AC/DC

[internetstalker]

I'm a rocker at heart, but never got into AC/DC, mainly due to my age

I borrowed a couple of cd's off my bro about 10 months ago

then realised where all the bands i liked got their ideas from.


Now I fucking love em!


for those about to rock, I sallute you!

 

[100% masahiko]

saw them in '92...great sing along band.

I love them - they're fun but HATE this advert -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv-MAxe72z4

 

[Madusa]

why does the tag say ''scottish'' popular culture?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

because the young brothers, angus and malcolm, are from scotland originally, fact fans.

 

[Detroit City]

 

[Sweet FA]

Thanks for that. A rare picture of what Angus actually looks like. He's usually so reticent.

Powerage ftw, closely followed by Highway to Hell.
(if only for the riff & single entendre of Beating Around the Bush
'I was talkin' birds, and you was talkin' bees
And he was down on his knees
Beating around the bush').

Post-Bon; Back in Black.

 

[Madusa]

because the young brothers, angus and malcolm, are from scotland originally, fact fans.

I thought they were just Australian.

 

[Griff]

The live version of 'Shot Down in Flames' on the B side of 'Highway to Hell' was one of my fave tunes as a nipper. Wish I still had that single.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Saw them last night. They looked old. I felt old. Songs still great. Audience dull dull dull.

If they'd died earlier they'd be a cool as the Ramones.

 

[ouchmonkey]

why does the tag say ''scottish'' popular culture?

I thought they were just Australian.

plenty scots roots, born there families moved to Aus (better choice than all the scots who moved to feckin' Corby)

Bon Scott = Bonnie Scotland







oh your kicking yourselves now aren't you?

 

[rikwakefield]

The best band ever in my opinion and the reason I am about to buy an electric guitar.

AC/DC Documentary - The Bon Scott Years:




Unfortunately there's a couple missing, but it's still a good watch.

Bon Scott was the ultimate front man.

 

[stavros]

Apparently "Back In Black" is the second biggest selling LP ever, after "Thriller".

 

[ouchmonkey]

Apparently "Back In Black" is the second biggest selling LP ever, after "Thriller".

Every home should have one.

 

[Madusa]

plenty scots roots, born there families moved to Aus (better choice than all the scots who moved to feckin' Corby)

Bon Scott = Bonnie Scotland


oh your kicking yourselves now aren't you?

ahh, that wor clever!

 

[Belushi]

Just put Back in Black on now, how fucking awesome

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

considered black ice but went for xl recordings: the third chapter: breakbeat house.

am still headbanging

 

[Lisarocket]

Loved them back in the day when i was a teeny rocker. Still love them now. Yes they haven't changed in style over the years, but you know what you're getting with them and you're getting good quality rock and roll

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that their last album Black Ice is the bast thing they've done since Back in Black

 

[Meltingpot]

Bon Scott = Bonnie Scotland? Never thought of that He was originally from Scotland, and like the Young brothers emigrated to Australia when he was young.

There's a female AC/DC tribute band called AC/DShe, from San Francisco;

http://www.myspace.com/acdshe

Sound good IMO, I'd like to hear what they make of Bon's lyrics to songs like "Shot Down in Flames" and "She's Got The Jack". Or do they change them to suit?

 

[Madusa]

Shakira does a sexy cover of Back In Black in her live shows.

 

[mentalchik]

Shakira does a sexy cover of Back In Black in her live shows.

 

[sojourner]

Thanks to this thread, I listened to Let There Be Rock full blast on a drive to tesco this morning, and discovered that I've completely lost If You Want Blood - so have dld it and saving it for later

Car-dancing? Oh yes. Car-headbanging

 

[editor]

He died 37 years ago. RIP.

 

[Chilli.s]

Saw his last ever show, and talked to him as he got off the tour bus, he said "you know where I can get a drink after the show?" being a somewhat star struck year old I can't remember what nonsense I mumbled back to him. RIP.

 

[Chilli.s]

 

[flustercuck]

I grew up watching the Let There Be Rock : Live In Paris VHS to death, and knew it inside out. I don't so much now, but I really do wish they would have changed the setlists around a bit, especially during the Brian Years - and the fact that they only did so When they became Axl/DC. (Axl won't ever be the singer in AC/DC - to me. Ever.)

Last time they played "livewire" with Brian was 1982... for gods' sake!

 

[Ming]

It's like Dave Lee Roth and Van Halen. Bon Scott was the man. Look at all the classic albums (Back in Black accepted). They went like The Stones after he died. One or two great tracks an album and the rest all filler.

 

[flustercuck]

It's like Dave Lee Roth and Van Halen. Bon Scott was the man. Look at all the classic albums (Back in Black accepted). They went like The Stones after he died. One or two great tracks an album and the rest all filler.

Tsk. Van Hagar was just as good. Heresy I know... but I'm not nostalgic thinking "how dare they change singer!". Similarly with AC/DC there's some patchy albums, but lets face it - even the Bon Scott era had a fair few stinkers in it. Just because he died doesn't mean everything he did was sacrosanct, and beyond criticism.

 

[Ming]

Tsk. Van Hagar was just as good. Heresy I know... but I'm not nostalgic thinking "how dare they change singer!". Similarly with AC/DC there's some patchy albums, but lets face it - even the Bon Scott era had a fair few stinkers in it. Just because he died doesn't mean everything he did was sacrosanct, and beyond criticism.

I think i'll just go for a bit of a lie down.

 

[flustercuck]

I think i'll just go for a bit of a lie down.

Feel free. Bon Scott died, the band carried on, and guess what? They didn't ask for your permission to do so.

Not trying to be confrontational here, what I'm trying to say is that the continued eulogisation of Bon Scott as if he was the only thing good that ever happened to AC/DC, isn't a healthy state of mine. lets all hark back to the days of 38 years ago, and hope the band stays forever stuck frozen in time?

The idea that the band is worthless without him is... quite frankly, one-sided at best, and not only narrow minded and unfair, but again - just because Bon died, doesn't mean everything they did after was worthless either. There's some great stuff on Flick Of The Switch, Razor's Edge is a solid classic (with one horrible stinker), Ball Breakers main problem is Rick Rubin (who was producing three albums at same time - he was simultaneously working with Johnny Cash & RHCP I think), and "Black Ice" is a solid, great 10 track album (NB:IO know black ice has fifteen songs on it. Had they taken off five songs, it would ten times better as an album).

Their hit rate of classics may have been consistent with Bon, but you can say the same of any band in their early years. The same thing exists with Kiss - the make up years are seen as being beyond criticism, whereas post-make up might as well not exist. Same thing applies. Like I say, also see VH.

All these three bands have in common is that they changed personnel and their sound changed /evolved in the process, and didn't remain stuck in amber forever like many fans might like.

Nostalgic revisionism, thats what it is. Nothing more.

 

[flustercuck]

I think i'll just go for a bit of a lie down.

And as it happens I LOVE both era's of AC/DC. Not so hard to understand, really.