Concert Review: Journey and Def Leppard, Starwood Amphitheatre, Nashville, TN (July 16, 2006) - Comments Page 2

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• 26 - El Bicho

  Jul 20, 2006 at 4:18 pm

  "commas outside of quotes"
  
  Where do I sign that petition? Especially when it comes to titles and lyrics.

• 27 - Glen Boyd

  Jul 20, 2006 at 4:34 pm

  Thanx for adding me to that DJR.
  
  I'm also interested in your thoughts because I so completely agreed with what you said in your review (I even linked it in mine) in what I wrote in my own. You pretty much nailed it. I just basically added a few of my own thoughts and some personal backstory.
  
  I'll look forward to what you've got to say. Holding off on the brown moldy cheese and styrofoam for now. LOL...
  
  Thanx!
  
  -Glen

• 28 - Penny

  Jul 22, 2006 at 5:54 pm

  Thank for the great review DJR.
  I do live vicariously, especially after finally seeing Def Leppard for the first time live last year. Journey is also a favourite band of mine and it's killing me that I live too far away to catch any of their concerts. My only consolation and at the same time diappointment is that Def Leppard is playing this year ALMOST exactly the same songs they played last year when I saw them. I would have felt must worse if, for example, I'd missed them doing "Waterloo Sunset".

• 29 - Scott Butki

  Jul 25, 2006 at 5:24 pm

  I missed the first reference to this
  
  #26
  El Bicho
  URL
  July 20, 2006
  04:18 PM"commas outside of quotes"
  
  Where do I sign that petition? Especially when it comes to titles and lyrics.
  
  
  but wanted to mention that I just recently learned that this is a cultural thing, i.e. teachers in England teach that commas outside of quotes is ok while teachers like me in America are teaching the opposite.
  
  I say we just, like, add, you know, more commas everywhere.
  
  Good review, DJR.

• 30 - Crutnacker

  Jul 27, 2006 at 5:09 pm

  I saw the show in Cinci. My thought... Journey -- Better Songs, uninspired playing, and the only people who appeared to really being enjoyed it were Deen and Jeff Scott Soto. Neal Schon's solos were about as wanky as I've ever heard.
  
  Def Leppard -- Rocked the house with mediocre songs. Ever since Hysteria hit, I've been convinced that they recorded the same six minute hit several times. They were more entertaining, as was their video presentation.
  
  Still, the night was a disappointment. No surprises, just the hits played as though the CD were on, complete with the same "spontaneous" moments heard on other live CDs.
  
  

• 31 - DJRadiohead

  Jul 27, 2006 at 5:16 pm

  Crut, thanks for checking out the review. I have to disagree with you about Journey having better songs, though.

• 32 - Andy

  Aug 02, 2006 at 5:45 pm

  Thanks for posting this great review -- I saw the Indy show 7/22 which apparently was similar to the Nashville show, esp. Def Leppard's song list. Two impressions to share:
  
  1) Joe Elliott has lost more than a few miles off of his fastball. On "Let's Get Rocked" to open the show, his vocals were noticeably weak. They improved as the show went on, but he still couldn't hit the high notes like he used to.
  2) Journey's set was well-received, and left the Indy crowed as energized, or even more energized, than the Def Leppard set that followed. Without Steve Perry, the set did expose the musicianship & rock background of the band. Neal Schon was great on guitars, and I shared your sentiments that the Drummer was excellent at meeting the vocal range of Steve Perry on the songs he sung.
  
  

• 33 - DJRadiohead

  Aug 02, 2006 at 5:47 pm

  "Let's Get Rocked" was the weak point at our show for Joe, as well.
  
  I think the crowd responded more to Journey's songs than to the actual band or performance of them at our show.
  
  Def Leppard- the energy was certainly better.

• 34 - KMcalbear

  Aug 25, 2006 at 3:29 am

  i saw augeri twice on the 05 tour...he's awesome. when i closed my eyes i couldn't tell the difference between he and Perry. His presence was well-recieved as well.
  
  i saw the 06 show in san diego yesterday, and hadn't heard the news about augeri's voice and Soto being the replacement. I saw it wasn't Augeri on stage and spent the first 10 min wondering what happened. Augeri was an amazing replacement for Perry; Soto isn't even a good replacement for Augeri...that said, I have to admit that my impression of Soto improved greatly after hearing how he came to be the lead vocals on the tour. Nice job given the circumstances. Great review DJradiohead

• 35 - Fake

  Jul 04, 2007 at 8:59 pm

  
  Journey = fraud... fake lead singers need to stop...

• 36 - Tab

  Jul 18, 2007 at 3:29 pm

  ..Just saw Def Leppard 2 nights ago..
  Chance of a lifetime. Free tickets. Awesome.