malcom was once asked in an interview in a guitar world magazine why he doesnt play any leads in ac dc and his response was awesome. he said there is nothing better when you get those nights when your just locked in perfect with the bass and drums and you let the groove of the song carry your performance. there is nothing better than that..............thats malcolm......
Ac/dc has one of the best, scratch that...the best rhythm section I've ever heard, couple that with one of the greatest lead guitar players and two of the best vocalists they are without a doubt my favorite rock band of all time. I was 12 when ACDC live double disc came out and got my first guitar around that age. I would crank that in my stereo and have my amp in between the speakers. Playing a long with Let There Be Rock, Sin City, Heatseeker, FTATR, High Voltage etc..made me appreciate this band. They are so tight it could be a studio recording with some live songs going 10 minutes plus. Malcolm was a machine. When I first started playing with a live band I already felt 2 steps ahead, so much that I got annoyed the rest of the band would be off ever so slightly but they couldn't hear it lol. I still to this day jam a long with ac/dc just as much or more than playing with others.
He has stated in other interviews when the band is really "cookin", there's nothing better, its better than sex. Now that is a man with a passion for music, and it is part of his soul.
This was Brian Johnson about a year after he stepped in to fill Bon Scott's shoes after his passing. Although no one could do what Bon did, Brian Johnson emerged as the powerhouse that we did not know that we needed. The FTATR album is one of the most underrated albums of all time. Check the B-side on that album, more specifically the song "Spellbound". One of my favorites.
Snowball is also amazing! Fantastic album! Back in Black,For those about to Rock,Flick of the switch,Ballbreaker etc. Brian has made some amazing albums with the boys!
Those three in the back, Malcolm, Cliff and Phil, are driving the bus. What a rhythm section! Without them, ACDC is not what it is, and I pray for Malcolm.
Never pray for Angus... He's every bit as crucial with his thunderous leads, and what would for those about to rock be like without the signature opening from Angus???
What about Phil Rudd? He can give a solid 4/4 metronome beat for hours nonstop! And the groove he adds is the icing on the cake. Doing that while smoking a cigarette while giving Angus that beat to go off of. Phil Rudd is a rock n roll machine!
@@x8nis RIGHT about Phil...the World's BEST Drummer (many Experts say this) was the Rolling Stone's Grandpa🤣...Fucking Hell...against Phil Rudd comes around Charlie Watts like a 👉SLEEPY PILLOW👈...Cheers Dude!!
Brians Voice is fucking incredible!!! He must have vocal cords made of iron....he's still great and it boggles my mind how he does it still and has a voice left??? SMFH???
Saw them in the late 80s, don't remember the year but King's X opened for them. Think it was the Blow Up Your Video tour around '88. Third row, floor in Phoenix at the Vet. You ain't lying about the decibel level. Loudest of the 50+ concerts I've been to by far. Was amazing.
Brian Lewis, my grandpa saw them with my dad back in 1982 at the DCU Center or Worcester Centrum, my grandpa still complains that he can't hear out of one ear. I mean granted they were incredibly loud but seriously.
best concert I saw was the same one - For Those About to Rock 1981 - I saw a lot of great concerts from Judas Priest, Van Halen, Def Leppard that same year but AC/DC KILLED IT!!!
Brian Lewis That's hilarious. My ears rang for 3 days after standing in the 8th row in front of a stack of EVH's amps at a Cincinnati show for the 5150 tour. What a show, but I was a little concerned about my hearing. Fortunately my hearing is good, but at night when I plant my head on the pilla and hear a quiet ring, I think of Eddie's high pitched sonic boom at the end of his 25 minute solo
@@Frip36 it's still good 👍. But for me deep purple reunion tour. Rainbow tour . Triumph allied forces tour . Judas priest British steel tour. UFO live was awesome as well. Van Halen first time I seen them on their first album tour. Acdc for those about to rock tour was awesome as well. Wish I would have seen highway to hell tour.
@@jerrywoods4066 Where did you see Priest on the BS tour? Jealous. I never saw AC/DC. Big regret. No ballads or melodic crap. Just constant blasting. In my opinion a Triumph show cannot compare to an early AC/DC show like the one above. I'll let you slide on the other bands.
@@GeneChang-vf3ps Thats how I feel, I saw the original tour for this ablum/song. They were actually louder the previous tour. It was insane.Couldnt hear the next day.
