#AC/DC 1976

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A GIANT DOSE OF BLOODY ROCK & ROLL -- TOURING THE UK & AUSTRALIA IN 1976.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a concert poster design for Australian rock and roll band, AC⚡DC, promoting the band's third studio album "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," in December 1976.

PIC #2: AC/DC poster and/or advertisement for the band's 1976 UK tour, also promoting the band's third studio album, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," released on Atlantic Records, published in the October 1976 issue of the UK's "Record Mirror" weekly music newspaper.

Sources: Ultimate Classic Rock & www.ebay.com/itm/196998275049.

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AC/DC, London 1976. Photo : Martyn Goddard.

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AC/DC - T.N.T.

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System Of A Down drummer John Dolmayan says Van Halen was one of the few bands who could be inspired by Led Zeppelin yet still create their own sound.

"I wanted to play drums before I knew who Van Halen was but Van Halen introduced a different style," Dolmayan said during a recent appearance on The Paltrocast. "I guess you could say some of the drumming was derivative of John Bonham, but that's really only because everybody's drumming is derivative of John Bonham after John Bonham right? You're always going to have a flavor of it but Van Halen did it differently. It was more straightforward. It was heavy. It was kind of like a merging of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin, and [it had] exceptional musicianship, which you had quite a bit of at that time, but not many people played as melodically as Van Halen did. And I feel like everybody in Van Halen had something unique and interesting to bring to the table irrespective of how they were perceived."

VAN HALEN PERFORMING LED ZEPPELIN'S "THE ROVER" (1976)

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Eye of the Burning Hunter

Eric Carr's Eyes of Love (1989) is one of those fan favorites that unfortunately didn't make it onto a Kiss album. The indignation about this should be all the greater because in this case we are talking about the completely overloaded and somewhat indecisive Hot in the Shade (1989) of all things.

What the exact reasons may have been within a hopefully objectively functioning exclusion procedure is something everyone is welcome to think about for themselves, but hopefully not without at least taking a closer look at the music first. And why should you do something like this alone when it works just as well together and in the best of company?

So, Eyes of Love sounds admittedly less like Kiss in itself, or rather its somewhat unwieldy overall picture doesn't quite, but the individual parts it contains all the more. For the intro and main riff, for example, I can think of two reference sources that can both easily be assigned to Animalize (1984), the album that probably best musically manifests Gene's estrangement from the band at the time.

If you were now to hybridize Burn Bitch Burn (1) and Lonely is the Hunter's riffs, we'd almost have it, the point is just that Eyes of Love does somehow sound better than the other two both together (2), with a little more vibrant swing, which, once it gets going, gives it something quite nasty and monstrous. Unusual when something like this doesn't come from Gene, but certainly not unwelcome on my part.

But if you want to give it a little extra thought, you could ask yourself whether Eyes of Love isn't rather based on Killers' (1982) Down On Your Knees and tries to make something better out of its riff, which itself wasn't really able to do. A certain additional proximity to Down On Your Knees' middle part (3) would certainly speak in favor of this. But let's just leave it at that.

Apart from that, I can think of a few isolated bits and pieces that are reused here and there, serving as pads or whatever. Something that sounds like a higher swinging Plaster Caster (1977) riff, a certain The Elder (1981) touch as we know it from Only You, or a fill segment of When Your Walls Come Down (1987) and one of those rock n' roll standard licks that usually ends Rock and Roll All Nite (1975) live (4).

And although all the segments seem polished, the transitions flow smoothly and interlock like clockwork, it's still the not-so-simple song structure that, from my perspective, perhaps refuses to fit into Kiss' much smoother arrangement ratio of the time, thus naturally standing out quite a bit; and thus in some people's eyes, one looks in the direction of the two HITS, uhm… producers, might seem unfinished, or even useless. For their purposes. And not just to my regret.

Anyway, perhaps Eyes of Love only got in the way of Gene's and Bruce's not entirely dissimilar but much, muuuch more polished Prisoner of Love, but I prefer to continue to harbor my very own doubts about this idea. Basically, I'm only surprised that Gene didn't take it on and that it didn't fall into his clutches.

Probably because of the too many song credits. You know, less dough to share.

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Side Notes:

(1) I mean even Eric's verse vocal sounds like the Burn Bitch Burn riff, with a slight biker rock and a AC/DC Highway to Hell feel.

(2) And I say that even though I like those Gene songs, especially Burn Bitch Burn. And I guess so did Eric Carr, because I happen to know that he loved to play Burn Bitch Burn live with its pumping drums and bass.

