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*AC/DC's Black Ice World Tour, which was set to hit Phoenix, AZ on October 1, will be postponed to a later date. Subsequent shows in Las Vegas, Louisville, Kansas City, Des Moines and Milwaukee will also be rescheduled. The tour will resume on October 16 in Washington, DC. Lead singer Brian Johnson recently underwent a medical procedure and at the advice of his doctor is taking some time to rest.
Oct 01, 2009 Phoenix AZ US US Airways Center *postponed
Oct 03, 2009 Las Vegas NV US MGM Grand *postponed
Oct 06, 2009 Louisville KY GB Freedom Hall *postponed
Oct 08, 2009 Kansas City MO US Sprint Center *postponed
Oct 10, 2009 Des Moines IA US Wells Fargo Arena *postponed
Oct 14, 2009 Milwaukee WI Bradley Center *postponed
Oct 16, 2009 Washington DC US Verizon Center
Oct 18, 2009 Buffalo NY US HSBC Arena
Oct 25, 2009 Greensboro NC US Greensboro Coliseum
Oct 28, 2009 New Orleans LA US New Orleans Arena
Oct 30, 2009 Jacksonville FL US Jacksonville Arena
Nov 02, 2009 Dallas TX US American Airlines Center
Nov 04, 2009 Oklahoma City OK US Ford Center
Nov 06, 2009 Austin TX US Frank Erwin Center
Nov 12, 2009 Mexico City MX Foro Sol
Nov 19, 2009 Orlando FL US Amway Arena
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- AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist & Review Frank Erwin Center Austin TX Nov 6, 2009
- AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Reviews American Airlines Center Dallas TX Nov 2, 2009
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Feb 18, 2010 Sydney AU ANZ Stadium
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Feb 25, 2010 Brisbane AU QSAC
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Mar 02, 2010 Adelaide AU Adelaide Oval
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Austin 360
by Michael Corcoran
AC/DC at the Erwin Center
"Thunderstruck" whimpered where it once roared, the set sagged badly in the middle half hour, the four new songs were plain awful and "You Shook Me All Night Long" sounded warped, like someone left it out in the sun at the last Yellow Rose picnic. Friday night's concert at the Erwin Center was far from being the best AC/DC show I've ever seen.
And yet it succeeded as a tribute to the awesome power of good, hard, rock n' roll. The capacity audience of over 13,000 (staging took out about six seating sections) made the show; in fact during the "T.N.T" and "Highway To Hell" chant-alongs, it sure felt like seeing the band in metal-crazed San Antonio. When the two-hour set ended with "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)," with cannons, of course, the band seemed genuinely appreciative of the energy they got back.
AC/DC hadn't played Austin in 13 years, but much of the set was unchanged since then. Besides the aforementioned cannons, there's still the drawn out strip tease by guitarist Angus Young during "The Jack." Singer Brian Johnson once again took a running leap to ring the bell during "Hell's Bells" and "Let There Be Rock" ended with the most self-indulgent guitar solo of all time.
But AC/DC is a band you don't want to change. The show was as much a thanks and celebration of all the great music through the years, as it was a high dollar, two-hour show that found a veteran band proving that they can still do what made them beloved. AC/DC is a memory machine, KISS with talent instead of makeup, taking fans back to their discovery of rock. Where were you when you first heard "Whole Lotta Rosie"?
With the three-piece rhythm engine of guitarist Malcolm Young, drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams clustered together in the back, like they were playing the Continental Club, the throb was relentless on "Hell Ain't a Bad Place To Be" and "Rosie," probably the band's two best songs.
But as Angus and Brian, "the new singer," worked the crowd shamelessly I had to ask myself if I could actually be this bored during a show by the world's greatest hard rock band, I couldn't control the yawns that stretched out during "Dog Eat Dog," which has no place in a career-spanning AC/DC concert.
Much of the set seemed programmed by the concessionaires, whose favorite words were "Here's another one from the new album." The new "War Machine" is quite possibly the dullest song ever played at the Erwin Center during a sold out concert.
Part of the reason I couldn't get fully into the show is because my seat in section 20, row 16, was separated from a 20-foot drop over an exit by a railing that went up to my knee. I get shoved and I'm dead. (Dying during a concert by my alltime favorite band would've made for some nice "at least he died happy" talk, but I'm kinda holding out for the 25-year anniversary show of Them Crooked Vultures.) Even though my seated view was unobstructed, sitting down during AC/DC is like standing up during a lap dance.
It would be a shame if it took the death of a fan for the Erwin Center to rectify this blatant safety hazard. How about some webbing below the rail to catch clumsy fans? Then us 20/ 16 folks can rock out like everybody else.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Dallas Morning News
by Mike Kondracki
We were there: AC/DC at AAC
Rock and roll ain't noise pollution, the band once said. Perhaps, but AC/DC apparently knows that too much fresh air ain't good for the senses, either.
AC/DC made a return stop at American Airlines Center Monday night on its Black Ice tour, following its first visit in January. Fans were treated to 19 songs that spanned the band's extensive career.
The band opened with "Rock 'N Roll Train" and played three other songs from "Black Ice," but the new songs failed to rivet the crowd like old favorites such as "Hell's Bells," "Shoot to Thrill" and "You Shook Me All Night Long" from 1980's "Back in Black."
The newer songs served as a restroom break for some, and that's a shame since title track "Black Ice" was particularly catchy. AC/DC finished with a strong stretch of classics, ripping through "TNT," "Whole Lotta Rosie" and "Let There Be Rock" before exiting the stage and returning for encores "Highway to Hell" and "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)." AC/DC still knows how to give its fans a good time, and for that, we salute them.
Belfast rockers The Answer set the tone for Monday's show with a solid 45-minute set. The band was promoting its new CD "Everyday Demons."
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Florida Times-Union
by Heather Lovejoy
Jacksonville was ready to rock, so AC/DC delivered
The band served up their famed rock anthems, along with a little lowbrow entertainment.
Never trust anyone over 30, right? Well, except maybe Angus Young.
As far as energy goes, the 54-year-old lead guitarist lived up to his last name Friday night at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, where AC/DC played to a packed house for just shy of two hours.
The band delivered exactly what the crowd wanted: Mindless, driving rock anthems they've been hooked on for years. Or, for the middle school-aged boys in the crowd, songs they've attempted to play on Guitar Hero.
After 36 years with AC/DC, Young seemed defiant of aging. He rocked hard, fast and shirtless (and if you didn't want to see that, oh well). About half way through the show, he dismantled his famed uniform: A tie, jacket, shorts, pasty white legs, white socks and black shoes. But when he pulled down his shorts, he revealed only his AC/DC boxers, stopping short of mooning the audience as he's done in the past. Perhaps that was a testament to his age?
Singer Brian Johnson, less in the limelight than Young, sounded best on the songs he recorded with the band on 1980's "Back in Black." "You Shook Me All Night Long" was easily the highlight of the night, and "Back in Black," the third song, was the first to get the crowd's hands in the air.
Johnson did a fine job, though, handling the late singer Bon Scott's hits. "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" didn't disappoint, especially with Young's tight guitar solo closing it out. The encore was a Scott song, "Highway to Hell," and "For Those About To Rock," which left much of the crowd wanting more. But the band couldn't have topped that exit. Plus, Young had already played an almost 15-minute manic solo, complete with platforms rising him up like a god and confetti blowing up around him as he writhed on the floor.
The stage props were fairly elaborate, starting with the arrival of a "Rock 'N Roll Train." Toward the end of the concert, a giant, big-breasted inflatable doll wearing lingerie appeared riding the train during "A Whole Lotta Rosie." Lowbrow, of course, but not surprising.
The band's newer songs from "Black Ice," released a year ago, didn't engage the crowd as much. They quieted down during "War Machine" and many were sitting by the time they started "Dog Eat Dog," an old tune. They were back on their feet, though, with the first note of "You Shook Me All Night Long."
The opening band, The Answer, wasn't memorable and didn't get the crowd riled up in their 45 minutes on stage. Hailing from Ireland, they had a mid-1970s sound despite being a much younger band. Their songs seemed outdated and awkward at times, unlike AC/DC's songs actually from the '70s, which satisfied a crowd of all ages.
As much as the landscape of popular music has changed, it seems there's still plenty of room for AC/DC's straightforward, unabashed workingman's rock. People want it and AC/DC knows how to serve it up.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: The Times-Picayune
by Keith Spera
AC/DC packed a formidable and familiar punch at the New Orleans Arena
In an unstable world, it is good that some things never change. AC/DC is one such thing.
For 36 years and counting, the quintet has trafficked in a blues-based form of hard rock 'n' roll served up with a naughty wink. They do not pander with power ballads. They do not experiment with drum loops. And they most certainly do not rap.
The band's 1980 masterwork "Back In Black" is, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, the fifth best-selling album of all time in the United States, at 22 million copies and counting. Many of the songs on that album would work just as well on any other AC/DC album - except, perhaps, a couple of lame late-'80s efforts - and vice-versa.
As evidenced by AC/DC's Wednesday night show at a not-quite-full New Orleans Arena, not only does the song remain the same, but the presentation as well. Lead guitarist Angus Young, at 54, still vamps in his crushed-velvet schoolboy uniform. Vocalist Brian Johnson still wears his working-guy tight jeans, motorcycle boots, sleeveless shirt and flat cap.
As for the rest of the band, drummer Phil Rudd, bassist Cliff Williams and guitarist Malcolm Young look like guys who collect tickets at a traveling carnival's Ferris wheel. They could easily pass for members of their own road crew.
But collectively, they rank among the tightest, most dependable rhythm sections in rock. They are why AC/DC songs are so popular in strip clubs; their groove speaks directly to the hips.
They formed three legs of a tripod. Malcolm Young and Williams stood rooted in place on either side of Rudd's kit, except when they ventured forth in unison to add backing vocals. Vocal chores complete, they retreated to their stations. During Angus's finale of a solo, they stood patiently, arms folded across their instruments, until their contributions were again required. As usual, they resumed exactly in place and in time.
So it went for two hours. Hundreds of souvenir red devil horns flickered red throughout the arena; one could also purchase an Angus Young school-boy tie for $35. An opening cartoon starring our heroes in a PG-13 adventure aboard a "Rock 'n Roll Train" gave way to the song of the same name and a smoking, life-size locomotive that served as the stage backdrop.
As far as arena rock props go, the train managed to walk that fine line between awesomeness and Spinal Tap-esque excess. So, too, the giant inflatable floozy - her bosoms were taller than the Young brothers - that straddled the locomotive during "Whole Lotta Rosie."
During his traditional striptease in "The Jack," Young dropped his shorts. In years past, he flashed a full moon. In his only concession to advancing years, this time he revealed only a pair of AC/DC boxers.
Otherwise he was his manic old self, a perpetual motion machine whose solos in "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and elsewhere were spot-on. Happily, he is a rock guitarist who still remembers how, and why, to solo. His sources go back to the dawn of rock 'n' roll and beyond. The hard blues that cranked over the P.A. as the pre-show music is an obvious influence. His duck walk is straight-up Chuck Berry.
Unlike, say, Eddie Van Halen, Young remains in full possession of both his abilities and the willingness and focus to deploy them. "Let There Be Rock" ended the regular set with an epic Angus guitar excursion. Camera operators had the good sense to project a close-up of his fingers on the 30-foot-tall center screen, so all could bear witness to the details.
Johnson was, as usual, the whole arena's best mate. How, at 62, he sustains his voice - it is the sound of gravel being gargled - for two hours a night, let alone a months-long tour, is a mystery. He ranged back and forth across the stage and the runway that extended halfway across the arena's floor, grinning, enjoying himself and making sure those in attendance did as well.
With few exceptions - the sleazy, slow-blues bump 'n grind of "The Jack," the bombast of "For Those About to Rock" - AC/DC sticks to a familiar tone and tempo. Material from 2008's "Black Ice," the band's first studio album in eight years, coexisted amicably with the classics. "Thunderstruck," questionable in its studio version, benefited from a live treatment.
No one does AC/DC better than AC/DC, and they are as potent as ever. The staggering riffage of "Hell's Bells," the nearly-tipping-over-the-side-of-the-freeway rush of "Shoot to Thrill," the curt, snarling guitars of "TNT," the dirty boogie of "Whole Lotta Rosie" - it's all still intact.
Early on, in "Back in Black," Johnson changed the "I'm back" line to "we're back." But AC/DC has never really gone - or faded -- away
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
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Review: The News & Record
by Parke Puterbaugh
AC/DC strong and steady, if predictable
"Get your horns!"
