AC/DC's Angus Young & Stevie Young Rig Rundown
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Premier Guitar’s Chris Kies traveled south to hang with AC/DC techs Trace Foster and Greg Howard before their show at Atlanta’s Phillips Arena. As you watch this video, you’ll slowly understand why both techs claim that this is both the easiest gig (because of the light load of equipment) and the hardest gig (no pedals or effects to hide behind) they’ve ever had.
If things go smoothly, Angus will only use this 1967 Gibson SG during the entire show. All of the volume and tone pots have been changed several times because he sweats so much causing everything to deteriorate and corrode. The pickups have been swapped out with custom-wound, wax-potted Seymour Duncan humbuckers that have a resistance of 7.8k. All of Angus’ guitars use Ernie Ball Slinky (.009-.042) strings and he rocks with Fender Extra Heavy picks.
His backup is a 1970 SG Custom that he used on the Back in Black world tour during the early ’80s. The guitar originally had a natural walnut finish, was loaded with three humbuckers, and had a Maestro vibrato.
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"it's a pretty simple setup"
-every guitar tech ever interviewed.
But in this case it's actually true!
With the exception of The Edge's Rig Rundown - the exact opposite of this rig.
Angus = few axes, mega amps. The Edge = mega guitars, mega pedals, & a few amps.
Kurangbin's rig is the definition of a simple rundown
69th like
He's got less gear than me LOL - and I only play in the bedroom.
I almost cried when he said “This is Malcom’s #2, his #1 is at home with him”. RIP Malcom Love from West Texas.
RIP Malcolm. Bon has his arm around your shoulder.
They buried that one with Malcolm because that was Malcolm's original
@@faze_cosm1c_284 Yep, it was on top of the casket for the whole service and carried on top to the hearse all the way to the grave.
How did Malcom passway?
And my love from East Texas
"This is the guitar from the Back in Black Tour!" - That, right there, would be the coolest thing I'd ever get to say.
I was sure he played the same guitar in Paris '79
Copy or what?
@@makkaravalo245 That is in fact the guitar from paris, youll never find a bigger ac/dc nerd than me
I was there Rosemont Horizon
I’m an acdc nerd too welcome to the club
The precise simplicity of AC/DC is exactly why they are the kings of rock.
The Cleanest PA mix ive ever heard, its just like listening to a great 70s Stereo System, that good of a mix
"Here's the rundown. This guitar into that amp."
A little bit more to in than that.
Did you miss the part about the Japanese power supply system?
Want to know why its hard to find these Marshalls. Because in the last 40 years angus has blown them all up.
I've got something close. 20 years old, yet, almost brand new. Never hit the road, studio only. Heavenly. New Russian EL34s 100 watt JCM2000 Dual Super Lead. 4x12 angle top Marshall cabinet Celestions. Cherry. 😎
This reminds me of an anecdote of a stage hand who was hired by Pink Floyd to service their Hiwatt amps during the "Animals" tour.
During the rehearsals David Gilmour complained about the sound not being right and asked the guy to unplug the head and fetch another one from storage. The guy decided to be a dickhead, unplugged the head, walked out, waited a few minutes and then walked back in with the same head and plugged it back in.
Aaaannnd found out right away that there was no fooling the finely tuned musical hearing of David Gilmour.
I have never even scratched an amp .
My Fender goes up to 2 , and the old bird gives a salty look ...
Did I say 2 ? I meant 1 and a half ...
Did I say old bird ? I meant My WUVVY--- DUVVY--- SMOOCHIE----KINS . kikokikokiko
@@IETCHX69 LOL!!! SmoochieKins! 😂
@@RastaSaiyaman 😂😂😂😂😂😂
So happy to see Garth got his dream job.
LMAO 😂
Fantastic! There's more great statements on this comments section than I've heard in 10 years - you guys are excellent!
HE'S NOT WORTHY
he was also on the aerosmith rig rundown, so maybe they were really impressed lmao
Party time! Excellent!
I had the privilege of being with AC/DC during the recording of the TNT album @ Albert Studios back in 1975, Angus had his Marshall quad box facing the wall as he played straight through the amp with no pedals whatsoever. I had a quick feel of his guitar that seemed to have super slinky strings which surprised me as to how ballsy it sounded even with such a light gauge.
