Def Leppard - High n' Dry

Warrior · Post by **Warrior** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:03 pm

Is anyone else familar with this over looked Heavy Metal Album released in 1981 ?.
This changed the type of music I listened to forever.
This would be in my top 5 favourite albums of all time.
Does anyone else appreciate this masterpiece?.
Their first album On Through The Night was another good album.

poserboy71 · Post by **poserboy71** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:21 pm

I'm with you.

Pete Willis RULED. Notice how the ROCKING stopped once he was booted ?

Post by **Genebaby** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:17 am

High n' Dry is a good album. I do prefer Pyromania and Hysteria though.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:39 am

surely an influence on the vinnie era kiss. look at the shirt the singer wears in 83..

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doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:41 am

I think pyromania is an influence on lick it up album in a small way. I think Eric's drums sound from Killers and creatures changed on lick it up to more of the pyromania sound. for sure vv was influenced from def lep on the vvi stuff.

Warrior · Post by **Warrior** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:16 am

poserboy71 wrote:I'm with you.

Pete Willis RULED. Notice how the ROCKING stopped once he was booted ?

I totally agree with you. Pete totally rocked and ruled. If he had of kept his drinking under control we might have had more solid rock tunes to listen too.
I still listen and enjoy some of their other albums but this is by far my favourite.

Warrior · Post by **Warrior** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:18 am

doublev2 wrote:surely an influence on the vinnie era kiss. look at the shirt the singer wears in 83..

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Yeah too true !.

birnie · Post by **birnie** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:35 pm

I havent listened to this in ages but I really did love this album.
Spent alot of time trying to learn these songs on guitar.
This one and Pyro are probably their best 2 albums.
I had(have) the TAB book which covered both of those albums.
Heaps of mistakes in it, but at least it showed you knew something if you could spot those mistakes.
Hysteria was good in the day but a little too poppy sounding now for my old ears.

mfoster · Post by **mfoster** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:33 pm

That album is just a plain..straight up...rock and roll masterpiece......by far my favorite Leppard album.....Pete Willis was fantastic !!!

Warrior · Post by **Warrior** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:59 pm

mfoster wrote:That album is just a plain..straight up...rock and roll masterpiece......by far my favorite Leppard album.....Pete Willis was fantastic !!!

Just what I wanted to hear. There is not that many of us who know about this album and its legendary status.

birnie · Post by **birnie** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 4:37 pm

I've got an LP version where the last track, No no no (awesome song). finishes on the inside circle of the album and continues going NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO,NO, NO, forever if you can stop the needle auto returning.
Pretty clever i thought

Post by **Genebaby** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:09 pm

That's pretty cool. Vinnie should have had that on the vinyl of for Invasion, the last track!!!

birnie · Post by **birnie** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:52 pm

That's what I'm talkin 'bout!

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:34 pm

yeah vv is super influenced by D.L. Funny he never mentioned it. I think Gary Moore and Van Halen were also influences from the 80s.

doublev2 · Post by **doublev2** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:35 pm

i think also the harmony backing vocals in the D.L. choruses are inspired for VVI.

metatron · Post by **metatron** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:41 am

This is my favorite Def Lep song.
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metatron · Post by **metatron** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:47 am

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