That was the cheerful cry of the long-haired vendor selling plastic red devil horns at Sunday night's AC/DC concert. A week before Halloween, the Greensboro Coliseum throbbed with glowing, blinking horns worn by kids of all ages. The Australian hard-rock legends were in town, and it was time to raise a little hell.
They gave a nearly sold-out coliseum crowd two straight hours of what they came to hear: a pummeling program of stripped-down, guitar-powered favorites from their canon (and, during the encore, their cannons).
From "Hell's Bells" to "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be," AC/DC gleefully rolled down the "Highway to Hell," with guitarist Angus Young leading the charge. A runway led from the stage midway into the arena, and Young and vocalist Brian Johnson made frequent use of it to get close to the crowd. The rest of the band - the rock-solid rhythm section of guitarist Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd - generally stayed clustered around the drum riser. In case you're wondering, Young still wears his schoolboy uniform onstage, right down to knickers, white socks and beanie.
The show opened with an animated sequence of AC/DC aboard a runaway train. The cartoon morphed into a simulated onstage crash. Amid much smoke, fire and noise, a black locomotive screeched to a halt and AC/DC tore into "Rock and Roll Train." It was one of four songs plucked from "Black Ice," their latest album. The bulk of the program consisted of much older classics. Of the 16 other songs they performed, only "Thunderstruck" was recorded after 1981. That's not necessarily a complaint. No one goes to an AC/DC concert hoping to hear obscure album tracks from "Fly on the Wall" or "Flick of the Switch." The new material was strong and well-received, but it approached the limit of the audience's tolerance for the unfamiliar. And so AC/DC gave them the songs that have been the backbone of their live show for decades.
As a whole, the show was solid, though not a single standard deviation away from any other AC/DC show I've ever seen.
The regular-set finale of "You Shook Me All Night Long," "T.N.T.," "Whole Lotta Rosie" and "Let There Be Rock" was muscular, energetic and liberating. On the last of these,
Angus Young pulled out all stops, soloing atop a small circular stage that rose above the crowd. Then he dashed back down the runway and reappeared on yet another elevated stage, where he exhorted the crowd to further heights of feverish abandon -- not that they needed much encouragement
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
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Review: The Buffalo News
by Jeff Miers
AC/DC tears up arena with explosive salute
Never the darlings of the critical establishment, and written off as "caveman rock" by altrock snobs for several decades, AC/DC still managed to become one of the most successful rock bands of all time, selling some 300 million albums since its early '70s inception.
Sunday evening, several generations of AC/DC fans convened in HSBC Arena to bear witness to the enduring power of the band's bad boy boogie.
Now with a median age of nearly 60, the Australian band simply tore the place apart with its raunchy take on old school rock 'n' roll. Louder than one would've thought possible, tighter than all get out, and deliciously sleazy, AC/DC pulled songs from every corner of its fabled career, blessed us with a fair bit of its latest album, the visceral smackdown "Black Ice," and concluded by blasting fully functional canons at the crowd during its anthemic final encore, "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)."
The core of the band is, as ever, the twin guitar team of brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. The siblings write the songs, and split the bloody red meat assault of the sonic attack that is the trademark of the band's sound - Angus, dressed in his school boy's uniform, handling the molten blues-based guitar solos and bobbing about the stage like a problem child with a few gallons of Jolt cola pumping through his veins, while Malcolm roots the band with the metronomelike precision of his right hand.
The rhythm section of bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd plays a four-on-the-floor rhythm that is deceptively simple. Making this music do the AC/DC version of "swing" is no mean feat, and requires playing absolutely nothing that is not integral to the song.
Atop all of this, singer Brian Johnson howls like a man possessed, his thick Scottish brogue tinting every blues yelp that emanates from his throat with an emphatic fiendishness.
After a fairly naughty animated introductory montage, the band launched into "Rock 'n' Roll Train," the opening number from "Black Ice," and the place just plain exploded. Heavy on the hooks, completely fat-free, and deliciously nasty, this tune is already a hard rock classic.
The band's first era - prior to the death by alcohol poisoning of original singer Bon Scott -was celebrated early with the swanky strut of "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be," and then the band started cranking out songs that are rightly considered among the most memorable of the rock era.
"Back In Black" is a sledgehammer to the head, but also lithe and funky; "Thunderstruck," heard often in this same building as a crowd-pumper during Sabres games, was now an onslaught of molten Angus guitar licks and cranium-rattling drum accents; "Shoot To Thrill" moved with menace, like Led Zeppelin if the band had been a troop of punky teenagers.
If Johnson's voice has grown a bit thinner with age, he has adjusted to his sightly reduced capabilities, and still sings with soul and muscle.
AC/DC does not sound like a band facing down senior citizenship.
The show, like the band's music, was bombastic and deliriously over-the-top - explosions, inflatable tattooed women, and enough high voltage amplification to wake the dead, all presented with tongue firmly in cheek and fist raised high.
Hard rock 'n' roll gets no better than this.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Highway To Hell
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: San Jose Mercury News
by Jim Harrington
Review: AC/DC in San Jose
I caught the return engagement of AC/DC's "Black Ice World Tour" on Wednesday night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. I enjoyed it more than my first go-around, which came back in December at Oracle Arena in Oakland, mainly because I'd lowered my expectations.
That doesn't mean that the new songs from last year's "Black Ice" album sounded any better than they did in Oakland - in particular, "War Machine," might be the single worst song AC/DC has ever done, and that's really saying something. Yet, in the moment, the other new songs ("Big Jack," "Anything Goes") gave "War Machine" a run for the title.
Also, Brian Johnson's voice has only grown worse, barely rising above a rasp at times. Now, he wasn't great in Oakland, either, but he was able to challenge the guitars at times and make his presence felt last year.
But it's hard not to enjoy the band's great rhythm section of guitarist Malcolm Young, drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams. And Angus Young, as limited a guitarist as he is, certainly works hard for fans' money.
And there were a ton of fans - a near-full house at HP. Combine that with the business witnessed for Def Leppard at Shoreline (from what I hear, 20,000-plus) and you have a whole mess of classic rock fans enjoying themselves in the South Bay.
I have no problem understanding the continued popularity of AC/DC's classic material, but where I get lost is in trying to figure out how the group keeps right on selling new product. "Black Ice," a work that defines mediocrity, was the second best selling album IN THE WORLD last year. It came in just a notch behind Coldplay's excellent album.
Has there ever been a worse album to rank in at No. 2 on the year-end world sales chart? I'd have a hard time believing it. Care to argue? Well, do your research and then you tell me what the worst No. 2 album of all time is?
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Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Seattle Weekly
by Laura Onstot
AC/DC: Shaking Us All Night Long in the Tacoma Dome
Guitarist Angus Young is halfway through "The Jack", a song Brian Johnson, whose gravel-tossed voice you know so well and whose words you can never understand, introduced as "a song about a dirty, dirty woman."
Young looks like a heaving Gollum. His eyes bulge. His stringy hair (much thinner on top these days) drips sweat onto his shoulders. He lost the trademark hat somewhere between "Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap" and "Thunderstruck". His lips pop open and closed like a fish gasping for air. But somehow, instead of pathetic, the effect is one of total lasciviousness. He curls his lips into a grin and nods at the audience.
For the first and only time tonight, Young gets a break from the guitar solos that have made him and his AC/DC bandmates still capable of selling out an arena as they approach the age of coffee discounts at McDonald's.
"Wooo!" screams the audience as Young sets down the guitar and walks to center stage, a burlesque, ba BUM beat accompanying him. He spins around and flip! Off comes the blazer.
"Wooooooo!" the people reply, clapping and pounding on the seats. Next comes the tie and he lifts his shirt above his midriff (you gotta give him credit, it might not be washboard, but it's toned.)
"WOOOOOO!" the crowd encourages him. He turns around and unbuttons, spinning back to give us a full frontal view of his chest, glistening from sweat. Then he goes for his shorts.
"Uh, wooo?"
Young drops trou to reveal boxers before cinching the shorts back up. The rest stays off, it probably needs to. He's not even half-way through a two-hour set and already his physical appearance suggests a heart attack is imminent. But his playing never suffers.
There are three reasons AC/DC gets to have a 54-year-old guitarist take his clothes off on a runway in the middle of a sold-out arena.
First, they've earned it. Every successful arena band has a song thousands of people will pay top dollar to see them perform live: Metallica has "Unforgiven", Guns 'n Roses rocks "Sweet Child O' Mine", and no one wants to see Bon Jovi without being treated to "Livin' On A Prayer". But with AC/DC, every other song on the set list is "the song you came here to see."
The tour that brought them to the Tacoma Dome last night is technically to promote last year's "Black Ice", the band's first studio album in almost a decade. And they did open with a pounding rendition of the first track "Rock 'n Roll Train", complete with an unsubtle animated sequence where we learn just how phallic that train brake really is. The less well-known "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" followed and the crowd remained largely unstirred.
But AC/DC knows how to place to their audience. Up third, to deafening screams and hands with devil horns thrust into the air, Johnson belted out "Back in Black" along with every other person in the Dome. From there on out, no more than a song or two separated the crowd pleasers; "Dirty Deeds" and "Thunderstruck" came up in short order.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Georgia Straight
by Sarah Rowland
AC/DC's debauchery never sounded so good
You know the expression "how can I miss you if you won't go away"? Well, apparently it doesn't apply to AC/DC fans. They packed B.C. Place on Saturday (August 29) with such diehard enthusiasm, you'd think it had been years since the aging Aussies played in our fair city-when in fact, it was only nine months ago. But as lead singer Brian Johnson said early on in the set, Vancouver is like a "second home" to them. Hmmm... Second home or cash cow? To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to, really. It's all rock 'n' roll excess in the end.
My point being, AC/DC loves us and we love spending money on AC/DC. It seemed like every second person at the show was sporting a set of flashing devil horns. At 15 bucks a pop, those demonic headbands were pure merchandising genius. Mick and Keith would be jealous.
Disappointingly, the much-beloved boogie-rock vets kicked off the set with a ditty from their totally redundant 2008 release, Black Ice . But it wasn't long before they cranked out all those classic party anthems we've come to know and love over the decades. And let me tell you, debauchery never sounded so good.
Other than the awesomely offensive blow-up doll riding an inflatable AC/DC locomotive for "Whole Lotta Rosie", every highlight of the show centered around lead axe man Angus Young. Oh sure, Johnson was trying to give 'er as he marched up and down the long, narrow runway that stretched from the stage to a sound booth in the middle of the floor. But his moves came up short and were at times a little on the farcical side. Then again, it never really was about him anyway.
Meanwhile, the other three hairy-looking hobbits (aka drummer Phil Rudd, guitarist Malcolm Young, and bassist Cliff Williams) basically kept to the business at hand: showcasing their star performer, who was more than up to the challenge.
No one can ever accuse Angus Young of phoning it in. He was on top of his game from beginning to end. I mean, the way that man single-handedly led the "Oi!" chanting in "T.N.T." was a beautiful, beautiful thing. And for "The Jack", he stripped down from his schoolboy uniform and dry-wiped his crotch from front to back with his blazer. Then the balding 54-year-old guitar god proceeded to coquettishly flash his bare tummy and wait for response. Who says rock stars don't age gracefully?
But where Angus really shined was during what must have been the longest guitar solo in history. I thought the man was going to keel over and die. This test of cardio endurance started with the entire band blasting "Let There Be Rock". But eventually, Angus was left to his own devices.
At one point, he was rock-trotting down the runway to the makeshift sound-booth shack. Then he was rising up through the roof of said shack. Then he was back on-stage baiting cheers from the crowd. I mean, it just went on and on. I honestly didn't think the old coot had it in him. It was impressive, to say the least. And thanks to him, I'm sure everyone in attendance felt they got their money's worth%u2026again.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Edmonton Sun
by Mike Ross
Take that, Satan!
How delightful to encounter an AC/DC virgin posing the innocent question, "What's with all the devil horns?"
Glad you asked, Virginia. The rock band known as AC/DC has one or two songs dealing with the devil, or hell, or things that are "black," or a combination thereof. Some of the 60,000 fans who turned up at Commonwealth Stadium last night sported the promotional flashing devil horns as a homage to what they consider the world's greatest rock band, not as a way to glorify the devil, but to mock him and rob him of power, and then give all that power to AC/DC.
So it is with all good hard rock music, Virginia. Rock on.
The band has a new album -- Black Ice -- and who cares? It sounded the same as all their other stuff, basic three chord rock, which when not on the subject of hell and/or the devil, is mainly about having sex or general "rocking," or both.
No one can write a rock song about rocking better than these guys. Add them up as they were heard last night: Rock N' Roll Train (a new one) to open, Let There Be Rock, For Those About to Rock, the list goes on and on.
