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to support the ''

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'' album, released in March 1992. It was their first tour without guitarist

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, who died in January 1991 while the album was recorded. Former Dio and

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guitarist

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joined six weeks before the tour began. The tour kicked off with a club show in

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on April 15, 1992. Campbell's first public appearance with the band, it was a warm-up for

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. In 1992 and early 1993, the tour was performed in the round, with the stage surrounded by the audience; a format Leppard first used on the 1987/1988 Hysteria World Tour. "We started the tour as a huge, long-haired, dressed-up,

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band," Campbell observed, "and we finished it looking like

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: wearing ratty jeans, growing goatees and cutting our hair. During the course of that fifteen-month tour, the entire musical landscape changed."

Opening acts

* GUN (Scotland) *

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Set lists

Taken from 15 April 1992 show in

# "Stagefright" # "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" # "Women" # "Too Late for Love" # "Hysteria" # "Gods of War" # "Die Hard the Hunter" # "Love Bites" # "Foolin'" # "Rock of Ages" # "Armageddon It" # "Pour Some Sugar on Me" # "Let's Get Rocked" # "Animal" # "Now I'm Here" (Queen cover) # "Photograph" # "Tear It Down" Taken from 23 June 1992 show in

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# "Stagefright" # "Tear It Down" # "Women" # "Too Late for Love" # "Hysteria" (mid-song power loss) # "Make Love Like a Man" # Phil Collen guitar solo # "White Lightning" # "Foolin'" # "Animal" # Vivian Campbell guitar solo # "Gods of War" # "Rocket" # "S.M.C." # "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (acoustic/electric) # "From the Inside" (live debut: Joe Elliott acoustic) # "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" # "Photograph" # "Armgeddon It" # "Pour Some Sugar on Me" # "Let's Get Rocked" # "Rock of Ages" Taken from 31 December 1992 show in

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# "Let's Get Rocked" # "Tear It Down" # "Women" # "Too Late for Love" # "Hysteria" # "Make Love Like A Man" # Phil Collen guitar solo # "White Lightning" # "Foolin'" # "Animal" # Vivian Campbell guitar solo # "Gods of War" # "Rocket" # "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" # "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" # "Armageddon It" # "Rock of Ages" # "Pour Some Sugar on Me" # "Love Bites" # "Photograph"

Tour dates

Touring personnel

Def Leppard "The 7-Day Weekend Tour" Itinerary (September 30-October 11). Travel Rite Itineraries: San Rafael, CA 1992. Band *

Joe Elliott Joseph Thomas Elliott (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the ...

– lead vocals, rhythm and acoustic guitar, keyboards *

Phil Collen Philip Kenneth Collen (born 8 December 1957) is an English musician who is best known as the co-lead guitarist for the rock band Def Leppard. Collen joined the band in 1982 during the recording of the ''Pyromania'' album. Before joining Def Le ...

– lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals *

Rick Savage Richard Savage (born 2 December 1960) is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist and a founder member of the rock band Def Leppard. Savage and lead singer Joe Elliott are the only two remaining original members of the band. With ...

– bass, keyboards, rhythm and acoustic guitars, backing vocals * Rick Allen – drums, backing vocals Management * Malvin Mortimer – tour managerYear End Top 100 Worldwide Tours 1992. ''Pollstar''. December 14, 1992. p 26. * Mark Spring – production manager * Dick Adams – tour accountant * Gary Perkins – stage manager * Jonathan Smeeton – lighting/set designer * Butch Allen – lighting director * Robert Scovill – sound engineer * Phil Wilkey – monitor engineer Crew * Peter Lothian – Vari*Lite programmer/operator * Barry Branford – Intellabeam technician * David Sutherland – bass technician * Tony Moon – drum technician * Stan Schiller – guitar technician * Liam Col – guitar technician * Mick Panasci – Vari*Lite technician * Stewart Felix – Vari*Lite technician * J.R. "Weasel" Engington – Dimmer technician * Joe "Keebler" Campbell – tracking technician * Ted Leamy – head sound technician * Larry Vodopivek – sound technician * David Stogner – sound technician * Mark Tooch – sound technician * Charlie Passarelli – head laser technician * Harald Kohl – laser technician * Gordon Hum – laser technician

References

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