AC/DC The Bon Scott Years | Music Documentary | Geoff Barton | Malcolm Dome | Tank Montana
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2022
- A stunning retrospective featuring a comprehensive and detailed study of this legendary band in the crucial years when Bon Scott was in the band and AC/DC rose from playing obscure clubs to conquering the world.
Director: The Creative Picture Company
Stars: Geoff Barton, Malcolm Dome, Tank Montana, Bon Scott
The Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock, and heavy metal, but the band themselves call it simply "rock and roll".
AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, 1975's High Voltage. Membership subsequently stabilized around the Young brothers, singer Bon Scott, drummer Phil Rudd, and bassist Mark Evans. Evans was fired from the band in 1977 and replaced by Cliff Williams, who has appeared on every AC/DC album since 1978's Powerage. In February 1980, about seven months after the release of their breakthrough album Highway to Hell, Scott died of acute alcohol poisoning after a night of heavy drinking. AC/DC had initially considered disbanding, but at Scott's family's request, the remaining members opted to continue the band, bringing in longtime Geordie vocalist Brian Johnson as Scott's replacement. Later that year, the band released their first album with Johnson, Back in Black, which was dedicated to Scott's memory. The album launched AC/DC to new heights of success and became one of the best-selling albums of all time.
AC/DC Complete Discography:
High Voltage (1975) (Australia only)
T.N.T. (1975) (Australia only)
High Voltage (1976) (international version)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976)
Let There Be Rock (1977)
Powerage (1978)
Highway to Hell (1979)
Back in Black (1980)
For Those About to Rock We Salute You (1981)
Flick of the Switch (1983)
Fly on the Wall (1985)
Blow Up Your Video (1988)
The Razors Edge (1990)
Ballbreaker (1995)
Stiff Upper Lip (2000)
Black Ice (2008)
Rock or Bust (2014)
Power Up (2020)
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The world lost a bit of colour the day Bon passed. What a natural front man. RIP Bon you Legend
Bon Scott wasn't AC nor DC he was the lightning bolt in the middle because he was that electrifying spark that made the band the greatest rock band ever. Bon Scott was, is, and will always be the greatest frontman ever.
For sure
👍❤️
My only proviso with that statement is: Jim Morrison
this the corniest shit i've ever read 😭
Here here I second the motion. Best frontman and every concert should start out with live Wire and Angus jumping off his stack of Marshall s
Make No Mistake Bon Scott is AC/DC!
“Powerage”, just OK?, are you kidding Powerage was a masterpiece.
totally agree...I was shocked by the commentary in the film..."Powerage" is a five-star album and has always been my favorite LP by the band.
These guys are idiots. All their commentary is cringe
Should have been more intelligent people in the documentary
Rip Bon George and Malcom
All Bon albums are 5 stars ladies and gentlemen
🎉I concur
Too right.
There were 6 Studio Albums with Bon!!
1975 (1974) High Voltage
1975 T.N.T
1976 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
1977 Let there be Rock
1978 Powerage
1979 Highway to Hell
(and probably a lot Stuff on Back in Black Lyrics were written by Bon, too)
I've seen AC/DC with Bon 4 Times in Germany.
3 times in Offenbach (City Hall)
and once in Nürnberg at the Zeppelinfeld, Open Air Festival, Headliner The Who!!!
@@michaelkohler1566 Awesome!! I count TNT and High Voltage the same album. TNT for the Aussies and High Voltage for us Americans.
Way better than 5 star that’s what I think definitely 👍✌️
No disrespect to Brian Johnson by no means, he took the band to great lengths... but in the end, he's no Bon Scott. Bon was very rare and authentic and true to the rock-n-roll fashion. No one could ever replace Bon, he was truly one of a kind.
I feel the same way too! Bon was the ultimate front man and an excellent songwriter. And my hats off to Brian, I couldn't imagine having to go into that situation and did, and still does an excellent job. I can't think of any other band that continued on with another singer the amazing way he did. He's very humbled too!
My God I miss him so badly!
