Tonight, was no different – the crowd was incredible and the good vibes flooded the stadium as the band cranked out 11 bonified hits, and a few new and rare tracks. The last time I caught the band live was in London before the pandemic and the arena was one of the loudest crowds Budweiser Gardens had ever had. The band uses slick graphics and gorgeous light patterns to give those songs life and substance. A Def Leppard show is about feeling the music, whether it’s a touching ballad like the new single This Guitar or anthems like the three show closers Pour Some Sugar On Me, Rock of Ages and Photograph. It had to be hard for Def Leppard to come out after such a powerful Poison performance, but Lep is a totally different type of Animal, if you will. The Stadium Tour is one of their shorter setlists, featuring about 17 tracks from albums like Hysteria, High ‘n’ Dry, Pyromania, Euphoria and Diamond Star Halos, their latest release. Def Leppard’s Joe Elliot live at Rogers Centre in Toronto 2022 – photo by Dan Savoieĭef Leppard are known for some pretty legendary shows and music – the Hysteria Tour and album is still one of the masterworks of the late 80s and there’s enough hit singles from their 12 studio albums to fill more than 2 hours in any given show. The career spanning setlist also included a couple classics from The Runaways, including Cherry Bomb, which came early in the show, and You Drive Me Wild, both from the band’s debut album in 1976. Jett, who’s now 63, still dresses in black and plays one mean guitar, but she still performs and sings like a punk rock Queen. Joan Jett and The Blackhearts were the pinnacle cool rock bands when hits like I Love Rock and Roll, Crimson and Clover and I Hate Myself For Loving You were the iconic hits on the radio. Joan Jett live at Rogers Centre in Toronto 2022 – photo by Dan Savoie He’s become the rock star fans desperately wanted and needed from him in Poison’s rising younger days. Since he announced his sobriety, he just keeps getting better and better, with more energy and stage presence than he ever had.
Singer Bret Michaels was loaded with passion and seemed genuinely thrilled to be in front of the large crowd – “This has been two years in the making to get here,” he said before they launched into the 1990 single Ride The Wind from their huge album Flesh & Blood. And with Poison it was most certainly a good time. Their shorter set was to the point with hits like opener Look What The Cat Dragged In, Talk Dirty to Me, Your Mama Don’t Dance, the ballad Every Rose Has Its Thorn and the show ender Nothin’ But A Good Time. Poison’s Bret Michaels live at Rogers Centre in Toronto 2022 – photo by Dan Savoie Poison brought the goods and exploded like never before.
Reports from other dates on the tour have claimed Poison was stealing the show, but until you saw it, you’d never believe it. This was the first show in Toronto in a few years for all the bands, but none were more excited than Poison, who came out of the gate with more energy and excitement than all of the bands combined.
Bringing back memories of the glory days of flashy rock and fist pumping beats, there were enough 80s and 90s hits to form a deluxe box set and the hot summer heat made the ol’ Rogers Centre a sweaty sauna. More than two-and-a-half years after it was announced, The Stadium Tour finally arrived at Rogers Centre in Toronto on August 8 with Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts plowing through more than six hours of hard rock fun.
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