added as the band's permanent drummer, and Def Leppard quickly became the subject of the British music weeklies. Soon, they signed with AC/DC's manager Petter Mensch, who helped them secure a contract with Mercury. On Through the Night, the band's full-length debut, was released in 1980 and instantly became a hit in the U.K., also earning significant airplay in the U.S., where it reached number 51 on the charts. Over the course of the year, Def Leppard relentlessly toured Britain and America, including opening slots for Ozzy Osbourne, Sammy Hagar and Judas Priest. High N' Dry followed in 1981, and it became the group's first platinum album in the U.S., thanks to MTV's strong rotation of "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." MTV would be vital to the band's success in the '80s.
As the band recorded the follow-up to High N' Dry with producer Mutt Lange, Pete Willis was fired from the band for alcoholism, and Phil Collen, a former guitarist for Girl, was hired to replace him. The resulting album, 1983's Pyromania, became an unexpected blockbuster, due not only to Def Leppard's skillful, melodic metal, but also to MTV's relentless airing of "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages." Pyromania went on to sell 10 million copies, establishing Def Leppard as one of the most popular bands in the world. Despite their success, the band was about to enter a trying time for their career. Following an extensive international tour, the group re-entered the studio to record the follow-up, but producer Lange was unavailable, so they began sessions with Jim Steinman, the man responsible for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell. The pairing turned out to be ill-advised, so the group turned to its former engineer, Nigel Green. One month into recording, Rick Allen lost his left arm in a New Year's Eve car accident. The arm was reattached, but it had to be amputated once an infection set in.
Without a drummer, Def Leppard's future looked cloudy, but by the spring of 1985 -- just a few months after his accident -- Allen began learning to play a custom-made electronic kit assembled for him by Simmons. Soon, the band resumed recording, and within a few months Lange was back on board, but once he joined the team, he judged the existing tapes inferior and had the band begin work all over again. The recording continued throughout 1986, and that summer, the group returned to the stage for the European Monsters of Rock tour. Def Leppard finally completed its fourth album, now titled Hysteria, early in 1987, releasing it that spring to lukewarm reviews; many critics felt that the album compromised Leppard's metal roots for sweet pop flourishes. The record was slow out of the starting gates -- "Women," the first single, failed to really take hold. But with the second single, "Animal," Hysteria began to take off. It became the group's first Top 40 hit in the U.K., but more importantly, it began a string of six straight Top 20 hits in the U.S., which also included "Hysteria," "Pour Some Sugar On Me," "Love Bites," "Armageddon It" and "Rocket," the latter of which arrived in 1989, a full two years after the release of Hysteria. During those two years, Def Leppard was unavoidable -- they were the kings of high school metal, ruling the pop charts and MTV, and teenagers and bands alike replicated their teased hair and ripped jeans, even when the grimy hard rock of Guns N' Roses took hold in 1988.
Hysteria proved to be the peak of Leppard's popularity, yet their follow-up remained eagerly awaited in the early '90s as the band set to work on the record. During the recording, Steve Clark died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Clark had long had a problem with alcohol, and following the Hysteria heyday, the band forced him to take a sabbatical; he did enter rehab, but to no apparent effect. In fact, his abuse was so crippling that Collen had to play the majority of the guitar leads on Hysteria. Following Clark's death, Def Leppard resolved to finish its forthcoming album as a quartet, releasing Adrenalize in the spring of 1992. Adrenalize was greeted with mixed reviews, and even though the album debuted at number one and contained several hit singles, including "Let's Get Rocked," "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" and "Make Love Like a Man," the record was a commercial disappointment in the wake of Pyromania and Hysteria. After the release of Adrenalize, the group added former Whitesnake guitarist Vivian Campbell.
In 1993, Def Leppard released the rarities collection Retro Active, featuring a new single, "Miss You in a Heartbeat," which scraped the lower reaches of the Top 40. Two years later, the group released the greatest hits collection Vault while preparing their sixth album. Slang arrived in the spring of 1996, and while it was more adventurous than its predecessor, it was greeted with indifference, proving that Leppard's heyday had passed, and they were now simply a very popular cult band.
Undaunted, Leppard soldiered on, returning to its patented pop-metal sound for Euphoria, which was released in June of 1999.
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 14:10
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Nezinītim...
Nekad vairs neraksti "..kas ir Def leppard..". Tad jau Tu esi piedzimis uz mēness un tur nobiji vismaz pēdējos 20 gadus.
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Dianochka
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 15:52
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Tommy
Kāpēc tu uzskati,ka grupu,kuru zini TU ir jāzina visai pasaulei?
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 16:38
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Dianochka
Es tā nedomāju, ka tās visas grupas, kuras zinu es ir jāzin visiem, nedomāju, ka vajag no tā zināt kaut 1%, bet DEF LEPPARD ir pārdevuši pasaulē simtiem miljonu disku un ir zvaigznes Madonas, Jackson lielumā. Piedod, tādus vajag zināt, nevis vīpsnāt..tipa gudrinieks atradies.
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 17:00
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DEF LEPPARD ir pārdevuši pasaulē simtiem miljonu disku un ir zvaigznes Madonas, Jackson lielumā.
Piekritu Tommy, bet Tu jau zini, kaa ir ar muusdienu jaunatni, reti kursh intereseejas par kaut ko vairaak kaa Eminem un tATu...
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 17:16 - Laboja Tommy
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Flocker
Zinu, zinu, bet man tā ir apnikusi šī nīdēšana...Tā vietā lai iepazītos ar kaut ko nezināmu, viņi uzšņāpj tādu postu, kāpēc man jāzina, tas ko es nezinu bet tu zini...Tā nav nekāda necieņas izrādīšana no manas puses, ja es šo grupu zinu un ar to lepojos. Pasaulē ir tik daudz jaunu neatklātu, interesantu un fascinējošu lietu. Vajg tik rakt.