Back in the 90's I played the Dirty Deeds album to my gran: she had never heard it and bloody well loved it. Then she asked me who the singer was and what was he doing nowadays. When I told her he was dead she burst out crying and couldn't stop. Listening to AC/DC brings her back. Miss ya gran.
Aww💯❤
Awww how touching...I Miss Bon too,..can listen to him sing over n over.
Hey Buddy,you must have had a Dandy Grandmother.My Grandmother was my best friend when I was young...I consider you and myself pretty damn lucky Lads. Rock On Buddy.
That shows how special Bon Scott was, still is..
And like you said when you listen to certain songs it brings back special memories for you.
Awesome.
Weird..Same exact thing happened with me and my grandma. 😪
I own only one Brian Johnson
LP. But I do own every album featuring Bon.
I don't hate Brian. I just love Bon.
I own BIB. I refuse to buy any other BJ albums!
@@georgittesingbiel219 Same.
Yes Back In Black Is Brian's Best Album, All Of Bons Albums Are Better And The Voltage ⚡ Is Higher ⚡ And Forever Will Be ⚡ Rock On Forever Bon Scott⚡ Still Rocking The World! Voltage ⚡ On High ❤
It's stupid thinking there should be some kind of a competition between them.
@@dukecraig2402 Competition is good. Without it we sink into mediocrity. Which AC/DC became after Bon's death.
I feel so lucky that I got to see AC/DC with Bon Scott... my favorite band for sure
Bon Scott was the best frontman in that entire era. He was unbelievable.
Great documentary ,,I feel for Bon ,he's not here to enjoy the success,and all his due millions and millions , that his" incredible lyrics " have contributed to this band ACDC being the best Rock Band on planet Earth...R.I.P Bon
RIP Malcom Young too
I heard he died with only with $30,000.
No disrespect to Brian, but I was hooked on Angus and Bon. I managed to buy a bootleg copy of "Let There Be Rock" i late '77 or early '88, and was immediately blown away. I had the good fortunate to see AC/DC live in 1979, about 6 months before Bon died. When "Back in Black" came out, I was totally let down by the vocals. Bon was irreplaceable, but a funny thing is if you listen to "I Can't Dance" by Phil Collins, he sounds very, very similar to Bon. Phil's no contest to being the kind of front man Bon was, but his vocals were very, very close. And I'm not even a Collins fan.
Bon Scott great great vocals Live ever...
Rocker ...highest...highest..
Thanks guy...🤘🙏
This is a great doc. One of the greatest rock icons that ever graced a stage. Wish he was still with us today.
Best Rock and Roll Band ever!!!
POWERAGE WAS A 5 STAR BAR NONE. Ride on Bon & Malcolm 🤘
Yep. Especially the first release that starts with Gimme A Bullet and doesn't have R n R Damnation on it at all. Powerage is Keef and Jimmy Page's fave AC/DC album.
My favorite as well
Malcolm is dead RIP
I love their song ride on too
Yes! LOVE Powerage!!!!
Greatest rock band on earth. Then and now and allways. I have been a fan since the early days in the early 1970s .
I would say maybe' Grab you by the Ass' best bottomed out Rock & Roll band at the time (I mean until Paul & Cliff were gone) but not the Greatest in the World.
@@robertcameron1579greatest 🎸 one of them . Best performance one of the best most successful rock bands on earth. In history what rock bands last successful for 40 plus years then ? Your CLUELESS on rock n roll. Young kid
Phil Rudd is such a great drummer,he like Steven Adler,Peter Criss, Charlie Watts and Joey Kramer never get the credit they deserve.
As I read elsewhere. Bon Scott is the voice of rock and roll!
The greatest rock band ever.
Totally agree Bon is the true AC/DC
The greatest live Rock band ever in history. There was/is a lot of brilliant stuff out there, but there is no live experience like the DC.
Show me one band in the world that had two different lead singers and were that successful in each aera. Bon, the best rock singer ever, Brian, a humble, down to earth force of nature. Both brought out the best of AC/DC, and I'm forever grateful having seen them live.