The whole band was there as they were going to Philip Morris Photography Studios afterwards, but it was mainly Angus and Bon that were laying down some unfinished tracks at that point.
It was a great experience and a great privilege to have had the opportunity to be with AC/DC and George Young & Harry Vanda at that recording session.
It was an experience I'll never forget.
RIP: Bon Scott, George and Malcolm Young. 100% Aussie legends... 😊🎵🎤🎸
I miss Malcolm... :(
You are very very lucky!!
@@bassmann666 Thanks Roberto, I took it for granted at the time.
If only I knew back then how BIG they would become globally.
@@Ray-Parra That's an amazing experience!! Did you happen to see (and remember) the specific amps Malcolm and Angus used...?
@@ddzanovski Only Angus was laying down solos that night through a 100W Superlead. George Young layed down some bass lines as well which I thought was a bit odd considering the bass player "MARK EVANS" was present.
I can still hear Bon's vocals to "I'M A ROCKER I'M A ROLLER" while downing most of the Stone's Green Ginger bottle which you can see wrapped in a paper bag in one of the pics.
Hope this helps. 👍😊
One of the chillest techs and also good interviewer. Basically 2 ac/dc fans nerding out. Nice.
HE knows how important he is , he just does not ACT like it . I am so famous , I am the roadie , the manager , the singer , songwriter , arranger , and head bottle washer .
Nice of him to take the time to do this.
Disciple0fMetal I’m nerding out pretty pretty hard right now too
If ypu havent seen it check out the rundowns with the black keys... their tech seems like he may be on the spectrum but i would give my right foot to spend a few hours nerding out and tinkering on something in his shop.
Great Tröjan avatar.
"This is holy ground. You do know that?"
Truer words were never spoken.
He has to be one of the most down to earth guitar techs!
Has to be...otherwise he wouldn't have got the job...
Didn’t know guitar techs could have egos. 🤣😆
Are guitar techs known for being douchebags?
I love how geeked out this guitar tech is about the gear. He has a lot of passion and respects the history he is in charge of
My Make a Wish dream is to get 10 minutes on that rig at full volume.
Wow! Just the thought of that gives me shivers. What a dream
this guy is great. interviewer doesn't even have to ask questions. obviously loves working for angus and knows what the fans want to know about.
I love how Angus just plays a guitar and amp . No fancy shit to boost or thicken his sound . Just a guitar and Amp . Thats rock and roll .
And Schaffer Vega Wireless, so basically just guitar to amp but...
Imagine Tom Morello or David Gilmour having to play without their pedal boards.
a guitar and 12 amps
j jones....did you even watch the video? If you think it's "just" a guitar and amp...you didn't watch it or you are a complete idiot.
The core feature of the SVDS/Schaffer Replica is boost and compression as well as an optical limiter, so that is in fact incorrect. It's a really straightforward rig, to be sure, but Angus definitely uses a boost to fatten his signal as well as compression to tighten it up, otherwise he wouldn't be using the Schaffer, as that's literally all it's capable of doing.
I could listen to Trace talk gear and tell stories for hours. His passion really shows when he is explaining things.
"These guys have A LOT of Marshalls." That pretty much sums it up.
Angus is 65 on the 31st March - my favourite guitarist becomes an Old Age Pensioner in the UK. He is the reason I fell in love with that hard rock music. I owe him a life debt of gratitude. Cheers
Same here
Same here. The reason I love rock, the reason I became a guitarist.
And AC/DC in general is the reason I learned drums as well
Who else wanted to see *Angus* talk about his guitars?
insert good name Somehow i feel that Angus couldn’t tell us this much about the rig lol! But Yeah it would have been nice to have him Stevie and cliff talk about their set ups
I don't think he would've had much to say, honestly. He's a simple, quiet guy, he'd probably say something like "I like these guitars" with a cup of tea in his hands.
@@sergiobollana More like a can of beer.
@@insertgoodname4809 more accurate ya cup of tea
YES YES YES YES
1:23 Can't blame Chris Kies for showing the pressure of knowing this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and not wanting to screw it up by not getting all the details. He did a great job.
Trace seems like such a rad guy. Absolutely no attitude and just plain excited about it all. Glad to see someone excited for their gig and has obviously watched a few rig rundowns himself.