For 36 years these guys have been plowing their own path, blithely rocking away on those same three chords and universal subject matter, heedless of passing musical trends. When disco hit, what were they doing? Highway to Hell. The grunge revolution? It was news to them. They gave us Thunderstruck. And now that some of that meaty back-to-basics rock is coming back, full circle, as it were, AC/DC remains the same. In fact, the older they get, the more convincing they are -- especially singer Brian Johnson, who sounded like a pirate as he praised the good people of Edmonton: "Arr, avast, ye mateys, hard to starboard!"
No, he didn't say that. He said they were here to "do some rock 'n' roll tonight." Good to know. AC/DC are kings of stating the obvious and not looking silly. He said the massive response from the delirious, damp fans "make us feel proud." He said he can "smell the rock 'n' roll in the air!" It smells like marijuana, by the way.
Nothing can stop AC/DC. A thunderstorm blew through the area, with lightning sighted just as they took the stage. And heavy rain arrived an hour into the show. This was no problem for the road warriors. One of the giant inflatable devil-horn hats that sat on top of the stage became flaccid. No matter. It was removed and the show went on. Most of what the fans came to hear was delivered, and then some.
The special effects were impressive. The opening, with that new song about the train, was accompanied by what appeared to be an actual train crashing through the back of the stage. Guitarist Angus Young is his own special effect, of course, in his own zone, spazzing out, vibrating and drenched in sweat as he uncorked one blistering solo after another. Blistering solos are, of course, always uncorked. It's not safe to keep them all bottled up. And when in doubt, do a slow one -- The Jack, as in "she's got the jack," in this case -- for the traditional striptease. This was still a big crowd-pleaser from the 54-year-old guitarist. Point for Johnson's running leap for the rope on the giant bell in -- you guessed it -- Hells Bells.
But the best special effect of all was the crowd itself, seething, cheering, chanting, screaming at every opportunity -- many while wearing those promotional flashing devil horns on their heads. It was quite a spectacle. Take that, Satan!
The question: What would be the perfect band to open for AC/DC? If you said, "Airbourne," which is the new AC/DC, you'd be close. The answer is the Answer, which is the new Led Zeppelin.
Credit the Answer's singer Cormac Neeson for his impressive Robert Plant howl over sturdy, three-chord rockers with titles like Keep Believin', Never Too Late and other hearty motivational oatmeal. Start your day with it! It's good for you. The Irish foursome specializes in the sort of hard-rocking blues Zeppelin did during its early days --even featuring a bit of the old mouth harp from Neeson --and it went over just fine with thousands of die-hard AC/DC fans. And let's face it, AC/DC is a hard-rocking blues band. Always has been. Always will be. The relatively recent success of the Answer is proof, if any more is needed, that this sort of thing never goes out of style.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Regina Leader Post
by Erin Harde
The sinners from Down Under show Regina's Mosaic Stadium that they are still red hot and horny as hell!
Saskatchewan sinners and saints gathered by the tens of thousands Monday night in Regina to pass judgment one of the world's biggest rock bands. The verdict? After 35 years in business, AC/DC, the devils from Down Under, are still red hot.
And still horny to boot.
When it comes to the holy trinity of music, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, the libidinous quintet have the first and last easily covered off. The crowd accounted for the second throughout the show. Now in their 50s and 60s, Malcolm Young, Angus Young, Brian Johnson, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd showed that despite the deep creases in their faces, and thinning hair, they remain as perky as schoolboys, as evidenced by Angus's classic boys school uniform, much pelvic thrusting by Johnson and even a striptease by Angus, who turns out to be a boxers man.
The naked babes first showed up in the opening animated montage, mimicking dirty deeds with various train equipment, and springing a cartoon band into action, and the group onto stage with a full sized train engine.
Before "The Jack" from 1975's T.N.T., Johnson, wearing his usual grey cap, black tank and jeans, told the crowd it was a song "about a dirty, dirty woman," and clearly the cameras hoped to find some in the crowd panning the women in the front sections. It must have been a chilly night because no shirts were raised in response.
If AC/DC hadn't already proved *** rock is still in fine form, the world's biggest blow up doll solidified that fact on "Whole Lotta Rosie." Thankfully, the train-straddling, top heavy giant balloon woman with the exaggerated T & A didn't come out during "T.N.T." or they're might have been an unexpected explosion beyond the band's own fire power and the fireworks they concluded with on the closer "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)."
The crowd saluted the band right back. Glittering with glow devil horns, the audience showed sheer devotion as the band melted faces with "Shoot To Thrill," "Back In Black," and the more than 10-minute epic "Let There Be Rock." Johnson snarled his way through every song, only coming off the rails slightly on "Thunderstruck," but Angus always kept the show on track cutting a groove in the stage from crossing is so many times over. The group lost some of their momentum with "Black Ice" from their newest album of the same name, but quickly recovered to continue to shred through more classics.
What the band didn't do is take any risks, playing each and every song exactly as it sounds on record, and not deviating from the set list they've used the entire tour. In their case, it was a smart move because had they detoured from the sounds millions have come to worship, there would have been hell to pay.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Winnipeg Free Press
by Rob Williams
AC/DC rocked and we saluted them
Talk about high voltage.
Australian rock legends AC/DC brought their Black Ice World Tour to Winnipeg Saturday, electrifying a crowd of 46,000 -- a wide-ranging demographic ranging from young children to seniors -- who packed the Canad Inns stadium for the concert event of the summer to see the icons during the band's first visit since 2001, and the first large-scale stadium show since the Rolling Stones played the Blue Bombers' home turf in 1997.
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The anticipation ran high in the hours leading up to the event. Prior to show, many West End residents were partying in their backyards, and earlier in the day some people in the area were cheering for the sound check.
Noise pollution? Anything but.
Sure, they get played to death on the radio and maybe you've heard You Shook Me All Night Long at least 20,000 times, but the live AC/DC experience is something not to be missed. You cannot be a rock SSRqn' roll fan and not like AC/DC; they are one of the greatest rock bands of all time and Saturday's show proved it.
They've been pulling out the same live tricks for more than two decades -- vocalist Brian Johnson swinging on a giant bell for Hell's Bells, a huge inflatable doll for Whole Lotta Rosie, cannon blasts during For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) -- but somehow the shtick never gets old, much like the band's music, a timeless mix of blues, power chords, melodic riffs, cock-rock swagger and lyrics filled with double entendres. It's a formula they haven't changed in more than 35 years; if it ain't broke, let there be rock.
The band delivered a great 20-song set, with five songs from their latest album, Black Ice, and nine from the Bon Scott era -- Scott, of course, is the band's original lead singer who died in 1979.
His replacement, Johnson, 61, is still managing to shout out almost two-hours of vocals. His voice has always had a rough, gritty edge that sounded like it could give out at any minute, yet he howled and shrieked like always, and had plenty of help from fans numerous times throughout the night.
Lead guitarist, Angus Young, is the star of the show, though. Dressed in his trademark school-boy uniform and sporting his signature Gibson SG, the 54-year-old was like an eight-year-old after sucking back a bag of sugar while drinking a pot of coffee.
Seriously, this guy hasn't lost a step over the years. He ran around the stage, duck walked and leapt in the air while cranking out three-chord riffs and solos that are so engrained in the brains of AC/DC fans they could sing them note for note.
His rhythm guitar playing brother, Malcolm Young, and bassist Cliff Williams took their customary stationary positions by drummer Phil Rudd, moving up occasionally to sing backup vocals,
"We're going to be rock and rolling tonight. The party starts right here, right now!" Johnson declared after kicking things off with its latest hit single, Rock SSRqN' Roll Train. The crowd was on its feet from the first note and remained standing and roaring for Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be, a classic track from the 1977 album, Let There Be Rock.
From there the band veered between older favourites like Back in Black, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Shot Down in Flames, The Jack and Dog Eat Dog, along with new songs Big Jack, Black Ice, War Machine and Anything Goes. With the exception of the new material and 1990's Thunderstruck, it's like the past 28 years never happened for AC/DC, and that was just fine since it was the hits people wanted, and the hits AC/DC delivered.
The gear/railroad-themed setup was as massive as Angus's riffs, with two devil horn caps topping the speaker and lighting rigs on either side of the stage, which featured a backdrop of a train, two ramps and a catwalk that extended a third of the way down the field to a satellite stage. There were four video screens that unfortunately had a split-second delay, so the visuals didn't always match the action onstage.
They finished the main set with the triple blast of TNT, which had the entire stadium shouting, "Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!," Whole Lotta Rosie and the anthem, Let There Be Rock. How much more could we take? A whole lot, but we had to be satisfied with the encores, a double shot of Highway to Hell and For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) with its booming 21-canon shots that could probably be heard as far as Lockport.
Salute us? No, it's you, AC/DC, we must salute.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: The Grand Rapids Press
by by John Sinkevics | The Grand Rapids Press
AC/DC rocks out the anthems at Van Andel Arena
Love 'em or hate 'em, they're the undisputed masters of the hard-rock intro.
Maniac guitarist/overgrown school boy Angus Young and the rest of AC/DC made sure Tuesday they followed up those classic lead-ins ("Hell's Bells," "Thunderstruck," "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "TNT") with enough rock 'n' roll firepower and real flames nearly to ignite the rafters of Van Andel Arena and send the near-sellout crowd of 11,000-plus into a fist-pumping frenzy.
Even the introduction to the concert's opening salvo -- "Rock 'N' Roll Train," from 2008's "Black Ice" album -- had a classic, arena-rock flavor, from an animated video of a devilish Angus in cartoon form to the snarling AC/DC locomotive unveiled behind the stage spewing smoke and sparks.
"We're here to rock 'n' roll, and the party starts right here," lead singer Brian Johnson declared in what would prove to be a mammoth understatement.
Let's just say this pedal-to-the-metal band from Down Under still delivers its repetitive, pump-up-the-crowd anthems with as much verve as it ever did, even though its members now sport an average age of 57. Actually, that means AC/DC probably ranks as one of the younger classic rock outfits ruling the road these days, so maybe it's Johnson's and Young's duty as rock 'n' role models for the baby boomer generation to traverse the sprawling stage and lengthy runway like well-worn Energizer bunnies.
Then again, it's also obvious Johnson's throat-throttling shrieks don't have the same roar they probably did at the beginning of this year's tour.
I've always wondered how in heck this 61-year-old guy hasn't blown out his vocal cords, and he clearly was struggling at times to make himself heard. Perhaps it was just where I was sitting, but Johnson's voice sounded underpowered or undermixed for much of the evening, especially on "You Shook Me All Night Long" where the lead vocals are crucial.
Still, veteran AC/DC-ites, who may have once preferred original band crooner Bon Scott (who died in 1980), have long ago adapted to Johnson's delivery, and they certainly appreciated his endearing practice of shaking hands and high-fiving folks flanking the runway that extended halfway into the arena floor.
Anyway, while brother/rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd provided the necessary rhythmic thunder while staying out of the spotlight, it was the wild, duck-walking Angus who really stole the show, delivering the usual bone-crunching riffs and fret-blurring solos while proudly showing off his pale and knobby knees, not to mention his chest (after doffing his school-uniform jacket, shirt and tie on "The Jack").
In fact, I'd nominate the guitar solo on "Let There Be Rock," which closed the main set, as the longest in rock concert history, with Angus tearing it up on an elevated stage at the end of the runway at one point and later atop a platform above Rudd with a huge video screen behind him.
Naturally, the crowd ate it all up (even the lengthy opening set by northern Irish rockers The Answer, led by singer Cormac Neeson, who's sort of a cross between Chris Robinson, Axl Rose and Robert Plant).
Because while the members of AC/DC could never be accused of producing thought-provoking lyrics or anything even remotely construed as politically correct, they stoke up the party train for their adoring fans with three songs about hell ("Hell's Bells," "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be," "Highway to Hell"), three songs about rock itself ("Rock 'N Roll Train," "Let There Be Rock," "For Those About to Rock"), two songs about their favorite color ("Back in Black," "Black Ice") and several tunes about "dirty deeds" that I really can't discuss in a family newspaper.
Lyrics aside, AC/DC's live shows are mostly about marveling at the ear-splitting spectacle the band has churned out for more than 30 years.
On Tuesday, that entertaining spectacle came in the form of a giant bell which had Johnson swinging from its rope on "Hell's Bells," dozens of fireballs unleashed on "TNT," confetti cannons on "Let There Be Rock" and a gargantuan inflatable woman straddling the AC/DC train engine on "Whole Lotta Rosie."
But the band may have saved the best for last with the never-fails-to-please, encore-ending rendition of "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)," with those signature blasts from six cannons pointed toward the crowd and one final blistering rock riff from Angus.