Me too Randy.
I agree with most of your comment but Bon is definitely behind Steve Marriott, no one even comes close to him.
Van Halen is one .Black Sabbath is another .Rainbow and Deep Purple is a couple more .if you give me a few minutes I'm sure I could find several more . (Molly Hatchet) don't get me wrong they were a big-time live band
Never saw them with Bon but did see them on the "Back In Black" and "For Those About To Rock" tours and they were definitely a very high energy band .Angus makes that band and always has .all their songs are so simple to play on guitar due to everyone is is the key of A .but they still made the most out of such easy material to play .you can't teach that High Voltage live shows
Journey. lol
My father, Ron Eden, took the photos on the back of the High Voltage ⚡ album, amongst a Hush & Kiss album cover 🙂
AC/DC was the original hardcore metal band. Bon was the best front man. I'm blessed that I got to experience them in real time.
I don’t reckon they are metal. Heavy rock or just “rock and roll” as they call themselves
@@davidgeisler9885 I guess your correct. I never really liked so called "metal" bit bey certainly are hard core rock and roll and I love them. I didn't much care for other hard rock like Judas Priest or Nazareth but AC/DC was in a class all their own.
I say, Let There Be Rock is a thrash metal album before the genre was invented. The playing technics, sound and style of thrash were not yet developed, but the energy and rawness of LTBR in my opinion capture the same spirit, that Metallica did later with Kill Em All or Exodus with Bonded By Blood. AC/DC had the same intension with LTBR and they did it in the most perfect style possible in 1977. Yes: I consider it closer to thrash than Judas Priests "Exciter", that appeared in 1978, just because LTBR has so much more punch, power and outraging rawness
I’d say humble pie and Steve Marriott were the originals, no singer will ever come close to Steve but Bon is definitely second up there
Definitely Rock n' roll!
Proper music... Crank it Up..
Powerage should get 5 stars. 6 if it existed
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerage 😏
@@musicffan1863 noooo!!!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🚬
Absolutely
Love powerage the album is about being burned by no good women you know what normally happened s to guys
Agreed. Terrible rating that they gave it. They failed to mention that Eddie Van Halen and Keith Richards both cite Powerage as their favorite AC/DC album.
Powerage is my favorite
5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One more time we see how underrated Powerage is...:)
⚡️Powerage⚡️ #1 album ever by the band.
In 1978 AC/DC were at their top peak! They never got better.
@@maze2490 I agree,
Two things I wish the band would’ve done with Powerage, at least for the American market. First release “Cold hearted man which was held for Australia release only and two Added Bon’s cut of “What do you do for money honey, which was worked on but ultimately dropped from the sessions. Again worked on For Highway to hell as well but dropped again. Brian did a great job with it for Back in Black but Bon wrote it and his version would’ve just killed. Those two songs if included on Powerage would’ve sealed
The deal as to the number one AC⚡️DC album of all time in everyones opinion not just mine.
@@Gratefulman1965 Great opinion, Jeff!
I am german and I don't really know the US version of Powerage. But for me the album is absolutely perfect as it has been done, by Vanda and Young. I know there are rumours of lyrics Bon also wrote, but this is kinda legendary, and perhaps we will never find out the truth. With Mutt Lange as next producer AC/DC made their biggest mistake for me. The raw and rough sound of their earlier work I loved so much, was then sadly lost (came back a little with Flick of the Switch). Of course they were doing great albums later on, with Lange, but this was for the world's taste, but not for mine. Nothing against Brian Johnson, he was the best man they could ever get, but AC/DC's real spirit died with Bon.
RIP Bon, RIP Malcolm.
Long live AC/DC!!!
Angus and that Gibson it's all we love.
Bon’s sound is effortless and patently his own.
I love all the rawness of the early albums...just because it's not spit polished doesn't mean it's not good rock n roll...& always remember, the worst AC/DC album is still an AC/DC album...which means it still kicks ass...& as great as Bon is, was & always will be, I'm just as big a fan of Brian Johnson...but even after over 4 decades fronting that band, that's longer than Bon's complete life, to a lot of people he's still 'the new guy'...Lol!
