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Ron The Bear said:
Love the solo too, Angus going for it like never before.
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This is why Powerage is so appealing to many. They had really good energy. Some of us are naturally attracted to it. They got a lot more political/blues, which is natural when you're on a high.

This was the period much of the next six or so albums were born from.
 
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Let There Be Rock was the peak with Bon (and overall) for me; a serious, mean hard rock album. Can see the allure with Powerage, it's really raw (except for Damnation which was an attempt at a hit single) and I fully agree they did lose something after that with the way they were produced. Not a muso so I can 't explain it properly, but the drums were made to sound "bigger and boomier". Edge was sacrificed for groove.



Love that album, like many do. Very compressed with a low, low dynamic range, yet somehow it sounds great.
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I wasn't meaning so much the sound, I like the bigger and boomier production, love me a big drum sound. It was that every song became more steamlined, more formula orientated. The songs on Powerage are quite diverse, I mean ****, the bass is practically the lead instrument on Gimme A Bullet! That sure as shit never happened again.

They are the best are what they do so even doing the more streamlined thing, they made great rock music, but it was different from that point on. Maybe a combination of the world wide superstardom, the Mutt Lang, and the loss of Bon.
 
edgie said:
I wasn't meaning so much the sound, I like the bigger and boomier production, love me a big drum sound. It was that every song became more steamlined, more formula orientated. The songs on Powerage are quite diverse, I mean ****, the bass is practically the lead instrument on Gimme A Bullet! That sure as shit never happened again.

They are the best are what they do so even doing the more streamlined thing, they made great rock music, but it was different from that point on. Maybe a combination of the world wide superstardom, the Mutt Lang, and the loss of Bon.
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Yeah, "formulaic" is one way to put it. Every song on FOTS and FOTW between 3:13 and 4:32 in length. Then BUYV... [shudders].
 

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The Brian Johnson issue is turning into a little saga.

This guy from SNL has backtracked from comments he made the other day about Johnson being effectively "kicked to the kerb". Jim Breuer, a friend of the singer, initially reckoned that Johnson told the band that he was having some hearing issues, and that he might have to skip some shows. The next thing he knew, all his touring stuff was dropped at his house and he was off the gig.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/acdc-latest-exsnl-comedian-jim-breuer-backpedals-on-claim-angus-young-dumped-brian-johnson-20160316-gnjxz6.html
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Interesting. This is Breuer - he absolutely NAILS Brian Johnson's singing style. Funny as f*ck!

 
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rocker_oz33 said:
AC/DC is turning into the guns n roses ala Axl and he's misfits,funny enough Axl has been there frontman.
Like everyone else would of been noice if Bon sang on the back in black album such a shame really.
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Acca Dacca's been forced to change through circumstance, though. They didn't have the 'creative differences' turmoil that so many other bands have. Apart from Dave Evans of course. And Phil Rudd's troubles.

Just on Bon and Black though - I wonder if the band had laid down anything with Bon post-Highway that is still unreleased? I know a whole heap of unreleased stuff got released with the Bonfire box set but I wonder if any of Bon's Highway followup still exists?
 
Geelong_Sicko said:
Acca Dacca's been forced to change through circumstance, though. They didn't have the 'creative differences' turmoil that so many other bands have. Apart from Dave Evans of course. And Phil Rudd's troubles.

Just on Bon and Black though - I wonder if the band had laid down anything with Bon post-Highway that is still unreleased? I know a whole heap of unreleased stuff got released with the Bonfire box set but I wonder if any of Bon's Highway followup still exists?
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Unsure if any post highway exists.
Guess it would of been good the day Bon rocked up to lay down some vocals on B&B instead of what happened.
They said while your hear,you can make start on this/these track(s).
Anyway there was talk of a movie unsure what happened about that.
 
edgie said:
Apparently the material written for the post Highway to Hell album was ditched, and Bon's notes were given to his parents.

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Don't think the notebooks made it to Isa and Chick. Pretty sure Ian Jeffrey took/kept them, and it has been said/written many times that Back in Black and Rock'n'Roll Ain't Noise Pollution at the very least were titles Bon was working with.

Also fairly certain Bon had been behind the kit in the rehearsal rooms with Malcolm and Angus working on songs that ended up on Back in Black.
 

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Wouldn't surprise me if the material was destroyed, or under lock and key in the Young's possession never to be released.

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On Ballbreaker, I think I rate the high moments of that album very highly is because there's a few songs with genuine attitude and a certain energetic rawness about them, that had been missing for too many albums that came before.

Does the single 'Big Gun' count as Ballbreaker as well? Cause that's a belter.

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edgie said:
Wouldn't surprise me if the material was destroyed, or under lock and key in the Young's possession never to be released.

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I was hoping they'd release the motherlode when Bonfire came out. There was some great stuff in there - the alternate take on Beatin' Around the Bush was, in my opinion, better than the track they rolled with





Although you can't do a similar comparison of Bon/Brian takes on a song, it would have been interesting to hear what was potentially in store for the band. If they were going to continue down the dark path Night Prowler took...

 
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I reckon the original Get It Hot knocks the album one out of park.

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Yeah. I wonder what the rationale was in selecting some songs over others? I suppose every band in existence would have alternate takes that sounded better than whatever made it onto their albums. Some of it could be studio/producer interference, some of it's just, like, pure opinion man.

I like to ponder this shit.
 
Indeed, but AC/DC run a tight ship so not selecting some songs over others is a relatively bigger issue for them. I think BUYV had the most songs recorded for it, 4 of them made the Backtracks collection. Some ok songs that could've forced their way in to a mediocre album.

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edgie said:
Indeed, but AC/DC run a tight ship so not selecting some songs over others is a relatively bigger issue for them. I think BUYV had the most songs recorded for it, 4 of them made the Backtracks collection. Some ok songs that could've forced their way in to a mediocre album.

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Too right. The only reason I can think of that a song like Down on the Borderline would get cut is because it had the word 'nigger' in it (at 1:08 - "she used me like a nigger got a hold of me".



Of course I think this is riffing on the original words to the kiddie rhyme 'Eenie meenie miney moe, catch a nigger by the toe" rather that any overt racism, but there you go.
 
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I just remembered that a mate and I were talking about metal today at work and Accept came up and he mentioned that they have a song originally written by AC/DC, I was skeptical as they don't seem the type to give away material, but just looked it up and wow, sounds like one of those never to be heard gems you are talking about!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_a_Rebel_(song)
 
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Geelong_Sicko

I just remembered that a mate and I were talking about metal today at work and Accept came up and he mentioned that they have a song originally written by AC/DC, I was skeptical as they don't seem the type to give away material, but just looked it up and wow, sounds like one of those never to be heard gems you are talking about!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_a_Rebel_(song)
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Ha! You stumped me this time, as I'd never even heard of that! Geeze the Youngs were talented - George Young and the Easybeats, Angus and Malcolm with AC/DC and now Alex Young as well!

The quality is raw, but this is supposedly the drunken AC/DC version recorded in Germany with Alex Young on vocals. Bon does backing vocals.



This is Accept's version

 
Re: Down on the Borderline's lyrics, I reckon that line sounds as per what the written lyrics suggest... 'She use me like an anchor / Got a hold on me'. Which follows on the previous line 'Between the devil and the deep blue sea'.

Not all AC/DC's sound like what the written lyrics suggest but that line does to my ears
 

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