Rockin’ triple bill connects with Holmdel crowd

Remember that scene in “The Wrestler” when Marisa Tomei’s gold-hearted stripper recalls the good-time glory days of ’80s hair metal? ” ’90s sucked,” she and Mickey Rourke concluded. Well, if there was one show you could expect to find that cinematic Jersey Girl at this summer, it would have been Wednesday night’s super-rocking alliance of Def Leppard, Poison and Cheap Trick at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Before the final song of the evening, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott asked the adoring crowd a fairly straightforward question: “Do you want to get rocked?” Now, that’s not really a question Elliott needed to ask, because if you bought a ticket to this show, it was with the…

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