Most people agree the Bon stuff was amazing even though the production was not the best thing ever. Also Id give Powerage, Highway To Hell, and Let There Be Rock all 5 stars
I was 14 when I first heard Ride On and I've been riding ever since.
Excellent documentary on the Bon Scott years of AC⚡DC Thanks for posting this for all AC⚡DC fans worldwide.😀👍👍
Our pleasure!
That's exactly right, when you're first starting off you will play any gig anywhere just to get your shit down. I actually had to fit my guitar and amp into a horse stall at a barn party once. There was still hay in the stall. I've heard a lot of music over the last 65 years and in my Top 10 of all time has to be the band going down that street on the truck bed playing, "It's a Long Way to the Top." Who ever thought of putting a bagpipe in a R&R song? You got to get up and dance when that song comes on.
That street was Swanston Street in Melbourne
absolutely brilliant frontman,best ever.
Fantastic documentary and a must for any die hard AC/DC fan. Thanks for uploading this I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish! ❤❤
Thanks for watching! So glad you enjoyed it.
No one like Bon then and know for sure
bon was the best song writer their was. he was the man.
I was lucky enough to see them with Bon
Awesome show
Saw them 3X, summer 1979 in the midwest. Even at 10AM, Bon was ready to go.
AC/DC Simple in theory Deceptively complex in practice.
They injected a vibe into the music have ever matched. And Bons lyrics LMAO....The Best
All albums with bon scott is ac dc at its finest in my opinion yall this is trevor and forever gonna rock to bon
My rock and roll moment was Bon carrying Angus on his shoulders over my blanket at a Bill Graham Day on the Green. What a force of energy they were with Bon!
Two of the best bands in one. I love Bon and he is my favorite to listen to. I’m glad AC/DC carried on and are still my favorite band! ROCK ON BON!! 🤘🏼
I've seen a lot of R&R bands over the decades, but only a few can match the energy of AC/DC consistently in live performances. Through all the changes in sound over the years they've remained true to the essence of Rock. The original Headbangers.
The roadies I know work with only headline bands and they'll be touring Australia (maybe a farewell tour after 50ys) and the set list I've seen is a massive tribute to Bon with 9 of the last 10 songs all Bon songs....so look into that as you want but that tells me goodbye farewell to Oz and what a way to go out... There'll be a massive concert for their last ever show but I doubt it will be here in Sydney but we can only hope us locals... This is where it began and Mr n Mrs young are still here so let's all look forward to the last chapter to this icon of rock and always bang your head n tap for ACDC 👍
Bon Scott♥️♥️ Bon Scott kirremuir august 13 2022 here we come 🤟🤟
I saw them in wheeling WV 3 times. Once in 1977 at theatre that i had just started working in in 1976. UFO with Shenker and The Motors. what a show that was. I was wide eyed young guitar player working as a stagehand more so just to be there than the money. I talked to Angus. He was my age. He wanted to play his guitar in the balcony behind the statues over the box seat on the floor. lol they had wireless guitars then, Not great but they worked. Shenker was even wire less. I walked into the storage room under the stage and Shenker's Black and White V was just laying there. I wanted to touch it so bad. I was scared of getting caught because the amps were set up and they had already sound checked. I was scared some one would hear it. UFO's manager kept me happy all damn day from the time i met him early in the morning. He said you look like you had a rough night. I said we had some beers last night. He said come with me. lol cocaine all day and all night. After the show he asked me to go the dressing room and get Michael's guitars. I walked in that room it was thick with has smoke and smell. I was stoned the rest of the load out. I got the guitars. I brought them upstairs. Michael was in there with 2 beautiful women. I was like so this is what it is to be a rock star. It highly influenced me to to play harder and longer. I'll never forget that day. My personal thoughts being of this age and there even so slightly through all of this and looking back, They broke a barrier of getting their music played on radio in USA and most hard rock bands did not get that kind of radio time back then. It was a time when power was moving from the dj's hands to the record companies hands. DJ's had all the power before the 70's. they played what they wanted to. Now it's controlled buy the corporate machine. It was very fun and interesting to grow from a boy to man during these years. It was such a social change of power. I wouldn't change a damn thing if I could do it again. As matter fact I would love to do it again and who the hell wouldn't?
