I assume that posting this will get me uncermoniously ousted from this forum forever and my name erased from all its historic records. Plus Nofi will say something how only a stadium-rock-warped Teutonic character like me could slip Def Leppard into a blues thread. Here we go!
To make matters worse, the young man is not only a member of, yes, Def Leppard, but also a - gulp! - Deep Purple fan. That is him on the back cover of Made in Japan (Dave: a Deep Purple album that had fleeting popularity in the 70ies), when he still had hair, the blond kid watching Blackmore (right underneath Herr Blackmore's posterior if I am not mistaken), he wasn't at the Budokan, but he was at the Rainbow Theatre in London where the pics on the Made in Japan cover are from. Collen says that this gig made him decide to pick up playing guitar, all things not only lead to, but are also spawned by Ritchie ...
Speaking of Herr Blackmore, this is the best Mistreated cover version I have so far heard. And the fact that it is sung by a man (Joe Elliott, another lep(p)er, who should by rights not be mentioned in a blues thread) and a woman (the amazing Ms Debbi Blackwell-Cook, godmother of Mrs Helen Collen, Phil's wife) gives the lyrics and the situation they describe a whole new slant. Lovely.
You may now commence posting your reprimanding reprisals!!!