When you have been doing it for decade+ and still excited about your job. lol
@@JohnDoe-fv3vs danishpetehonre
i feel like if someone like THE ANGUS YOUNG uses a specific fender pick, fender needs to make that pick exactly as he wants it lmfao. dude is literally a living legend
Gibson guitars and Fender pics..I'm the opposite. Love Gibson picks, but I'm a Fender guy.
Leanna Burnell Shout out to a fellow detractor that plays guitar
Hotstamping is an inherently wasteful practice, so it'll never happen. No use producing extra emissions for less product, especially when it's no more than just a minute texture difference.
@@MisterSwagify What the?? You're worried about the extremely tiny amount of "emissions" and "waste" from hot stamping a guitar pick?
MisterSwagify you do know angus young has produced some of the most recognizable riffs in music history right? Who cares about extra emissions. Its a plectrum...
It's like being shown the lightning bolts in Zeus' toolbox.
Angus likes his wireless systems so much he even uses them for recording.
this guy's great at explaining the gear he's showing us. and those SG's those -
RIGHT ON BOTH GUY"S WERE GREAT TO TALK TO!
Postman pat
Finally getting recognition.
Saw ACDC in 2010 at the age of 16. Best time of my life, one memory i will take to the grave.
Welcome to the club. Now I'm 43, saw them for the first time when I was 17. I can vouch they're going to stay with you all your life, and they will never disappoint you.
I must have seen this episode ten times. Never get tired of it.
YeahMe2
Me too... 12 now 😂
For shizle
I've watched several of these Rig Rundowns and usually the road techs are complete whackjobs that make the interviews cringy and awkward. These AC/DC guys seem to have their faculties about them and are extremely well spoken and socialized. Cheers to a great segment.
AC/DC is a well oiled machine these guys don’t have to deal with a ton of bullshit and the rig changing constantly they just wash rinse repeat so they are not stressed out constantly! Being a tech is a tuff job and when the bullshit keeps coming constantly the last thing you want to do is a interview that is cutting into your work ,eat, or sleep time !
When you see muzzle loading cannons as part of the gear, you know it's Accadacca. Legends!
Trace is such a legend. I love how casually and candidly he tells us all the "secrets" of these heroic rock tones.
“Brian gave this to Angus” that s a real friendship. God bless this legends!
This one in particular just with the dynamic between Trace and Chris was awesome. No awkwardness whatsoever like some Rundowns. Chris and John kill it like every time. And Trace couldn’t have been any cooler. It was legitimately enjoyable to watch, not skipping past anything, ya know? It was like being there with friends just BS’ing and having the birds eye view.
I think it's really cool that Angus can be as big as he is and have tons of guitar companies trying to get him on their payroll, but he still uses old guitars with a lot of character than boring signitures
I didn't realize his guitars are all so old... from far away they always look clean and prestine
Angus never plays his signature SG.
2003*
He sometimes uses his signature guitar but i guess he prefers his old one course he nevers uses the signature for more than a tour, most guitarist "prefer" the signature guitar
The only time I have ever seen him use his signature model was with GNR this year making a guest appearance. As mentioned, he has two SG's with the lightning bolt inlays, one is his #1 that Jaydee redid, the other is a clone from Gibson. It was played once in CA on the ROB tour and never really came back out.
Loving Malcolm’s knackered Gretsches pick up holes empty, random empty pot holes finish stripped off no pretence its all about the rock and roll... RIP big man
While the rest of the so called "Rock Artists" smashes their gear.. Angus and Malcolm loves them like they're band member.
Smashing any guitar worth more than 2 days work is just wasteful.
I tend to respect the musicians that take their rage out on their bodies🤣
Usually they smash stuff that is cheap and not mean so much to them. Kurt cobain for instance would smash a lot of cheap gear, but then they would pick it up, and rebuild it, so they could use it again. But he would never smash his favorite guitars.
As they said, climax to the show and good excuse to not do encore lol
But that’s a different type of music etc
I've watched this a half dozen times at least. Never gets old.