For a band that's perfected the art of the rock intro, it was a fitting, over-the-top and impressive ending, too.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
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Review: Chicago Tribune
by Bob Gendron
Review: AC/DC at Chicago's United Center
AC/DC's performance Friday at a near-capacity United Center didn't significantly deviate from its successful two-night stand last fall at Allstate Arena. Then again, there's little reason to tweak time-honored consistency and tradition.
Sounding stronger and tougher than during last year's tour-beginning run, the hard-rock legends delivered iconic anthems, newer songs and customary antics with an indefatigable energy that outpaced most artists half their age. Along the way, the Australian band played with an innate sense of groove and precision that remains unrivaled.
"Yes we're back!" declared frontman Brian Johnson while singing "Back in Black," emphasizing his insertion of the collective "we" into the narrative as he sauntered around like a jovial blue-collar stiff on holiday, his bare arms glistening with sweat. Akin to AC/DC's founding members Malcolm and Angus Young, Johnson holds himself to lofty standards. And even though he no longer reaches every high note and occasionally skates by with the crowd's help, the 61-year-old managed to muster the requisite vocal grit.
Still, concerns regarding age and endurance persist. Rumors about whether this represents AC/DC's final trek -- the quintet took a lengthy hiatus after its previous jaunt and won't embarrass itself with subpar showings -- lent gravitas to an otherwise carefree 120-minute set that the group approached with genuine enthusiasm. Jolting riffs and trademark theatrics flourished.
Whether the sights involved Johnson swinging from an enormous bell, manic lead guitarist Angus Young spinning on his back or a multistory blowup doll straddling a smoking locomotive, AC/DC refused to pause. However entertaining, such visual props and bawdy elements were secondary to the music. The band's bass-enriched thump, piston-engine drive and bluesy shake functioned as a clinic in the art of rhythm. Averse to fills, drummer Phil Rudd laid simple, firm foundations with steady backbeats. His inconspicuous presence matched that of bassist Cliff Williams, who stepped out only when refrains needed a gruff vocal growl.
Foreshadowing Angus Young's humorous striptease, "The Jack" tantalized as it swaggered, the tune's unremitting purr evoking an idling Harley-Davidson. By contrast, "Dog Eat Dog" howled, and finger-tapped notes rendered choruses obsolete on "Thunderstruck." Not that AC/DC lacked for roof-raising crescendos. "Let There Be Rock" distilled rock's fundamental components into a romp whose basic lyrical sentiment served as an apt summation of the band's purpose.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Ottawa Citizen
by Lynn Saxberg
Fans happy as AC/DC rocks The Bank
Sold-out crowd delighted with legendary band
Rock legends AC/DC played in Ottawa Monday night, delivering a show that stood apart from all the others on their summer jaunt through Canada. The music was the same, naturally, and the show was expected to follow the same setlist, starting with Rock N' Roll Train and concluding with For Those About To Rock (We Salute You), and they used most of the same props, including a giant train and a hail of confetti.
So what was the big difference? Ahh, the cool breeze of air-conditioning. Every other date on the Canadian tour takes place in a massive, open-air venue where 50,000-plus fans are at the mercy of the elements. But Monday night, the AC was cranked for DC, and it was a welcome relief on a steamy summer night for a reported 17,600 fans streaming into Scotiabank Place.
The show had been sold out for months, and folks couldn't wait to start celebrating. They showed up early and spent the afternoon hosting tailgate parties in the sun-drenched parking lot. By the time they got through the gate, hours later, they were glistening with sweat.
Australia's most potent export started about 30 minutes late, but it took three songs to blast away the artificial chill. The opener, Rock N' Roll Train, one of the songs from last year's hit album, Black Ice, was a mighty example of the power the band continues to wield. At least three generations of fans were represented; entire families were outfitted in $40 T-shirts and $15 sets of blinking devil horns.
The sound was thunderously loud but balanced as the band progressed through Hell Ain't a Bad Place To Be and the crowd-pleasing anthem Back In Black, which drew a delirious response from the packed house. "I believe rock 'n' roll lives in this house," declared singer Brian Johnson, appearing bulky but fit in a vest that showed off his biceps.
The eldest of the band members, Johnson sang with his trademark intensity, the sharp edge of his voice straining to bust his vocal chords.
Beside him, the band's creative genius, Angus Young, looked every bit the naughty schoolboy in his short pants, jacket and jaunty cap over curly hair. He snarled and paced as he played, tossing off his monumental riffs with nonchalance.
Young, who's 54, demonstrated his cheeky sense of humour with a semi-serious striptease to the bluesy swagger of The Jack. Doffing his jacket, tie, shirt and hat, he pulled his shorts down, revealing a pair of AC/DC boxers instead of his bare bum.
Johnson and Young worked the crowd with an abundance of good-natured energy while the rest of the band -- guitarist Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd -- formed a solid wall of sound from the background. They were tight and well-rehearsed, but managed to keep it sounding fresh. The band threw in a handful of new songs, including Big Jack, War Machine and Anything Goes, which basically followed the AC/DC hit-making formula, but they seemed weak in comparison to the hits of the late '70s and early '80s.
For most fans, the real headbanging buzz came with the likes of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Thunderstruck, Hells Bells, You Shook Me All Night Long and For Those About To Rock (We Salute You). Those were the songs everyone wanted to hear, and the response was deafening. In the end, it was a terrific concert.
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Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Montreal Gazette
by Mark Lepage
Hell's Decibels: AC/DC for 53,000
Attention hard rock venues, bike shops, tattoo parlours, strip bars, Parthenais%u2026 last night's regular clientele had moved to the Big O, the place to be on a Montreal Saturday if you thought the city had run out of aging Harley cowboys in more leather than August warrants.
But that was a small part of this large story.
For one night, every part of this - the howling beer-drinkers on every street corner in the East End, the police looking the other way, the zillions of souvenir t-shirts, the Stade itself, cavernous tribute to DDR concrete glory - made you check your calendar. Especially the attendance. 53,000.
Nobody sells 53,000 tickets in 2009. Certainly, nobody does it without being able to pull out three full generations of fans whose DNA is tattooed with the band catalogue. Did it matter that the first album in eight years, Black Ice, acknowledged a reality beyond babes, booze and balls? Or a different kind of ballistics: the arena-armageddon vibe of War Machine offers at least a nod to a tough decade of realities.
More likely, it was just the credibility of the riffs, and the resulting sales figures - in these lean years when every other act can barely move the units in week one, AC/DC turned up in 2008 with album #15 and hit #1 everywhere it mattered. Add that to the 200 million sold in the worldwide career. If it were in doubt, AC/DC is officially on the short list of rock bands that are bigger than the game.
And so while the sane and the hale were outside enjoying a bike ride or picnic in the lovely August dusk, opening act The Answer (apparently The Question: got any bands sound like AC/DC?) was blasting away at thousands of pairs of blinking red souvenir devil-horns in the Dantean dark of our former ballpark. Sinners waiting for the perfect hard rock formula to ignite the lizard brain of primitivist pleasure.
As the 200-foot catwalk lit up, the bombs went off, and Rock 'N Roll Train exploded on three videoscreens at Attilan volume, you wondered how many bands actually even have access to this much weaponry anymore. And they were into Back in Black three songs in.
Did we mention Back in Black is at 45 million albums worldwide? Here's the gag: despite the Hell's Decibels and the cannon fire, AC/DC isn't about excess, but minimalism. Proletarian sympathies, 36-24-36, and primal riffs they would recognize the next galaxy over.
Even the branding%u2026 Can't think of another band whose iconography is so happily focused on one member. From t-shirts to the gigantic illuminated red devil-horn caps on either side of the stage emblazoned with A, this is a one-man image, and Angus Young remains the sweating schoolboy soldier of the black SG solo.
There were retro moments: the cameramen finding bad girls in The Jack; Young still doing the striptease. And there were some possible concessions to aging. At 54, Young's knees appear to bend backwards after decades of duckwalks. Brian Johnson's voice hasn't lost its cartoon shriek-cackle, but he did blow off some "whew"s between songs. No matter. They weren't simply saving the economy. In newer, credible songs (Big Jack, Black Ice, and even pop in Anything Goes), ancient nastiness (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, TNT, Whole Lotta Rosie), and the eternals (Thunderstruck, Hell's Bells. Shook Me All Night Long - now that was a moment), they were saving your Saturday night from good behaviour
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Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Times and Transcript
by Brent Mazerole
70,000! AC/DC thrills Moncton crowd
Fans, bands and beer gardens joined forces for a show to remember
If you can, you apparently weren't at the AC/DC concert last night and live well outside the decibel blast radius, so here's a bit of what you missed.
First of all, since you escaped the full force of the rock 'n' roll -- which so ain't noise pollution you understand -- you must live well outside Metro Moncton (whether the cows out in Irishtown will be too upset to give milk this morning is anyone's guess).
Therefore, let's start by saying the concert in question was part two of this year's Magnetic Hill Music Festival and featured a triple-A attack -- Anvil, The Answer and AC/DC -- on the lazy days of summer.
It was held at the City of Moncton's Magnetic Hill Concert Site and was produced by Donald K Donald Events and AEG Live as the largest show on AC/DC's North American Black Ice tour.
Those are the basic facts. Now the frenzy.
Canada's biggest concert, loud music, massive hits, hot sun and enough cold beer to fill a large backyard swimming pool created one of the greatest parties in Maritime history.
Throw in the sex appeal of the bikini beauties and buff boys and whether it was AC or DC, there's no denying there was electricity in the air.
A fair bit of, ahem, herbal material too, of seemingly several different varieties, but that's another story.
"Man, you can smell the rock 'n' roll from here," AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson said.
"Keep it coming."
Everywhere you looked, it was backs in black (and fronts, too). This T-shirted army, covered in AC/DC logos, was a heady mix of freshly de-tagged concert 'merch' and beloved relics preserved from the band's mid-1970s origins, the days of original lead singer the late Bon Scott and, well, of having to get up to flip the 'LP' on the 'record player.'
From LP and 8-track to CD and mp3, AC/DC's been in it for the long haul and so have the band's fans who, paradoxically enough, paid tribute to rock 'n' roll rebellion by pretty much all wearing the same uniform.
As the sun dipped below Lutes Mountain about 9 p.m. and the thousands surged forward to get closer to AC/DC taking the stage, the herd walking down the hill in their black clothes looked like a second twilight descending.
It wasn't just newspaper reporters having fun with AC/DC puns yesterday.
Mike Creagh of Cole Harbour, N.S., in his black T-shirt and jeans, told a Times & Transcript reporter he had last been at a Magnetic Hill concert when the Rolling Stones played in 2005.
"I'm back in black," he said. "It's been too long; I'm glad to be back."
As for the band itself, AC/DC may use a pile of pyrotechnics and a gaggle of gags, but they're not exactly the sort of band that does costume changes.
Except for Angus Young of course, who donned his trademark devil schoolboy outfit for the show. If you were thinking a 54-year-old man wearing a schoolboy outfit was somehow not both amusing and more than a bit creepy, if the man is Angus Young you'd be wrong.
Mind you, that's pretty likely what Angus is going for.
It got a bit crazier when he stripped down to his AC/DC boxers. First, he drew thousands of murmurs of female approval throughout the crowd of 70,000; a mass of surprise that he was still so fit and trim.
Then, he inspired an exceptionally beautiful young woman, blessed with the uncommon confidence born of uncommon beauty and perched atop some lucky boy's shoulders, to do a little striptease of her own.
Soon there were shoulder bunnies everywhere, baring much more than shoulders and having the once in a lifetime experience of seeing themselves on the stage's giant video screens.
Pretty girls weren't the only ones atop shoulders. One boy was perched on his dads's shoulders during the topless Angus tribute and seemed to have trouble undoing his smile.
Last night, in the north of Moncton, a boy became a man.
Or maybe it was that the wall of sound had blown the boys's mouth open, as the very air and earth shook all the way up the hillside. Anybody who had set their phones to vibrate found themselves constantly checking them.
When a member of the concert's production staff brought members of the media to the side of the stage to get some photos from the band's opening numbers, he warned them it would be so loud their bodies would shake.
Beer sales were certainly shaking.
Moosehead Brewery president Andrew Oland said at the concert last night the brewery had 240,000 cans of beer on site and six hours to serve them, meaning the beer vendors would serve an average of 11 beers per second during the 21,600 seconds between the gates opening and the beer garden closing when the headliners took the stage.
The distribution was centred on the beer kiosks of course, but for the first time at a Magnetic Hill concert it was supplemented by a whole whack of United Way volunteers like Nancy Lewis and her aunt Tracey Farrell, who were among those floating 60 coolers of beer around the beer garden in two-person teams, accepting both beer tickets and cash.
