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- The story of AC/DC’s hard rock classic Back In Black from there 1980 album of the same name. Bon Scott has just passed and Angus Young and brother Malcolm brought in Brian Johnson who helped AC/DC rise to the top of the album charts. including an interview with Phil Carson.
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When brothers Malcolm & Angus Young formed AC/DC in ’73, believe it or not, the group was labeled as ‘Glam Rock,' largely because of the on-stage persona of their original lead singer Dale Evans. The Glam Rock image did nothing to distinguish AC/DC from other bands who were working the same circuit in Australia in the early 70s.
however, the fiery showmanship of the Young brothers left an impression on anyone who saw one of those early AC/DC shows.
To the concert promoters in the Australia, what the band really needed to do was get rid of their lead singer, and get a new front man. So, that’s exactly what they did.
Malcolm & Angus hired a new manager named Michael Browning to help navigate their pivotal transition. Already on the outs with the rest of the band, Evans got into a physical altercation with Browning after an AC/DC show and was officially fired.
Enter Ronald Belford Scott, a journeyman musician from Scotland that everybody called “Bon.” Bon’s family moved from Scotland to Australia, and young Bon played in several bands- the Spektors, the Valentines, and Fraternity- an outfit that later changed their name to Fang. He was primarily as a drummer in the first phase of his professional career. None of the bands that Bon performed in made any headway, so Bon had to take a day job shoveling manure at a fertilizer plant, before joining yet another band called the Mount Lofty Rangers as the group’s lead singer.
About a year into his stint with the Mount Lofty Rangers, Bon got into an alcohol induced confrontation with one of the band members, and raced off on his Suzuki motorcycle. Bon crashed his motorcycle and was rushed to the emergency ward where he was in a coma for 3 days- on the verge of death.
He recovered from the injury, and began doing odd jobs at a booking agency where his wife worked, and met Malcom & Angus’s older brother George Young. AC/DC had sacked Evans, so they were on the hunt for a new lead singer, and many people told George that they should get Bon Scott. There were immediate issues with Bon that concerned the members of AC/DC, and George Young, who was one of the band’s producers.
They thought Bon might be too inexperienced as a front man, and that, at 28 years old, he might be “too old.” After a late night jam session, it was obvious that AC/DC had found their new front man, and Bon Scott joined AC/DC in 1974- even though he actually began working for the band as their chauffeur.
Poll: What do you consider the best song from each era of AC/DC?
70s: "Dirry Deeds"
80s: ""Back in Black:
90s: "Thunderstruck"
Let there be rock. Who made who. Thunderstruck.
70's let there be rock
80's hells bells
90's razors edge
Let there be rock bon, for those about to rock Brian. (Tbh there are way more for both ) these came to mind first.
Back in black
Thunderstruck
Almost like shoot to thrill
Posted somewhere:
These guys were in their 20’s and rocking in the 70’s
Now they are in their 70’s and are rocking in the 20’s
so true
Very astute observation - well done.
Nice wordplay!
Love that!
That was also on an ozzy osbourne video
I remember my dad showing me back in black when I was about 5. At the time he was just my mom's boyfriend, but we'd drive around and rock out to acdc and he taught me how to play air guitar while we rocked out lol. They eventually got married and he adopted me, and then we'd spend so much of my childhood rocking out. Rock n roll was a way for us to bond. He eventually bought me guitars and encouraged my friends and I to start bands in my teens. I remember I was playing a show once, and during soundcheck, back in black was playing, and I remember thinking about my dad (he passed by then) and how I was where I was because my dad taught me how to rocn out to acdc. They'll always have a big spot in my heart.
It's hard to not put this album on AC/DC's greatest hits. Almost every song is instantly recognizable and is definitely some of their best stuff.
I was a huge fan when I was in high school and loved watching them on the Australian TV show countdown in the 1970s. I was at their concert in Sydney, Australia for their Back in Black tour in 1980. I had just finished high school and I, along with a bunch of mates got together and decided to go to their concert to celebrate.
Little did we know, that we would be experiencing a part of Rock history. For me, this album brings back memories of all my high school mates and the good times we had together.
Who would buy one of their singles from Back in Black when buying the album would give you a whole package of songs worthy of single release and no fillers?
Christmas, 1984. I was 13, about to turn 14, and just then beginning to get into rock. I came from BFE, La, and country music was the popular genre. I'd never been exposed to rock, other than the lite rock my sister listened to.
