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<p>Fuck those ACDC guys are old!</p>
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<p>Opening riff of Back in Black at full tit in a massive stadium with loads of swedish gals... what can go wrong?</p>
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<p>Just dug out poster from first time I saw them in 1980.</p>
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<p><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/765507c23245c2a01530e4402cc09e3f/tumblr_inline_nqh6b4XEzI1rzvgly_540.jpg" alt="tumblr_inline_nqh6b4XEzI1rzvgly_540.jpg"></p>
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<p>Those guys really don't look hard rock or metal -- at all. More like a band you'd see at a local tavern. Running shoes, for heaven sake!</p>
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<p>I saw the fourth date on that poster -- July 26 in Kitchener. A good friend of mine booked & promoted the show. (True story: He once also booked Led Zeppelin into the same auditorium, 11 years earlier on their first N.American tour. Clearly, I wasn't there, but I've heard & read the stories. 8,000 seat house, and 6,000 tickets went unsold. My buddy Joe was so desperate he took out newspaper ads day-of-show offering severely discounted tickets at 50 cents. He lost his shirt, and I like to joke to him how they'd now be a billion-dollar act and he's probably the only guy on Planet Earth who booked them into a 75% empty room.)</p>
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<p>What's significant about <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Black'>the date</a> of that AC/DC show is that it was exactly ONE DAY after the release of their new LP titled <strong>Back In Black.</strong> Nobody had ever seen or heard their new singer OR heard anything off the new record. Basically all most rock fans here knew was the song "Highway to Hell" and "Whole Lotta Rosie" which got some rock FM airplay, and if they knew anything else it was mostly that singer Bon Scott was dead. That's it.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.acdc.com/ca/event/1980/07/26/kitchener-canada-memorial-auditorium'>Set-list</a>:</p>
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<div><strong>Hells Bells</strong></div>
<div><strong>Shot Down In Flames</strong></div>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Sin City</strong></span></div>
<div><strong>Back In Black</strong></div>
<div><strong>Bad Boy Boogie</strong></div>
<div><strong>The Jack</strong></div>
<div><strong>Highway To Hell</strong></div>
<div><strong>What Do You Do For Money Honey</strong></div>
<div><strong>High Voltage</strong></div>
<div><strong>Shoot To Thrill</strong></div>
<div><strong>Whole Lotta Rosie</strong></div>
<div><strong>You Shook Me All Night Long</strong></div>
<div><strong>T.N.T.</strong></div>
<div><strong>Let There Be Rock</strong></div>
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<div>I vividly remember them opening in the dark with the big bell. Wasn't until they played "Sin City" (still one of my two fave AC/DC songs; the other being "Givin' the Dog a Bone" from that "new" record which I later discovered they <em>sadly</em> did not play on that tour date) that I went, ooh, I recognize this one!</div>
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<div>The LP would go on to be the most heavily played rock record in Canada the following 3-5 years. Interestingly the year it was released it peaked in the album charts at #47.</div>
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<div>Very similar to chart action in NZ where it peaked at #43 in 1980; #25 in 1981; #24 in 1982; and #31 in 1983. That's some serious legs when your album is selling more copies 3-4 years after it was released than the actual year it got released.</div>
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<div>For some perspective on how seriously l-o-n-g ago that show was still a FULL YEAR <u>before</u> Gary Knight was flour-bombed on the head.</div>
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<p>I love your band/concert/interview/insight write ups!</p>
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<p>My only "before their time" story was going to watch the Dance Exponents in Hamilton with a crush as she was related to one of them.</p>
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<p>Bon Scott should could sing, but he sure as hell couldn't choose a pair of jeans.</p>
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<p>Would have loved to have seen them in the If you want blood, you've got it era.</p>
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<p>3 weeks to go til concert. Starting to get very amped - ironic thing is, that if the NZ tour dates had been announced, I would have gone home to watch them instead. Bogan central.</p> -
<p>I haven't seen AC/DC in probably 20 years, but I have some metalhead friends who NEVER miss them. I'd go again, too, but tickets are beyond my budget these days I'm afraid. (I believe that first show I went to in 1980 was $10.50, and to be honest with you I was pestered to go to that show not because I was a fan, but because I was from New Zealand. "But they're from Australia." "Close Enough.")</p>
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<p>Going further back, been digging into the Al Kooper files the past year (he did a lot of great work with Dylan, Hendrix and others) and really enjoying his incredible body of work. Here's a beautiful soulful bluesy composition from his debut Blood, Sweat & Tears record (<em>Child is Father to the Man</em>, 1968).</p>