I remember waiting all day to see this on mtv when I was 9 or 10 years old. I love how raw it is, the power of it. Brian Johnson was such a badass to me. I still love.
Big time. Re-watching this now I seem to remember the video (the copy that Mtv played in the 1980s at least!) having a kind of 'skip' in it right at the 4:00 mark the shot of Brian singing "...youuuu!" Haha
Concerts aren't presented like this any longer. This crushes all the whimpy/pussy rock of today...if we even want to call it rock. As a bass player, I'd like to recognize Rudd here. He's definitely in the pocket and makes this song what it is. I vividly remember this video in what seemed to be an hourly rotation on MTV back in the early 80's...and have not gotten tired of it since. It's just so freakin' awesome!!!
Hell Yeah ! 👍 AC/DC My Favorite Band of All Time, I wore out so many of their cassette tapes growing up, seen em live 5 times back from early 80' - BAD ASS ! These Guys ROCK !
@@thunderbird8271 Bon for the complicated What's Next to the Moon lyrics. Brian for those about to Rock n Roll Train/Bus/Taxi/Wheelchair remember that Rock n Roll Aint Noise Pollution. Both for the hard hitting rock that is AC/DC. We can thank Bon's family for asking AC/DC to continue without Bon. And if you don't care for that explanation, Money Talks.
@@jerrywoods4066 Bon didn't have the pipes to record Back In Black. The guy sang the same way he talked. Brian was more versatile when it comes to singing. Have you heard his rendition to House Of The Rising Song when he was with Geordie? Just amazing. Brian could sing normal and could hit those high notes. His voice started going downhill after coming to AC/DC. He was getting older (32) and they asked him to come out of his comfort zone and strain his vocal cords. Grueling tours, along alcohol and cigarettes didn't help either.
Incredible. I have seen them live but this has to be the grittiest, angriest, tightest version I have ever heard. You can tell a band is connecting when they don't even have to look at each other for improv-ed cues. This is pure gold.
Right on! I'm thankful someone else agrees! From the Angus intro till the end of the song...it's the thickest "humbucker thru Marshall" sound ever! Brian slays on this version. I agree...this is when they were their tightest. I'm 49...and yes, it WOULD be great to be 14 again!
another really great version of this song is live in tushino airfield, moscow 1991. Brian vocals were absolutely on point. the only thing is that it misses Rudd’s tight drumming, but Slade does a great job.
When I was 11, my brother bought this record for me for Christmas a few weeks after it came out at the end of November in 1981.But my parents made him wrap it up and put it under the tree and we had to wait until Christmas. But one day they left somewhere and we open it up, dropped the needle and turned it up as loud as it could go. After listening to the whole thing we re-wrapped and put it back under the tree. Good times.
Well my son, let me explain. You see, this song and video came out in the early 80's when MTV was still in its infancy and VH1 didn't exist yet. Then, at some point in the future, another channel, the previously aforementioned VH1 came along and put together a collection of classic videos, slapped their logo in the corner and well....there you go. Those of us who are old enough know this video (and many others which may show up with a VH1 logo on them) is from MTV when it was still the great channel it was at the beginning.
God I wish we could hear Brian’s voice better in the mix. He sounded absolutely legendary in ‘81, yet he’s so low in the mix here you can barely hear him. Hope one day we get this full show remixed and put out as a live album, I’d kill to hear Brian belt out those high notes again and Phil bang away in his prime with a proper mix!
Check out their box set 'Backtracks', it has a couple other tunes from this concert. (T.N.T/ Let There Be Rock) and Brians voice is up front and center in the mix. But this was a video, and sound quality on concert videos back then was hit or miss. It either sounded great or not good at all.
Thanks for providing this. The moment I popped in this song on "Family Jewels", I knew that this wasn't the one I saw on "Headbangers Ball" back in the day. This one should've been included in the "bonus videos" on the DVD included with "Backtracks", along with "Put The Finger On You" and the black and white version of "Back And Black" from the same show, and the still-unreleased "Let Me Put My Love Into You".