The added convenience was part of the key to selling 18,000 gallons (68,200 litres) of beer, enough to fill a swimming pool 30 feet long by 25 feet wide by 3 feet deep. At a concert retail price of $7 each, beer sales alone could have approached the $1.7 million mark had all 240,000 sold.
Moosehead's president said the weather was certainly a factor in strong sales, but the brewery had been sure to have more on site than would probably be needed.
"But look at the people still coming in," he said, gesturing to a massive line streaming in from the gates at 8 p.m.
While that ever-swelling crowd would mean ever more swilling, it seemed likely a lot of fans who came late just to catch AC/DC would find themselves left thirsty, as beer (and food) concessions routinely shut down when the headliners take the stage.
The massive crowds of notoriously last-minute Monctonians were still clogging the entrance gate even as AC/DC took the stage.
On the bright side, thousands of people seem to have at the last minute decided to join in the fun. On the downside, the congestion people had been warned about for months likely made a lot of people miss some of the headliners' set.
Enough about beer intake.
Now a look at the outflow.
With a pair of permanent bathroom structures now on-site and 684 portable toilets -- two-dozen more than there were for the Rolling Stones -- the line-ups were more manageable than they have been at other events. And that didn't include two partitioned off banks of urinals that piped the ex-beer directly into waiting tanker trucks.
The portable urinals, complete with more hand sanitizer stations than had ever been seen before on the site, made their debut last night, though the crowd was slow to realize the option was available to men.
Ready John Environmental Services of Saint John was in charge of the whole works, with general manager Paul Naida and his "Poo Crew" (best to have a sense of humour in their line of work) trying to keep ahead of the human tide.
They had high hopes the urinals would be a boon to women too, freeing up the private sit-down potties for them.
"We want to alleviate the line-ups and the number of men who just urinated against fences at other events," Paul said.
In addition to the Poo Crew hats, Paul's gang also wore specially made AC/DC 2009 shirts that read, "for those about to poo, we salute you."
Early in the day, Marissa McKie of Sackville, Nova Scotia emerged triumphant from the potty maze, calling out to her friends, "I got a fresh one! I got a fresh one!"
"I was the first one to use that one," she explained, delighted to have christened the outhouse. "It doesn't get any better than that."
If you've never been to a music festival, you have no idea just how big a deal that is.
"And it even had a sink," said Marissa, who was attending her fourth big show of the year, having "warmed up" for AC/DC with Bon Jovi, McCartney and KISS.
Indeed, some of the potties had sinks with running water and soap, a great hygiene advance provided you were willing to stay inside the hot and fragrant little booths long enough.
When all was sung and done and 70,000 music fans were headed for home, some were already looking forward to what might be in store for next year, dreaming of Springsteen or U2 mostly.
Who next year's acts might be is still anyone's guess, including the promoters, but with another huge success on the Magnetic Hill Concert Site's scorecard, it seems certain there will be someone big playing to big crowds.
Maybe by then our ears will have stopped bleeding.
And then, somewhere down the road many years from now, you'll be telling people you were there, even if you weren't.
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Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Times Union
by Michael Eck
AC/DC returns to Albany in triumph
Thirty years ago, Australian rockers AC/DC made their Albany debut at the Palace Theatre. It was June 1979, and they were the opening act for British metal pioneers UFO.
At that time, AC/DC was a popular act at home in the outback, but just knocking on the door in America. At this point in time, UFO who?
Sunday night, AC/DC returned to the region for a triumphant show at the Times Union Center. The concert, part of a world tour supporting the band's "Black Ice" album, made good on all the things that make AC/DC good.
It doesn't take long to list those things: loud guitars, loud drums, sexy songs and loud guitars. Oh, and loud guitars.
The latter were provided, as always, by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young.
Malcolm stands stock still beside drummer Phil Rudd, just across the riser from bassist Cliff Williams. Malcolm only moves on occasion, and then only to quickly march forward or backward to sing backing vocals with Williams.
Angus explodes.
At 54, and still dressed as a naughty schoolboy, Angus Young is a fireball of rock and roll energy.
Part of the beauty of AC/DC is that its shtick has never changed. Young struts around the stage tearing one simple blues-based lick after another out of his Gibson guitar, all the while egging the audience on with various gimme moves that work every time.
It works because it's good, and -- and this is important -- because the band has the songs to back it up.
Tunes like "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be," "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and "T.N.T" may be sophomoric, but dang, they're irresistible.
Vocalist Brian Johnson also moves, and in the rare instances that Angus isn't hamming it up, he owns the place. His voice is something like shrapnel and bourbon, but it's the perfect sound for genteel love songs like "You Shook Me All Night Long," "The Jack" and "Whole Lotta Rosie."
Sunday at the Times Union Center, the band members were firing on all cylinders, but they even seemed to surprise themselves with the sheer bravado of "Shot Down in Flames" and "Shoot to Thrill." You might have bottled those two performances and put them in a museum with a label on the outside stating, "THIS is rock and roll."
Young stretched out the end of the show's final song, "Let There Be Rock," to ridiculous length, soloing from the catwalk; from a round riser in the center of the arena; and from the back of the stage. He turned the entire effort into a call and response with the audience, in which he offered a lick and they offered adoration.
A one-two punch of encores -- "Highway To Hell" and "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)" -- left all fans with ringing ears and smiling faces.
Irish hard rockers The Answer opened with a welcome set of '70s styled boogie that recalled Humble Pie and a less randy Silverhead. The highlight of its portion of the evening was a slide-guitar-driven run through Son House's "Preachin' Blues."
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Boston Herald
by Jim Sullivan
AC/DC still hell on wheels
The animated locomotive, No. 666, roared into Gillette Stadium last night, on the huge screen center-stage. Its pilot was a cartoon version of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young, boasting devil horns and a malicious grin. Also aboard: Hot chicks. Soon, amidst the noise and clatter, the train careened and derailed, pyrotechnics exploded on stage, and a replica of that train emerged, smoking, parked just behind drummer Phil Rudd. And AC/DC was playing "Rock 'n' Roll Train," a full-tilt chugging rocker.
We were off to the races and on the highway to hell. AC/DC likes the notion of hell. Consider what they played before 46,500-plus think hell is a destination location. There was "Hell Ain't a Bad Place," "Hells Bells" and an encore of "Highway to Hell." And hell, really, is just a rock 'n 'roll metaphor meaning "live for today."
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson wrote the immortal words,- "You're never too old to rock 'n' roll if you're too young to die," in 1976. That came one year after Aussie upstarts released its debut album "High Voltage."
More than three decades along that way to the top, they are words AC/DC lives by (not that they'd care to sing them.) They are to hard rock 'n' boogie what the Ramones were to punk rock. They discovered their strengths early, stuck to 'em through everything and they remain a staple in a world of constant change. Even when Englishman Brian Johnson replaced the late Bon Scott in 1980 on vocals, the machine re-tooled and kept churning.
Angus Young, who always dresses as a schoolboy in disgrace, drops his short pants and shows off his backside, did it again at Foxboro. But this time - in a nod to maturity - he showed not his bare bum, but a pair of AC/DC skivvies during "The Jack."
There were plenty of sing-along crowd-pleasers: "You Shook Me All Night Long," "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and "Back in Black," to name but three. The regular set closed with Angus on his naked back, spinning around on stage, playing the final licks to "Let There Be Rock."
AC/DC closed with "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)," which featured at least a dozen canon explosions and, after the song concluded, a fireworks display.
AC/DC remains about as subtle as a flying mallet. And no worse the wear for flying the flag they know so proudly.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Punchestown Racetrack Dublin, Ireland Jun 28, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Wembley Stadium London, United Kingdom Jun 26, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock [Wembley 26 June 2009]
For Those About to Rock at Wembley stadium on Friday the 26th of June! Awesome performance, and as Ive seen them up close at the O2 I had the chance to shoot some vids this time \m/ AC/DC were simply amazing, I truly wish Ill have that much energy in my 60s! We salute YOU AC/DC, for still kickin our arses all these years!!
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Amsterdam Arena Amsterdam, Netherlands Jun 23, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: RTL
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Ullevi Stadion Gothenburg, Sweden Jun 21, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
by
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Parken Copenhagen, Denmark Jun 19, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
by
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Olympic Stadium Helsinki, Finland Jun 17, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Vallehovin Stadium Oslo, Norway Jun 15, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
by
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC "The Jack" Stade de France vendredi 12 Juin 2009
Avec le strip tease d'Angus :-) Lien pour voir la vidéo de "Let There Be Rock" ( trop longue pour Youtube ) : http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=59330419
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Stade de France Paris, France Jun 12, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
by
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Stade Velodrome Marseille, France Jun 9, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Olympic Stadium Barcelona, Spain Jun 7, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: La Vanguardia
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Estadio Vicente Calderon Madrid, Spain Jun 5, 2009
Find Tickets ... All Shows
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Estadio Jose Alvalade Lisbon, Portugal Jun 3, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review OAKA Stadium Athens, Greece May 28, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Partizan Stadion, Belgrade, Serbia May 26, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Balkan Insight
by
AC/DC Rocked Belgrade on 'Black Ice Tour'
AC/DC, the legendary Australian rock and roll and heavy metal band, rocked Belgrade Tuesday evening at the Partizan stadium, playing to what organisers estimated were 45,000 fans.
The concert, which was touted as the spectacle of the year, lived up to expectations. With a spectacular stage set up 21 meters deep and 75 meters high, in the northern part of the stadium, fans had great access and views to their rock idols.
The band started with a locomotive pulling up on stage, followed by more intense visual and sound affects, and ended the concert with cannon fire.
The concert lasted a little over two hours after getting a late start, playing some new songs from their "Black Ice" album. But most songs were from their greatest hits.
"One of the best rock concerts I've ever seen in Belgrade," said an excited spectator, Masa Jovanovic. She added the music and sound system ''blew her mind''.
The Black Ice tour has been based on a revival of interest in the band. Their new 15-track album is the band's first studio release since 2000. The 18 month 'Black Ice World Tour' started in the US in late 2008 and has been touring Europe since early 2009.
According to Bulgarian news reports, even the mayor of the Bulgarian coastal town of Kavarna, Tsonko Tsonev, made the trip out to Belgrade to see the show. Thousands of fans were gathered at Sofia's Central Train station to make the journey for the concert.
After raising the voltage in Belgrade, members of the band are scheduled to leave Serbia today.
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Ernst Happel Stadium Vienna, Austria May 24, 2009
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Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Die Presse
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Hockenheim Circuit Hockenheim, Germany May 22, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Energie Stadion Cologne, Germany May 19, 2009
Find Tickets ... All Shows
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Veltins Arena Gelsenkirchen, Germany May 17, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Olympic Stadium Munich, Germany May 15, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review:
by
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Rock n Roll Train (live) Front Of Stage GOOD QUALITY: Munich Olympiastadion 15.5.2009
hi (München) here is the first song of AC/DC last tour: Black Ice Tour. i think it´s a really good quality and you can see AC/DC so good, cuase we had FRONT OF STAGE tickets. second row, PERFECT VIEW. btw, it was an Open Air concert: Olympiastadion München (Munich) 3. Song: Big Jack (live; GOOD QUALITY): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7A3WSULAkU 5. song: dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (live; GOOD QUALITY): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkyg1M7mO68 16. song: TNT (live;GOOD QUALITY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_PaRNJJSs 17. song: Whole lotta Rosie (live;GOOD QUALITY): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrRflenk3k4 ANGUS SOLO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-BtG8PCOwo lyrics: One hot angel One cool devil Your mind on the fantasy Livin on the ecstasy Give it all, give it, Give it what you got Come on give it all a lot Pick it up move it Give it to the spot Your mind on fantasy Livin on ecstasy Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Yeah the Runaway Train (Running right off the track) One hot ringin' bell Old school rebel A ten for the revelry Diamond of the agency Shake it, Shake it Take it to the spot You know she make it really hot Get it on, get it up Come on give it all you got Your mind on fantasy Livin on the ecstasy Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Yeah the Runaway Train yeah (Running right off the track) On the Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Runaway Train (Running right off the track) (Angus Guitar Solo) One hot southern belle Son of a devil A school boy spelling bee A school girl with a fantasy One hot ringin' bell Old school rebel A ten for the revelry Diamond of the agency Shake it, Shake it Take it to the spot You know She make it really hot Yeah Get it on, get it up Come on give it what you got You know she's just like a Runaway Train (Running right off the track) She's coming off the track Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Get it on, get it up Come on give it all you got Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Runaway Train (Running right off the track) Auszeichnungen für dieses Video #79 - Heiß diskutiert (16.5.09) #28 - Heiß diskutiert (16.5.09) - Musik #97 - Meiste Antworten (16.5.09) #19 - Meiste Antworten (16.5.09) - Musik #46 - Meistgesehen (16.5.09) #17 - Meistgesehen (16.5.09) - Musik #33 - Top-Favoriten (16.5.09) #8 - Top-Favoriten (16.5.09) - Musik #21 - Beste Bewertung (16.5.09) - Musik #45 - Heiß diskutiert (diese Woche) - Musik #67 - Meiste Antworten (heute) - Musik #79 - Meiste Antworten (diese Woche) #19 - Meiste Antworten (diese Woche) - Musik #80 - Meiste Antworten (diesen Monat) - Musik #53 - Meistgesehen (diese Woche) - Musik #78 - Top-Favoriten (diese Woche) #36 - Top-Favoriten (diese Woche) - Musik Don´t forget to rate! by StrenghsGirl
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Zentralstadion Leipzig, Germany May 13, 2009
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: to follow
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
U2 Tickets 2009
U2 Tickets North America 2009
AC/DC Merchandise 2009
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review NEC Birmingham, UK April 23, 2009
Find Tickets ... All Shows
AC/DC Tickets UK & Europe 2009
Tickets Available for All Shows
AC/DC Tickets North America
Detailed Coverage of Past Shows & Videos at:
AC/DC Tour Blog 2008-2009
Click Here for Europe & UK Tickets 2009
Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: In the News
by Richard Chamberlain
AC/DC, Birmingham LG Arena, April 23rd
There is one question on everyone's lips as a capacity crowd files into the LG Arena to see AC/DC continue their Black Ice worldwide tour, can they still cut it?
