Great Show!

[WDWFREAK53]

Well, I got asked if I wanted to go see Bryan Adams and Def Leppard (don't laugh) and I took the tickets. The concert didn't take place in the standard venue for this area...it actually took place in a very minor league baseball field. It was general admission for everybody and, despite the weather, was a great show! No, there weren't any fancy lasers, video screens, or even "concert lighting." Why was it a great show? Well, Bryan Adams came out and rocked it (he did play Everything I Do and Heaven but for the most part it was his faster, upbeat stuff). Def Leppard takes the stage (I had seen the Live8 footage of them and was NOT impressed at all...very disappointed actually) and they put all of the "lovey dovey smoochy woochy" crap on the back burner and played like they had just took the stage for the first time in their life. It seemed as if they were out to prove something, and they did.

I definitely recommend this show...like I said, it's almost as if it was thrown together with a really cheap budget and the performers were "bored" with their lives...so they just decided to go out and have some fun.

Best songs of the night:
Bryan Adams: Can't Stop This Thing We Started
Def Leppard: Bringing on the Heartbreak

I love concerts that are almost "Greatest Hits" shows.

 

[TAC]

They were in Camden (across the river from Philly) in, as you said, the minor league ballpark. It was Friday night, July 1st. I didn't go, but there was one heck of a thunderstorm that afternoon, but the concert went on as scheduled.

I think the tickets were $10 ?

 

[Computer Magic]

Sounds like a great show. I love 80's music.

 

[Computer Magic]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I just went out and did a search.[/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Def Leppard And Bryan Adams Bring Major League Rock 'N Roll To America's Minor League Baseball Parks This Summer On Cross-Country "Rock 'N Roll Double-Header" Tour

This summer, Def Leppard and Bryan Adams will give the phrase "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" a whole new meaning as they co-headline the Rock 'N Roll Double-Header Tour. Two of the most popular rock acts to ever take the stage, they will team up for the first time and perform at 26 minor league baseball stadiums. The rock 'n roll season opens June 1st in Portland, OR at the home of the Beavers, then travels down the West Coast and through Texas before heading to the East Coast and into the Midwest where it will end the season August 10th in Lansing, MI, at the home of the Lugnuts. In each park, the stage will be set up in the outfield and fans can either bring a blanket to sit on the field or take a seat in the stands. All concerts take place on non-game days. Tickets for some markets go on sale as soon as March 12.

Bryan Adams and Def Leppard, combined, have sold more than 100,000,000 albums worldwide. Each made their album debut in 1980--and 25 years later they are still hitting homeruns as each releases a new album in 2005.

Def Leppard's place in music history? Only five rock groups can claim two original albums selling 10,000,000+ copies each in the U.S.: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Van Halen and Def Leppard. The British band's blockbuster Pyromania hit #2 and 10 times platinum; Hysteria soared even higher--#1 and 13 times platinum--led by the #1 single "Love Bites." The retrospective Vault has sold more than 7,000,000 copies worldwide. Now Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages: The Definitive Collection (Mercury/UMe), to be released May 17, 2005, marks the band's biggest-ever "best of" album and the first two-CD set in the group's phenomenal career featuring the newly recorded single, "No Matter What" (originally recorded by Badfinger).

Bryan Adams is one of the world's most highly acclaimed musicians whose career has spanned more than three decades. This spring will see the release of Adams' 14th CD, Room Service, which debuted at No. 1 on the European Top 100 Album Chart!

Adams' meteoric rise on the charts began when his album, Cuts Like A Knife landed in the Top 10. This was soon followed by the #1 charted album Reckless! With record sales in excess of 60 million worldwide, Adams' career has taken him around the world countless times as rock fans fill arenas and festivals where ever he appears. Constantly in demand, the celebrated rocker is on the road over 150 days a year playing rock n' roll favorites ("Summer of 69", "Run To You", "18 'Til I Die", "It's Only Love", "Somebody", "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You") to sold out audiences on six continents. Holder of the record for the longest running #1 hit in the history of the British charts (16 weeks), Adams' has had 4 #1 singles as well as racked up an impressive array of Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, a Grammy Award, American Music Awards, Juno Awards (Grammy equivalent in Canada) and ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards.

An accomplished photographer, Adams' current body of work will soon be seen in his new book, Calvin Klein - American Women, scheduled to debut this spring.

Details on ticket sale dates for the Rock 'N Roll Double-Header Tour will be available locally. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m.; the gates open approximately one hour in advance. The base ticket price is $45 (plus applicable service charges). For each paid adult, one child under 12 will be admitted for free.



Promoting the Rock 'N Roll Double-Header Tour is Chicago-based Jam Productions, three-time winner of Pollstar Magazine's award for Independent Promoter of the Year. Jam is the largest volume independent concert promoter in the country and was the producer of last year's Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson tour of minor league ballparks-honored by Pollstar as the year's Most Creative Tour Package.[/font]

 

[Erika]

I'm not laughing. I totally would have gone :lol:

Glad you had fun!!!

 

[wdwhoneymooner]

:sohappy: The 80's live! I'm surprised you didn't post pics of mullets in crowd,unless of course all the guys were balding because of excess mousse during their younger years ( I know alittle sumthin' about this........ :brick: )

Glad you had a good time, dude.

 

[darthdarrel]

I am not a bryan adams or deaf leopard fan, but They were in concert at the Eastlake minor leaugue stadium just down the street from me, I heard some good things about the concert! I am glad you had a fun time! :wave:

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Ya know...about the mullets. There were a few phenomenal ones (some down below the Skoal can in the back pocket!) but I got the tickets last minute and didn't have my camera with me.

I was shocked to see so many young people at this show.