Here come the summer "package" tours...Def Leppard and Journey

[twonabomber]

And not at the typical summer sheds, Def Leppard and Journey are hitting arenas and baseball parks:

5/21 - Hartford, CT @ XL Center
5/23 - Albany, NY @ Times Union Center
5/25 - Hershey, PA @ Hershey Park Stadium
5/26 - Buffalo, NY @ Key Bank Center
5/28 - Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena
5/30 - Cincinnati, OH @ US Bank Arena
6/1 - Toronto, ON @ Rogers Center
6/2 - Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Arena
6/5 - Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
6/6 - Knoxville, TN @ Thompson-Boling Arena
6/8 - Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
6/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
6/13 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
6/15 - Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
6/16 - Baltimore, MD @ Royal Farms Arena
7/1 - Atlanta, GA @ Sun Trust Park
7/3 - Indianapolis, IN @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse
7/4 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
7/6 - Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum
7/7 - Little Rock, AR @ Verizon Arena
7/9 - Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
7/11 - Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum Center
7/13 - Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park
7/14 - Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field
7/16 - Wichita, KS @ InTrust Bank Arena
7/18 - Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Center
7/19 - Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank Arena
7/21 - Denver, CO @ Coors Field
7/23 - Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena
7/25 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
7/27 - Minneapolis, MN @ Target Field
7/28 - Fargo, ND @ Fargo Dome
8/11 - Boston, MA @ Fenway Park
8/13 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Farm Bureau Live
8/15 - Columbia, SC @ Colonial Life Arena
8/17 - Ft Lauderdale, FL @ BB&T Center
8/18 - Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
8/20 - Birmingham, AL @ Legacy Arena @ BJCC
8/22 - Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
8/24 - St Louis, MO @ Busch Stadium
8/25 - Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
8/27 - New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
8/29 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
8/31 - San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center
9/1 - Houston, TX @ Honda Center
9/3 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Chesapeake Energy Arena
9/5 - Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
9/7 - Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Arena
9/8 - Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
9/21 - San Francisco, CA @ AT&T Park
9/23 - San Diego, CA @ Petco Field
9/25 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena
9/26 - Boise, ID @ Taco Bell Arena
9/28 - Portland, OR @ Moda Center
9/29 - Seattle, WA @ The Gorge
10/1 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
10/3 - Sacramento, CA @ Golden One Center
10/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
10/6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum

[Seshmeister]

Oh joy Def Leppard are playing the whole of Hysteria.

Finally people will get to watch them mime to a backing tape of 'Love and Affection'...

[FORD]

Always cracks me up when they list The Gorge as "Seattle". It's literally on the other side of the mountains and 3 hours away, for fucks sake.

Not that I'm going to be making the trip for that show. Now... if I could take Doc Brown's DeLorean back to a double bill of Def Leppard with Pete Willis & Journey before Paula White's husband ruined the band, that might be another story.

[twonabomber]

Oh joy Def Leppard are playing the whole of Hysteria.

Finally people will get to watch them mime to a backing tape of 'Love and Affection'...

I see Phil Collen is on this year's G3 tour. I haven't been able to find who else is in his band.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

They've got some balls booking several stadiums....

I'm sure it would be a decent night at the amphitheater here, sitting on the lawn with a few brews, but they're gonna be hard-pressed to fill a baseball stadium.....

[Nickdfresh]

They'll probably fill the Key Bank Center here, mainly because nothing else will be going on. I can't say I'm excited about seeing replace-a-member, prosthetic-Journey, but I wouldn't mind seeing Def if they didn't have a giant backing track going...

[Kristy]

And not at the typical summer sheds, Def Leppard and Journey are hitting arenas and baseball parks

This is what I hate so much about your cretin generation. You don't know when you go the fuck away. You just keep on keeping on recycling yourselves. ""Classic rock" is fucking dead.

[Seshmeister]

Kristy just because you were at college with them doesn't make you a millennial.

Tough shit but you are Generation X like the rest of us (apart of course from Zahzoo who is a baby boomer).

[Seshmeister]

I see Phil Collen is on this year's G3 tour. I haven't been able to find who else is in his band.

Is he not still playing with this woman?

[vandeleur]

That’s funny, the guy deserves kudos for not laughing or pulling funny solo faces

[Terry]

They've got some balls booking several stadiums....

I'm sure it would be a decent night at the amphitheater here, sitting on the lawn with a few brews, but they're gonna be hard-pressed to fill a baseball stadium.....

I saw this exact double bill around ten years ago in Tampa, in an amphitheater, and it was exactly as you described: a decent night out.

Maybe the baseball stadium gigs are happening on dates where there is a 1 or 4 PM game, then the concert starts after the game: I can't imagine this double bill is strong enough to fill a 40-60,000 seat baseball stadium solely on the strength of the bands alone. The venue I saw them at ten years ago seats 20,000 at total capacity, with around 10,000 actual chair seats and 10,000 on the lawn. There was an ample amount of empty chair seats, and the lawn was nowhere near full. They drew a decent crowd, but didn't sell the place out. Tickets were still available the day of the show.

I will say, Journey put on a great show. Sounded great, played great. And this was with Jeff Scott Soto handling most of the lead vocals for them.

Def Leppard have never been, to my mind, a fantastic live band. Saw them on the Hysteria tour in the 1980s, and the stage was the most memorable thing about that. Ten years ago, it was readily obvious that Leppard were using backing tapes, which is why I had to laugh at Sesh's Love And Affection comment. In addition to the tapes, Joe Elliott was intentionally ducking all the high notes in the tunes, to the point where some of the tunes were rearranged to facilitate this (e.g. Photograph stopping at the point where he says "I wanna touch you" and lurching into another song, so as to avoid the high range elongated scream at the end).

While Journey may well still be worth seeing live, Def Leppard live really isn't anything worth anyone's time.

[twonabomber]

The biggest ballpark on that list is probably Skydome/Rogers Center. Most parks now are around 30-35k capacity. The stage will likely be in the outfield, so no bleacher seating, and maybe the sections behind light and sound towers won't be sold. Or no upper level seats sold...who knows. They won't have floor seats on the infield, what they lose in the bleachers will be on the floor.

[Nickdfresh]

LOL $131 and up for a ticket? No thank you!

Fucking U2 was half that!

[twonabomber]

Tickets here start "just under $50," as the Plain Dealer reported but I didn't look to see what they topped out at.

[vandeleur]

LOL $131 and up for a ticket? No thank you!

Fucking U2 was half that!

Hahaha , Like you have to pay to see u2