Maybe it's time to ask bring Petey back into the fold. The guy cowrote a lot of the stuff on their earlier albums and might be able to bring something fresh to the band.


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Def Leppard doesn't "rock" anymore so why would they need Pete?


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Anything to get them back to being edgey. GJust nothing in your face about them the last few releases. It's alright if they're doing something with Taylor Swift but if by themselves, they need to get back to something akin to a bitches and beer mentality.


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Surprisingly, I enjoyed Yeah! (for what it was) and some of SFTSL....but it just ain't Def Lep.


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i think Pete Willis and Phil Collen would be a great combo, but rumour has it that Pete doesn't play much anymore. i personally never thought that Vivian Campbell brought that much to DL and thats hard to write considering ima huge DL fan


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They definitely need some kind of shot in the arm, that's for sure. I thought Euphoria was such a triumphant return to form, but they never seemed to capitalize on that musically.


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Irwin M Fletcher wrote:

i think Pete Willis and Phil Collen would be a great combo, but rumour has it that Pete doesn't play much anymore.

I know I'm responding to an old thread but I'm a Pete Willis fan...or more accurately, I'm a fan of the Clark/Willis era of Def Leppard. High-n-Dry was their masterpiece! That album was so full of energy it was unbelievable! In-your-face HARD ROCKING guitars and Joe's screaming lyrics really got the adrenaline pumping....man, those were the days!

The soft, pop, lovesick crap they put out these days in just an embarrassment to the name of Def Leppard. Losing Pete really sucked because a lot of the harder stuff came from him but I understand their reasoning for letting him go (no pun intended.) If you are an asshole drunk, either shape up or ship out, and that's what happened, he screwed himself out of the band.

I often wonder what a Clark/Willis version of the band would be like today? Pyromania was the start of the "softening up" of their sound but I seriously doubt they would've turned into the pansies that Def Leppard is today if Clark/Willis were still around.

Vivian Campbell's contributions are pretty much worthless in my opinion. The only thing he does well is play Steve Clark's parts. His creative input is crap.

Joe's singing these days is a perfect example of what happens when a male gets his testicles cut off.

Before people say "a band has to keep evolving" I say...fine...but why does "evolving" mean "getting softer" in Def Leppard's case? Look at AC/DC, they've NEVER changed their sound and yet their latest album is a multi-million dollar seller! There's a reason for that, you know what you're getting with an AC/DC album, straight out, hard rock-n-roll! No softening their sound and they are doing just fine these days!

while high and dry is one of my all time favorite def lep albums I think they will gladly take the success of pyromania, hysteria and adrenalize over high and dry.

i prefer my def lep harder as well but it just aint in the cards right now.....i do think a few of the songs on sparle lounge rocked pretty well.

Being DL is one of my all time fav bands, I hate to say it but JE needs to hang it up.

His voice is shot.

But I agree, if you are gonna go on, bring back pete. I always thought they should after SC died.

The do need to get back to bitches and beer. JE needs to start a diet and work out with PC as he obviously stays in shape. Joe looks fat and needs to feel good to sing good.

They need some back up vocals too, they don't cut it like they use to.

WalrusOct9 wrote:

They definitely need some kind of shot in the arm, that's for sure. I thought Euphoria was such a triumphant return to form, but they never seemed to capitalize on that musically.

Euphoria was an excellent cd.

bru87tr wrote:

Euphoria was an excellent cd.

I only cared for 2 songs off of Euphoria...Paper Sun and Day after Day. Disintegrate wasn't bad, the rest were crap.

joe soudns fine on CD but has been "shaky" live since the hysteria tour.....there have been times he sounds pretty decent live and other times he sounds bad but he is the frontman of leppard and I think he will be for a long time.