So that year on Christmas day, my future brother in law gave me a box with a bunch of his old cassettes in it. It was mostly junk, but had this one album, Black In Black, that intrigued me.
I had also gotten a cassette walkman on that day. We had about an hours ride to Baton Rouge to go to my aunt's house for Christmas festivities, and as soon as I got in the car I put Black In Black into the Walkman, pressed 'PLAY', and my life has never been the same. It was earth shattering for me. A level of intensity and complete rapture I'd never experienced before. I was hooked from that point forward.
Great content! The local Pittsburgh rock station WDVE were playing AC/DC when they first came to America, so I had all their albums (imports & regular releases) and was a diehard fan. I saw them February 1979 on their amazing Highway to Hell tour and couldn’t wait for the next album. Unfortunately Bon passed away too soon. I love the Back in Black album, but I really miss Bon’s the clever lyrics and larger than life presence. I made sure that my kids appreciate Bon’s time in AC/DC.
Kickin' band, love their catalog.
Rock on! Thanks for watching!
BiB is the epitome of AC/DC, with Malcolm's driving heartbeat rhythm, Agus's driving lead, and Brian bringing Bon's soul onto the center stage.
Loved it gen, love it now. Hope to love it for years to come .
So fortunate to have experienced these guys for more almost 50 years.
Rock and Roll.
(and Disco still sux. )
Being from Australia AC/DC is an institution! No night at the pub is complete without a few accadacca songs! Not my favorite band of all time, not even my favorite Aussie band (Cold Chisel) but they are THE band when you think of Aussie music and they were absolutely the soundtrack of the late 70's early 80's.
The reverence they are held in here is something else, i'm sure it's akin to the pride the Brits have in The Beatles, or the Stones.....
Back in Black is their masterpiece, and though Bon was already gone, this album doesn't become what it has without his legacy!
First heard this in 1983 whilst training to be a soldier age 17 and a half. One of the guys played ACDC all the time in the room we all occupied. Been listening to them ever since. 55 now. It's also great when you need to keep awake when driving at night. That's my experience any ways. 👍
I was a long haired 18 year old guitar player in the Northern Suburbs of South Australia when Back in Black came out. Everyone bought that album.
Our basketball practice warmup was always with Back in Black over a boom box playing a cassette. It’s so funny to go to high school games and still hear songs from Back in Black being played.
That was one of my favorite albums while going to high school back in the early 80s. Iconic to this day!!!!
My back in Black story : I have a bro' who is ten years older, so when i was 8, he was 18 and already got his car. I remember in 1982, and he proposed to my mum to catch me when school will be finished that day. At 5 pm, i was out of school, passed the portal, with my friends, and my brother's car (a dark red wine color Renault 5) arrived in front of the gate, with opened windows, and there was music blasting out loud. I headed to the car and jumped in, all my friends looked at me with some disbelief in their eyes. I felt so cool and so lucky this day. The song playing was "Shake a leg", and still is one of my fav' from Back in Black.
I was probably 13 at the time having saved up what little pocket money I could and bought the Back in Black CD from my local BigW store. Was a brilliant album and still is. Learning how to play the songs on guitar with the AC/DC Tablature was a fantastic time. The next two AC/DC album purchases I was able to make were The Razors Edge and Stiff Upper Lip, again with pocket money I saved and I got the last mentioned album when I was 16. All three albums 10years apart from one another was pretty special for me.
I was a teen with my first car and I can remember many Friday nights me and my buddie riding around rocking our asses off to AC/DC's Back in Black, and just loving it. I will be 60 in a month, and still feel 17 when I hear Back in Black now. What a legend AC/DC is.
I heard it back in 1981. Loved it, got the cassette and played it non-stop. In 1990, around Christmas I was working at Christmas tree lot and doing paper deliveries. I used most of my money to by the older AC/DC catalog. I got all of the Bon Scott cassettes and the few I was missing from Brian Johnson. I was listening to them non-stop while walking and delivering new papers through out the winter.
When I was 6 I remember the teenage sons of my babysitter had AC/DC t-shirts, and the first song I remember hearing was “For those about to Rock”, because they were sitting in the kitchen and screaming along. I didn’t get back to AC/DC until I was 12, when I started learning guitar 🤟
I never had exposure to AC/DC growing up. Somehow my brothers and friends didn't point me in their direction. I only knew the 3 or 4 songs that were played on the radio. When I was 27 in 1998 I decided to play the whole Back In Black CD in my car on the way to work, just to see if there were any other good tracks aside from You Shook Me and BiB. When I arrived at my office, I had a new favorite band. I couldn't believe it... every song kicked ass.
