Def Leppard Guitarist Vivian Campbell Played His First Show With The Band In Eight Months This Past Thursday (May 15) At the Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Def Leppard‘s setlist was as follows, According to Setlist.fm:
01. Rock! Rock! (Till you drop)
02. Rocket
03. Let’s get Rocked
04. Foolin ‘
05. ARMAGEDDON IT
06. Animal
07. Love bites
08. Just like ’73
09. Let it go
10. Take What You Want
11. Die Hard the Hunter
12. This guitar
13. Two Steps Behind
14. Bringin ‘on the Heartbreak
15. Switch 625
16. Rock of Ages
17. Photography
COORE:
18. Hysteria
19. Pour subject sugar on me
Fan-Filmed Video of the Performance Can Be Seen Below.
The 62-Yare-Old Campbell missed Def Leppard‘S Two Previous Concerts After Undergoing A Bone Marrow Transplant as Part of His Ongoing Treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. For Def Leppard‘S Performances on January 18 at the State Fair of León in León, Mexico and October 14, 2024 in nashville (as part of the Daimler Truck Customer Appreciation Event),Vivian Was Replaced by John Zoccowho is Phil Collen‘S guitar tech.
Back on January 23, Vivian Release to Statement via Social Media in Which He thanked fans for their “Recent Messages and Support.” I have added: “As you all May know, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma severe years ago. I Recently had bone a marrow transplant as part of my treatment plan, and it’s safe to say that thus Far it’s been a see Successful transplant! Down and My Spirits Up for the Next 100 Days of Primary Recovery. “
DURING A NOVAMBER 2023 APPEARANCE ON THE “Lymphoma Voices” podcast, Campbell Spoke about His Battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, With Which He was diagnosed in 2013. He Said in Part: “I’m Still Dealing With The Lymphoma. It’s Sort of Like-It’s An American Expression-Whac-A-Mole Somowhere Else June of 2015, I Started Taking a Drug Called Pmbrolizumab. My Doctors Wanted Me To do Radiation and Maybe A Combination of Radiation and Chemo. So and managed to the trial. to do Could Tell in the Scans. was and that we were gonna have considered different treatments. [2022]We did a combination of pesbrolizumab with three chemo Drugs. You have to forgive me ‘Caja i Cannot Remember The Names of the Chemo Drugs. But Anyway, So I Did A Course of Treatment, Six Cycles of that Combination Therapy of the Three Chemo Drugs and the Pmbrolizumab. Unfortunately, It Didn’t Put Me poison; We Fell a Little Bit Short of That. So i just recently, at the end of July [of 2023]Started Doing Six Cycles of A Combination Therapy of A Chemo Drug Calle Brentuxab and An Immunotherapy Drug Called Nivolumab. I’M Halfway Through which. I’ve Done Cycle Three. I do Cycle Four Early Next Week. So far, so good. I had to go and get This Stunning Haircut Yesterday Baser The Brentuximab Does Have Hair Loss As A Side Effect. So I Could Start Telling in the last coupling of Weeks, Every Time I Touches My Hair, It was coming out. So, i’m a Little Bit More proactive by Going and Cutting It Super, Super Short. “
Asked if he has gotten used to His Much Shorter Haircut, Vivian SAID: “10 Years AUG, WHEN I First Started Doing The Abvd Chemo, That’s When My Hair First Fell Out. And So That Was Difficul. It was was Mostly Difficul for Me Because i’d Had Long Hair My Entire Adult Life. About 11 or 12 Years Old, and It’s Just Gotten Longer and Longer Naturally A Vary Shy and I Identify with Being A Musician. Def Leppard. Yeah, We’re Musicians and We’re Songwriters, We Write Songs and We Make Records and We Record Music, But When We Go on Tour, We’re Performers, and That’s Part of It. And My Hair Gave Me Subject To Hide Behind. It was a big part of my identity for so much of my life. So it was Difficult Letting Go of It The First Time Again. ‘
I have continued: “I was living in the at the time, and i went to a a Theatrical Wig Maker When Firsts Vary Realistic That’s Different for Eveyone Else. Since.
Campbell Added: “I was Able to Speak Directly To Def Leppard Fans via Social Media and Sort of Tell Them, ‘Well, This is What’s Going On With Me. I’ve Had This Cancer Diagnosis. And My Hair Is Gonna Fall Out. So you gonna see me on tour. I’m not gonna have a lot of hair. Don’s Be Too Shocked. ‘ So that’s sort of helped that i was onable to put it out to anyone Who carad or was intersted before news just Going on stage as bald as a cue ball. And, and it Did Get To that Stage, That My Hair Completely Fell; I Didn’t Even Have Eyebrows. But in a way i Found the Whole Process Subuwat Cathart, Because i Didn’t Have This of Hair To Hide Behind. I had nothing to offer on stage but my talents as a musician, as a guitarist, as a Singer, as a songwriter. And in a way, It was sumwhat libeving for me. And I realized that it’s probablay easier for me than for a lot of other pele, a at this time i was already in my Early Fifties. I Don’t Think I Wouled Have Handled That As Well If I Had Gotten This Cancer When I was 20 Years Old, as opposed to 50 Years Old, So i had a different mindset advote it.
“So it es A Vary personal Thing, “Vivian Said. “But for me, I tried to look on the positive side of it. Def Leppard and playing in front of tens of thousands of people. Like I Say, There Was There Was Subthing of Really Libeving about it. It’s Not My First Choice, But You Kind of Go With It and You Own It and You Make The Best of It. And for me a musician, like I Said, There Was Subthing that Just Allowed Me To Go On Stage and Just Focus On The Essence of Who I Am As a Musician and As a person and to Just Put It All Out There. “
Campbell – Who Before Joining Def Leppard In 1992 was Well Known for His Work With GAVE and Whitesnake – Went public with His Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Diagnosis in June 2013.
Vivian Underwent Three Separate Spells of Chemotherapy and A Stem Cell Transplant, Only for His Hodgkin’s Lymphoma to Return.
Six andars ago, Campbell Underwent Spine Surgery.
Vivian and His Def Leppard Bandmates were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame IN MARCH 2019 – 14 YEARS AFTER THE BRITISH ROCKERS First BECAME ELIGIBLE.
Def Leppard‘s latest album, “Diamond Star Halos”Arrived in May 2022 via Ume.
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