True
It really doesn't, but there are a few issues I take with it. Angus' main touring SG is not a '67 unless it has been heavily modified to look more like a '64, which it was originally thought to be. Gibson serial numbers from the 60s and before were not very reliable, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were just off. By all means that SG has the appearance of a 1964, and given the fact that it has the smaller pickguard and deeper horn carves it would have to be pre-1965 assuming the body shape is unchanged.
Secondly, The Back In Black Tour guitar was acquired on the Highway To Hell Tour, and appeared in Paris in the Let There Be Rock movie.
Trace also gives the impression that the AC/DC tone has always been the same: somewhere around 3 on bass, mids, and treble. That is incorrect. Angus' tone has varied greatly throughout the years ranging from almost no bass on High Voltage to almost all bass and treble with very clear mid-scooping on Back In Black. AC/DC has only in more recent years (90s and later) used more really flat tones, and even then there are still minor variations in them, like adding more mids and treble on Ballbreaker and The Razors Edge.
All minor complaints, but they are points of accuracy.
Actually his number one sg is not a 67 or a 64 it’s a copy of the original the original sg was best known for live at Donington 1991 but it got wood rot because of the years of sweat so angus bought a copy. Also the original had Grover locking tuners not regular deluxe. And it also would say Les Paul in the truss rid which it doesn’t now he still has the Donington sg but it’s was not made for the black ice tour or rock or bust. So his number one is a copy. And trace is right though if you push the amp it does help you get the tone but some ideas is bass 2 presence 1 gain 2 Mids 8 and treble 2 it’s just spot on for me at least.
interviewer is soooo excited he can barely contain himself, lol...not to say I'd probably feel the same if I was there. 😂😂😂
Thats the whole point. Like the tech guy said, he was giving us Angus like he is. He didn't pull out a lot of guitars because he is Angus and he only uses those 3. I thought that was great. These guys are rock at its simpliest and the way it should be.. I think it was awesome. Thank you Premier Guitar
As soon as I saw the intro "Angus rig rundown " I thought to myself What? This is going to be pretty quick. But thats Angus, basic hardcore rock, nothing else. Same thing with his wardrobe. The guy doesn"t need anything but the basics to KICK ASS !!!! Nobody plays an S/G They are mocked by everyone else.
Superb RigRundown , Great Job
+Pete Loomis George Harrison played a 1964 SG Standard on songs like Paperback Writer (In the video) and some stuff on their 1968 self-titled album The Beatles (best known as The White Album) and on Hey Bulldog from the Yellow Submarine album
Christopher Mafnas na he ain't excited, he is RUDE!
I go to see AC/DC with Bon in 1978......I was absolutely blown away by the guitar tone Angus got.....
79 for me, Highway To Hell tour, Hammersmith! Now I can count Brian's brother Vic as a friend and former colleague... my one and only famous person connection claim.
Somewhere around 1981 I seen the "Back in Black" tour and the next year it was the "For Those about to Rock" tour. I partiality blame AC/DC for the ringing in my ears.
'79 for me, about 6 months before Bon died. An absolutely electrifying, straight ahead, rock performance.
UFO opened for them........Angus comes out with just his guitar and starts wailing, gawd, the tone of that SG through a stack of Marshalls.....
For me it’s 2015 I was super excited to see them and when I got home I just picked my guitar up and “learned” their songs!
I watched this entire interview hoping he was going to say " This one goes to 11"
He got so close when he said that they push it to the limit, then give it just a little more... I thought for sure he would say it!
Lol
It's one louder!
The interviewer didn`t get the reference to not touching the guitar, so no point in making another Tap quote.
This was really interesting! 🎸
You could tell the tech was really interested, unlike Green Day's rig rundown where the guy didn't care at all.
"So, um... this guitar (chewing gum noise) is uh..."
After being involved with hundred's of gig's over a 25 year span and counting, as a guitar tech, bass guitarist, stage manager and drum tech, and audio engineer, to boot, this clip is beyond cool. Gear geek for life!!
Chris, you did an amazing job on this interview. As a life long AC/DC fan I would have been a stuttering, drooling mess. Kudos again on a job well done!
He was drooling, but luckily we were able to edit those parts out! Thanks for watching.
Joe Casson don’t diss Chris Cornell or his legacy.
