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Old 11-01-2015, 10:50 PM
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Default Def Leppard influences on Bon Jovi

Def Leppard fans like to say that Bon Jovi basically stole their sound in the 80s and then ended up being more popular. This is interesting to me because to me the only BJ album that sounds like Def Lep to me is 7800 Fahrenheit. As a DL fan myself, (yes, I like Bon Jovi better) I've thought about this a lot and compared their 80s albums - I can clearly hear the Pyromania influences on a lot of those 7800 Fahrenheit songs. After that though, it seems to me like Bon Jovi really found their groove with SWW and the two bands went their separate ways stylistically. Hysteria sounds nothing like SWW or NJ. If anything one could argue that "Sugar" ripped off "Bad Name." I know Jon has said that he was trying to make his own Pyromania back then and that he really admired the guys in DL, but like I said, 7800 Fahrenheit seems like the only album that really sounded anything like DL. Thoughts?
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