Thursday, July 17, 2014

Joe Elliott Front Man Of Def Leppard

Saturday night Def Leppard invades Charlotte with KISS. From the I Heart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with front man Joe Elliott!!!!! Every countdown I hosted in the 1980's and 90's featured the music of the band I'll always give credit to for saving American "AM" radio. I was that jock doing 7 to midnight radio that was quickly losing listeners to FM. Joe Elliott and Def Leppard pounded the hell out of those mono speakers with a rhythm and riff that invited listeners to keep true to the AM station that brought them to the party. Def Leppard is currently on tour with KISS. A radio station Program Director once told me that a DJ's collection of memories is 500% different than those on the opposite side of the speakers. Listeners live life. Radio on-air talent never forget the day they dropped a needle on their first ever Def Leppard record. Every song that day forward will be nothing but albums and inside sleeves bleeding with information jocks will try to force onto a seven second song intro. And every day thereafter the imagination of the on-air talent will forever believe they could have sold the band bigger and better.

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