[jedijovi]

Well part of the problem is that Mutt Lange is now Mr. Shania Twain so I doubt he will be back to rescue Def Lepperd- LOL! And Q-Prime Management has now picked up Shania as a client when she fired Jon Landau so I doubt they will get any more attention. I think Mutt was resonsible for their sound just as he is by and large responsible for Shania's sound- he knows how to produce hits. Bon Jovi on the other hand may have been influenced by the hard rock bands at the time but no way are they a replica of DL- you can clearly hear the Springsteen, Southside, Van Halen, and other influences which are a combination of the Jersey shore scene and the heavy metal of the time. And they have grown with the times- while Jon and Richie write with others they have never needed a producer to create a sound for them the way Mutt Lange created the Def Lepperd sound.