Surely it will be a bit too much to ask for Angus to still pull off his schoolboy routine now that he is well into his 50s, wont it?
Any such concerns are put to bed within minutes of the boys taking to the stage.
DC bound out after an opening cartoon of the band riding a rock 'n roll train, which starts off as suggestive end-of-the-pier stuff and quickly deteriorates into downright filth. As it thunders to its climax the train bursts through the front of the stage and the oldest rockers in town launch into, of course, Rock and Roll Train.
From that moment the Birmingham audience are in the palm of the band's hand, and they stay there for the next two hours.
Frontman Brian Johnson, now almost old enough to collect his bus pass, defies his years with a performance full of energy, and most importantly one that sees him hit every note in DC's back catalogue.
Johnson has always sounded like he gargles with paintstripper and brushes his teeth with a stick of dynamite, and tonight is no different as he shrieks through oldies - Back in Black and Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be being early highlights - and material from last year's Black Ice album.
Meanwhile, diminutive lead guitarist Angus Young charges around in the same manner, and the same school uniform by the looks of it, that he has for the past 30 years. He prowls the stage pulling off all manner of tricks without missing a single note.
As Johnson and Angus grab the attention, the Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd rhythm trio pound away at the back of the stage in a typically understated, yet immensely powerful, fashion.
This power is felt in full force as the band kick into Thunderstruck, the single representative from the 1983 to 2007 period. Ignoring many of their less well-received albums from this fairly barren spell DC launch into a setlist packed with classics.
The likes of TNT, You Shook Me All Night Long and Whole Lotta Rosie hit the mark, with the latter seeing a giant inflatable Rosie seemingly fill half of the venue, and just about engulf poor old Rudd at the back of the stage.
A rousing Let There Be Rock rounds things off with Angus milking every ounce of applause, before the boys burst back with Highway to Hell and For Those About To Rock, which comes complete with all manner of explosions, fire and, of course, a 21-gun salute.
After an adrenaline-charged two hours the boys depart, and the crowd disperses wondering if this could be the band's final worldwide jaunt. But, if the end really is in sight, AC/DC, we salute you.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Manchester Evening News
by Paul Taylor
Review: AC/DC
ON stage a 54-year-old man in school uniform was jigging and duck-walking like a pint-sized, pallid version of Chuck Berry with a bad dose of restless leg syndrome.
Whenever he let up from his incendiary guitar riffage for a moment, the crowd chanted his name: "Angus, Angus".
Angus Young may well be the last and almost certainly the greatest of his generation of guitar heroes. And AC/DC are without doubt keeper of the flame of classic rock.
When the band delivered last year's Black Ice, one of the best albums of their 36-year career, it was as if someone had opened a time capsule marked "1980".
Out popped guitarist Young, still conjuring primeval riffs while sporting those familiar short trousers. And there also was Brian Johnson, age 61, still in flat cap, still hollering with the urgency of someone recently fetched a sharp blow in the gentleman's area.
Still present on the album and writ large in this show were the fast, purposeful rhythms, the gnarly, bluesy licks and the blokey, politically incorrect subject matter. Young even did a striptease in much the same way he did on this same stage in 1996.
Like the Rolling Stones, AC/DC's enormous appeal rests now on their utter immutability. Unlike the Stones, AC/DC can still occasionally write songs to match their best.
Guts of Black Ice
And this setlist proved it, giving us the guts of Black Ice, a large portion of their early works up to 1980's 45-million-selling Back In Black album, but next to nothing from their less fertile 1981-2008 period.
The staging had its spectacular moments, including a huge steam train to usher in Rock 'n Roll Train, a huge bell for Hell's Bells, a huge inflatable buxom women for Whole Lotta Rosie and a fusillade of cannons during For Those About To Rock (We Salute You).
Young reminded us that the monolithic riff to Back in Black is as close to the raw essence of rock guitar as Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile.
You Shook Me All Night Long swaggered to perfection, as did Highway To Hell.
In the sell-out crowd, air was punched, glowing devil's horns were worn and punks, metalheads and even some women mixed with the core AC/DC following of weather-beaten middle-aged men.
If the idea of songs like Rock 'n' Roll Train and Highway To Hell seem to close to rock cliches, these wisened practitioners proved otherwise by sheer force of will.
AC/DC are one of this year's hottest tickets and their album has topped charts in 29 countries.
The fact that Spinal Tap are playing Wembley Arena in June speaks volumes about how we now relish the flamboyant silliness of classic rock.
Last night AC/DC transcended parody and showed us classic rock etched in granite.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Irish Independent
by Eamon Sweeney
Review: AC/DC
THE demand for seeing AC/DC live in this country is so strong that an online Myspace group has been set up called 'AC/DC for Slane'.
Nearly 20 years since they last graced Dublin with their presence, the mighty 'DC are back in black. Few arena shows are ever this anticipated and one online auction quoted a pair of tickets at a whopping %u20AC800.
If anyone can do an entrance, it's 'DC.
The show literally kicks off with a huge locomotive bursting through the screen and landing onstage. The greatest geriatrics of rock arrive to the strains of 'Rock 'n' Roll Train'.
And that's just for starters, as a 40-foot inflatable woman appears for 'Whole Lotta Rosie' and singer Brian Johnson hurls himself on a long rope to peel a giant bell for 'Hell's Bells'. Sadly, most rock 'n' roll just isn't this gloriously stupid and fun anymore.
The real star of this show is not Brian Johnson, but the ageless Angus Young, who's still clad as a schoolboy after all these years and playing one-handed solos on the sublime 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap' as if time is standing still.
Steve Tyler of Aerosmith memorably likened Young's power chords to "the thunder from Down Under that gives you the second-most-powerful surge that can flow through your body".
There is no better track to make this abundantly clear than 'Thunderstruck'. Grown men and women are walking around with big goofy grins on their faces and all is right with the world.
AC/DC are more than a band, they're a force of nature that's sold more albums than Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Their defining masterpiece 'Back in Black' has the rare honour of notching up 'double diamond' sales of 20 million and nearly the same number of people have watched the 'Thunderstruck' video on YouTube. 'DC are still the giants of rock in the digital era.
The 19 song set climaxes with 'Highway to Hell' and a majestic rendition of 'For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)', leaving the preening antics of most contemporary bands in the shade.
AC/DC are the last living epitome of real rock 'n' roll.
WHEN The Enemy last played Dublin in October 2007, their show in the Ambassador left much to be desired.
Not only was it horrendously short, at just 35 minutes without encore, but it came with all the disadvantages that have been levelled at the Parnell Street venue: poor sound, lacklustre atmosphere and, well, generally unpleasant surroundings.
So let's be thankful that, in the intervening time, MCD have moved many of their medium-scale gigs to the superb Academy nearby. And more to the point, The Enemy have another full album of material to work off.
What a difference a year- and-a-half can make. Far from being the juvenile outfit who graced the Ambassador stage, the Coventry trio are now rock 'n' roll grown-ups, as confident and assured as the best of them, with the sound and energy to back it all up.
Mixing a selection of tracks from their upcoming album, 'Music For The People', with almost the entire contents of their debut, 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns', the band have a hold on their audience from the start. And while many of the tunes are unashamedly disposable -- simple pop songs, for the most part, driven by crunchy guitars -- the impact they have on the adoring audience is overwhelming.
The title track from their debut album, wonderfully anthemic as it is, becomes the somewhat predictable singalong tune of the night.
But then, anthems as well-written and emotive as this don't come along very often, and this is a tune which Noel Gallagher would be proud of.
The Enemy seem to be moving away from the Weller influences so blatantly paraded on their debut offering, yet they haven't forgotten where they've come from either; the frantic, Jam-esque strains of 'Happy Birthday Jane' and 'You're Not Alone' still close out the show.
No better way to round off a fun -- if perhaps essentially forgettable -- Friday night.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: NME
AC/DC kick off UK tour with spectacular London show
Veteran rockers roll out all the old favourites
Rock giants AC/DC kicked off the UK leg of their current world tour with a typically extravagant show at the O2 Arena in London last night (April 14).
The band started the set with 'Rock 'N' Roll Train', the opening track and first single from current album 'Black Ice', the screen showing a locomotive hurtling along before it appeared to burst through the screen and land onstage, where it remained for the remainder of the set,.
Highlights included guitarist Angus Young's striptease during 'The Jack', where he removed his famous schoolboy outfit, which was also being worn by many in the crowd, revealing just his underwear.
There was also a lowering of a huge bell during 'Hell's Bells', a 40ft inflatable woman appearing onstage during 'Whole Lotta Rosie' and the firing of cannons during perennial closer 'For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)'.
Frontman Brian Johnson dedicated 1976's 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap' to "London town", where AC/DC have not played since 2003.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: El Pais
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: El Pais
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Olympiahalle Munich, Germany Mar 27, 2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: BR Online.de
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AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Festhalle Frankfurt, Germany Mar 25, 2009
Zwei lebende Legenden des Hardrock: Brian Johnson und Angus Young. Foto: Mario Hofstetter
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Fuldaer Zeitung
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Papp Laszlo Arena Budapest, Hungary Mar 23, 2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Kulturpart.hu
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AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Unita.it
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AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Ceske Noviny
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AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Hellweger Anzeiger
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
New Dates Added U2 360 Degree Tour
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Nu.nl
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Welt Online
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AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Münsterländische Volkszeitung
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AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: RPonline.de
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
AC/DC Live Concert Videos 2009
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Welt Online
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Staandard.be
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Bercy Omnisport, Paris, France Feb 25, 2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot Down in Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Le Monde
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Globen Stockholm, Sweden Feb 20, 2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Shot down in flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: Aftonbladet.se
The Best AC/DC Live Performances on DVD
AC/DC: Plug Me In (3 disc Limited Edition)
AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Telenor Arena Oslo, Norway Feb 18, 2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: NRK
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AC/DC Tour 2009 Setlist and Review Sommet Center Nashville TN Jan 31, 2009
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Best Selection of AC/DC Gear
Review: The Tennessean
by Dave Paulson
AC/DC shakes Sommet all night long
Nashville's Sommet Center has hosted every sort of spectacle lately -- it's only been a week since the circus was in town, after all -- but it isn't every day that a crowd packs the place to see a 53-year-old man strip down to his underwear.
The man in question, of course, was AC/DC guitarist Angus Young, who took an extended break during "The Jack" to show off his official AC/DC boxer shorts. That moment epitomized the mix of sleaze, machismo (and not least of all, branding) that made the band's Saturday night concert an ear-ringing, hedonistic blast -- and quite possibly the best rock show the city will see this year.
A sea of raised fists greeted the Australian rockers as they took the stage, opening with new tune "Rock 'n' Roll Train" as a life-sized locomotive prop chugged into view.
The band was spirited from the outset, but it was clear they were pacing themselves, following up "Train" with lesser-known '70s cut "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be." Young did his famously frantic duck-walk at a moderate pace, and only stood at the top of the catwalk that led halfway through the venue. As thrilling as it was to see the band in the flesh, it's likely that a number of fans were starting to adjust their expectations for the evening.