No doubt about, can't live without it. AC⚡DC
I had just received Highway To Hell for Christmas that year. I was 15, and absolutely broken hearted when Bonn passed. Shortly after, we heard Dirty Deeds for the first time here in America.
My heart almost jumped out of my chest!
Had I misheard the reports? Was Bonn actually still alive? What a cruel trick, I thought at the time.
It took years for me to finally accept Brian. Side note here.. I disagree with these guys that Powerage was a so-so album.
In my opinion it was absolutely their best. I still spin it regularly. Peace!
I really don’t know how Bon kept singing like that. I got back in black when I was 10. Also Motörhead’s ‘ace of spades ‘. Good days!
Tim,. Powerage. is. a. Killer. album.
IMO this is by far the best documentary on Bon Scott primarily and AC/DC in general. Very well done
Am not far into it but already having issues with it in comparison to ABC australia's "On the Brink" version who has Bon's brother interviewed in it. There is none of these garbage critiques in it either. But am going to try to get through this one. Kinda hard after the 1st one!
AWESOME…RIDE ON BON, RIDE ON!!
I had to stop listening to AC/DC after Bon died. I still think he was the best rock vocalist that ever lived. I saw them on their first tour of the US, twice, and I was punk af at that time. Me and my punk rock group of friends loved them. They were different. We bought, and I still have, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
I grew up idolizing Bon and Angus etc. Watching and listening to this brings tears to my eyes because Bons voice just has that awesome sound of what a rock-n-roll singer should be. RIP Bon, love you man😢
Brian was a magical an humble man to be so greatful. To do the impossible. But he did it so well God bless Brian Johnson. Rip bon
R.I.P. Bon Scott
In the mid 80’s my cousins got ahold of a copy of an early AC/DC album prior to it being released in the USA. Everyone was wonder who are these guys……..what a rocking sound.
I had chance to see AC/DC in Toulouse (France) in january 1980. Toulouse gave the group a small place (6000 people only in a gymnasium out of the city). Phenomenal souvenir :) RIP Bon and Malcom.
The best singer and the ydolle of my youth.... we were 16 years old in France, hard rock was coming massively, and for me you were the best !!! RIP Bon !!!
What a brilliant and comprehensive documentary. Thanks for sharing. What a beauty of a band, eh?
Great video Bon will always be the man!
No doubt!
They simplified rock and made is a pile of fun. I loved the early sound. I like when studio albums sound quite raw like it was a jam session in a garage. One song that didn't make this video and one of my favorites is Can I Sit Next to You Girl.
Ride On is one of the greatest AC/DC songs
I’m too young (47 hah) to have seen Bon. My first AC/DC show was in 1991. But of the things I would do if I had a time machine, seeing them perform with Bon would definitely be on the list.
I saw AC/DC in Vancouver 78 or 79. Bon was amazing.
So cool!
Each album means something to someone. Don't go by the lack of ⭐'s on certain records. They are all good in their own way.
The critics are stupid Rolling Stone only gave good ratings to High Voltage, Highway To Hell, and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Powerage is a classic. These tossers don't know what they're talking about
The Debut was great, hell every album is amazing
Shout out to "The Stream" for posting this excellent (although very British) take on the band. It's a pity there wasn't more presented on the bands rise in Australia. I was fortunate enough to see the band play at Festival Hall when they were pushing the newly released Dirty Deeds record down here, just prior to setting up in Britain then conquering the world. It was a musical blessing.
Re: Powerage
"Although, the album didn’t chart and got in the middle between two of the band’s breakthrough, Let There Be Rock and Highway To Hell, over the years, the likes of Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Perry and Slash named it as their favorite AC/DC record".
Australian record producer and audio engineer Mark Opitz once said: “In a way it was AC/DC’s Sgt. Pepper’s.”