I've met Brian and he is absolutely awesome. I love Brian Johnson AC/DC too. But I just have to say that many of my fav AC/DC are Bon Scott sang songs. I've never had the opportunity to meet Bon but I can only imagine he was a cool dude too.
I was watching a special about the band "Kansas" And the guitar player's wife told him that he should write a song with that riff he was playing. He said it was just a finger exercise. He told his bandmates and played the riff. It turned out to be one of their biggest hits!!!...(-:
Saw the band twice back in the day. Once with Bon Scott at Capital Center, outside Washington DC, and once with Johnson in Baltimore at Towson University. Incredible shows both times.
1980 started and ended badly for me firstly Bon Scott who I loved saw him live in Adelaide South Australia Memorial Gardens Concert in 1976 fantastic night I was 16 at the time. When he died I was like so many AC/DC Fans Devastated. Naturally went on to buy Back in Black and every other album through to Black Ice saw the Band 3 times more Back in Black tour, Razors Edge ( great album) and Black Ice Tour this one with my sons. Brian Johnson (a great replacement) always remained the New Guy even after decades. Bon Scott’s era was my favourite you could understand clearly every word he sung. Great character and AC/DC personified. Going back to 1980 the end of the year was devastating with the shooting murder of John Lennon who I idolised growing up as a boy with the Beatles and post Beatles… Wings ( Paul McCartney) and John Lennon only to have Lennon taken from us just as he got back into writing and recording after a long hiatus ( Watching the Wheels Go by)..
Lennon’s immortal quote: Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans” how prophetic how true.
Thanks first time to your channel. Good job.👍
I was 8 in 1980. I remember riding bikes to the school playground on a Saturday with some friends. There were two teenage boys arguing, about to fight. They started scuffling, grabbing shirts. Then one of the boys said, “Careful, bruh. This is an AC/DC shirt.” The other boy said, “Oh. Sorry, bruh.” End of fight.
Still my favorite band ever since I heard LET THERE BE ROCK 🤘
AC/DC Back in Black for me was middle school 7th or 8th grade. The beginning of going to party's or "Sleep overs" at a friends house that secretly there parents was gone and there older brothers was having a party. Which meant us younger guys got to drink and mess with girls for the first time. But the song meant toughness , or badassery. Which lets face it , it was the 80's which meant blood spillage and fighting proving your manhood, and learning how to fight and that's what happened lmao! My son is a millennial and I once told him it's a good thing you were born when you were because you wouldn't have survived the 80's your just not man enough ROFL! Because if you wasn't bleeding you wasn't living. It's a wonder we all survived those years, the party's, the fights, the running a gunning of tomfoolery.
I had some AWESOME prof.s
In college in the Late 70's thru early 80's !!! You are becoming one of my favorite prod's of all time! Keep up the great work.
"...it cost me two Atari games and I promised to be his errand boy for a couple weeks..." HAHA! I always enjoy hearing your personal stories related to the topic at hand. They are consistently interesting, touching, and/or amusing. Thanks for sharing!
I was born in 69 so once I was a teen in the '80s I got the full ACDC experience, saw them a couple of times in concert in '86 who made who tour and later in the '90s around the time of thunderstruck, and yeah back in black probably is their best album with highway to hell a close second
In 1980 when I was in high school a local band called Faze played You Shook Me All Night Long at an assembly and I loved it... 2 weeks later my older sister's boyfriend was blasting Hells Bells from his truck and I HAD to get the album myself!!!
This album was constantly in my tape deck of my Honda Civic once I discovered it. My friends complained I never listened to anything else. I do remember driving along one day with my window down, blasting "Back in Black" and getting pulled over by a cop who let me off with a warning to "Turn it down." As soon as the cop left I resumed driving down the road deafening myself to AC/DC. Ah, youth.
Thanks Adam!
I was 20 when this seminal recording dropped directly from the Gods of Rock!
My personal favorite is ROCK AND ROLL AIN'T NOISE POLLUTION and am a firm believer, even to this day, that "if it's too loud, you're too old"!
All of my playback devices are equipped with ELEVEN tics on the volume control.
Because 11 is louder!!
