If you read the nerdy comments, people are pretty sure that's Angus's rhythm part.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
This is from a few years ago, but it's still kind of freshly sad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6_rpuuvxpc
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
Dunno if this has been posted upthread since it’s a few years old but great interview with their first lead singer Dave Evans here: https://2fast2die.com/2013/10/shot-down-in-flames-original-acdc-singer-recalls-early-days-with-future-rock-gods/Includes this A+ photo from ‘74 featuring Malc in amazing knee high boots & satin jumpsuit <3https://2fast2die.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/acdc-ealry-bw.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 November 2017 03:21 (six years ago) link
i mean... everything in this photo is amazing
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 November 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
I had no idea Cliff had retired! So no Malcolm, no Brian, no Cliff, no Phil. That leaves Angus to sole AC/DC anchor, which ... I dunno.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 November 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
yeah seems sadly rudderlessi mean i like Angus but
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 November 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link
Even if Mal was still there, you can't expect now to be 1977 or 1987 for that matter. Hard to know if Angus will continue, but I kind of hope he still keeps playing music in some form. Whatever happens from now on really can't change what has already gone down.
I'd just hope peace to the Young family for losing two members so close together, that is not easy however it goes.
There is a funny thing in one of the ABC/BBC documentaries about AC/DC where their mom figures there is no way the two brothers will be able to play together for long without killing each other. It was a surprise to the family that they were able to make it work together in the same band since they fought like cats and dogs as kids.
― earlnash, Sunday, 19 November 2017 06:17 (six years ago) link
yeah there’s stories in the Dave Evans interview abt Angus’ temper & him & Malc punching on a fair bit
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 November 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
This is fucking monumental:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUTtVGO10Y
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 19 November 2017 09:35 (six years ago) link
Seems like the new album is essentially Angus getting the most long-standing members in to put songs on top of demos that Angus and Malcolm recorded in 2003; so a final album with Phil Rudd, Cliff Williams, Brian Johnson, Stevie Young, Angus Young, and Malcolm rhythm guitar on every track. If Angus does a farewell tour with none of those players except Stevie, plus Axl or rotating allstars as singer, good luck to him.
(one hopes that "final" and "farewell" are the crucial modifiers. this band have been characterised by forward momentum in the face of appalling challenges, but closure would probably be appropriate for fans and Angus by then.)
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
I still think the best would be to tour with just backing tracks and make the stadiums shriek along collectively in tribute.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 September 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
haha yeah, would work
maybe some cool live footage on big screens
― niels, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpEVsDN84Hc
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
So good
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
ass and roll ain’t no Mona Lisa !!
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
otm
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
Last year on the 40th anniversary of Highway to Hell, I was commissioned to do a special piece about bit for Invisible Oranges to commemorate the occasion. This is the direction I took it
I was only ten years old when Highway to Hell came out. Though this still puts me several decades older than most Invisible Oranges readership (and, um, editors), it means we all shared discovery of the album and the original AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott long after its release 40 years ago.My 17-year-old son Matthew is among the latest to get into AC/DC. He heard the band initially through pop culture -- their songs are still trotted out for Hollywood blockbuster soundtracks, the radio plays a dozen or so songs on the regular, Jack Black emulated Angus Young’s riffs and schoolboy fashion sense in School of Rock, and women still gyrate to the band for fun and profit. (Not that Matthew knows anything about that! Though he did say “Girls Got Rhythm” was his jam which I think shows pretty good parenting, even more so than not showing him that video.)Between asking him to do his chores, I asked him how it was that he was enjoying Highway to Hell at the same age when I was doing so when kids are supposed to hate their parents’ music and vice-versa.“No matter what a lot of people say, I think of AC/DC as the definition of rock-'n'-roll,” he said as prideful tears welled up in his dad’s eyes. “They may on paper sound generic, but try finding a band that sounds anything like them. It’s just rock in its essence. This is some of the most faithful stuff I’ve seen. Truthfully it hasn’t aged. It won’t die, it doesn’t really change, and it fits with every generation.”
My 17-year-old son Matthew is among the latest to get into AC/DC. He heard the band initially through pop culture -- their songs are still trotted out for Hollywood blockbuster soundtracks, the radio plays a dozen or so songs on the regular, Jack Black emulated Angus Young’s riffs and schoolboy fashion sense in School of Rock, and women still gyrate to the band for fun and profit. (Not that Matthew knows anything about that! Though he did say “Girls Got Rhythm” was his jam which I think shows pretty good parenting, even more so than not showing him that video.)
