Love this album. Never heard it before. I’m 61 and got their first official album On Through The Night when it was released. Became an instant fan. Then when High ‘n’ Dry was released Def Lep became one of my all time favorites with Bands like AC/DC, Aerosmith, Sabbath. Unfortunately, they sold out at that time. I always wished they had held out longer. So now with this album although a bunch of the songs are on High ‘n’ Dry I finally got to hear a few more real Def Lep songs. Thank you!
Sorry you missed out! this is raw youthful ambition and drive before the eventual ruins of too much success! then you get "poor some sugar on me" yikes!
I’ve got this one on vinyl,bought it around 1984. Apparently it was never supposed to be released. It was in record stores for only a couple weeks. The band found out it was released,got pissed off and pulled it off the shelves. If you have an original copy, you’re lucky. I’m the only person ,that I’m aware of that has an original copy. Obviously other people have it. But it is a rare one.
There are even more " beyond the temple" " warchild", " tomorrow seems like yesterday. When they signed with Mercury in 1979, they did a 45 of Hello America and Wasted, both of those mixes are vastly different from the ones they did months later for the 1st album
Hopefully Def Leppard will make this album official. Very rare and hopefully they will released this album again on CD, Vinyl, and Cassettes. I love this album and totally underrated!
This is FANTASTIC !!!!! Thank you !!! Steve was/is the reason I first wanted to play music. To hear MORE of his playing is indescribable for me. Thank you !!!!!
DL was my first concert in 1982, they were rough and ready hard rockers at that time. Been a big fan since ( there's always a soft spot for the cherry buster) but I have never even read about this. Wow!
This is my 1st listen to this. I feel it's more like a demo since 4 of the 7 songs are on their 1st album. Very raw, just the way I like to hear it, Def Leppard at their best sounded better on their 1st 3 albums before crossing the line!
This was a collection of late-70s demos that the band had discontinued, though a few copies found their way to shelves. This is begging for a proper re-release!
Some songs are avaiable in the firts album “ On through the night” but the re are rarities never heard before, thank you very much... Def Leppard forever💪💪💪
I love this demo album. First Strike was issued commercially in 1984 but the band pulled It from the market due to legal complications Cause apparently It wasn’t authorized. Joe says he hated the way that it sounded.....well if you compare it to Mutt Lange productions yeah I can understand but the songs on this demo sound better than those that appear on On Through The Night. The Sorrow versión her kills the official release......actually all the versions here sound incredible. They should really release it because it sounds like a band that doesn’t need a slick production to kick ass.
I love the passion in your comments ma' man...But I must disagree about the production value between the two albums! Those tracks that were re-produced for the "On Through The Night" album, were so much better! I can understand why Joe hated the way that they sounded on "First Strike". Bigger budget, better studios, better producer(s), better engineers = better production value! Just my opinion, of course!
This album (1st Strike) basically, later became their real first album {On Through the Night}< This album (On Through...) showed what good production and a good producer can do to elevate talent. Take for example the track "When the walls came tumbling down"....The version on first strike sounds like a basement demo... But when Producer: Tom Allom and Studio Personnel, Engineer: Louis Austin and Studio Personnel, Engineer: Dick Plant got their collective hands on it. It became probably the 2nd or 3rd best song on the album (On Through...)? Juxtapose the two albums and you can clearly see the improvements! Just my opinion people. Thank You!
Rick isn't playing the drums. It's their first drummer Tony Kenning. These are demos recorded before OTTN with their first management. When Pyromania hit big the first management group tried to cash in but were quickly stopped. A few of these albums got out though. This is Def Leppard as Joe's would suggest.
No this is Rick's second recording. His first were the singles of wasted and hello America because this has the final version of wasted while the single is different
On the first day of the first month in some distant year The whole sky froze golden Some said it was the aftermath of the radium bomb While others told of a final retribution A terrible revenge of the gods
I was a tiny kid, brother came home from the navy on leave. With this casette. I stole it hahhahaha. Fucking loved it immediately. Iirc he picked it up in Germany. Same songs both sides. I wore it out in a few months. Before I had a dual deck to copy it. Ty, good shit.
Truly one of the best hard rock records, track by track, I have ever heard. I’ve played it at least once a month for the past 35 years. It’s as fresh as ever… raw and ready, I play it against anything today or since and it just slays. Love it.