Sweet tribute, Adam. You Shook Me All Night Long is the only one of their songs that I really dig, but I gotta give them respect for sticking around for so long.
A couple of things: The Mount Lofty Rangers was a pun; The Mount Lofty Ranges is an area in South Australia, from where these bands came.
Second, speaking as a 60yo from Australia, I cannot express strongly enough what an icon this band was to aussie youth at the time!
They are just so aussie, and Bon Scott was just fantastic. Perfect for the job, and that is without even considering he could play the bagpipes :)
That said, Brian Johnson was about as good a replacement as one could hope for. And, arguably, more suitable for their future on the broader world stage.
Hell's Bells from the album is played immediately before the start of every AFL (elite Australian Rules football, think of what the NFL is to America and you get the drift of how big the sport is here in Australia) game, even the Grand Final (think Superbowl)
Malcolm rented my house for a couple of years in a very quiet Berkshire village…just down the road from Chris Rea…
I have a funny story about the album. I was in The Philippines with a mate going bar hopping and this German guy would go crazy everything an ACDC song was played. So we kept requesting them. Eventually he got kicked out. We left after that and went to another bar and here was this Germany guy again. So as before we requested songs until he got kicked out. We followed him all night and he got kicked out of every bar we went to. A great night all the girls in the bars knew what we were doing but he had no idea.
+10 for having a Jabba the hut play set.... So cool
There is a CD that comes with The AC/DC box set that I have And it's got song on it recorded by Don in a Studio in London And the very first song on it is Back in Black
I truly believe that the only way to track rock greatness is album sales not singles, There is to much politics around singles and radio play, but album sales represents the the faithful voting with their dollars
It could be the reason why 70s rock kicks ass is that those guys had an extra fire in their gut.
1973-1980… Crazy to think of the “seven year itch” which he sang about in LTBR. I believe it has something to do with selling the soul
No mention of Maximum Overdrive. All AC/DC soundtrack.
Scumbag record companies screwing great artists over and then pushing utter trash. Long Live Rock and Roll. Long Live AC/DC!
Now one thing I do like quite a bit about the change over was you might have some people preferring Brian over Bon, or Bon over Brian but either way there is respect. Unlike other bands like Van Halen where there was just a rift between DLR fans and SH fans.
Been a huge fan of AC/DC since the early 90s. Bon or Brian I love both variants of AC/DC.
First concert was AC/DC opening for Aerosmith
AC/DC is my all time favorite band along with Metallica. But with AC/DC it is like having two bands in one. To me their style of music with Bon and with Brian is so different. Every album with Bon had more of a blues-rock feel while everything with Brian has more of a hard-rock feel. I love all of it If I had to pick a favorite song from each era I think I would go with Night Prowler and Have a Drink on Me.
I saw AC/DC here at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem Pennsylvania back in the late 80s.....and when they set the cannons off for ......For Those About TO Rock..they blew out the acoustics in the building and ever since then they never hosted a rock band anymore......they were so loud
If you haven't you should do a story on the Satanic Panic of the 80's everything form Rock and Roll to D&D was affected.
Are we talking about back in black or sweet child o mine
+Professor of Rock... What is your story the very VERY first time you heard Shout At The Devil from In the Beginning to Danger? Please talk about the Iconic SATD Album, please?
Ring Ring Ring
Tom Kiffer : Hello?
Angus Young: what do you think of singing on the next
AC⚡DC record?
A.B.H.S I WENT TO THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL AS MALCOLM & ANGUS IN SYDNEY .
Crabsody in Blue
10:22 Holy shitballz ! 33+45=78 ! 🧠💥
You forgot about 2008's "Iron Man".
I often wonder how AC/DC would have turned out if they had replaced Bon after his death with Dan McCafferty (Nazareth). I love Brian Johnson but Dan's voice was closer to Bon's IMO.
“Anti-Christ Devil Cult?” Really? 😄
I shouldn’t be surprised, EVERYTHING was “Satanic” back then, from Dio, to Dungeons & Dragons, to Ouija Boards.
For me, I associate Back in Black with summers playing D&D, driving all over the countryside with a group of friends in one friend’s Chevy Blazer, and having no responsibility whatsoever. Great Memories.
Back in black was massive for me. Blew me away at 13 years old. When I started work at 16 I bought all the back catalogue over a few months. My mam used to have to listen to me blasting out all this hard rock from my bedroom and one day she asked if I'd do her a compilation tape of the the ones with the "beats" that she liked as she put it. Fast forward a few weeks and I come home one day with my mates and find my mam rocking out to AC/DC whilst vacuuming the front room. For just a moment she was the coolest mother in the world! Happy memories.
