RARE Def Leppard Fresno 1980 Live Video - Lady Strange and Wasted

Def Leppard opening for The Pat Travers Band at the Warnors Theater in Fresno,California.. May 21st,1980 by TheBootzking **All copyrights and trademarks are property of their respective owners. I assume no ownership or rights to (said) properties**

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• def leppard
• 1980
• rare
• video
• live
• lady strange
• wasted
• taylor swift
• lady gaga

[Rbutterworth2]

Absolutely classic....fantastic find....Steve really tearing it up.....Leppard was over the day he died....for them, it truly was the day the music died........what is worse, is they show very little respect to the true musician that put them on the music map.....

[Archive625]

@Rbutterworth2 wrong on many levels. As great as Steve was he never wrote many actual full songs. He wrote riffs. The main song writers in def leppard were and always have been Joe, Sav and Phil and Vivian since 92. The songs became great when songs were written. As for not showing Steve respect what are you basing that on? Remember Steves death was painful for them as well and talking about it over and over again cannot be an enjoyable experience.

[OffbeatMarkie84]

Early Def Leppard was awsome, and in my opinion way ahead of it's time writing wise, and not to mention they were all more or less teenagers.

[OFR]

PETE WILLIS - love his playing!

[nycalling72]

@Archive625 Then it's too bad Phil Collen and Vivian can't write a decent riff then. Leppard started to suck once Clark's descent into alcoholism killed his riff making. Well, that and Hysteria.

[06ruiz]

I too was at this show, and was born and raised in Fresno. Now i want somebody to find the footage from when Ozzy played here with Randy Rhodes. I was at that show too!

[willweagraff]

OH YEAH AND THE PAT THRALL SOLO WAS AWSOME HERE BUT I GREW UP WITH HIGH AND DRY MY FAV LEPPARD ALBUM BRINGS BACK MY YOUTH IN SUNNY FLA FOR SURE

[centredivider]

Live footage of live pre-"Pyromania" Leppard is extremely scarce and I've been hitting up YouTube at least once a year to see if anything new from that era has popped up. Today, not only did I come across a killer find... but I'm from Fresno.

BIG THUMBS UP AND THANK YOU.

[PosiFwd]

AWESOME! I saw them in Los Angeles on that tour, I saw the ORIGINAL Def Leppard, like here with Pete Willis...ah, I remember sitting with my cousins listening to All Through The Night on a little cassette player when no one knew them ;) and Rick Allen..well..yeah

[SuzeM89]

@Archive625 Actually Joe has admitted that Steve had a hand in writting lyrics, but he was way better at riffs. And, he's the reason why you have this "rare" footage. They'd still be in that old spoon factory if he hadn't threatened to walk away from the band.

[thereinr2]

THIS IS FUCKING GOLD

[DickDeff1]

the proof is obvious def lep could and did rock as far as im concerned this is the best they gave us High n Dry F...kin kicks ass

[JDL2112]

That was sweet!!! Great upload man!!!