I know people are enthralled with this First Strike… the novelty and knowledge of what was to come on the next three… but, the versions here are literally demoes compared to the tracks on OTTNight. Good playing and songs here… but OTTN is gargantuan comparatively.
They are awesome. I'm 52 now and crusty. They are legends in rock. To think that Rick Allens Corvette went to a scrapyard! Imagine if it was saved and sold now!
Not bad as far as late 70's demo's sound I'm sure it will be released in a box set once they retire that's how it works ain't it lmao anyway good find \m/
Came out the same year as joy divisions first album d l were the marriage of punk and metal perfect same year Chelsea with billy idol on g Came out never seen this wow purple ish maiden had already came out with soundhouse.
Answer to the master ]] What a great song that is indeed!! When they put it on the album, [[ On Through the Night ]] they polished it up a bit. I like it way better when they done it with Rick Allen. But Tony sounds great also.
Rick was on his way to being a kickass prog rock drummer! He had the skills and the hunger. That was until Mutt Lang came around and dumbed down all the chops Rick posessed. It's a darned shame! How old was Rick here... 16? If im off, it's not by much.
@@HoboRoadrunner this was recorded after the first ep and the nick recording sessions as far as my knowledge goes which would mean this is rick playing
lol. Rick had two arms for OTTN, High and Dry, and Pyromania, too. Tony has a totally different drum style than Rick- regardless of Rick's arm quantity.
I’m telling you this is Rick Allen on drums.He has been in the band since 1978. Tony kenning was only I for a short while when the leppard formed in 1977.
Really like their older stuff better,awesome!
Love this album. Never heard it before. I’m 61 and got their first official album On Through The Night when it was released. Became an instant fan. Then when High ‘n’ Dry was released Def Lep became one of my all time favorites with Bands like AC/DC, Aerosmith, Sabbath. Unfortunately, they sold out at that time. I always wished they had held out longer. So now with this album although a bunch of the songs are on High ‘n’ Dry I finally got to hear a few more real Def Lep songs. Thank you!
No dislikes, the way it was meant to be
Exactly!!
Im almost 50. Never heard this before. Never could find it cause I never heard about it. My ears have been blessed with this. Thank you sooo much!!
Sorry you missed out! this is raw youthful ambition and drive before the eventual ruins of too much success! then you get "poor some sugar on me" yikes!
It’s cause Mutt Lang producer changed up their performance definitely for the better what we heard in their latest albums 👍✌️
Gosh, the same, I'm 46 and have been a leppard fan since the late eighties, never, ever heard of this album, what a nice surprise!!
Same! I’m 57.
They should have fired Mutt, not Willis.@@garykeenan3724
Rough yet unrefined.
A rare gem indeed
I have this on vinyl, no scratches. love it! My mom bought it in Altoona when she visited there in the 80s
I’ve got this one on vinyl,bought it around 1984. Apparently it was never supposed to be released. It was in record stores for only a couple weeks. The band found out it was released,got pissed off and pulled it off the shelves. If you have an original copy, you’re lucky. I’m the only person ,that I’m aware of that has an original copy. Obviously other people have it. But it is a rare one.
If you have it handy, can you tell me what the name of the city in Iowa is? Rumor is it's my hometown of Garner.
Thanks for that fun fact!
Certainly the bands first albums are the best, I love Def Leppard
I am a HUGE fan of Def Leppard and I never knew this existed
Me either
Well now you know! 😝
There are even more " beyond the temple" " warchild", " tomorrow seems like yesterday. When they signed with Mercury in 1979, they did a 45 of Hello America and Wasted, both of those mixes are vastly different from the ones they did months later for the 1st album
OMG! Thank you for this example of these boys, especially Pete Willis, at this age.
You betcha!
Hopefully Def Leppard will make this album official. Very rare and hopefully they will released this album again on CD, Vinyl, and Cassettes. I love this album and totally underrated!
This is FANTASTIC !!!!! Thank you !!!
Steve was/is the reason I first wanted to play music. To hear MORE of his playing is indescribable for me.
Thank you !!!!!
unreal, same here!!
The best Def Leppard's Song...scusate il mio anglosassone da banchi di scuola!!!!!
DL was my first concert in 1982, they were rough and ready hard rockers at that time. Been a big fan since ( there's always a soft spot for the cherry buster) but I have never even read about this. Wow!
Their old stuff was so damn good. Thanks for this upload.
This album rules!
