So sad no one came to their gig. I think they'll make it if they keep trying. That guitar player needs to put on a schoolboy uniform and move around more and entertain the crowd. At least that's what I would do.
Hell, if nothing else works, the tiny guitarist may as well try doing a funny Chuck Berry duck walk and then maybe twirl around on the floor like he’s swallowed jet fuel. What’ve they got to lose. They’ve obviously invested too much in gear to stop now.
I don't know about that... them being the hardest working band. After Razors Edge in 1991, they took MANY extended breaks, the longest one running from 2000 to 2008. Part of me thinks that after Razors Edge, developing good and usable material was probably becoming more and more difficult to come up with. In fact, I think that can be traced as far back as 1983 when Flick Of The Switch was made and how Angus and Malcolm started trying their hands at producing, You can tell a very big difference in those albums made from 1983 up until The Razors Edge. Don't get me wrong, I do love those albums. But it's evident that they exhausted their very best material on Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway To Hell, Back In Black, and For Those About To Rock. Mutt Lange simply came in at the right time when they were laying all that stuff down. I think it was all good timing and luck in his favor, an not some kind of special powers that he had that made the albums eht they are with his name on them. But everyone hails him as the reason they're so good. George Young could have been just as effective and cost much less rs Edge was much to a corporate commercial
@@nathanrichards1100 they are dummies though. You do realise you would need like 15 heads for all of those cabs right? And then at that point the sound would be too dangerously loud. I would say angus amd malcom are both running 2 heads and 4 cabs each AT MOST
The one thing that sticks out to me watching this, is how much AC/DC still love playing. Angus, minus his usual stage antics, is just jamming to himself. So cool to see that side of him. And then Brian taunting Angus to sing is great to see. They're still having fun. Thanks for posting!!
I mean in terms of who did it best, loudest, most albums, most powerful raw performances, best fans, album sales, one of the greatest guitar players ever, two of the best frontmen ever, crazy story, paid their dues, and in 2020put out a new album that held number 1 on the charts for months..... Yea I'd say by those terms and standards NOBODY has ever even came close to ACDC. There are other great bands yes. But this band is the epitome of Rock N Roll. Period. I love the Stones, but they are more of the old school old school rock. To me that's not rock n roll. To me it was too fresh to be as good as Rock eventually became. It was awesome don't get me wrong. I love many bands and artists from that time. But ACDC took all of that and put it toward what would become the most authentic powerful sound in Rock N Roll... No bs. Just Rock N Roll. They never altered. They never failed. They never once let us down. That's the most Rock N Roll story anyone could ever tell ✌🖤🤘🌹
I have seen them 2 time. Once in 2015 and once in mid eighties!! And I’d pay the same amount to watch this one sound check !!! Freaking reason I play guitar and love music, is because of these guys right here.
I read in a book about how to get your own guitar "sound", and I believe I heard also, maybe, in an Angus interview that AC/DC didn't use any pedals or such. The book showed examples of how other Super Star guitarists had their pedals setup... some had many pedals and other junk laid out on boards... and then the book had an entry for AC/DC that said just: "None." (Ha!)
4.11.2015...I was there with my missus and 2 of my sons. Awesome concert, as expected, from the greatest band. Seen 'em live 3 times now.1981 at Sydney Showground.1988 Sydney Entertainment Centre....They Are The Best!
Angus's scream made my day, he did a very light sarcastic scream because it was just a sound test, and he had this smile on his face after it that made me laugh so hard
@@jessehoopes7042 This is where common sense and reasoning are supposed to kick in. You could NOT wear a pick half way down in 4 minutes by picking the strings hard.
Mia, Malcolm Young. Great guitar player, great composer, and great man. You are so very much missed by all million of your fans. Now you can entertain our Creator whoever it is. You'd be mighty proud of your nephew who is holding it down,,,
This is the tightest i've EVER heard the new line up! I saw them live in London and whether it was monitoring issues or what, Chris was dragging the tempo down the whole show. Any video i've seen since has been the same but this is mustard!
yea chris seemed to be sort of out of sorts in his tempo in those years compared to the brilliance of his younger days... but this was absolutely spot on
Brian: Mustard? What are you gonna do to with it, Make a sandwich? Angus: Hey Stevie grab some meat and grilled veggies! Cliff: Okay, I'll grab the cheese and Mayonnaise! Stevie: On it! Chris can get the bread White or Honey Whole Wheat? Chris: Will do! Brian, Angus Honey Whole wheat! Got to keep strong you know? Stevie, And Cliff: White
One of the things I love about this band their everyday going to Home Depot attire is also their stage attire. Just a bunch of regular blokes that play the best rock in town..
