Monday, March 12, 2012

AC/DC was interviewed in London, England in the year 1976. The interviewer begins by asking band members Bon Scott and Angus Young if they can answer some questions for him. They are asked several questions but there os one question that realy stands out, which is the one where the interviewer asks AC/DC about the British audience. There were major influences in music like the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and how these band all broke up. Yet, Bon Scott answers that they're better. He goes on to say that he gives the audience what they desire, the "show, and the dream." The band would seem to have a unique sense of togetherness since most of the bands songs were made in hotel rooms when they are traveling from one place to another. This band had what most bands lacked back in the early ages of rock music, they had their uniqueness, they were always together like a family, and most of all they knew how to work with each other. But the question for this week, what would have been the fate of the band if they had been like other bands in the early years of rock? Would they have ended up together as one of the best rock bands of all ages?

AC/DC Interview london, 1976 [Motion picture]. (n.d.). Retrieved from Youtube database.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

"AC/DC Maximum Rock n Roll" is a book based on AC/DC's great history, from the start of Angus and Malcolm Young playing guitar by themselves, to the addition of lead vocalist Bon Scott, to the tragic event of his death, and the rise of AC/DC with the new lead singer Brian Johnson. This book contains several interviews that the band gave throughout the years that they played. The band was always very strong, not physical strength but in mentality. " ‘The boys — Malcolm and Angus and Bon — would come off the stage because some idiot had thrown a bottle or was abusing Bon, and we were at the side of the stage and they’ve gone straight off the stage into it. They’re not the tallest guys in the world, they’re not the best-built guys in the world, but I tell you what, don’t upset them. You wouldn’t think there would be very much fight in them but . . .’ " The book contains details on the albums and the story of how many songs came about, as well as what inspired some of the lyrics. AC/DC had a clear future when they began to make noise with the fact that several of their albums were controversial or they made a scandal, because it called for attention from the audience. Having their ups and their downs they alwasy kept their heads in high and looked forward as to what was to come. How would have AC/DC changed, had Bon Scott not died in the eraly years of the history of the band?

Engleheart, Murray, and Arnaud Durieux. AC/DC: Maximum Rock 'n' Roll. München: Heyne, 2007. Print.