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<p>Best riff on an album full of fucking awesome riffs</p>
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<p>I love your band/concert/interview/insight write ups!</p>
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<p>My only "before their time" story was going to watch the Dance Exponents in Hamilton with a crush as she was related to one of them.</p>
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<p>Was in a very dank pub and I would have been 11 or 12 and it was a Sunday afternoon and I remember there being us two plau two of her mates and about 5 adults listening to Jordan Luck and his band.</p>
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<p>Dance Exponents played at my flatmate's brother's 21st in Timaru.</p> -
<p>RIP Chris Squire.<br><br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/SiUvtPZ.jpg" alt="SiUvtPZ.jpg"><br><br>
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<p>I will accompany Tim lowering the flag to half-mast.</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">It had to happen eventually. It seems to me every important rock band from the big 60s & 70s bands has had at least one member perish, but Yes (as usual) bucked the trend (if you'll momentarily forget Peter Banks (RIP) was an original member but never in a "classic" line-up.). Hard to believe Squire & Anderson started YES as a lite-folk act along the lines of Simon & Garfunkel. Things got weird, fast.</span></p>
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<p>...or if the extended live version is your pleasure...</p>
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<p>RIP Don Joyce from Negativland</p>
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The are two artists I absolutely love. Both have had self destructive periods that have made them more myth than anything else, supreme RnB talents that we're going to save us from N'Sync and Christina Aguilera . One recently seems to have come out of his haze. D'angelo has finally released new music. It's different but its original and for the most part I like it. He's too late to change the world but it sounds good on my way to work in the morning. The other played a live version on Nina Simone's Feeling Good on The Tonight Show this week. Lauren Hill. She should have been so many things but drugs, depression and craziness ruined her career. Here she was though. Clear eyed, looking pretty again(not that is an indication of talent of course) and most importantly sounding amazing again. She's been sporadic with her good performances. I've heard of people walking out because she was so incoherent. But if you can dig up the video he looks and sounds so good. I hope she stays that way.
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<p>That song really is totemic, arguably _the_defining metal song of the era. I have a lovely memory from the mid-80s of me and my mates on a cold winter Friday night impulsively making a decision to get our asses down to Maple Leaf Gardens (a legendary hockey arena in Toronto) to see Motorhead support Alice Cooper. We made a two-hour drive and were impatiently standing in line at the ticket-window when the show started. We were doing a frenzied St. Vitus dance panicking for the slacker ticket lady to hurrythefuckupalready, then heard them start playing "Ace of Spades" on the other side of the wall. We were crestfallen, looked at each other, put our money back in our pockets, went to a reggae bar instead and got hammered. If we couldn't see Motorhead play that song, then what was the point? Made a decision to drive three hours the other direction to a different hockey arena in a different city to see the same show the following night. I was shocked there was hardly any love. 95% of the crowd was there for Cooper and sat on their hands, but the old bikers and grizzled bastards stood on their feet banging their heads and hollering for all of it. I've seen them at least a half-dozen times, and I just stand in amazement watching Lemmy gargle razor-blades into that erect microphone and strum his bass like he's playing a ukulele.</p>
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Recommended viewing for all Metallica fans. This guy plays the intro to Blackened the way it was originally performed before reversing the video/audio.<br>
Very cool. Not many riffs sound awesome both in normal direction and backwards.</p>
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<p>fucking cool. 80s Metallica is the coolest shit ever. Lars may be a fucking dick of the highest order, and also a crap drummer now, but jesus in teh 80s he killed, the drum tracks on Justice are fucking unreal, and it didn't take him long to stop playing half the fills live (like, by the 90s they were gone). </p>
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<p>Kirk's solos kill as well. Watching him play them while running across a stage on some live video i had was unreal. Seriously, Justice is a decent producer away from being utterly flawless heavy metal, but Lars and James fucked it up (at least they can admit it though). </p>
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<p>Ah Ace of Spades, brilliant. First heard by young Mariner on The Young Ones. Possibly the first real heavy metal song i ever heard.</p>
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<p>To combine those two posts, Metallica are a really good cover band. Their "Motorheadache" they did is really good, to go along with their other excellent covers (Am I Evil is in my top 5 Metallica songs of all time). </p>