About 6 months ago I played a gig with Rob Bailey the original bass player in AC/DC. It was in Perth (fremantle) the band he was in was called "Bug Hunt". Nice fella we talked a lot about AC/DC and bass guitars being a bass player myself. I did ask him why he left the band but he didn't want to say why.
Оказывается они могут ходить!!! Кстати, огромная уважуха и любовь к этим двум великим гитаристам!!! Не знаю какая неведомая сила их удерживала на месте уже 40 лет, деньги, слава или неимоверная договоренность, но именно благодаря им сохранилась самая легендарная группа.... Люблю Вас всех одинаковой любовью мои эйсидисишки!!!!!!!! Вы изменили мою и многих других жизнь✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
Even before the show these guys had the bad boy rock and roll energy. Yes, Angus was in the same spot but you can still hear the feeling he always had when playing the solo. Clear as a crisp winters day. Even when soundchecking these guys are at their best and that's why AC/DC made it to the top. They have the energy and spirit in whatever the do, day in day out. They will always be loved all across the world and may their music live on forever. Let's not forget old Mal, R.I.P brother, hope you and Bon are on the highway to hell to kick the devils ass, for us all... with rock n roll
Travis Johnston It’s definitely for Brian. I’m surprised they didn’t start tuning down sooner tbh. Brian’s a baritone so I can’t imagine he could sing that high the way he does forever.
@@FrothingFanboy Yeah that boogie thing really lasted a long time, right? Why would you ever use a wizard in the studio, when you own some of the finest Marshalls in the world?
Wow, that's a whole lit of amp speakers back there. First time I saw that many speakers on a stage was about 1980 at a Ted Nugent concert. I was standing three rows back in front of the stage. Needless to say I couldn't hear anything for two days straight. No wonder they don't all have hearing loss. Maybe they wear some kind of in-ear protection, i don't know. But even if they do the sound must still be deafening.
@@smallbrandproductions6906 with 99% of the bands you'd be correct, but this time you're not. All those cabs on that stage are loaded and working and I can assure you it is way too fricken loud for most people.
50 Marshall cabs ..hope those days remain with all this head phones stuff going on ..some thing feels missing at the front....long live the Marshall cab ..it works ...don't messs with it
No, the speaker cabs are NOT fake or just for show - they are all REAL and ON. Angus does not use in-ear monitors and is constantly moving, so he needs complete coverage. The band's amp tech explains this in Rig Rundown: ruclips.net/video/j5C7GKGxICg/видео.html
I've played on large stages and move as much as he does. That's why we have monitors facing all directions. Why would a guitar player need that many cabs. It's all show and go. Notice I didn't say no go. ACDC IS AWESOME but all that gear is bullshit. Was relevant in the 70s and 80s but no longer. Some bands just like the old way and will never change the way they do shit. And yes, I know what I'm talking about. Many performers are getting rid of four trucks full of shit to do a concert. Shit ton cheaper.
@@FrothingFanboy You are so right. Then there are others like me that are old, tired of hauling a bunch of unnecessary shit around like I used to just to create the mystique of the 70s and 80s. I do a fairly large job with a fender 25 watt frontman that I've had for years through a cheap pedal board. My entire rig. To this this day I've never had anyone approach me and tell me I sound like shit. I've had many pro musicians ask me how I get my sound. Years of messing around with different equipment trying to make it about the music and not the image. My tube amps sit in a warehouse as I no longer use them as I believe they have nothing to do with your sound if you know how to use your equipment. It's just my opinion but I've been playing just as long as Angus. About the same age and can still cover the stage better than anyone I know.
I find that difficult to believe. That amp arrangement must be to show off and he said that to keep the legend alive but anyone who ever stood in front of a Marshall at full throttle knows it's hardly bearable and MAINLY damaging, LET ALONE 15/18 OF THEM. You'd be deaf within 5 years if not less.
