AC/DC: Classic or Dud

Even the second time?

I was surprised, too. Then again, I was surprised at how well Axl did as a sub, all things considered.

By the way, most underrated aspect of Angus iconography? The way he gulps like a goldfish when he plays.

Late-period AC/DC - S&D btw

Late-period AC/DC - S&D: Classic or Dud

guys?

it's a long way to the top

if you want to rock and roll

Fuckin' tell me about it

gettin old
gettin grey
gettin ripped off
under-paid
gettin sold
second hand
that's how it goes -
playin in a band

*postin on Ilx

workin on a ban

long way to the shop
if you want a chiko roll

YESSSS

it's a long way to buy pot
if you wanna smoke a bowl

primary school playground vs high school playground

lmao

guys?

it's a long way to the top

if you want to rock and roll

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, January 11, 2021 1:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

so this update is responsible for me listening to "it's a long way to the top" for the first time yesterday (!) and going down a mini ac/dc rabbit hole. i never really listened to them, i don't know why. good god they were a band, with albums and songs and stuff. but yeah they completely rule. i'm not a huge rock guy but a few rock bands are just undeniable to me, these guys are probably on the level of like ccr for me i guess.

honestly I was the same with AC/DC. I used to think Bon Scott sounded like a muppet with chlamydia and I hated the so-called "sameiness" of their music, also believed challops like that Brian Johnson era was superior (when really the only thing of his I liked was Back in Black)

Was about 9 years ago I went through their near entire discography and fell in love with the Bon material. it's so raw and purely face-melting.

it's fun to just spin AC/DC album after album until 3 am

https://www.repfoto.com/wp-content/uploads/7910008002-1H-2-768x768.jpg

(AC/DC fans at Glasgow Apollo Theatre, Scotland, Highway To Hell Tour, October 27 1979, ©1979 Robert Ellis)

air guitars in front row are great. I miss times like that

My sister was there, in the bouncy balcony. Judging by that photo no women were allowed in the stalls.

yikes tbh

a muppet with chlamydia

As if this is a bad thing for the notorious singer of a hard rock band.

My favorite AC/DC story is from both of the times when I saw them on the ... maybe first Ballbreaker and then the Stiff Upper Lip tour? Whenever it was, during probably "The Jack" iirc they had a camera panning the crowd for flash-happy women, but after a couple of flashing women the camera would linger on flashing men, too, and it just alternated from there.

i love the Bon era the best

but overall with this band I think the joy of relistening as a longtime fan now is that there is a lot of joy in their music, and how the fun IS that it’s not really “about” anything. And lately for me on a musical level, marvelling how the whole rhythm section is *so* locked in, solid as a fucking rock, with these perfect spaces to support Bon’s showmanship, or Angus’s solos, or fuckin bagpipes or whatever

it’s a thing of beauty imo

it's a long way to buy pot
if you wanna smoke a bowl

― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, January 11, 2021 3:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

also

powerage best rock album after aerosmith rocks

Surely it's ALL about sex, booze and rock & roll?

aside from that

I used to think Bon Scott sounded like a muppet with chlamydia

Or, as discussed recently on another thread, Alex Harvey!

also getting had and getting sold secondhand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwu7vKCrJWQ

they're about nothing and everything... about being

a band with the mission statement, "we stand for life at its fullest"

You know how cool AC/DC is? At least one of those times I saw them they *opened* with "You Shook Me All Night Long." What other band could *open* with its biggest hit?

AC/DC in a nutshell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhzX3dRRiI

ive had inject the venom on repeat for the last month or so

i almost died riding in a (homemade) convertible pickup truck down a back road with a guy who took it up to like 100 miles an hour while blasting Thunderstruck and now every time I hear that AAAAHAAuhHAAAAAHAAAA i get giddily nauseous

lol Thunderstruck may as well have been my hometown’s unofficial theme song the amount it was played for the 5 years after it came out
(my hometown = bogan central)

i am still somewhat triggered by it

i remember exactly where i was when i first heard thunderstruck. my friend josh's house - watching the video on his tv. he had trivia to tell me about the drummer which i did not really care about

what was the trivia?

that he had played for The Firm, who had done their own versions of Led Zeppelin tracks or something

meanwhile i'm getting flattened like a train and can't speak, can't think

That's a different Firm to the Star Trekkin' mob, I believe

It is. (the Star Trekkin' one is the same as the Arfur Daley E's Alright one though)

£4 today got me the remasters of this lot :

AC/DC - If You Want Blood
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - Powerage
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - High Voltage

i am 53.
too old to get into this stuff ?
my neighbours wish.

I feel like one of the only people who loves Fly on the Wall. Crazy underrated album. A little clunky (Simon Wright's style is more caveman compared to Rudd's swinging groove) but it's loaded with some wicked rockers.

given the excess, not got to that one yet.
but to be fair, have listened to 4 of them, and so far, not hit a dud yet (ftr : back in black, let there be rock, high voltage, if you want blood)

I was surprised they never did a farewell tour, but perhaps one is imminent, as apparently they are playing a one-off (for now) show in California with a bunch of ol' Monsters of Rock vets.

Always loved the way that Cliff Williams essentially stays out of the way of the real rhythm section, which is Malcolm Young and Phil Rudd.

Every musician in this band is part of the rhythm section. Someone I know used to say of AC/DC, for all its no frills, no fuss, meat and potatoes philosophy, the band is always in tune, and always in time.

I think of AC/DC* as the electric equivalent of the Count Basie Orchestra, and Malcolm was their Freddie Green.

*with Phil Rudd, that is. Without Phil, they’re too stiff, they don’t swing, and the rhythm section doesn’t breathe.

Just heard Thunderstruck used as a cue on NPR, and for a second was sure that meant someone had died. :(

AC/DC were a huge band for me when I was a kid. I got into them because of Maximum Overdrive. But I was very Brian-centric and only knew the biggest hits of the Bon Scott years. Anyway, I was listening to Rose Tattoo the other day and it inspired me to dig further into 1970s AC/DC. I mean, I don't need to tell anyone that High Voltage is an amazing record, but I'm always glad when I find something awesome to catch up with.