Def Leppard [2022]

<p>It’s been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/rig-rundown-def-leppard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">eight years since Def Leppard’s Vivian Campbell and Phil Collen</a>&nbsp;met with&nbsp;<em>PG</em>&nbsp;while they were on the band’s arena-filling odyssey in 2014. Now they’re on the aptly titled Stadium Tour, playing packed mega-venues with openers Mötley Crüe, Poison, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/first-look/epiphone-joan-jett-olympic-special" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Jett</a>, delivering songs from the 12 studio albums they’ve recorded over the past 45 years. It’s quite a legacy, with “Bringin’ On the Heartbreak,” “Photograph,” “Rock of Ages,” “Animal,” “Love Bites,” and plenty more classic hits. At their June 30 show at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, John Bohlinger talked with Collen, Campbell, and their techs, Scott Appleton and John Zocco, about the guitarists’ muscular live-show arsenal.</p><p><em>Brought to you by&nbsp;</em><a href="https://ddar.io/xpnd.rr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>D’Addario XPND Pedalboard</em></a>.</p>