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
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.
― 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
Powerage is the 70s record I return to the most (though obv I celebrate the whole catalog) mostly cuz its light on hits but mostly cuz it's like if I told you "Oh yeah the Stones made a record between Sticky Fingers and Exile that's just as good but no one talks about it"
The early Johnson era stuff is so great and maybe a little underrated now?
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:44 (seven months ago) link
The band I was in did an AC/DC covers thing for a NYE and we specifically focused on the Brian Johnson era stuff cuz it wasn't as "cool" but we did a deep dive and really practiced the material (like more then we normally would for own shit, natch) but so it gave me a renewed appreciation of those songs and Johnson is a fucking incredible singer, to sound like he does and do it LOUD is a lot harder then you'd think
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:49 (seven months ago) link
we had a confetti canon on stage and sync'd up "For Those About to Rock" with the midnight countdown so "FIRE!" came right at midnight and it would have been awesome but our bass player kinda step on the touchdown call cuz he thought I was going to blown up by the confetti canon so he pulled me away and can you tell I'm still pissed about it haha?
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:54 (seven months ago) link
Apparently Cliff is back, but Phil is out. :(
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:36 (seven months ago) link