(3) Who remembers this part of Down On Your Knees, which bears an unmistakable resemblance to a song from Destroyer (1976)? You can refresh your memory of it right here, by the way.

(4) And no, I'm not going to highlight any of the links. That's too much fiddly work for me today. I'll probably cobble together some detailed Reprise entries out of this some day, or something.

I've limited the links to Eyes of Love, Burn Bitch Burn, Lonely is the Hunter and Down On Your Knees for the love of simplicity. Trust me, nobody loves too many links:

Eyes of Love (1989)

Lonely is the Hunter (1984)

Burn Bitch Burn (1984)

Down On Your Knees (1982)

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AC/DC - High Voltage (Atlantic-Atco, 1976) - Cover and photograph by Michael Putland

AC/DC's first international record, containing songs from two albums they had already released in their native Australia. Angus Young is the one on the cover (this won't be the last time you'll see him in this getup).

This cover was replaced in Europe with a different design. This would start a trend of AC/DC album covers getting censored/replaced in numerous parts of the world, including the US. We'll get to that later.

Image courtesy of Discogs.

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Descubrí un álbum nuevo conmigo

Hoy: «High Voltage» (1976) de AC/DC.

1. It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)

AC/DC se presenta con toda su energía y personalidad en la primera pista de su debut internacional. La canción inicia con unas atrapantes guitarra líder de Augus y guitarra rítmica de Malcolm, que abren paso a la exquisíta voz de Bon Scott quien se roba la canción.

Hace poco leí un comentario que decía que esta era la canción que más representaba a Bon Scott de AC/DC, y creo que es acertado. Aunque "Highway To Hell" también enmarca muy bien la personalidad del icónico cantante, la letra de "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)" que habla del largo y dificultoso camino de ser un rockero, bastante autobiográfica de Scott, sumado al solo de gaita que trae el sonido característico de su tierra natal, hacen de esta una de las canciones que más lo rememoran.

Me encanta de sobremanera como la guitarra parece responder o reafirmar a Scott en las frases: Gettin' robbed / Gettin' stoned / Gettin' beat up / Broken boned / Gettin' had / Gettin' took.

El interludio es una maravilla: la gaita y su conversación con la guitarra, el bajo, la batería; todo hace increíble al conjunto.

Definitivamente un himno del rock and roll, y uno de las mejores aperturas de discos que he oído. Se ha convertido en una de mis canciones preferidas rápidamente. Es una perfecta carta de presentación de esta banda tan rockambolezca.

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

2. Rock 'N' Roll Singer

Si algo hace bien AC/DC es construir grandes intros. Es realmente emocionante escuchar el inicio de sus canciones. Son irrepetibles y atrapantes, y "Rock 'N' Roll Singer" no es la excepción.

El coro es tremendamente pegadizo y el riff de Augus delicioso. La letra es encantadora como solo puede serlo Bon Scott (nuestro gran y único rock 'n' singer). También me resulta gracioso como la letra de ésta canción contrasta con la de la anterior: I'm gonna be a rock 'n' roll, / A rock 'n' roll star / I hear it pays well.

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

3. The Jack

Si de intros se trata, la de esta canción me vuelve loca. Con un ritmo casi bluesero, el bajo, las guitarras y la entrada de la voz de Bon: exquisito.

Leyendo un poco sobre esta canción para estar enterada para esta publicación, encuentro con que la letra hace alusión a la contracción de enfermedades venéreas... ésta banda no deja de sorprenderme. Entre asqueroso y divertido.

El solo de guitarra que sirve de interludio es increíble. El estribillo icónico.

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

4. Live Wire

La cuarta pista contiene altos niveles de seducción. Es imposible no oir la voz de Scott y erizarse (o tal vez soy sólo yo, que poco a poco me enamoré de él). Augus también entrega un hermoso interludio/solo de guitarra.

★★★★☆ 4/5 (Genial)

5. T.N.T

"T.N.T" es un himno del rock en todas sus letras.

Leí en un blog que los icónicos coros gritando: "Oi! Oi! Oi!" se toman de la cultura punk, que a su vez se deriva de una pronunciación coloquial de "¡Hey!".

La letra es espectacular y casi cinematográfica: comienza con una persecución al amanecer, luego de que nuestro protagonista presuntamente robara y se metiera en una pelea. Lo siguiente que se nos describe es a un típico tipo duro (o chico malo), toda una amenza pública.

Las aventuras de nuestro personaje son acompañadas por la perfecta combinación de todo lo que pudimos ver en lo que va del álbum: el trabajo de la guitarra líder de Augus con la rítmica de Malcolm, un firme ritmo de batería y una más que acorde voz de Bon Scott. De hecho, soy adicta a ésta última ¡Y que no falte el solo de guitarra!