Wonderful story. I can picture the scene!
😂
That would have weirded me the hell out.
15 and have loved them ever since!
14 yo - during lunch I hear someone's truck blasting out, "the best damn woman..."
I had to find out who that was. !!!
One year later at a dance, the DJ tried to wake us up with Back in Black. He had the music synced with lights. 1st time all night the bright white flood lights filled a darkened room to the opening beats of Back in Black!!! For the 1st hour of the dance, those pop songs barely made the smaller color lights blink around with Cyndi Lauper style songs, we were truly bored and not dancing at a school dance. It worked!!!!
We were all on our feet!!!
Next up was the first song 🎵 You shook me all night long. Friends finally told me it was ACDC!!!
Suddenly, memories of sitting in my cousin's car playing his Pioneer stereo a few years earlier with Highway to H*ll, (along with Funky Town). The only two songs I knew the older, back then High Schoolers liked!!!
Boom, it made sense! It took from 1981 to 1985 to figure out who my favorite band was named!!! I have been; my favorite band has been ACDC ever since!! Deep purple a clear 2nd. Then everyone else!!It took me a long time to catch on to the other greats like Nugent, Ozzie, Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Styx, and on it goes, etc..... By 1986, I could identify new ACDC in 3 beats!!!! Who made Who!!!
The information highway, at least for me moved very slowly back in those days - hahaha 😆
(child of the 80s)
..rural Panhandle South Plains of far West Texas !!!!
My four year old son has a black tee shirt that has "AB/CD" with "Highway To Spell" underneath. Just like the album cover. Love it.
@ Yeah, where do we get them??? LOL!!!
My son has one that says AD/HD.. LOL!
My kid had one that said AD/HD
When i was in college we had em that said Geo/Club
For those about to rock
I want one.😊
The singles didn’t chart well because everyone bought the album 😎
Correct
Too right. The Panel Van wasn't decked out right if you didn't have this playing on your car stereo as you were cursin' the main drag.
Singles were always dumbed down versions of the album tracks. That goes for all hard rock bands.
True
@@Tony-Waldron ahhh, but which one? Sandman, drifter, sundowner or gypsy.
Aussies will know.
There's just no band like AC/DC. I just turned 59, and I still listen to them almost everyday. What a great coming of age band.🎸
Bon and Brian are both perfect for AC/DC. Legends.
Exactly
NAILED IT.
It’s a Long way to the top -If Your 4 feet Tall’
Bon set them up, Brian took them to the world.
@Victor Smit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟
I've been a HUGE AC/DC fan since my teens. I'm 56 now, and when I hear the opening riff from Back in Black, I can't resist busting out the old air guitar once more.
Hell yeah
Back in Black is more than just a epic album, it's a phenomenal rock n roll experience!
It is a perfect album
You can say that again! It's really phenomenal. Every. Single. Song.
Agreed.
Should go down in history as the best hard rock album ever released because it really is
Damn right.
Bon was from my home town and I grew up with them on Countdown in OZ. I remember the first time I saw Bon dressed as a schoolgirl on national TV singing Baby, please dont go and was hooked for life. When this album came out I had just started my first job in a small country town and it was a special order from the record store. I put it on my cars tape deck on the way home and didn't stop driving until it finished. I was almost in tears that the band had survived and honoured Bon so well. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Nice 🔥
ruclips.net/video/PyJFcsn8B08/видео.html for those looking for that performance. Epic!
@@jhamptonjr Apparently none of the band knew about the outfit until he turned up just before taping, thats why they were smiling so much! Hall of fame performance...
ha!.... was big laughs in the schoolyard on Monday morning
@@erlstone Exactly what I was going to say.....I was in first form and that's all the girls were talking about
I was a young sailor in the US Navy, a freind on my first ship asked me if I liked "weird rock and roll"... he was from Alabama and was more into country rock. I said sure and he handed me a homemade cassette his sister had sent to him. It was the full album of Back in Black. I was amazed and became a huge fan of the "little band from Australia". That cassette was copied at least 50 times and distributed around the ship and fleet, during that Wet Pac cruise. Thanks for your story!
Love the Brian Johnson years but Bon Scott is the man.
I feel the same.