Here's another good interview with the amp tech: www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/guitar_tech_trace_foster_discusses_40_year_career_working_with_angus_young_joe_perry_and_more.html "People don't understand that, for example, if it's cold out, sound does not travel. It will travel about three feet in front of the speaker and just die. When you have a guy who doesn't wear in-ear monitors and he relies upon sustain, well now that's a huge problem because you can't give him that thing he needs and you're struggling. ... I have to be able to sustain a note at certain spots on that stage and it takes all 12 of those amps to make that happen. There are no if ands or buts and there are zero excuses to not make that happen."
First time I've ever seen Angus play the guitar while standing in one place. I've always wondered it that was even possible :)
So true
Wast just about to comment that :P
Same here, it's actually incredible to see him playing so casually
ericynot no kidding! Lol!
ditto!
ACDC, everyday guys who became the greatest rock stars on the planet.
Well nearly …….
@@lackof548nearly?
When the simple soundcheck is already the greatest rock show on the planet.
So sad no one came to their gig. I think they'll make it if they keep trying. That guitar player needs to put on a schoolboy uniform and move around more and entertain the crowd. At least that's what I would do.
Yep, worth a try
I think you may be on to something there! 😅😅😅
Old men in schoolboy uniforms, kinky.
drop his pants as well. plus its not loud enough, perhaps a bell and some canons might work
Hell, if nothing else works, the tiny guitarist may as well try doing a funny Chuck Berry duck walk and then maybe twirl around on the floor like he’s swallowed jet fuel. What’ve they got to lose. They’ve obviously invested too much in gear to stop now.
I love that Brian is dancing around during a soundtrack. And this was at the peak of his hearing problems. Respect.
Even their sound test is better than most live songs of a lot bands
The most hard working band in the world
I don't know about that... them being the hardest working band. After Razors Edge in 1991, they took MANY extended breaks, the longest one running from 2000 to 2008. Part of me thinks that after Razors Edge, developing good and usable material was probably becoming more and more difficult to come up with. In fact, I think that can be traced as far back as 1983 when Flick Of The Switch was made and how Angus and Malcolm started trying their hands at producing,
You can tell a very big difference in those albums made from 1983 up until The Razors Edge. Don't get me wrong, I do love those albums. But it's evident that they exhausted their very best material on Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway To Hell, Back In Black, and For Those About To Rock. Mutt Lange simply came in at the right time when they were laying all that stuff down. I think it was all good timing and luck in his favor, an not some kind of special powers that he had that made the albums eht they are with his name on them. But everyone hails him as the reason they're so good. George Young could have been just as effective and cost much less
rs Edge was much to a corporate commercial
@@jackmomma7481 There was never any need to write new songs at all after 1982.
“So guys how many Marshall do you want?”
“Yes”
Most of them are fake
Haha they're all dummy cabs! He will have one head and cab mic'd up backstage running into the PA. Looks cool though 👍👍
🤣🤣🤣🤣 you sir clearly haven't seen the rig rundown. They most definitely are not
Look at slayer on stage
SO MANY
@@nathanrichards1100 they are dummies though. You do realise you would need like 15 heads for all of those cabs right? And then at that point the sound would be too dangerously loud. I would say angus amd malcom are both running 2 heads and 4 cabs each AT MOST
Absolutely LOVE this band, some of the greatest rock and roll of all time!
The one thing that sticks out to me watching this, is how much AC/DC still love playing. Angus, minus his usual stage antics, is just jamming to himself. So cool to see that side of him. And then Brian taunting Angus to sing is great to see. They're still having fun. Thanks for posting!!
Even at sound check they're awesome.
AC/DC will carry on. They HAVE TO! Just like The Rolling Stones. AC/DC is in the running for GREATEST Rock & Roll band ever!
You mean a Red Sox fan and a Yankee fan agree on something?😂🤘
In the running??
They out ran that position long ago mate.
I mean in terms of who did it best, loudest, most albums, most powerful raw performances, best fans, album sales, one of the greatest guitar players ever, two of the best frontmen ever, crazy story, paid their dues, and in 2020put out a new album that held number 1 on the charts for months..... Yea I'd say by those terms and standards NOBODY has ever even came close to ACDC. There are other great bands yes. But this band is the epitome of Rock N Roll. Period. I love the Stones, but they are more of the old school old school rock. To me that's not rock n roll. To me it was too fresh to be as good as Rock eventually became. It was awesome don't get me wrong. I love many bands and artists from that time. But ACDC took all of that and put it toward what would become the most authentic powerful sound in Rock N Roll... No bs. Just Rock N Roll. They never altered. They never failed. They never once let us down. That's the most Rock N Roll story anyone could ever tell ✌🖤🤘🌹
If angus doesn’t wear his schoolboy uniform, he stays in one place. Lol
Fine by me!
he has slowed dowm, he pretty old
I have seen them 2 time. Once in 2015 and once in mid eighties!! And I’d pay the same amount to watch this one sound check !!! Freaking reason I play guitar and love music, is because of these guys right here.