It's Brian's favorite AC/DC record too
There is one about their early Australian beginnings !
So glad I was able to see this band twice in my lifetime! Albeit, it was with Brian, but they were just amazing all the same! 👍
Rock on!
Best live band I ever saw nearly 40 years ago lol. Nothing has beat them. Whole lotta rosie is my favourite, then TNT. Fun hard rock band.
The hardest Rocking Band. Whole Lotta Rosie is great with the giant blow-up balloon chick!
Great docu...heart felt with Bon, hard one, been in the music industry as drummer, done stuff...just to echo Bon ..long way to the top...its hard ..ups and downs, need balls of steel. Still love AC/DC, but Bon is there in every song...The modern version knows it....one has to carry on ...way it is.
Unparalleled Bon✌️ RIP 🌹
Well, here in 2023. Whole lotta Rosie is still a kickass song and the first song I ever learned on guitar 37 years ago. I guess I could say that Malcolm young was the best guitar teacher I ever had. He showed me that it doesn’t need to be a difficult rhythm. Simplicity can drive hard and get the people stomping their feet.
First time seeing AC/DC at Manchester Apollo. Unbelievable
A good insight,into AC/DC,over the 44 years since Bon passed.
Bon wrote from his heart about feelings.
Male and female.
I think he was just broken in the end.
Worn out.❤
Very true more than you will ever no RIP Bon
Thank you so much for this, this was great
R.I.P.BON.I LOVE YOU.❤ SPLIT, CROATIA,17.11.2023.
Kind of a Punk Rock approach to blues-based, hard rock. Simple, yet nobody else has what they have/had.
Rip bon rock will live on through you forever this is trevor
Saw Bon in Toronto prior to his passing. I think every song is great!!!!!
DIRTY DEEDS is their masterpiece, still crude, yet sophisticated, it's an impossible task to balance between
Dirty Deeds is my favorite AC/DC album, first one I ever owned. Every song is killer.
It's got balls, very big balls. LOL!
Everytime i hear "it's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll" I THINK OF MY CHOIR TEACHER in my sophmore/junior year, due to him allowing us to here 1 song during our FINALS for that year.!!!! at Yerba Buena High. thank u sir.
The real AC/DC
AC/DC FOREVER!
_“I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”_ -Angus Young
You ROCK Brother.
😂😂typical Angus!
I stopped listening to AC/DC after Back in Black. I was struck by how flat and boring “For those about to rock” was and I was really young and looking forward to it after the impact back in black made. And then I discovered Bon Scott so I’ll say like I heard some journalist ones say “I loved AC/DC before they were shit” And there’s no way you could’ve come up with back in black within the same year with lyrics to sound just like bond so anyway, this is no diss on the band. I’m sure you were told exactly what to do by your A&R rep-or else.
🤣🤣🤣
Thank f…..
Best lead singer they could have ever
I absolutely love the band with Scott at the mic and I love all his songs. I also like some of Brian’s songs; I could listen to back in black all day. I think that they are best when singing their own songs and not the others. Besides at the end of the day, it is still AC/DC and it is still some of the best damn rock and roll ever
Back in Black lyrics are from Bon's notebook, they were about to go into the studio to record when he died....
@@nem447The lyrics to Back in Black scream Bon Scott. Brian Johnston was never known for lyric writing & we're expected to believe he came up with this album in 5 months & never came up with anything as good again !!
No Bon no ac dc, back in black I have to take the hat off but everything after that just couldn't quite deliver. None of the albums had a bad song, take flick of the switch and fly on the wall together and you can't beat any of the albums with Bon.
I mean definitely!! I respect Ac/dc & Brian and the records they did after..... But yeah you said it all it just doesn't come close 2 the Bon Scott years...
Indeed. Wh3n a Edwardo Vedder Hälen stepped in, it precisely sHæwked me
As great as both Let There Be Rock and Highway From Hell are, and each in their own rights, Powerage is AC/DC's best album-from cover to cover. RIP Bon
The best Johnson album is Flick Of The Switch
Powerage is a great album. Down Payment Blues could well be my favourite Acker Dacker song.