Agreed
i guess we all have a specific feeling about that. Bon was a kind of mentor, for me. Brian is more like a buddy. Both are amazing, in their ways. I am just more tied to Bon because it's his voice that hooked me on Go Down, the very first AC/DC track i've ever heard.
Both are iconic, I was never into comparing the two like everyone does, I respect them both, they offered something different to the bands legacy
I was a big AC/DC fan in the Bon Scott era and was crushed when he died. I was so sure that we had all heard the last of them. So, I'll never forget where I was the first time I heard Back In Black. It blew me away and I remember thinking, "Wow! Somehow they got even better!" I still listen to them all the time. One of the greatest hard rock bands ever. Thanks for telling us the stories of these iconic songs.
With Bon they were kind of epic trash culture and with Brian they became just epic.
No band on the planet can follow AC/DC live. Honestly the greatest rock band in history with 6 decades of hits, its unbelievable.
That is debateable. Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Rammstein.
@@stewartleslie3292 Iron Maiden has longevity but nowhere near the social acceptance. Slipknot ? Your trolling lol.
@@ChadLand011 Trust me, when Slipknot first came out I laughed at them. But they stuck to their guns and battled through. You got to respect them for that, and their live shows are up there.
I see where you are coming from with social acceptance. It is a strange phenomenon with AC/DC. AC/DC tracks can be heard everywhere, they have streets named after them, everyone has a story about Back in Black as a driving anthem or a song where you must have a bottle in your hand. Other bands will wear t shirts with AC/DC on it (I think one of the Pussycat Dolls even wore a pink glittery AC/DC t shirt), yet they never seem to have singles success. It also made them trendy and getting hold of tickets was a joke.
Of bands that I’ve seen live for me it goes AC/DC scorpions, queen
Agreed!
When you mentioned Spinal Tap regarding AC/DC, I thought you were going to ask how much blacker the album cover for Back in Black could be. "None More Black." 😁
Happy Friday, Professor 🙏
Ha ha! Thank you! Nice catch there. Happy Friday to you!
My friends and I still use the line "none more black" to this day.
But is it black enough that Anish Kapoor would not be allowed to buy it?
While I'm in the generation that grew up on the Beatles and they will always be my favorite band, I will say that if an Alien 👽 came down and asked me to explain what Rock and Roll music is, I would just play them this Album.
best answer ever!!!
Awesome response for sure. I may respond just the opposite. I grew up with AC/DC but would probably play the Beatle's if introducing rock to an alien!
@@leskobrandon691 they heard it all by now if it got beamed to a satellite, I hope they don't like Rap....if so, we are doomed!!!!!
I honestly thought ACDC was over when Bon died, didn't even want to hear back in black originally but when I did how could you not be more blown away. I still perfer Bon but that's just an opinion. Back in black took ACDC to the top, well deserved, and they kept it going with massive albums that rocked. RIP Bon you started this rise and Brian carried it on with this album
That's interesting. Just this week I've heard that from several people who didn't want to hear the album and then ended up being their favorite.
@@ProfessorofRock it was hard because we didn't want to believe Bon was gone
After Back in Black it was a steady slide of average material. Flick Of The Switch am was really average. Yes a few shone out and were occasionally played live but it wasn’t until Ballbreaker the band started to get back their mojo.
@@davidreed3246 hard to argue those points
@@davidreed3246 "Flick Of The Switch" was "better" than "For Those About To Rrrawk" in my opinion - I agree with you to a point: the mid 80s and early 90s LPs and Production left a lot to be desired BUT "Flick" was a KICK ASS ALBUM with GREAT riffs and drumming.
I never liked AC/DC back in their heyday. Liked them more as I grew up. But you have opened my eyes and mind even more with what you've taught me about them. Lyrics and all. Never judge a book by its cover. That's what I get out of a lot of your documentaries.
Thank you Professor
I had only heard of AC/DC when Highway came out, I liked it. I remember I was a freshman in high school just after Black came out and a friend had an AC/DC T shirt on, I was like, yeah I’ve heard of them and he told me about the new album, and said I should listen to it. It was such an amazing time for hard rock music back then. We had the new wave of British Metal, the very early beginnings of hair metal, ahh our youth…… where has the time gone?
As an Aussie kid growing up with AC/DC, we never really realised how huge they were to become on the world stage. They were just a great local band that we all loved. I remember when Back in Black was released, nearly everyone in my friends circle had purchased the album, which is probably why the singles never really charted all that well down under. Anyway, great episode professor.