Bon {and Malcolm} would be proud
Sadly you can delete the brackets
would they be proud of axl
RIP BON AND MAL...
Fully
I forget: Malcolm’s replacement is his and Angus’ nephew, right? Awesome that Mal’s Gretsch is up on stage amd touring.
What an awesome sound system
I read in a book about how to get your own guitar "sound", and I believe I heard also, maybe, in an Angus interview that AC/DC didn't use any pedals or such. The book showed examples of how other Super Star guitarists had their pedals setup... some had many pedals and other junk laid out on boards... and then the book had an entry for AC/DC that said just: "None." (Ha!)
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING MALCOLM!
sound check --> better than any performance ill ever be a part of in my life
Things like this is what makes life so great and tolerable.. Thank you!!
Watching Brian pass Angus the mic for a sec was awesome!
Even with the sound check the band was cooking great stuff
the guitar tone is just killer... as usual
Gotta love the whole family together one last time. Smiles on all their faces.
4.11.2015...I was there with my missus and 2 of my sons. Awesome concert, as expected, from the greatest band. Seen 'em live 3 times now.1981 at Sydney Showground.1988 Sydney Entertainment Centre....They Are The Best!
Angus's scream made my day, he did a very light sarcastic scream because it was just a sound test, and he had this smile on his face after it that made me laugh so hard
Saw them LIVE twice. Absolutely fantastic concerts both times.
Even just in rehearsal with that simple backdrop there's nothing I can say... THANK YOU AC/DC...
...Angus with that picking attack ...sounds like Angus !
Stevie's picking attack is serious to, a pick a song and he actually needs to he wares half the pick down in a song no exaggeration
@@jessehoopes7042
This is where common sense and reasoning are supposed to kick in.
You could NOT wear a pick half way down in 4 minutes by picking the strings hard.
Saw them 6 times in the 80's 90's but never a sound check. That was cool.
love watching how these guys just really love playing - even when it's the only roadies that are listening!
I never knew Angus could actually stand still that long!
I bet rehearsing with these guys is as much a blast as hearing them live.!
Brian is back, next ACDC live Concert Summer 2021 in BERLIN 🤟
wow, so weird seeing Angus play like a normal guitarist!
love it, great rhythm..
thankyou for sharing this 🙂
Good pub band, hope they get a break and play some bigger gigs.
Mia, Malcolm Young. Great guitar player, great composer, and great man. You are so very much missed by all million of your fans. Now you can entertain our Creator whoever it is. You'd be mighty proud of your nephew who is holding it down,,,
This is the tightest i've EVER heard the new line up! I saw them live in London and whether it was monitoring issues or what, Chris was dragging the tempo down the whole show. Any video i've seen since has been the same but this is mustard!
Mustard, you say? :P
yea chris seemed to be sort of out of sorts in his tempo in those years compared to the brilliance of his younger days... but this was absolutely spot on
Brian: Mustard? What are you gonna do to with it, Make a sandwich?
Angus: Hey Stevie grab some meat and grilled veggies!
Cliff: Okay, I'll grab the cheese and Mayonnaise!
Stevie: On it! Chris can get the bread White or Honey Whole Wheat?
Chris: Will do!
Brian, Angus Honey Whole wheat! Got to keep strong you know?
Stevie, And Cliff: White
One of the things I love about this band their everyday going to Home Depot attire is also their stage attire.
Just a bunch of regular blokes that play the best rock in town..
Wonderful upload thankyou “ but you ain’t got the guts” love it!
With all the show surrounding performance, you'd almost forget they're a band. Nice to be reminded
AC/DC The Best And Biggest Rock And Roll Band on Planet Earth
I love Angus Young. He's adorable! I could watch him play guitar forever. This is the best band thats ever lived!!
Biggest?? There is a band from England called Iron Maiden that might have a thing or two to say about that.
@@davidpearson3304 Look up AC/DC's album sales, tour grosses, and RUclips views against Iron Maiden's. 'DC is monumentally bigger.