I like how Angus is the polar opposite of Joe Perry (consistency of gear vs. constantly changing things up) yet they both have the same tech
I love it, the old dudes keep it simple, knob selection, play it till it breaks etc…
What a genuinely nice guy.
People have said that about Charles Manson
God, I love it when Chris hosts the Rundowns. He's always very in-depth and asks lots of questions.
If I was on tour, I'd defo want this guy to be my guitar tech. He's so passionate.
Dude this is what rock and roll is all about. No frills; just tons of booze, sweat, and tinnitus.
Awesome! R.I.P. Malcolm and thanks for your contribution to rock n' roll. You'll be missed.
Keep playing his music for the younger generations and he will never die.
Rip malcolm and much love to angus and the rest of the young family from me in new york
I still love watching this. The internet would've exploded if Trace said "He's been using a Helix..."
That definitely would’ve been interesting, yeah
Lol...and his cabs are dummies except for 2 headrush frfr cabs he runs in stereo for chorus and ping pong delay
And a special built SG Variax.
Or Axe FX
Not going to happen.
Angus is the reason I first picked up a guitar. Great video 👍
What a great vid, that guy is so clever and passionate. As a punk guy I'm not even THAT into his tone but it was still freaking amazing to see all the gear. SOOOO old school. Legends
I read one time in a guitar magazine that Angus actually saw the SG custom in a pawn shop in NYC during the Highway to Hell tour. You can actually see him play the guitar in the movie Let There Be Rock right after his first guitar string gets broken. Priceless.
Even as a drummer I was just hanging onto every word these techs were saying. Amazing
It’s AC/DC why wouldn’t you lol
The interviewer is great. Everytime I had a question he asked it :)
"So we got an amp guy, we just blow up a bunch of tubes..." Hahahaha
If you're not blowing tubes on 3 or 4 heads per show then you're not playing hard enough. That's why there's only one Angus.
Watching this video reminds me of Back to the Future, when Marty blows up the amp at the beginning of the movie
SG AND MARSHALL PLEXI. WHAT ELSE YOU NEED !!!!
@@jamescayer5447 A SOUND PROOF ROOM AND HEARING AIDS
Angus' tech is great! Awesome RR, and the interviewer did not even have to ask interesting questions.
AC/DC is singlehandedly keeping Marshall in business.
Jeez, from simply plugging a jack into an amp and rockin it, we got super technical, but ,its only rock n roll. Credit to Trace Foster, what a cool tech to have on your team.
That was like taking a masterclass in no-frills tone generation. So cool.
9 super leads as a "practise" set up..Legend!
Damn, I've somehow missed this. AC/DC's rig has been a subject of debates for ages. So many have moved from real amps and cabs to Kempers and DI, so it's amusing to see this kind of ultra old school real hardware rig still in use today with one of the biggest bands in the world. Full respect!
I'm a bass player retired, but I still love to geek out and listen to these guys talk about the gear of Angus and formerly Malcolm, but now Stevie. It's totally cool and their crew is obviously very professional just like they are.
It's refreshing to see someone play without pedals. I played in bars that way for years. I understand some styles you need to add some color. But for rock I think a good guitar plugged into a great Amp is the best tone.
He is goosing the amp... it's just not pedal format. The Solodallas box is boost+compression
Judging from the rig rundown, Angus isn't goosing his amp very much with it. The tech said it's not his definitive tone. Angus calls it a fizz box
Chad M yes,and this helps his stage performance,helped a lot to build his role as the star of the band.Can you imagine that he had to stop on specific places on stage to turn on the pedals?Isn't AC/DC with this somekind of problem.
Chad M even then it depends on what kind of rock you're playing, for prog reverb, delay and some sort of modulation are all necessities for ambient sections
Jonas Wellinghton Silveira Rocha you can get programs that'll do it for you at a certain point in the set now, I think dragonforce use it
I just don't get how you can dislike this. I'm not even a fan of ACDC but I had to watch this. Just the history and curiosity behind it all, so awesome :D
The Back in Black tour guitar with the reversed Tunomatic bridge, I'm like "aaaah he gets it"
I thought that's the guy from Wayne's World. Never knew he was a guitar tech
LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
😂😂😂
Really? Did you really think that?