'For Those About To Rock We Salute You' 'LIVE' with the cannons!
Up To My Neck In Yòu, Kicked In The Teeth and Riff Raff are great deep cuts on Powerage. Bon is a masterclass lyricist. His signature use of the double entendre and cleverly phrased sexual innuendo was and remains the pinnacle example for High Voltage Rock N Roll. Brian Johnson pales in comparison lyrically, but I will say Flick Of The Switch is an underrated Johnson ģem.
You got that right Ben powerage my favorite all the songs seem too be about being screwed over by women kinda mirrors my life
Great documentary! Thanks to whoever put this together! Great job! I watched it twice already!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bon Scott the best frontman of all time 🤘🏻🔥
Half the panel reminds me of ol' Metal Forces before 1991's big flick of the wrist into G-Metal. I guess Ac\Dc's golden years with Ronnie Scott are sheer adventure; i only got to know of them in 77 on a German mag, in a peripheral Euro country, where they only started being played on national FM around late 78 and very sparsely . Naturally, when If you want blood and HWTH came out, finally on a Portuguese pressing, their popularity rate here broke in like a massive dam collapsing, that voice and guitars and thudding drums almost omnipresent where teens gathered, 43 years ago...
I'm at about the 56:00 mark and they're talking about the live performances. I lived in Nashville and my first time to see them was the tour for Flick of the Switch (oops, For Those About To Rock), both, underrated albums. But as used to listening to their albums as I was, sometimes all day long; I was blown away at being totally wiped out well before the concert was over. They just kept playing, loud, driving and it just didn't let up. And even though it was one or two albums later, it still started off with Hells Bells. That wasn't my first concert, but it was my first AC/DC concert.
Would have liked to see everyone’s face when the band came out with Let There Be Rock and Angus bouncing across the stage.
✌️😎🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
Let there be rock and Powerage deffo were the absolute epitome of AC/DC. Bon was at the absolute peak of his writing, Malcoms riffs were already epic yet still very much down to earth and grounded in traditional R'n'R and blues and Angus was just spewing out the most soulful bluesrock solos imaginable one after another. Being a guitarist myself some of these solos literally make me cry (of joy and involvement). Both albums are by far the most raw and energetic sounding AC/DC albums; Vanda and Young really perfected their sound and put the band were they belonged soundwise. IMHO none of the later producers captured what this band has always been about. Not Lange, not Fraser ... none. As much as I love Highway to Hell, Back in Black and some of the later stuff as well, I always thought that they sound too polished, taking away much of what the bands will give you live. HtH, BiB and FTATR really turned the band into an arena act - which tbh - I think they just aren't. Despite all the succes it had, that is. And after that, well, some of the albums either just sound catastrophic (Fly on the wall and Flick of the Switch) and after that it all became a bit too uninspired for much of the time (with occasional exceptions such as Thunderstruck obviously ...) I really don't touch these albums much nowadays whereas anything from High Voltage (AUS) to Powerage finds its way onto my turntable each and every week.
(Fun fact: My probably favourite AC/DC song (if such a thing can exist at all) is in fact from HTH. It's "If you want blood.")
You're in for a shocker....
Powerage is a great album. It doesn't have the huge anthems like Let There Be Rock, but it has more deep cuts. Great songs. Underrated? Definitely.
RIP Bon!!!
Simple rock music played brilliantly. When I think of the GOATs of rock Bon's ACDC is always at the top up there with The Doors, The Stones, The Who, Led Zepp, Pink Floyd & Queen
Witnessed ACDC 1976 Old Lion Hotel Adelaide. Live Bon and Angus ✌️🤘🏴☠️🇦🇺
I agree,bon Scott was a. Deep rooted part of acdc.the iconic foundation.brian Johnson let it grow and let it live longer..god bless bon.and Brian, and long live ac/DC and the band .Angus Malcolm cliff a.nd all that played.we will never hear or see this again.😅
My King of Rock n Roll