But if anything has the power to shatter such hangups, it's the iconic opening riff to "Back in Black," which the band wisely chose for their third song. Singer Brian Johnson strutted and stomped his way down the catwalk, giving high-fives to audience members able to stretch their arms over the barricades.
By the time the set got to "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (which Johnson called "a special song for a special town"), AC/DC's increased energy was a pleasant surprise. But once Johnson was swinging from the rope of a giant bell to start up "Hells Bells," there was no telling how much more wild they were going to get.
As it turns out, there was much more to come, and that's mostly due to the staggering performance efforts of Young. Post-striptease, the guitarist transformed into a sweat-soaked rock cyclone, sprinting to every end of the stage, falling to his knees, and eventually writhing on his back on an elevated platform at the end of the catwalk.
It's telling that when Young emerged for the band's encore, he had some brand new bandages across his abdomen.
Following hand-in-hand with the band's increasingly animated stage presence was an increasingly over-the-top stage set. Songs were joined by a number of wonderfully ridiculous props -- the train, the bell, a giant inflatable woman for "Whole Lotta Rosie," and last but not least, a flank of six cannons for "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You"), which fired off at appropriate points in the song.
Fans, in turn, saluted the band with devil horns -- both with fingers and the official AC/DC light-up devil horn headbands ($15 apiece, in case you were wondering).
Back in the middle of the set, when the crowd responded with rapturous cheers at the end of "TNT," Johnson had two words for them: "You're welcome."
Call it cocky, but it's exactly what his audience wanted. There was no doubt that AC/DC were going to dutifully deliver a trademark mix of raunch and riffs. Being able to do it with every ounce of their classic firepower, on the other hand, is an awesome feat -- and one that deserves to be saluted right back.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Memphis Commercial Appeal
By Bob Mehr
Times may change, but AC/DC is eternal
In a year where "change" has been a buzzword and cultural theme, AC/DC remain impervious.
On Friday, during a sold-out show at the FedExForum in support of their latest album Black Ice, the band happily proved that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Offstage, AC/DC is comprised of four rather ruddy looking Australians and Englishmen well into middle age. Onstage, however, they transform themselves, into a gang of naughty schoolboys, using a tried and true selection of songs made up of razorwire guitar riffs, simple pounding rhythms and lots of suggestive lyrics about bad girls and dirty deeds.
The band's Memphis concert stayed faithful to that formula. The extravaganza opened with big screens playing a bawdy cartoon, portraying guitarist Angus Young as a randy railroad conductor driving an out-of-control engine. The animation became reality as the group, accompanied by a giant fire shooting locomotive, hit the stage to the strains of "Rock N' Roll Train."
Though Young -- dressed in his usual schoolboy uniform -- was the undeniable focal point of the show, singer Brian Johnson proved himself the most likeable frontman in rock, constantly pumping up the crowd and the band, and generally acting like everyone' most enthusiastic drinking buddy.
Meanwhile, the rest of the band -- rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd -- stayed largely in the background, providing the sonic foundation.
From the get-go the audience was on its feet, where it remained -- AC/DC concerts do not have any ballads, slow numbers or breathers -- as the band mixed in the occasional new track ("Black Ice"; "War Machine") with a steady diet of favorites ("Back in Black"; "You Shook Me All Night Long").
As always, the show was highlighted by a number of familiar set pieces: Angus' striptease routine during "The Jack"; Johnson swinging from a bell rope for "Hell's Bells." Elsewhere, "Whole Lotta Rosie" - the band's ode to a well-proportioned stripper - was accompanied by the inflation of a 90-foot foot blow-up doll bouncing and shaking to the beat.
What AC/DC lacks in innovation, they make up for in enthusiasm, as the band delivered the "oi, oi, oi" chants of "TNT" as if it were the first time they were playing the song, rather than the millionth.
After a rousing encore of "Highway to Hell", a phalanx of cannons emerged on stage, for the night-capping rendition of "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)." One booming explosion after another could be heard all down along Beale, as the deliriously happy throngs emptied onto downtown's streets.
Change, as the saying goes, may be good. But on this night, the same old AC/DC was even better.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Review: Austin360.com
by David Glessner
Review: AC/DC in San Antonio
A trainload of heavy guitars rumbled into San Antonio's AT&T Center Friday when AC/DC conducted a rock 'n' roll thrill ride that shook the crowd all night long.
Back after eight long years and playing to a capacity audience of nearly 15,000 (many wearing flickering red devil horns that glowed to the rafters), hard rock's legendary mischief-makers opened with "Rock 'N' Roll Train" from the chart-topping, new album "Black Ice."
With a derailed locomotive lodged into the backdrop and video screens flashing animated flames, girls and railroad imagery, singer Brian Johnson barreled on stage in a sleeveless work shirt and low-tipped cap.
Looking like a steelworker at happy hour and mustering his indestructible cigarette rasp, the grinning, wild-eyed Johnson was in strained, but surprisingly strong voice considering his long-abused 61-year-old pipes should now be rusted shut. By second song, "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be," Johnson gleefully prowled the catwalk making special efforts to shake mitts with youngsters hoisted forward by excited fathers.
Guitarist Angus Young, now 53, is balding and slightly less prone to violent neck-snapping, but still does the duck walk to frenzied effect. In various states of undress, his trademark schoolboy uniform now makes him look more like a naughty professor than saucy brat. Stripped to his shorts during "The Jack," Young and AC/DC reveled as unsuspecting women in the crowd were randomly implicated on overhead video screens as the song's trampy subject.
Backed by guitar-playing brother Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and cig-smoking drummer Phil Rudd, the iconic guitarist and roughneck singer jack hammered such crowd-pleasing classics as "Back in Black," "Dirty Deeds," "Thunderstruck," "Shoot to Thrill," "Hell's Bells," "Let There Be Rock," "You Shook Me All Night Long," "TNT," "Whole Lotta Rosie" and fiery, cannon-blasting encores "Highway to Hell" and "For Those About to Rock."
Still electric after 33 years, AC/DC delivered a hell of a jolt.
Note: Opening act, the Answer, was rendered unseen and unheard because of a $15 parking fee ambush that necessitated a retreat to an ATM. Buyer beware.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Arkansas Online
by Rhonda Owen
High-energy AC/DC electrifies NLR crowd
Heavy-metal legend AC/DC shook Alltel Arena in North Little Rock not all night long Wednesday, but for an ear-blasting couple of hours that included cannon fire, a wrecked train, flames, a busty inflatable doll, a giant bell and a whole lot of noise pollution.
They may be long of tooth, thin of hair, wrinkled and jowly, but the band's five members aren't short on energy, enthusiasm and the ability to bring 11,986 people to their feet for two hours.
The band played only four songs from its current CD, Black Ice, focusing mostly on favorites from its 35-year catalog. They opened with a dramatic rendition of "Rock and Roll Train," pounding out the new hit as a cartoon steam engine roared onto a video screen above the stage. When the song ended, the cartoon and screen had given way to a model of a wrecked engine canted atop a wall of Marshall amplifiers.
Despite beginning 15 minutes late, the performance was anything but a train wreck, with every song and prop change executed flawlessly. The AC/DC-emblazoned engine shot flames and smoke from its stack at appropriately timed intervals, a giant bell descended to the stage during "Hells Bells," and animated video of a bomber plane dropping guitars flashed on screens during "War Machine."
The crowd demonstrated its approval by fervently shouting out, with little prompting, anthemic lines from favorites such as "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "TNT," "Highway to Hell," "Thunderstuck," "Whole Lotta Rosie" and "The Jack."
The most fun, though, came from watching the antics of guitarist Angus Young and singer Brian Johnson. Johnson slapped fans' hands, shimmied and strutted while screeching mostly unintelligible lyrics and showing no indication that this was just another show. But Young, whose performance face resembles a demonic gasping fish, stole the show.
Ah, Angus, you gotta love him. We doubt there's any other 53-year-old, banty rooster of a man who could pull off a self-mocking striptease out of a schoolboy outfit to reveal black boxer shorts with AC/DC stamped in flaming red across the rear. And that was before his frenzied 10-minute solo on his famous Gibson SG - played straight, no whammy bar or wah pedal- during which he duckwalked and stomped across the stage, up and down a runway and atop the amplifiers, periodically flopping onto his back and spinning.
Other highlights included Johnson swinging from a rope descended from the giant bell and the later appearance of the almost ceiling-high inflatable doll in red garters, hose and bra straddling the steam engine and tapping her high-heeled foot during "Whole Lotta Rosie" - a song, Johnson explained, about a "dirty girl."
A person could ask if a band whose members are in their 50s might be too old for songs about dirty girls and debauchery. And one could answer: Not yet.
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Tulsa World
by Jennifer Chancellor
In review: AC/DC at the BOK
The cold and inclement weather didn't stop those about to rock at the BOK Center on Monday night.
The rock and roll train rumbled into the center and crashed onto the stage, a cartoonish Angus Young shoveled coals into the speeding behemoth as the real thing pounded out the intro to "Rock and Roll Train," from the band's new album, "Black Ice."
A life-size steam engine with "AC/DC" emblazoned on it rumbled onto the stage.
Early, lines were sparse and quick-moving in the freezing rain, which sent wind chills plummeting below 15 degrees Monday evening.
Thousands arrived early and security personnel ushered fans into the warm foyer of the arena, where they huddled until seating opened at 6:30 p.m. By 9:15, the venue was nearly full.
A near-capacity crowd dripped sweat as pyrotechnics ushered them far from the slick roadways outside and into musical purgatory with hits including "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Hells Bells," "Back in Black," "Thunderstruck" and "You Shook Me All Night Long," and new tunes including "Black Ice" and "War Machine."
As if anyone would forget who they came to see, the AC/DC logo loomed large on everything - the steam engine; the huge ringing bell; the cartoon bombers blasted onto projection screens and fighting giant logo-masted pirate ships while tanktop-wearing go-go dancers dancing on logoed Army tanks; the briefs Angus Young flashed the audience %u2026 and probably most spectacularly, the tattooed-arm, stories-tall, ample-chested inflatable Rosie that bucked atop the train to "Whole Lotta Rosie."
And then there were the cannons. Six of them. They went off. A lot. And nothing says rock 'n' roll like artillery fire.
These Aussies know that nothing's more American than excess. From the rows and rows of Marshall amps to the hyperspeed version of "Let There Be Rock" - replete with career-spanning montage culminating in Young's 10-minute-plus guitar solo atop an elevated platform above the crowd, with no whammy bar, no wah pedal, just punch-drunk Young pushing his legendary Gibson SG to the limit.
Brian Johnson's trademark sneer and clenched-jaw yelp ignited the audience as he swayed from a giant bell clapper on "Hells Bells," then he jumped off, ran across the stage, planted a foot on a monitor and pointed at the feral audience. As the band transitioned into "Shoot to Thrill," he yelled, "A-ha! That's rock and roll! Right there!"
And. The. Crowd. Went. Wild!
Few words come to mind to accurately explain the overall culmination of the night's over-the-top arena show. One is, ridiculous.
The other two are, totally awesome.
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Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Dallas Star-Telegram
by Teresa Gubbins
Timeless AC/DC stays energetic in Dallas show
For most rock bands, disappearing for eight years would be a one-way ticket to obscurity. But it's the opposite for Australian rockers AC/DC.
The proof was in the packed house at American Airlines Center on Friday night. Before the show, fans milled outside, holding "tickets wanted" signs.
For a night of familiar, flawlessly executed rock, AC/DC would be pretty hard to beat. The quintet stepped through its 90-minute set of classics such as Back in Black, Shoot to Thrill and You Shook Me All Night Long with crisp precision as well as a passion and ferocity that's impressive when you consider that they're playing basically the same show night after night on a months-long tour to promote their October album Black Ice.
There were lots of sophisticated bells and whistles, starting with an opening cartoon that featured an AC/DC train and some suggestive levers being pulled by a couple of foxy gals. An explosion of fireworks ushered the band onto the stage and out popped a lifelike train prop emitting curls of smoke. Singer Brian Johnson danced down a lighted ramp that extended into the audience; a row of glass panels across the stage floor provided a perch for cameramen to catch guitarist Angus Young executing his trademark duckwalk from the ground up.
Later, Young performed a silly strip-tease during The Jack, removing his blue velvet shorts and jacket to reveal a pair of AC/DC underwear.
The band interspersed hits with new songs, but the minute Johnson said the words, "This is Black Ice, a song off the new album," it seemed a little like a decree to "go get your beer now."