😂💀
Party on Garth
This pretty much confirms what I've been telling people for years about AC/DC. Everyone wants to believe there's a magic pedal that will give you Angus's sound. Crank up a good marshally amp with relatively balanced eq, then turn the gain up just to the point of overdrive then play with all your heart! He plays fairly clean but he plays mean! and that's the secret. People think he uses a lot more gain then he actually does. So if you use anything, use a clean boost to mimic the wireless unit he uses.
...And low output and bright humbuckers, PAFs (57 classics) basically. P90s are great as well. I went to a music store recently and I couldn't find a guitar with low output pickups that wasn't single coils. The ignorance is embarrassing
+MrACangusyoungDC yeah that's a good point. Another thing is that people think that AC/DC is two humbuckers when in fact Malcolm's gretch filtertron sounds much closer to a single coil or a p-90
Josh Robinson Actually I just felt the urge to find out what makes the filtertrons sound like that because that's nothing I've thought about earlier. Another thing, really, is that this is the case for many other tones as well. Eddie Van Halen uses PAF-style pickups into a hard driven amp. His fancy looking signature guitars actually would work surprisingly well for Angus Tone.
And, biasing the tubes really hot.
When I think of the ultimate Angus Tone I think of Back in Black. You can just tell that the amp is cranked and on the verge of meltdown.
Holy shit finally stuff on AC/DC :D I saw AC/DC in Montréal last year and they were just badass, I loved watching Angus spinning around on the floor, which was both awesome and kinda funny because he's probably now 60 and he still plays like he's in his twenties or something
Simple, but effective!! I love AC/DC!
This dude is so stoked about his job
English Amps + American Guitars = 'The Special Relationship :)
@flip inheck Uhh
@flip inheck No, he is not.
@flip inheck They're Australian mate, you should know that.
They were born in Glasgow and moved to Australia...I know their cousin Davey Williamson.
Oh my God, yes. :D
I don't even listen to AC/DC but I am a fan of guitar gear and I really enjoyed this. The tech was really friendly and funny and the interviewer asked some good questions.
Love the tech and the fact he not only is knowledgable but has an obvious love/care for the job
That makes sooooo much sense, that they bias the amps a git too hot. That’s how you get a sound of an amp on the edge of exploding. I’ve blown two amps in live performances. One of those times about 10 minutes before it blew I had just hit tonal nirvana and always wondered if that tone was because it was running too hot.
Nice to see a legend like Angus tours with just 3 guitars instead of 20 like other musicians.
Simon B. At the beginning he did say he had like 16 on tour. Although this are what he really likes to stick to.
@@iwritechecksatthegrocerystore He didn't say that. Trace said that he thought he'd be asked to pull out 15 or 16 guitars "but that's not how he works". Listen again.
This is part of why "every AC DC song sounds the same'. No swapping gear or changing the settings just for one or songs.
@@conniethesconnie They do change tone settings among other things quite a lot from album to album, however. For example, Back In Black had a lot of bass and treble but had some really heavy mid-scooping, but Let There Be Rock was really treble-heavy, keeping the bass really low as well as cranking up the compression and overloading the board to give it some more solid-state distortion. AC/DC has even used a wide variety of amps in the studio, ranging from JTM-45s hot-rodded to 50W to 100W Super Leads; Angus even used Wizard Amps on occasion in The Razors Edge era, both live and in the studio. In regards to mics, they've used the Neumann U47FET as well as the Shure SM57 most heavily. Keep in mind that these aren't rumors; this knowledge typically comes straight from the handful of studio engineers they've had throughout the years. AC/DC's not changed as much as many bands have, but they're certainly a lot less static than people say they are.
Nostal Jack not what he said Angus does have 15, 16 guitars but he just brought out the important ones the ones angus really uses
I'm not even an ACDC fan but, really fascinating rig rundown in terms of the amps, the tech seemed genuinely passionate about the gear and the god like tone, and I'm in awe of anybody who had 9 plexis in their backline
I’m pretty sure Angus has had that Gibson SG Custom longer than the Back in Black tour. The reason why am saying that is because I’ve seen him with that guitar when he was performing in Paris in 1979.
the guitar he swapped in the middle of whole lotta rosie
Yes, but it was his one of his main guitars for the Back In Black Tour, hence it being called the "Back In Black Guitar". On the Highway To Hell Tour it was just one of his backups that he rarely used, and he most likely bought it in '79, which is kinda "right before" he and Malcolm started writing for Back In Black. Trace did say a handful of incorrect things in the rundown, one of which being the age of Angus' main SG (most likely a '64 given its appearance; serial numbers were not 100% accurate in the 60s), but I'd go as far as to say he's largely correct about that particular statement.
