There comes a point in most bands’ lives at which their appeal has become too selective for them to sell out the venues they feel befit their status. The stadium band slips down to the arenas, the arena band to theatres, the theatre band to clubs. If you depend on the roar of thousands of people for validation, that creates some problems: if a power chord is played in an arena, and no one is there to hear it, does it even exist?

The answer is the package tour. Pull together two or three bands (both these shows had a third, complimentary act on the bill) and sell tickets to different fan bases. The results can be spectacular: Def Leppard got themselves back into stadiums by touring as a twofer with first Journey and then with Mötley Crüe (none of those bands can play stadiums as the undisputed headliner any longer), and they’re rightly and absolutely unapologetic about it.

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