Dianochka, human iesakiet man mūziku, kuru Jūs uzskatāt, ka man ir jādzird, es pameklēšu ja nezināšu, un ja patiks, tad pateikšos, bet nebārstieties ar pārsteidzīgiem secinājumiem. Mūsdienās vinnē tas, kuram ir vairāk informācijas.. uz priekšu. Domāju, ka arī Def Leppardos ir ko sev atrast un paturēt.
Ar cieņu,
Tommy
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 17:35
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Tommy
Es tev nebraucu virsū un neieteicu,kādu mūziku klausīties,kā arī nevīpsnāju ne par ko.Vienkārši tu uzrakstīji :"Tad jau Tu esi piedzimis uz mēness un tur nobiji vismaz pēdējos 20 gadus".Iespējams viņam nemaz nav 20 gadu...Ir grupas,kuras zina visi,bet ir tādas-kuras zina daži.Iespējams tie,kuriem ir ap 30 gadiem, labi pazīst grupu DEF LEPPARD,jo,ja es nemaldos,tā nav īpaši populāra šodien,vismaz ne plaši populāra.
Ar saviem vārdiem tu pats pirmais "uzbrauci" cilvēkam,vienkārši tu to izdarīji ļooti delikātā formā.
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 18:03
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Dianochka
Paldies, tas jau isklausās daudz sakarīgāk. Ok, varbūt Def Leppard ir jau pārgājuši savas slavas zenītu, bet tomēr maz ticams, ka tei, kas klausās mūziku, to nav nekad dzirdājuši. Mans teiciens par Mēnesi bija vairāk alegorija, nekā uzbrauciens. Nu patiešām, ja Tu sēdi pie datora, piedalies forumā, paņem googlee iemet grupas vārdu un gatavs. Tas tau ir vienkārši, nevis izgāzties ar tādu jautājumu - kas ir Def Leppard? Nepiekrīti. Tā jau drīz visi staigās apkārt un taujās pēc Mikelandželo, kurš pagājušajā gadsimtā parakstīja miera līgumu starp Franciju un Mozambiku. Sapurināties vajag. Lai dod Dievs, lai visi uzbraucieni šajā forumā būtu tik smalkjūtīgi un delikāti kā manējais, Tu ieskaties ciešāk kā dažs labs uzbrauc.
Ar cieņu,
Tommy
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# Nosūtīts: 20 Aug 2003 18:07
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Dianochka
A bet es Tev pat lūdzu, lai Tu man iesaki kādu grupu, kuru es nezinu, lai paklausos. Tā savulaik darīja Flocker, kad satikāmies rēzeknē. Uz daudzām lietām sāku skatīties pilnīgi savādāk. Zinu, ka Admins savā jomā ir specs, bet ar viņu kaut kā nesanāca savulaik satusēt.
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# Nosūtīts: 21 Aug 2003 10:24
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Tommy
Cik es sapratu,tu klausies ārzemju mūziku angļu valodā. Diez vai tev patiks krievu roks... It īpaši Nautīluss...
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# Nosūtīts: 21 Aug 2003 10:56
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Dianochka
Nē, tā nemaz nav, ka klausos tikai angliski. Zini, nesen man ieteica paklausīties vienu krievu grupu VOSKRESENIJE. Patika, un pat ļoti. Nautilus zinu tikai agrīnos gadus, tagad vai tik šī grupa nav izjukusi un tās vietā Butusovam ir JUPITER. Vai es kaut ko jaucu. No tiem laikiem atceros, ka patika KINO, CHORNIJ OBELISK, CROSSROADS un citi. Vai Nautilusam pēdējos gadus (pēc kāda 92)bija ieraksti? Tie paši Bi 2 viens otrs gabals tīri labs.
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# Nosūtīts: 21 Aug 2003 11:19
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Tommy
Jā,Nautiluss jau ilgu laiku kā ir pajucis.Butusovs taisa ierakstus tagad ar Deadushki.Tīri tā neko.Tomēr man šī grupa(vecā) patīk un es to klausos.Par Bi-2 - manuprāt viņi ir diezgan vienveidīgi.Biju uz rok diskotēku Jaunā Viļņa ietvaros,godīgi sakot,pirmās dziesmas vēl neko,bet tālāk gribējās aizmigt.Viņiem tagad ir jauna dziesma,liekas pesok skvozj palci,neatceros-tāda pati kā visas iepriekšējās. No4nije snaiperi-interesants aranžējums ar vijoli.
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# Nosūtīts: 21 Aug 2003 11:31
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Pēdējo grupu ko Tu minēji laikam gan neesmu dzirdējis. Jā Bi 2 ir konjuktūristiski. Viens gabals gan man patika, tas duets..."Moi rokenrol" vai kaut kas uz to pusi.
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# Nosūtīts: 21 Aug 2003 11:50
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Tommy
Jā,kopā ar Ņierinu viņi tā neko izklausās.
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# Nosūtīts: 6 Sep 2003 13:46
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Beidzot tautai buus ko redzeet
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Tommy
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# Nosūtīts: 15 Sep 2003 10:04
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No 25.09.2003 jābūt jau pārdošanā biļetēm. 12 Ls sākumcena, 30-60 Ls VIP zonā.
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# Nosūtīts: 17 Sep 2003 11:59
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DEF LEPPARD buus 19.11.2003 nevis 18.11.2003!!! Zinjas no Makroconcert.
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Tommy
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# Nosūtīts: 17 Sep 2003 12:01
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lawless
Fuck, tā vairs nav brīvdiena!
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