Def Leppard-Classic or Dud

(in real life that is, not on a forum thread like this)

idk this is a capt obvious observation but maybe it depends on who you hung out with and the kind of music you consumed?

they were hugely popular to me as a kid & teen into early 90’s, i knew lots of people who liked them growing up especially in Hysteria times: less so in college when brash glam rock got deeply uncool really quickly

the genre they operated in never exactly had the support of the rock crit establishment

They're all over classic rock radio, I listen to them with a decent amount of frequency. Loads of kids in the middle school are wearing their tees, which may have more to do with successful licensing (for some reason it's mostly Adrenalize tees) and parents trying to keep up with the throwback styles but it's not nothing.

xxp Oh I don't mean then, I meant more like the past ten years or so. I actually haven't listened to classic rock radio ("The Drive" in Chicago) in a decade, but that's a pretty seismic shift if they're on there now.

"The Drive" LOL

In Atlanta, it's "The River."

In Denver, it's "The Mountain."

I would think "The Drive" would be more appropriate for L.A.

Lake Shore Drive! I think it made perfect sense if you lived around Chicago, but yeah I know what you mean.

Someone in another thread mentioned "The Blimp."

The Hub

But Boston seems to snob-provincial to do it. Ain’t lived there in 30+ yrs so I don’t know who is playing Peter Wolf deep trax

also “too”

(tbf i dig the right j geils and cars, so, eh… jam on Hub FM if u exist)

i leave aero to aero, i don’t know

I hear at least eight or so of their songs all the time.

I was playing some of their early NWOBHM-era stuff recently, you could see how they got big when most of their contemporaries didn't. Even back then they were way more professional and charismatic than, say, Praying Mantis (sorry lads), and also willing to write blatant efforts at making inroads into the US market like this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTwEfAwX3ig