It makes me smile, knowing you in Australia say Acca Dacca. 🙂
@@pandorafox3944 we also can't spell AC/DC 🤣
After Bon’s death I thought they would never be able to get anyone that could carry the torch like he did. Then, one evening in about April of 1980, I was listening to. my radio, one of the local rock stations, and this song came on that blew me away! It was Shoot to Thrill, the second track on the album.
I was into AC/DC Let There Be Rock, and thought this new lead singer was a worthy successor. Next day I bought the album, and, wow! Blistering, hard rocking and amazing!
Back in Black tour was the loudest concert I ever attended. The bank of speakers was 50 feet tall. My hearing has been damaged ever since. And totally worth it...
What?
- "He said French, thousand island or vinaigrette."
I had AC/DC Back N Black on 8-track tape in 1981. My dad almost disowned me when he found out I paid money for that "noise pollution". Today, after all these years, I still think listening to "Rock-N-Role Ain't Noise Pollution" over Klipsch Cornwalls, driven to live levels by tube amplification, is to die for.
My dad won a radio contest where he had to answer this question: who sang the Banana boat song. He got it right and got the album 1 day before it was released. Still have that album today
I love that! Was it the vinyl?
When I was 15 we went cross country and I wanted an AC/DC album. But I messed up and bought Heatseaker because it was the most recent album. So I listened to that album on my Toshiba (Walkman clone) for 5 weeks straight. It’s still a great album. It’s my lawnmowing album. AC/DC can cut right through the lawnmower’s drone.
And this year, my Asian cousins and I finally got visual proof that Brian Johnson is a family member on my Korean side. He’s in our family tree. And ironically my surname is also Johnson.
That's badass!
@@zzkeokizz i was always rocking my “Sanyo” in the early 80s. my dad complained about how dangerous it was riding my bicycle at night listening to walkman. i still maintained that it was safer than the daytime because i could see their lights. matters not. i lived until adult hood.
Rock n Roll is here to STAY! and nobody has done more Staying than me!
@@ProfessorofRock indeed. He even got a pair of devil horns
For me, AC/DC was just this band that had one song that got played on the AOR station every year or so. T.N.T., Whole Lotta Rosie, etc. They were okay but didn't really grab me. Then Highway To Hell started getting played. I liked it better than their previous stuff but I wasn't blown away just yet. A few months later I heard the song Touch Too Much on the radio and everything changed. I rushed out to buy the album and heard Walk All Over You for the first time and was hooked. Shortly after that, Bon died. Several months later a local radio station advertised that they were playing the new AC/DC album in it's entirety on the day it was released. I listened, but didn't really expect too much. Then I heard those Hells Bells. What an album!
Before Back in Black AC/DC was the kind of a band that I call a "basement band", because about the only time you ever heard their music was hanging out in someone's basement.
Then Back in Black came out, and even then it had a little slow of a start because it was in the summer if I recall, but as soon as school was back in that album ripped through every high school in America like a wildfire and took a meteoric rise right up the charts, by that winter when we went on a high school ski trip everyone knew the words to every song on the album.
And it's one of the few albums there is that you can put on the beginning of side A and listen all the way through to the end of side B and not want to skip over a single song on it.
I'm not egotistical enough to state that I can say what the greatest rock album of all time is, but to me it's the greatest rock album of all time, I never saw another album rip through high school's like that one, REO's High Infidelity comes in a close second but didn't quite tear through like that one did.
TNT & Touch Too Much were the songs that got me hooked on AC/DC for sure. Big Balls was hilarious of course. But could turn a phrase for sure.
@@dukecraig2402 i agree wholeheartedly. I was in high school as well and if you were, you definitely have a memory of making out with a certain girl with Back in Black playing in the background!
AC/DC just makes plain old rock n' roll. Great riffs for days!
Their latest single (from almost a year ago) - "Shot in the Dark" - even catches your attention and they're in their 70s.
Love their work and I can't say that I'm their biggest fan.
Thank you, Adam!
Always enjoy seeing your comments my friend! Rock on.
The new album is fantastic
Hard to view AC/DC as glam rock. Love these videos Adam! Very informative, entertaining and educational!
Much appreciated!
You've got to watch the video for the original recording of Can I Sit Next to You, Girl? It's...an experience.
Funny how you're putting so much faith in a guy who talks pure Bull shit.