Between asking him to do his chores, I asked him how it was that he was enjoying Highway to Hell at the same age when I was doing so when kids are supposed to hate their parents’ music and vice-versa.
“No matter what a lot of people say, I think of AC/DC as the definition of rock-'n'-roll,” he said as prideful tears welled up in his dad’s eyes. “They may on paper sound generic, but try finding a band that sounds anything like them. It’s just rock in its essence. This is some of the most faithful stuff I’ve seen. Truthfully it hasn’t aged. It won’t die, it doesn’t really change, and it fits with every generation.”
We're also posers.
http://townsquare.media/site/846/files/2019/07/brian-acdc-e1564134231486.jpg?w=630&h=840&q=75
http://townsquare.media/site/846/files/2019/07/highway-to-hell-2.jpg?w=630&h=472&q=75
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
I don't think I read that piece at the time, but it's good, and you're absolutely right that they do a lot of different things on H2H; "Touch Too Much" and "Get It Hot" are very much pointing the way toward the New Wave AOR of the early 80s, "Beating Around the Bush" is pretty much exactly what Ted Nugent was doing on his late 70s/early 80s albums like Weekend Warriors and Scream Dream, and "Night Prowler" is maybe the slowest blues they ever recorded; it's almost biker doom. AC/DC always had more ideas than they were given credit for, and most of them were good ones.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
Heard the new song. It’s sorta nuts that Brian sounds exactly the same as ever. I thought his voice was shot and that’s why he’d retired?
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 9 October 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
His *ears* were shot. Maybe literally, by canons every night.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 October 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
Late-period AC/DC - S&D btw
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Friday, 9 October 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
really enjoying power up so far
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
Thank you for the reminder, now I know what I'm listening to when I make dinner tonight.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
i had no idea this was out!
and lol the entire departed band came back (other than the obvious one that can't)?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
He's not on it, but all of the songs are Angus/Malcolm co-writes, so he's there in spirit.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
it's cool that they have stevie young to take malcolm's place, doesn't feel like an artificial thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
― @oneposter (⛰️) (sic), Friday, 13 November 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Very fun record! More consistent than Rock or Bust, more concise than (the otherwise great) Black Ice. It's all about Rudd's grooves for me.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
PWR UP is hot! i will always be a bon girl, but brian's voice has aged so well... he sounds better here than on back in black to me.
― maelin, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
the first song is dope but it reminds me of that awful Christian praise song we used to sing "ROMANS! 16! 19! SAYS!"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 November 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
Brian's voice still has quite a bit of bite to it
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 November 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
Did you guys pay for this album or what
― calstars, Saturday, 14 November 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
ripped it out of Angus Young's hands
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 November 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
the only good thing I saw on the Internet today pic.twitter.com/fBFJACKWAj— Russy KGB (@RussellHFilm) November 23, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
*applauds*
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
hahaha so good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
New album is brilliant
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
Angus ranks their best songs, riffs, and school uniforms: https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/interview-angus-young-acdc-new-album-power-up.html
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 12 December 2020 09:02 (three years ago) link
This is like the best thing ever for a dozen different reasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULs4JW3tPI
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 December 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
1) They could be playing live *and* to a track2) Angus and his SG appear to be the same size3) They look like the sort of band that give each other tattoos4) The dancing girls5) They look like they know they're the best band ever *and* that they're getting away with something6) Electric bagpipe7) The almost deliriously motorik denouement 8) Bon never losing sight of that camera9) The triple split screen that still features a double Malcolm in one frame10) Bon's funny bagpipe dance11) Angus is almost never on camera!12) Bon is wearing a shirt
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 December 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
Duckwalking the bagpipe!
Playing to a track but Bon's mic is live imo
― huge rant (sic), Sunday, 20 December 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
It's rather sweet that Angus admits that even he finds "Thunderstruck" tricky to play.
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
Often when the whole band is miming you can tell with the drums, but Phil seems pretty on the bullseye. I'll have to watch again.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 December 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
love the sharpies dancing behind Bon - and he is definitely miming those pipes to look like a blowjob
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 21 December 2020 07:53 (three years ago) link
that video is fucking great
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
11/10
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
Power Up really is v enjoyable! i am def surprised by this turn of events Mists of Time fave so far
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 December 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
Are you sure you’re not listening to Powerage
― calstars, Saturday, 26 December 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
y
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 December 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link