@@jeremymodj3010 Yep, that one.
you can just tell that this guy loves what he does, it's awesome
Ok, ... I can die now, I've seen everything that I needed to see in this life. The mystery's have all been answered and there's nothing else that can top this,.... So thank you premier and Chris, see you in the spiritual world!!!
I wish I could do something more than thumbs up! Great comment!
Angus was the first guitarist I ever saw with a wireless connection, he ran around the Manchester Apollo like a man posessed, astonishing energy.
Me too - Southampton Gaumont 1981
@@denniscat9395 me three cow palace san San Francisco 1982 February. He was coked out.
@@ONESJKT_Official yea coked up.
Me too - 1979 with Bon. He rode on Bon's shoulders up into the balconies, up and down the aisles for a 15 min solo to Bad Boy Boogie - it was just mindblowing...
@@utecastronoova863 he's a teetotaler.
Great job on the rig rundown premiere guitar
The mixture of science, art, technology and Mojo coming together to rock the shit out of a stadium...I love it!! That was a great interview/review. I bet that equipment will be in the Smithsonian one day.
Amazing. Bought my first ACDC album in 1983 and seen them live three times. I've seen him, up close, playing that guitar.
Seen acdc live back in 09 it was the best day of my life
9 heads and 5 stacks, now I know why it sounded like he was drilling into my head
So cool that angus had enough time to let his tech do the interview. Chill dude
Listening to AC/DC recordings right now.
This is super cool!
Can't believe they have kept their sound so simple all these decades! But, it rings true!
THANK YOU FOR THE TOUR!!
This is one of the best things ever on UA-cam. Nicely done Premier Guitar.
Nice, you can see how Trace wanted to tell all of this. Its really kool to see this! LOVE it!
4:07 zooms perfectly everything that i love about an SG
Nothing screams more Cathedral of Goth Perfection than a Black custom SG
it just they will always fee so far ahead of their time when it comes of that slick futuristic unique beautiful Vintage Metal design
these guys have the best job ever and they know it. more power to them ! !!
I've been waiting forever for a rig rundown for these guys!!
SG and Marshall heaven. What more do you need? Angus got me into SGs and I've owned a number of them. The first time I got an SG and brought it hope and plugged it into my Marshall was just a revelation. Tone doesn't get any better.
3:55 the guitar that is like Holy Grail, something every fan would love to have
This is better than any porn ever. EVER.
This is porn.
Need more beaver shots
Yeah, porn never last that long here, just a few minutes !
@@brugges Not true, I've lasted 34 minutes before (of course, I had drank a lot and I fell asleep for the middle 20 minutes) :)
True.....but Melena Maria Rya would be a close second!
This is like the 4th or 5th time I have watched this. Like he says earlier, this is rock royalty and the operation is so well streamlined. I learned so much. The power supply that keeps them all at 234 volts is fascinating. No gain pedals, not a chorus, flanger or delay in sight. And a 70 cable if all else fails. Angus and Stevie (get well Malcolm) are the two shining lights in a world of effects. Pure tone.
That power supply is total bullshit.....you don't need to run amps like that and I challenge anyone to tell the difference
60Hz :-)
It is pure tone but that doesn't mean it's for everyone. My 10 watt tube amp is LOUD and unfortunately my neighbors don't like to hear my pentatonic noodling at 1 AM over generic backing track in G minor. So, for some of us, a lighter load and a pedal to push our amps is what we need. Unfortunately, not all of us can be the guitar gods of yesteryear
The classic iconic guitar tone of AC/DC was, for me, from Malcolm Young, not from Angus. Malcolm had this Gretch chambered guitar without a neck pickup. It had real good crunch, just the right amount of fullness, good low-end definition and sustain. The 12’s and a wound third...that totally makes sense...You don’t get that kind of tone from an SG with 9’s on it... RIP Malcolm.