Christmas 1979, my older sister gave her boyfriend the Highway to Hell album as a present. Seeing the cover, I wanted to hear it. Hearing it, I thought it was the greatest thing ever.... until Back in Black came out. I bought it the first chance I could and I was hooked on AC/DC.
As a fan for almost 35 years I really appreciate this video. As I do with all your video’s actually!
I remember the lines at the record store to buy Back in Black. I was in it.
The Back in Black album was played before all rock concerts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre which was the old concert venue in Sydney where international and big local artists play. Whether it was Bon Jovi, Poison, Motley Crüe, Metallica, whoever, that album was played as the audience was entering the arena and finding their seats.
Nailed it Prof! When I heard AC/DC in 1981 when my cousin showed me the Album and played it, I knew I just listened to history. At 54 years young now I know I called it!
Your stories are amazing. I hear Back in Black every day. A local station runs it at least twice morning and afternoon.
Bon Scott was such an influential frontman and now he is standing with the rock gods, were he belongs
Very true.
bons age was perfect ...gave the group of young guys..teens in angus's case , the look of a world weary working man ...gave the music a look of toughness to match the sound. bon was perfect...one of the most distinctive voices in rock history....twice...pretty crazy how lightning struck twice
Brian Johnson is the backup QB who comes off the bench late in the second quarter then takes the field after halftime and lights em up for four hundred yards passing, another hundo on the ground and five TDs.
And keeps the job for decades!
Tom Brady comes to mind. Drew gets hurt. Brady comes in and takes the team the rest of the way to the SB and goes on to average an SB every other year..
growing up in the 70's and listening to albums, I would normally have to listen a couple of times before I would appreciate the music. But with Back in Black I was hooked immediately and now over 40 years later still get that feeling every time I hear any song from the album
I’ll never forget the day my neighbor and friend showed up at my door with the Highway to Hell album. A life changing moment for sure.
Back In Black was just not a great album, but a fitting tribute to Bon Scott. And he had the foresight (premonition?) to name Johnson as his successor. Very cool.
Great story eh?
@@ProfessorofRock not so sure it was only when when he got to England that he saw him though... there's footage here on yt of Geordie performing little Richard covers on Australian tv in 1974..
AC/DC was the soundtrack to my 70’s childhood in Australia. When Bon died it was hard to think that a new album with a new singer could transcend what they had done before but Back in Black was phenomenal. There are too many good Bon era songs to single one out. In my opinion the live album “If you want blood” showcases many of their best works at the bands peak and is possibly one of the greatest live albums ever for shear energy. Shoot to thrill is hard to beat as a post Bon song as is For those about to rock.
I am in agreement about 'If you want Blood....' I remember when it came out, the ads on the radio playing Rock and Roll Damnation and being like I gotta have this album. Wore it out. Still my favourite.
@@leskobrandon691 "If You Want Blood..." GREAT LP - cranked it to "11" on my old Technics Turntable, along with "Let There Be Rock", "Led Zep IV", "Women And Children First", and "Permanent Waves"/"Moving Pictures" - GREAT MEMORIES.
First album I ever bought was Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. One day I came home from school and my Mom scratched out every curse word in the album. Ruined it obviously. WTF Mom!
Back in black was the first guitar solo I ever learned. It took me 6 days to be able to play the whole thing. Man I thought I was the coolest. Good memories
The Bon Scott tribute song is "Have a Drink On Me", also Brian says his first song was "You Shook Me All Night Long"
There is video of Bon singing You Shook Me
@@timz9862 link it
@@silentdagger1166 Sorry, audio not video. But here you go: ruclips.net/video/1lwfLNjBi4k/видео.html
It is possible that it's not him, but a cover band instead, but it sounds like him, and the lyrics are definitely something he'd write.
@@timz9862 that isn't bon I've heard it before just a soundalike trying to stir the pot. Bon didn't write anything ok BIB and the title track was written as a tribute to him after his death. The Youngs had music mostly done for the album but just before they was gonna get together with bon so he could add lyrics to the songs he unfortunately passed away. That is why it was such a quick and smooth transition to Brian all they had to do was write lyrics and record the album as most of the music was already done. It was 4 months from from his death till the BIB release but in those days they made an album a year sometimes 2 in one year. It isn't that crazy to think they could have finished it that quickly with all I've said. They loved bon like a brother there is no way they don't credit him on the album had he wrote some or all of it. He isn't credited.
@@timz9862 It's not him at all...