Holy crud! O_o this is new to me! Just enjoying it now. A big thx from this Def Leppard fan.
Over all this I say [[ First Strike ]] is a superb album by these young and Talented and Gifted group of guys. Well done indeed!!!
This is my 1st listen to this. I feel it's more like a demo since 4 of the 7 songs are on their 1st album. Very raw, just the way I like to hear it, Def Leppard at their best sounded better on their 1st 3 albums before crossing the line!
This was a collection of late-70s demos that the band had discontinued, though a few copies found their way to shelves. This is begging for a proper re-release!
Thanks for uploading this. What a great riff on Wasted. Haven't heard that in years!
Bom demais. Greetings from Brazil \m/
Answer To The Master is amazing....
Love 😘💕 you guys are the best
Thank you love 😘
Wow this is cool ive never heard some of these!! Thanks for sharing
Far beyond the sky is not included here. Another super rare gam!
Some songs are avaiable in the firts album “ On through the night” but the re are rarities never heard before, thank you very much... Def Leppard forever💪💪💪
Haven’t ever heard a few songs. Thanks for posting. I’ve been listening to them since 1979 and didn’t ever get to hear this! Sounds great !
awesome sound! thx for putting this our way
I love this demo album. First Strike was issued commercially in 1984 but the band pulled It from the market due to legal complications Cause apparently It wasn’t authorized. Joe says he hated the way that it sounded.....well if you compare it to Mutt Lange productions yeah I can understand but the songs on this demo sound better than those that appear on On Through The Night. The Sorrow versión her kills the official release......actually all the versions here sound incredible. They should really release it because it sounds like a band that doesn’t need a slick production to kick ass.
Do you know where he talked about this album. I cant seem to find any interviews about it
@@RIPANDTEAR60 on the 1987 Def Leppard rockline interview
@@Steamin1942 thank you
I love the passion in your comments ma' man...But I must disagree about the production value between the two albums! Those tracks that were re-produced for the "On Through The Night" album, were so much better! I can understand why Joe hated the way that they sounded on "First Strike". Bigger budget, better studios, better producer(s), better engineers = better production value! Just my opinion, of course!
This album (1st Strike) basically, later became their real first album {On Through the Night}< This album (On Through...) showed what good production and a good producer can do to elevate talent. Take for example the track "When the walls came tumbling down"....The version on first strike sounds like a basement demo...
But when Producer: Tom Allom
and
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Louis Austin
and
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Dick Plant
got their collective hands on it. It became probably the 2nd or 3rd best song on the album (On Through...)?
Juxtapose the two albums and you can clearly see the improvements!
Just my opinion people. Thank You!
Rick isn't playing the drums. It's their first drummer Tony Kenning. These are demos recorded before OTTN with their first management. When Pyromania hit big the first management group tried to cash in but were quickly stopped. A few of these albums got out though. This is Def Leppard as Joe's would suggest.
Joe seems to suggest a lot of things. Some times I wonder what they would sound like with out him.
No this is Rick's second recording. His first were the singles of wasted and hello America because this has the final version of wasted while the single is different
tony kenning is only on the warchild bootleg
Defleppard my favorite groupe 😊
Never knew this existed- thanks for posting 👍🏼
very bad ass music , specially considering the audio soup they still produce , nowadays !!!
On the first day of the first month in some distant year
The whole sky froze golden
Some said it was the aftermath of the radium bomb
While others told of a final retribution
A terrible revenge of the gods
This was great.
Cool is a nice album very good.👍👌
Def Leoppard the great
Wow a real treat!!!
I was a tiny kid, brother came home from the navy on leave. With this casette. I stole it hahhahaha. Fucking loved it immediately.
Iirc he picked it up in Germany.
Same songs both sides. I wore it out in a few months. Before I had a dual deck to copy it.
Ty, good shit.
"Glad i'm Alive" is fantastic!
Listen to the first official album from Def Leppard - On through the Night. It helped launch the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in 1980
INDEED it did.
Fuckin"' A...
Truly one of the best hard rock records, track by track, I have ever heard. I’ve played it at least once a month for the past 35 years. It’s as fresh as ever… raw and ready, I play it against anything today or since and it just slays. Love it.
I know people are enthralled with this First Strike… the novelty and knowledge of what was to come on the next three… but, the versions here are literally demoes compared to the tracks on OTTNight. Good playing and songs here… but OTTN is gargantuan comparatively.
