I’ve listened to all kinds of music in my time, and my interest crosses multiple boundaries of multiple genres. But for whatever reason, the head-banging screamer-rock of the late eighties and early nineties sort of escaped me.
I was once a head-banger, in the late seventies, but I had obviously mellowed out a decade later, and preferred to stick to my Phil Collins, Genesis, and Stevie Nicks, among many others.
And then, suddenly, 2019 was upon me, and my music interests were unexpectedly added to with the emergence of one of those same long-haired screamer bands onto my music radar, in the form of a live concert.
You see, Def Leppard was making a cross-Canada tour, and one of the stops was at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa. Normally, something like this would come and go without catching my attention. I mean, I had heard of Def Leppard and everything, but they’d never been a band that grabbed too much of my entertainment attention or dollars.
This is where my daughter, Avery, enters the story.
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