This is good stuff....2015...Rock or bust .. times.(..give or take...).....the boys sound good...even in sound checks!⚡⚡
Scary how knackered Brian's voice is in the later vids of AC/DC concerts from the last few years..
Monster bands performs great soundchecks !!!
Love seeing behind the scenes stuff like this.
These guys are cool without trying to be cool!! That's how you know your cool!!
🤘😎
Miss ya Malcom! Love this group!
Those kids and their crazy rock n roll
Hahaha... :-D
Still the greatest band 👍😊😁
About 6 months ago I played a gig with Rob Bailey the original bass player in AC/DC. It was in Perth (fremantle) the band he was in was called "Bug Hunt". Nice fella we talked a lot about AC/DC and bass guitars being a bass player myself. I did ask him why he left the band but he didn't want to say why.
Notice how they are saving all of their HUGE energy for the actual show.
Brian and Stevie are so awesome
Love the sound check vids
You can see Stevie Y thinking I know I'm only a replacement, but f ck I've waited 40 yrs for this,awesome
He covered for Malcolm back in the eighties when Malcolm was battling alcoholism.
I was at ANZ Stadium for that show and I didn't think the sound was as good as their 2009 Black Ice concert in the same stadium.
Оказывается они могут ходить!!! Кстати, огромная уважуха и любовь к этим двум великим гитаристам!!! Не знаю какая неведомая сила их удерживала на месте уже 40 лет, деньги, слава или неимоверная договоренность, но именно благодаря им сохранилась самая легендарная группа.... Люблю Вас всех одинаковой любовью мои эйсидисишки!!!!!!!! Вы изменили мою и многих других жизнь✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
Приветствую дружище 🤘🤘🤘 Украина Днепр. АC DC на всегда!
This band has always been tight............. sound check!
That guitar sound is so on point.
🙇🏻♀️I bow to you for posting this. Made my morning 2020!!!
Love this version of Angus when he's not thrashing around like he's having an epileptic seizure.
Then you don't like acdc. Nuff said
Love the music. Can do without the grand mal seizures.
It’s impossible see another band like them, don’t think twice, impossible.
All I can think about is the stage volume, especially Angus' 900 watts of Marshalls cranked...
They are THE Boss !
That Marshall Wall though 🤟😳🤟
200,000. Ho-lee...
Edit: 900,000. :)
Sept. '23 - there's the million! :)
The remark wasn't about credit. I just find it mindboggling that hundreds of thousands of people have watched a short clip of a band's sound check.
Yeah!!
Almost 300k
300k now!
...Woah, that went up to 400k pretty quick. :o
Santa Claus, bring us a new AC / DC album for Christmas time!
man do i have news for you
Even before the show these guys had the bad boy rock and roll energy. Yes, Angus was in the same spot but you can still hear the feeling he always had when playing the solo. Clear as a crisp winters day. Even when soundchecking these guys are at their best and that's why AC/DC made it to the top. They have the energy and spirit in whatever the do, day in day out. They will always be loved all across the world and may their music live on forever. Let's not forget old Mal, R.I.P brother, hope you and Bon are on the highway to hell to kick the devils ass, for us all... with rock n roll
Very interesting seeing Angus just standing there playing wearing civvies.
The Marshall backline reminds me of the middle photo of Blue Oyster Cult's album On Your Feet Or On Your Knees. Very cool.
They sound great
I love how they've been tuning down lately. Sounds even meaner.
Idk if it’s to fit Brian’s vocals or not but I agree
Travis Johnston It’s definitely for Brian. I’m surprised they didn’t start tuning down sooner tbh. Brian’s a baritone so I can’t imagine he could sing that high the way he does forever.
@@grooverstone9553 thats exactly why friend.
Eb is meaner i agree
On ballbreaker & earlier they used 1/4 step down.
Now they use 1/2 step down
Filthy acts at a reasonable price
That 1 way of putting it
Brian singing..." Grren, gun, nehahn, genn, grnn, dirdi dids, gerrn., wonch, wod, nnihhwngrnnin !"
Bring back Brian...NOW!!!
Cuenta Provisional they will!
They did!
Chanxy they already did mate
He is back
@@chanxy7925 Except they did!
More amps are needed !!!!
i love you acdc!
Angus & friends. Young & Co. ⚡️🤘🏻🖖🏻
That was awesome!
Sponsored by Marshall....
Some say... They sponsor marhsall...
is there any other type of guitar amplifier??
