October 3rd, 2003
@ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
As soon as I found out that this show was added to the tour I knew I had to go! I kept checking for tickets but I wanted to be really close, so I held out. I passed some decent tickets in hope for something better later on. The day of the show Ticketmaster was pulling up seats in the back, so I decided to go to the box office at the venue. I was extremely nervous driving all the way out there with no ticket. When I got there the guy said he had one ticket in Orchestra 2 left, so I snatched it up. It was in Row X, the last row of the section, but oh well. That�s better than a Loge seat, and definitely better than nothing!
I drove to the venue with a friend from online, and we met up with a few of her friends. We all had seats all over the place. The opener was Ricky Warwick. He wasn�t bad, and his set was only about a half hour. Vivian joined him on guitar for one song.
Finally Def Leppard hit the stage at about 8:20PM! They played all the usual favorites and the hits. It was especially cool to hear �Action� and �Let it Go� in the set. Def Leppard has a lot of �crowd� songs, and no matter how many times I�ve listened to them on CD, those songs are so much fun to hear live with a crowd! People were singing all night, well, at least to the lyrics that they knew and could understand.
They only played two songs from X, which were �Four Letter Word� and �Now.� One song from Slang, the title track. People around me thought it was a new song. One song from Euphoria, �Promises.�
During the show in 1996 before �2 Steps Behind,� Joe mentioned how the video was shot in LA. He did the same thing for this show as well. He also mentioned that Vivian lives about 5 minutes down the road.
I was surprised to see such a full house! I didn�t see any empty seats around me, and there were people all the way to the back. It was fun seeing Def Leppard again with an active crowd!