Def Leppard, Whitesnake UK Tour

Def Leppard is touring America this summer with Tesla (I already have my tickets!) and they recently announced a European leg for winter, too. Whitesnake will provide support for the UK dates.

ICYMI: @DefLeppard and @whitesnakeblog have announced a UK tour together for this December! http://t.co/nRjpoxlJ74 pic.twitter.com/qudRTUcaIp

— Kerrang! Magazine (@KerrangMagazine) March 27, 2015

European readers can already buy pre-sale tickets via Ticketmaster. Cities include London. Manchester, Glasgow and more.

UK & Ireland! Pre-sale tickets on sale tomorrow @ 10am for #DefLeppard & #Whitesnake UK & Irish tour. Go here: http://t.co/JM3q3d6jB8

— Def Leppard (@DefLeppard) March 29, 2015

Comments

[bkallday]

Not a bad tour, at all!

[Metalboy!]

Shame Whitesnake couldn't have opened in the U.S., too. That really would have raised the level of the bill one notch above what it wound up being.

[JackT.Ripper]

metal Boy, Ripper agrees 100%! Whitesnake replacing Styx would take this show way up! Have you heard some of the tracks off the purple years? What do you think?

[Metalboy!]

Hahaha!!!, Ripper... You know who I was talking about. And, yeah, I have heard some of "The Purple Album"... I will probably download it and listen to the crap out of it.

Call it the revisionist in me. As much as I love Purple, I always thought a lot of the stuff could have had thicker, heavier and cleaner sounding guitars, something Whitesnake clearly addresses here, for better or worse, though personally, I will probably go with the former.

Leave it to Metalboy! to think it's a good idea to blasphemize the sacrosanct originals!

[Him]

Still not sold on the remakes, but going to give them some repeated listens before I cast any more judgments on them.

And I am torn on the Styx v. Whitesnake issue. In theory, Whitesnake hands down. But live? Now? You know my position on that; Coverdale is a robotic studio voice now unless something magical has happened. And things happen . . . Brian Johnson's voice--I know, totally different sounds, but--has regained its vigor after sounding burnt out for year.

Styx without DeYoung still sound good. But DeYoung still sounds good too. I'd like him back in the fold, even if the current version are more likely to pull off a good show than Whitesnake at this point. And, yes, that is because of the vocals alone. The rest of 'Snake is solid.

I guess what I am trying to say is this: I would prefer to hear a decent version of "Mr. Roboto" than a horrid version of "Slide It In."