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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 December 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Late-period AC/DC - S&D btw
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
Late-period AC/DC - S&D: Classic or Dud
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
guys?
it's a long way to the top
if you want to rock and roll
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 January 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
Fuckin' tell me about it
― fish quits shock (Matt #2), Monday, 11 January 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
gettin oldgettin greygettin ripped offunder-paidgettin soldsecond handthat's how it goes -playin in a band
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 January 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
*postin on Ilx
― calstars, Monday, 11 January 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
workin on a ban
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 January 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
long way to the shopif you want a chiko roll
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 January 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
YESSSS
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 11 January 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
it's a long way to buy potif you wanna smoke a bowl
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 11 January 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
primary school playground vs high school playground
lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 January 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
― 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.
― map, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
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
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.repfoto.com/wp-content/uploads/7910008002-1H-2-768x768.jpg
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
(AC/DC fans at Glasgow Apollo Theatre, Scotland, Highway To Hell Tour, October 27 1979, ©1979 Robert Ellis)
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
air guitars in front row are great. I miss times like that
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
My sister was there, in the bouncy balcony. Judging by that photo no women were allowed in the stalls.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
yikes tbh
― map, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
i love the Bon era the bestbut 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 whateverit’s a thing of beauty imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, January 11, 2021 3:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
also
powerage best rock album after aerosmith rocks
Surely it's ALL about sex, booze and rock & roll?
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
aside from that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
I used to think Bon Scott sounded like a muppet with chlamydia
Or, as discussed recently on another thread, Alex Harvey!
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
also getting had and getting sold secondhand
― map, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwu7vKCrJWQ
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
they're about nothing and everything... about being
― map, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
a band with the mission statement, "we stand for life at its fullest"
― map, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
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
― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
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
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 05:16 (three years ago) link
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
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 05:23 (three years ago) link
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
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:33 (three years ago) link
what was the trivia?
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
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
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 11:34 (three years ago) link
That's a different Firm to the Star Trekkin' mob, I believe
― prize-winning marconi bakery (Matt #2), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
It is. (the Star Trekkin' one is the same as the Arfur Daley E's Alright one though)
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
£4 today got me the remasters of this lot :
AC/DC - If You Want BloodAC/DC - Fly On The WallAC/DC - The Razors EdgeAC/DC - Flick Of The SwitchAC/DC - Back In BlackAC/DC - PowerageAC/DC - Let There Be RockAC/DC - High Voltage
i am 53.too old to get into this stuff ? my neighbours wish.
― mark e, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
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)
― mark e, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 April 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
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.
― hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Thursday, 13 April 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 April 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 April 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link
Just heard Thunderstruck used as a cue on NPR, and for a second was sure that meant someone had died. :(
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 12:51 (seven months ago) link
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.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:47 (seven months ago) link