@@djizzah AC/DC used Mesa Boogie amps on the Razors Edge tour. And they use Wizard amps in the studio nowadays.
@@FrothingFanboy only 3 names in music, marshall, gibson and fender imo
@@FrothingFanboy Yeah that boogie thing really lasted a long time, right? Why would you ever use a wizard in the studio, when you own some of the finest Marshalls in the world?
Strange seeing Angus play guitar in jeans and a t-shirt.
AC DC THE BEST.
The boys at the end "yeaaaaaahhhh!!! nice work lads!!!" THAT is appreciation with a capital AC/DC !!
I saw them on this tour for the very first time what a show.. But I lost my hearing for about 3 days xD
Best sounding guitar tone ever, Gibson + Gretsch + Marshall = Rock N Roll Heaven.
Will be so missed; please one more album. Become a studio band
Shows how playing to a crowd gets the adrenaline running
RIP Malcom Young
Dang that’s a heck of a tune
Wow, that's a whole lit of amp speakers back there. First time I saw that many speakers on a stage was about 1980 at a Ted Nugent concert. I was standing three rows back in front of the stage. Needless to say I couldn't hear anything for two days straight. No wonder they don't all have hearing loss. Maybe they wear some kind of in-ear protection, i don't know. But even if they do the sound must still be deafening.
Those Marshalls are dummy cabs, they don't have drivers in them. They are there for look only.
@@smallbrandproductions6906 with 99% of the bands you'd be correct, but this time you're not. All those cabs on that stage are loaded and working and I can assure you it is way too fricken loud for most people.
Great album
Music 2015, attendance 2020
Amazing!
ACDC: the purest meaning of the word "rock" 🤘🤘
I love this
Its cool to see Brian put the mike in Angus" face and let him sing...lol
50 Marshall cabs ..hope those days remain with all this head phones stuff going on ..some thing feels missing at the front....long live the Marshall cab ..it works ...don't messs with it
That's awesome footage
That moment when AC/DC plays only for you.
No, the speaker cabs are NOT fake or just for show - they are all REAL and ON. Angus does not use in-ear monitors and is constantly moving, so he needs complete coverage. The band's amp tech explains this in Rig Rundown: ruclips.net/video/j5C7GKGxICg/видео.html
I've played on large stages and move as much as he does. That's why we have monitors facing all directions. Why would a guitar player need that many cabs. It's all show and go. Notice I didn't say no go. ACDC IS AWESOME but all that gear is bullshit. Was relevant in the 70s and 80s but no longer. Some bands just like the old way and will never change the way they do shit. And yes, I know what I'm talking about. Many performers are getting rid of four trucks full of shit to do a concert. Shit ton cheaper.
@@aliensarereal7832 "Some bands just like the old way and will never change the way they do shit." - That's AC/DC's whole thing.
@@FrothingFanboy You are so right. Then there are others like me that are old, tired of hauling a bunch of unnecessary shit around like I used to just to create the mystique of the 70s and 80s. I do a fairly large job with a fender 25 watt frontman that I've had for years through a cheap pedal board. My entire rig. To this this day I've never had anyone approach me and tell me I sound like shit. I've had many pro musicians ask me how I get my sound. Years of messing around with different equipment trying to make it about the music and not the image. My tube amps sit in a warehouse as I no longer use them as I believe they have nothing to do with your sound if you know how to use your equipment. It's just my opinion but I've been playing just as long as Angus. About the same age and can still cover the stage better than anyone I know.
I find that difficult to believe. That amp arrangement must be to show off and he said that to keep the legend alive but anyone who ever stood in front of a Marshall at full throttle knows it's hardly bearable and MAINLY damaging, LET ALONE 15/18 OF THEM. You'd be deaf within 5 years if not less.
Here's another good interview with the amp tech: www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/guitar_tech_trace_foster_discusses_40_year_career_working_with_angus_young_joe_perry_and_more.html
"People don't understand that, for example, if it's cold out, sound does not travel. It will travel about three feet in front of the speaker and just die. When you have a guy who doesn't wear in-ear monitors and he relies upon sustain, well now that's a huge problem because you can't give him that thing he needs and you're struggling. ... I have to be able to sustain a note at certain spots on that stage and it takes all 12 of those amps to make that happen. There are no if ands or buts and there are zero excuses to not make that happen."
Love them!
.....and the reason Phil Rudd is not on the drums....he is living the song