AC/DC

[Speed King]

Official Website

Members:

Bon Scott
Angus Young
Malcom Young
Mark Evens
Phil Rudd

Albums:

High Voltage
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Let There Be Rock
Powerage
Highway To Hell
Back In Black
For Those About To Rock
Flick Of The Switch
Fly On The Wall
Blow Up Your Video
The Razors Edge
Ballbreaker
Stiff Upper Lip
Black Ice
Rock or Bust
Power Up


One of my all time favorite bands, AC/DC were/are, plain and simple in your face hard rock! They may only do one thing, but they do that one thing better than anyone else. I don't think there's a band in the world that could pull off what they did, 17 albums worth of stripped down, raw, hard rock, and not a single ballad!

 

[Oldhippie]

AC/DC never strayed from there roots. After awhile most bands get fat and lazy and start putting out crap. These guys still beat you over the head with a crowbar. And yes SK, not one single useless ballad. Come to think of it I bet an AC/DC ballad would still knock your socks off.

 

[Speed King]

AC/DC never strayed from there roots. After awhile most bands get fat and lazy and start putting out crap. These guys still beat you over the head with a crowbar. And yes SK, not one single useless ballad. Come to think of it I bet an AC/DC ballad would still knock your socks off.

Ditto to everything you said!

 

[Magic]

May 2018 is the 40th birthday of Powerage

Riff Raff

 

[Magic]

If Bon Scott was alive he would have celebrated his 72nd birthday today July 9th, 2018.

 

[Hammy]

R.I.P.

 

[Magic]

Highway To Hell turns 40 years old July 2019.

Highway to Hell

 

[Speed King]

Listened to some AC/DC today, which is not at all unusual for me. I listened to the soundtrack to Who Made Who, which is unusual for me, I normally only play the Bon Scott stuff. (Who Made Who actually does have some Bon songs like Ride On)

 

[Riff_Raff]

AC/DC never strayed from there roots. After awhile most bands get fat and lazy and start putting out crap. These guys still beat you over the head with a crowbar. And yes SK, not one single useless ballad. Come to think of it I bet an AC/DC ballad would still knock your socks off.

The few ballady songs they did were pretty good too. Ride On, Rock n Roll Dream to name 2.

 

[Speed King]

I don't think I've ever heard Rock n' Roll Dream, I'll have to give that a listen.

 

[Riff_Raff]

Always preferred the original extended version of Who Made Who.

 

[Riff_Raff]

http://www.alternativenation.net/angus-young-devastated-acdc-family-death/

RIP to another Young sibling. The sister Marg Young who gave Angus the idea for the band name and his schoolboy gimmick.

 

[Magic]

http://www.alternativenation.net/angus-young-devastated-acdc-family-death/

RIP to another Young sibling. The sister Marg Young who gave Angus the idea for the band name and his schoolboy gimmick.

Very sad. That family has endured a lot of loss the past couple years. My condolences go to Angus.

 

[Speed King]

Angus is the last Young left,....I know the article says the name AC/DC came from Margaret Young's sewing machine, but I thought I read somewhere that she actually sewed the original school boy outfit.

 

[Riff_Raff]

Both

 

[Riff_Raff]

I've spun Power Up over 100 times since release. Still a great album.

 

[triptych]

I met Bon Scott when he was in The Valentines , a local Sydney band which was playing the high school circuit on the South Coast of Australia. I shook hands with the legend and exchanged a coupla words with him. He was later to become the lead singer in one of the greatest rock bands on the planet

 

[triptych]

Certainly, Bon was the best frontman for AC/DC, but I do not disdain of Brian Johnson...he is just a diff kind of singer to Bon, that's all.
AC/DC have never failed to deliver and Power Up confirms this 100%

 

[triptych]

Angus preferred SGs to Fenders

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/acdc-angus-young-sg-fender-1984

 

[Riff_Raff]

Stoked to find footage from Canberra 01 which was my first ever concert.