1. Agree no more full albums but a Spotify single every few years if they come up with something decent is fine. If they do new music follow the formula. You are not Led Zeppelin. You aren’t Heart. You aren’t Imagine Dragons. I don’t care if you rewrite Promises and Billy’s Got A Gun 10 different ways and call it good.
I want sugar drenched catchy hooks shouty backing vocals crunchy guitar and just enough bass to make it interesting.
2. I like everything until Sparkle Lounge. I don’t like SL save for 3 songs. Nothing much after that has worked for me.
3. The whole band should be jeans and a nice button up rockstar shirt. Something age appropriate but still with some flair.
4. Tours should be NBA arenas during the Fall/Winter and B/C markets in the spring. No sheds. No stadiums. Take the summer off and recoup. I don’t think of DL as an outdoor summer band. They are a 15k arena in January band. Not sure why. Poison is the summer shed band.
5. I want big bombastic stage show but I say lasers over pyro. DL is not a blow shit up band. They are 100 a laser band. I want green lasers big LED boards and a giant logo across the stage. Some smoke or fog wafting about. I want my senses assaulted and left begging for more.
6. Use tracks. Fuck it. I want an over the top nostalgia trip. Run some tracks under Joe and Rick. I don’t care anymore. Im not elitist Eddie Trunk. I want to relive 1988 for 2 hours. New rule. If you want to tour but you sound like Grandpa Simpson. Run tracks. It’s not the end of anybody’s world.
7. 1 support act era appropriate. Just get Tesla. You don’t need anybody else.
Set. Realistic. Not my dream set but a solid everyone should leave happy kind of a set.
01 Let It Go
02 Woman
03 Slang
04 Bringin On the Heartbreak
05 Love and Affection
06 Work It Out
07 Promises
08 Hysteria/Love Bite (rotate)
09 5 Minute Steve Clark Video Tribute (so Joe can get a blow)
10 Gods of War/White Lightning (rotate)
11 Foolin
12 Rock of Ages
13 Guilty/Paper Sun (rotate)
14 Pour Some Sugar On Me
15 Die Hard The Hunter
16 Lady Strange
Encore
17 Photograph
Spongie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:26 am
Hate one of your old favorite bands? Gentlemen, we can rebuild them. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic band.
Let’s see, I’ll pick Def Leppard. 80’s legends and a significant part of the soundtrack of my adolescence, but they’ve been toast for at least 25 years.
Time to go to work…
Step 1. Don’t ever release another album.
2. Scrub every record since Euphoria from the internet.
3. Buy Phil like 17 shirts.
4. The whole band needs to stop dressing like drag queens… apply dirty rock ‘n roll makeover… no sequins, and burn Joe’s Debbie Gibson hat.
Onto the live show…
5. Add a two-armed drummer on a real kit. Rick can stay onstage ***IF*** his toy electro drums remain unplugged.
6. Venues: indoor arenas only.
7. Stage production: HUGE. No lasers, some lights and a fuck ton of pyro. I also want to see Iron Maiden-level stage props. The show needs to be visually spectacular.
8. Showtime not to exceed 90 minutes.
9. Absolutely no solos.
10. Absolutely nothing acoustic.
Now on to the set list…
Photograph
Stagefright
Let it Go
Another Hit and Run
High ‘n Dry
You Got Me Runnin’
Lady Strange
Love and Affection
Guilty
Hysteria
Gods of War
Promises
>>>ENCORE<<<
Comin’ Under Fire
Bringin’ on the Heartbreak
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Do ALL that, and MAYBE I’ll revisit a show.
