So what did you think of the show, for me it was easily one of the best gigs I've seen them do, song choice, sounds, production, performance, just spectacular
I hate to admit it but I'm at the stage now of being probably like you, a fan of this band for so long now, that I'm looking out for any noticeable diminishing capability, or going through the motions, and I saw no signs of that whatsoever, in fact quite the opposite, the band were as good as I've ever seen them, and Joe's vocals were spot on, so that frozen vocal chord problem from a few years back is well and truly gone.
Where in the stadium were you? I was right at the front on Phil's side, so we got a great view, but the low end and kick drum for motley crue, was brutal, I felt like I had been assaulted after that haha. Several people were commenting on how much better Leppard were, you could hear Joe very clearly, Vince was not quite as good.
All in all it was a superb show, top performance as you expect from Leppard. I'm trying to decide what my favourite era of guitar tones are from them so I pay particular attention to the Axe III sounds they're using now and to be honest it's very similar to their pre fractal era so that is a testament to fractal. The beauty of the Axe III of course is that they could probably re create any era sound they wanted to with that.
On a side note, I also visited Steve's grave while I was up there, something I had always wanted to do at some point. A solemn moment of course. That was a nice touch his mum and brother coming to the show, and Joe mentioning it to us all.