Watch me explote🔥🔥🔥

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

6. Can I Sit Next to You Girl

Es imposible no querer bailar —o empezar a hacerlo— con el inicio de esta canción. Me encantan como las guitarras enfatizan cada frase después de que sean cantadas por Bon. Y que decir del coro, provocativo a más no poder. Me encanta que Bon empiece susurrando para después subir el volúmend de su voz. La letra es divertida, seductora y muy pegadiza. Por último destacar ese maravilloso interludio de guitarras. Otra pista icónica que nos ofrece este álbum.

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

7. Little Lover

El rimo frenético de rock and roll se detiene en esta séptima. Es increíble la atmósfera que crea la canción desde su inicio. La voz de Bon Scott se desempeña de maravilla —como en todo el álbum—, brindando una interpretación de los más coqueta, cosa que la letra exige. También adoro el final, que hace un pausa abrupta que pareciera ser el cierre, para luego volver con una hermosa coda. Personalmente, me enamoré de esta canción.

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

8. She's Got Balls

He leído que esta canción fue escrita por Bon Scott para su ex-esposa, Irene. Supuestamente, ella se divorció después de eso. Y no me soprende, porque lejos de ser una canción de amor convencional, Bon destaca a lo largo de ella muchos rasgos positivos de su mujer, pero lo más importante para él es que ella tiene pelotas —audacia, valentía—. Es muy irónico y sumamente cómico, lo que la vuelve una pista algo memorable. Sin embargo, se ve opacada por el resto del álbum, al ser algo repetitiva y no tener melodías e interpretaciones destacables.

★★★☆☆ 3/5 (Buena)

9. High Voltage

El álbum deja lo mejor para el final. Nos encontramos con la mejor pista de todo el disco, un himno del rock and roll y quién le da título al álbum. Es maravilloso ver a la banda interpretando esta canción con su conjunto original. Amo el desempeño de Bon y de Angus, como es común. Como ignorar ese pre-coro en el que Bon susurra, «high» para luego gritar «i say high, high». Simplemente delicioso.

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

Clasifiación final del álbum...

★★★★★ 5/5 (Excelente)

Perfecto debut internacional para una de las mejores bandas de la historia. No es fácil tener tres himnos del rock and roll en tu primer álbum, pero esto es AC/DC, por lo que debemos acostumbrarnos a ello.

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AC/DC - High Voltage (Epic, Albert Productions, 2003)

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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC

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CUTTING THEIR TEETH ON THE UK CIRCUIT IN THE SUPER-SEVENTIES -- THE DIRTIEST ROCK IN TOWN.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on bassist Mark Evans (behind) and lead guitarist Angus Young of Australian hard rock/blues rock band AC/DC, performing live during their first UK tour, the "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" Tour, c. 1976. 📸: Dick Barnatt.

PIC #2: Isolated shot of Angus Young from the same unnamed UK gig in '76.

Sources: www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/01/12/dirty-deeds-a-conversation-with-mark-evans & Getty Images.

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AC/DC by Martyn Goddard - 1976.

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AC/DC - Rock 'N' Roll Singer

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AC/DC - Jailbreak / 1976 London Clip

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024: 9pm ET: Feature LP: AC/DC - High Voltage (1976)

High Voltage is the debut studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released only in Australia, on February 17, 1975. Their first international release in 1976 would also be named High Voltage, though with a radically different track list. “TNT” 4:50“She’s Got Balls” 4:52“Little Lover” 5:40“Stick Around” 4:39“Soul Stripper” 6:25“You Ain’t Got a Hold on Me” 3:31“Love Song” 5:14“Show…

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Pain in Your Knees

Every now and then I've read direct comparisons with Down on Your Knees and AC/DC. These are not entirely unjustified.

But a snappy AC/DC riff alone isn't always enough to make a song work. But luckily, once you've discovered at least a good riff in the house of Kiss, you'll always have enough patchwork lying around in the spare parts store to tinker something smooth out of it. A bit of spit here, a patch there. In this case a not quite unknown chewing gum, even from the Destroyer suit, located in the living area Sweet Pain, and stuck there for several years somewhere under the table. But once you put it back in your mouth it tastes good again. And that's about what it also sounds like, in the very best sense of course.

Have fun chewing through it.

Down On Your Knees (1982)

Sweet Pain (1976)

But you need more stuff to chew on? Okay: Department for Odds and Ends Pt. 1, Pt. 3 & Pt. 4.