Their best album. None of that sissy stuff.
They are awesome. I'm 52 now and crusty. They are legends in rock. To think that Rick Allens Corvette went to a scrapyard! Imagine if it was saved and sold now!
You would pay good money for parts now given the history and how he never gave up
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not bad as far as late 70's demo's sound I'm sure it will be released in a box set once they retire that's how it works ain't it lmao anyway good find \m/
Happy Birthday Joseph Thomas ELLIOTT,born in SHEFFIELD August 1st 1959❤
Thanks Sergei
I hear Wasted in Master of Puppets and Shout At the Devil in Answer to the Master. There early stuff and even Pyromania was influential
Man this shit is Heavy!
And lo a legend was born.
Cool album
This is SO COOL😎
Hell yes
Stadium tour
Wasted is a RAGER
Better than the original release, in my opinión.
Never. Knew. Of. This. Lp
Came out the same year as joy divisions first album d l were the marriage of punk and metal perfect same year Chelsea with billy idol on g Came out never seen this wow purple ish maiden had already came out with soundhouse.
Check put the angels no exit 1979 thats a hell. Of a year.. Heavy punk hard rock
*Excelente!!!,Hay temas que están en el LP "On Through The Night" de 1980*
c'mon lads. invite Tony to the HOF induction!
They can't. He wasn't in the band long enough and most people don't even know about him.
Plus nobody knows where he is anymore
Def leppard was rock n roll until Mutt Lang got a hold of them.
Theyve always been rock n roll, just maybe not your taste
@@DRC-of2ci their first two albums rocked but then they sold out. It happens.
Thomas liming ]] I say the 1st 3 albums were great indeed. Hysteria not so great, but Steve gave his all on it. [[ R.I.P Steve ]]
And made them even better. Pyromania and Hysteria are fantastic albums
Answer to the master ]] What a great song that is indeed!! When they put it on the album, [[ On Through the Night ]] they polished it up a bit. I like it way better when they done it with Rick Allen. But Tony sounds great also.
Its rick on both
Rick was on his way to being a kickass prog rock drummer! He had the skills and the hunger. That was until Mutt Lang came around and dumbed down all the chops Rick posessed. It's a darned shame! How old was Rick here... 16? If im off, it's not by much.
This is me on drums
Eita Leopardo surdo
Este disco no lo conocia
ya somos 2
Fast!
Someone should ask DL about this
Shouldve been played on the high n dry and Pyromania Tour. Except no they chose to ignore these gems!
Their management picks the songs they play not them fyi
@@ShellCarnes-l9t I never knew that. That's something new I've learned
WHAT😳😳😳😳😲😲😲😲😱😱😱😱👍👏👏👏👏
This was when Rick Allen was allowed to play to his potential. Before Joe told him to play more basic beats.
he was just perfect
Sheffield Steel?
22:28
Tony my gf wears the pants on drums.
Its Rick
@@RIPANDTEAR60 this is Tony playing. Rick plays more updated versions of the songs. This album was mainly demos of that time
@@HoboRoadrunner this was recorded after the first ep and the nick recording sessions as far as my knowledge goes which would mean this is rick playing
The first EP is great but this ok
So they went from a 70s metal band that was good on their own to whoa go show
B A S E D
Mutt ruined this great potential damn him
What ruined them was that Steve died. Since then they’ve been pale.
GOOD KITTY PRECAPTURED SECURE AND CONTAIN PRECAPTURED
Not def leppard? Lmao who else is it then? Rick's drums sound different because he has both arms here and it's muddy cheap late 70s production quality
Keith Truman it’s not rick... this album wasn’t supposed to exist... technically it’s non existent now. The drummer is tony
lol. Rick had two arms for OTTN, High and Dry, and Pyromania, too.
Tony has a totally different drum style than Rick- regardless of Rick's arm quantity.
@@chaseklein774 this is rick. Tony was only on the war child demos
I’m telling you this is Rick Allen on drums.He has been in the band since 1978. Tony kenning was only I for a short while when the leppard formed in 1977.
Ah bah non! Ca n'est pas à force de chanter sur scène que Joe Elliott chante faux à faire pleurer un chien, c'est d'origine!
All these people praising a bootleg album made without knowledge or permission.
Uh huh
Seriously?.?.?
Why shouldn't they?
e quindi?
It was only released without permission. It’s not some secret live recording.