I was at this show...Landover Maryland at the Capitol Center...I was 13 years old, wasn't as loud as Back in Black, but my ears rang for days after this show...!
james madison ok what the fuck?? since when do you know this person? how do you know they werent at this concert when they were 13? and even if they werent they like this so much that they posted saying that the were and youre probably just jealous because you werent there
☺️☺️☺️ Vu . 26 12 23 à 08h54 . Comme sur le vinyle de l'époque ( la pochette dorée avec le canon en relief ) que mon grand frère avait ramené à la maison et que j'avais tant écouté !!! La même voix , le même son ... génial !!!
ACDC definitely needs to release all of the Pro-Shot complete live shows in a DVD BLU-RAY Box Set, Especially the 1981 - 1986 Era. The LARGO, HOUSTON, DETROIT etc etc shows that they have in the vault. I wanna see it in Blu-ray remastered quality on my TV thru my stereo.
I saw this show in Seattle, in December, either a week before or after this gig. They played 3 nights in the Seattle Center Coliseum. Remember when huge bands would play multiple nights in a row in a big city? Fucking amazing and mesmerising...I was 16 and this was my first real concert...on the floor, center-stage, about 25 feet back...just standing my ground and not being swept around by the occasional crowd surge...insane to see them so up close...it was and is surreal to this day. My baptism by fire into the world of rock concerts...and followed up by the exact same floor position and experience 2 months later by Judas Priest, Screaming For Vengeance tour. Beyond mindblowing.
Young people can't imagine what it was like to see this band in 81. They were so fucking loud your ears would ring for days. This was before every band played through the PA system. They literally had marshal stacks 30 to 40 feet high with the amps to support them. They are still the loudest band I've ever seen and I've probably seen over 200 concerts the last 30+ years. Angus was one of the first guys to use wireless and he was a total spaz on stage, spinning around on his back on stage while doing solos. You used to be allowed to smoke in stadiums and you couldn't see the other side from all the cigarette and pot smoke. It was mostly pot to be honest. Modern concerts don't even compare to this era. Yes I'm old, but I saw good hard core rock concerts live that you can't see today.
Here They are in their prime..... Phil, Mal and Brian I miss them so much..... - Brian! You were a fucking beast!!! that high notes were easy for you!!! - Phil and Mal.... the timing and groove masters....
For those appreciate good music like this and long for a time when it was all about putting out quality music and not how big of a social media presence you have- I salute you.
It's true, this is the original clip, live (no playback, it's in full concert), with Phil Rudd on drums. Not the one in Vevo which is with Simon Wright on drums
Best version Ive ever heard. He extends the "you" note at the end of FTATR chant, inlike other editions. Which imo gives the song so much more power and pumps my gourd!
I was 23 when I saw this original tour in 1981, I remember when the cannons mechanically extended from those overhead boxes and knew something great was about to happen.
I would love to see them go back to that setup instead of just having the 6 or 8 I have experienced this live with 6 guns but I want to experience it with a full 21 guns as the song says 21 gun salute
I remember seeing this video when it first came on MTV. I was in my first year of college. It was the first AC/DC video I had ever seen. I had been a fan since Let there be rock came out in 77. Since this video I saw them 3 times throughout the 80’s and once in the early 90’s. Masters of the power cord for sure!!
40 years ago and they are still rocking it out. It’s crazy. They really are doing it for the fans at this point. I hope we get to see them one more time.
Phil Rudd is just killing it back there on the skins. Great performance captured in Maryland. It was only two months later on February 22nd 1982 at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood that I was fortunate that my older brother asked me to go see them live. The band was so tight, so freaking loud, and possessed me with their energy that from that point on (two weeks before my 14th birthday) until today I stayed a huge fan of theirs. It caused me to purchase a guitar and learn how to play it properly. They are the ultimate timekeepers of the music industry. Period. As for that night at the Forum, the band in the video looked the same. Brian Johnson wore the same outfit, red bandanna around his neck, sweatband, cap and Harley Davidson shirt. Our seats were mid section behind the stage on Malcolm’s side. But honestly, due to their stage design, you could still see them in action. Angus running up and down the ramps on either side, cannons firing off, and the Hells Bell. You could still see Malcolm and Cliff whenever they would approach the microphone to sing backup. The best though was when Brian would go back behind the stage from the sides where the Hockey glass walls were and wave back at us all back there. Always polite and considerate that guy was throughout his career. He often took smoke breaks and getting something to drink in the process. I still have ringing in my ears 41 years later. A badge of honor that I will never regret.
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