Still, this was a rapt crowd, one that spanned all ages. It seemed like half of them wore the merchandising must-get: a pair of $15 flickering red horns, which created a strobe effect, from the floor to the nosebleeds. The arena became one during Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, with Angus' shimmering, almost soulful solo and the entire audience saluting as they spewed out the words "done dirt cheap!"
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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For Those About To Rock
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Review: Kansas City Star
by Timothy Finn
Review: AC/DC
The highlight of what was a thoroughy entertaining 100-minute show erupted towards the end, when a Rubenesque two-story woman appeared slowly out of nowhere, straddling the monster steam train that is the symbol of the AC/DC tour. She was the inflated, buxom and barely-clad Rosie, who rocked and tapped her booted foot, in time, to the song "Whole Lotta Rosie." It wasn't pretty or sophisticated. But it sure was fun.
AC/DC was in town on Wednesday for the first time in a long time -- so long that a lot of the 15,000 or so fans (like me) who packed the Sprint Center were seeing the legendary hard-rock band from Australia for the first time. Anyone in the mood for something more evolved than primal, three-chord blues-based heavy rock was in for a long night. AC/DC doesn't cater to dilettantes. It plays blues for the Golds Gym crowd, disco for strippers.
It also blows up stuff and fires off cannons and flashpots. And it can turn an arena into a roiling sea of fans pumping their fists and singing in unison, like crazded soccer hooligans, to "You Shook Me All Night Long," the band's unofficial theme song and one of several highlights.
The sound at the Sprint Center was OK, considering the excessive volume and the kind of music that was being hurled around the place. Several times it was hard to hear the vocals from Brian Johnson, who will turn 62 before the next Halloween season.
Another highlight: When Angus Young took his perch on a hydraulic lift that sat at the end of a long, phallic shaped runway that ran deep into the audience on the floor. He was without a shirt at that point but wearing his trademark shorts, white socks and black shoes. The lift raised him above the crowd, where he issued a torrent of cliched rock leads, at times while lying on his back and spinning.
The band spent the rest of the night over-indulging relentlessly in fierce, primal rock-blues. After an hour or so, the songs can start to sound the same, until AC/DC rips into something well-known and classic, like "Hell's Bells" or "Back in Black." It's not rocket science: It's just three or four heavy chords, a screaming lead vocalist, a lead guitarist in shorts, the blast of a half-dozen cannons, some flashpots and the occasional 20-foot woman in lingerie doing some bump-and-grind while straddling a giant, smoking steam train. If that doesn't amuse and entertain you, nothing will.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Gimme Noise Blog
By Peter Scholtes
From Hell: AC/DC at the Xcel Again
My tire blew out on the highway to hell -- namely I-94 to St. Paul from Madison, Wisconsin -- so I missed the Answer, the opening band for AC/DC, except as background noise for the men's room, "where the dicks hang out," as one guy put it, and where a spontaneous running joke among apparent strangers talking on their cell phones added this to the din: "Yeah, the Black Crowes are just about done," "Yeah, Tesla's still playing." Over in the women's room, women smoked, or so I'm told. So this was the AC/DC crowd, all right, albeit here for the band's second run through town on the same tour, with an identical setlist to last November, and with every reason to believe the band would be on the fatigued side of doing it to death.
Yet if AC/DC were tired, I missed that too. They had the challenge of rocking a rising median age--I caught yawns on the floor as early as four songs in. Given demographic reality, the floor had been given over entirely to reserved seating. So no mosh pit (what's that?), and also less of the swagger that AC/DC requires, and not just from the bare-midriff set. Despite a strong opening, including an animated cartoon starring the band in R-rated situations on a train, and a giant prop locomotive spouting explosions (wait, we can have pyrotechnics at shows again?), the band failed to achieve liftoff during "Rock N Roll Train," "Back in Black," "Big Jack," and "Thunderstruck", though they built a nice engine-sized hum. Iconic guitarist Angus Young's Chuck Berry duck-walked, and his brother, rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, hair-shook. Drummer Phil Rudd chain-smoked, and singer Brian Johnson throat-shredded. Bassist Cliff Williams withheld his riffs for those crucial lines where the bass needs to kick in late. Where ear plugs failed, I visited guest services to have my head encased in cement. But I just wasn't feeling it in my chest.
This was the sound of AC/DC's '08 comeback album Black Ice, a blues-based rock more groovy than heavy, with a songful emphasis on vocals that still had the young fan behind me air-guitaring on his AC/DC poster. But then, at some point, the guitars came up a notch, and the whole sound nosed upward. Maybe I'm projecting gratitude that Angus Young surprised us rather than show his pale Scottish-Aussie bum once again during "The Jack," but it seemed like the sold-out crowd started giving back. "That's rock 'n' roll right there, I can see it," said Johnson during "Shoot to Thrill," pointing at a sea of hands clapping in the blue spotlights. "I love this shit, man."
I had to admit, there is no more decadent or stupid way of celebrating Martin Luther King Day in 2009 than watching AC/DC perform "War Machine," with a cartoon behind them showing a bomber dropping guitars. But that's the moment my own pleasure centers sprang open: AC/DC's silliness is purposeful and sublime, like every little melody in "You Shook Me All Night Long," or the blunt beat of "TNT" (more real fire!), and the baby-got-back of "Whole Lotta Rosie," which in concert involved a giant blow-up highlight-blonde with a tit tattoo straddling the locomotive, tapping her foot to the beat. I realized that Cliff Williams's approach to bass is AC/DC's approach to a rock concert: Withhold, then kick in. Because, as people who couldn't get their tickets the first time around know, pleasure delayed is pleasure enhanced. Which is why this was my first AC/DC concert.
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Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Inforum
By: Dave Roepke
REVIEW: AC/DC fully charges audience at Fargodome
The best thing and the worst thing about AC/DC is the same thing: In output, in outlook, in concert, in nearly all matters, the band is an obstinate machine - rock monotheists following a theology of their own creation. No iTunes, no power ballads, no changing.
Its unwillingness to do anything that stretches beyond its narrow view of awesomeness has long gotten the Australian group the absolute-zero shoulder from critics. Not that this matters. In 2007, a year before new album "Black Ice" came out and seven years after their most recent release, the band sold 1.3 million records in the U.S. Yes, really.
Playing the Fargodome on Saturday night for a crowd of 21,700, AC/DC made the strongest possible argument for the rightness of its way to rock. It was a convincing case. Live, AC/DC still works in only one dimension, but that dimension is out of this world.
If the piston of rhythm pumping through "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," the menacing guitar crunch lurking behind "Thunderstruck" or shouting "oi oi oi" along to the swaggering "T.N.T." didn't spike your adrenaline, you weren't in the mood for this sort of thing and probably never will be.
The encore of "Highway to Hell" and "For Those About to Rock," a couple of tunes that classic-rock radio has been unable to dilute, may have already given the dome, in January, its best finish of the year. A sweet robotic train was the stage centerpiece, later taking on the traditional massive blow-up doll as a passenger.
Yes, it all sounds similar, but a two-hour concert isn't quite long enough for the repetition to get grating. (The new material late in the 18-song set such as "Anything Goes," one of five tracks played off "Black Ice," got mighty close.)
It was pretty much a two-man show, as co-founder and rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young and bassist Cliff Williams spent most of the time lingering toward the back with drummer and chain smoker Phil Rudd. That left the showmanship to lead singer Brian Johnson and Malcolm's lead guitarist, brother Angus.
Johnson, whose newsboy cap is getting to be as a consistent part of the band's optics as the schoolboy uniform Angus always wears, was the more active of the two, making full use of a long catwalk at the front of the stage. He sounded like he was probably crisper earlier in the tour - crackling a little around the edges but with enough throat left to reach deep and hit screechy peaks at will.
The actual front man, though, is Angus, an underappreciated guitarist with an over-appreciated fondness for his bag of stage tricks - duck-walking, tongue-wagging, stripping down to his boxers.
This is the element of AC/DC-ism I find most baffling. Why is it necessary for Angus Young, a hobbit-like 53-year-old with Einstein hair, to peel down to his boxers at every show (he was sporting AC/DC undershorts this time, it was American flag drawers when they came to town in 2001) in order for the proceedings to sufficiently rock?
But Angus can still totally hammer it. He did another old standby, his spin-the-guitarist move where he gets down on his back and turns around in circles like he's having a tantrum, on a hydraulic lift at the end of the catwalk without botching his solo a bit. He then got up and continued completely wailing.
It was impressive enough that it almost made me forget to think to myself, "Why is he on the floor again?" But AC/DC does not play rock designed for thinking. Seeing the band perform live makes it difficult not to suspect that's the way it should be.
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Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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For Those About To Rock
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Review: Omaha World Herald
by Kevin Coffey
Review: AC/DC takes fans for a ride
AC/DC took a sellout crowd for a ride on the "Rock N Roll Train" Thursday night.
In a nod to the band's latest single, the back of the stage was filled by a locomotive that looked as if it had crashed into the arena. Throughout the two-hour set, the train lit up, shot bursts of flame and was even straddled by a giant inflatable woman during "Whole Lotta Rosie."
The group had fun with more props during the show, like a giant bell that dropped in during "Hell's Bells," cannons firing during "For Those About to Rock" and the devil horns that lead guitarist Angus Young wore during "Highway to Hell."
The group took the opportunity Thursday to blast the more than 15,000 fans packing the Qwest Center Omaha with its hard rock. The speakers were cranked to an ear-splitting level, which occasionally made it hard to hear parts of songs or understand some of the lyrics.
The band led off with the single "Rock N Roll Train" but got fans going with the second song, "Back in Black." The band played a handful of songs from "Black Ice," the group's latest album. The new songs sounded right at home amid the classics, although it seemed that most fans didn't know them as well.
During new tracks like "War Machine" or "Black Ice," fans didn't make a rush for the door to hit the bathroom or get another beer, but there was definitely a lot less singing along and fist-pumping.
AC/DC's old hits got fans going, though. People from the front row to the nosebleed seats threw their fists in the air and shouted as they completed the second part of the phrase "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." And from start to finish during "You Shook Me All Night Long," fans sang along and even managed to drown out the astonishingly loud music coming from the speakers.
All of the band members are over 50, but none of them showed it. Lead guitarist Young's playing never slipped or slowed down, and singer Brian Johnson's voice is still as shrieky, gritty and gravelly as ever.
Young and Johnson took on the jobs of showmen for the band, while rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd stayed in place toward the back of the stage. Johnson ran around giving high-fives, and Young careened and duck-walked across the stage while he hammered on his guitar.
Young, in particular, got fans to go wild. He did a striptease during "The Jack," shedding his trademark schoolboy uniform and going so far as to bend over and drop his shorts, revealing a pair of AC/DC boxers.
Most impressive was his five-minute guitar solo showcase during the set-closing "Let There Be Rock," where he rose up on a platform, shredded and skittered around on his back.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: Riverfront Times
by Annie Zaleski
Review: AC/DC at the Scottrade Center, Tuesday, January 13
It's a given that AC/DC's Scottrade Center show was great. But just how great was the concert? Well, consider this: The legendary Australian band played for 100-plus minutes - including a two-song encore - and barely stopped to take a breath. Keep in mind the band has been together for over 35 years, and vocalist Brian Johnson is 61 years old.
AC/DC arguably perfected hard rock, but such a generic term seems almost insulting to use -- especially because the band so earnestly honors and assimilates the deep boogie of the blues. (New tune "Big Jack," in fact, recalled the Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman.") But the band's songs feel preserved in amber, as sleazy and full of vigor as the day they were recorded.
Perhaps that's why the entire show felt ageless -- and since the set list gave the illusion that AC/DC has recorded nothing since 1990 (save for the five new songs played from last year's Black Ice), that perception remained at the forefront. Of course, Ice's songs received a lukewarm reaction -- although unlike many heritage acts, a lag in crowd energy stemmed from unfamiliarity, not lack of quality.
Still, an apathetic atmosphere permeated the nearly sold-out arena at first, which was curious and perplexing. AC/DC came out blazing with a raunchy animated video full of obvious references to various sexual acts, before a hailstorm of fireworks signaled the arrival of a stage prop of a giant train. Cue Ice's lead single, the fantastic "Rock 'n' Roll Train" and Let There Be Rock's "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be." People started nodding a bit more vigorously during "Back in Black" but it took a one-two punch of a lecherous, leering "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and chest-pounding "Thunderstruck" to rile people.
From that point on - save for new tunes "War Machine" and "Anything Goes," which killed the momentum - the beer-bolstered audience was into the show, whether pumping their fists to the "oi! oi! oi!" chant in "T.N.T." or freaking out to strip-club anthem/classic single "You Shook Me All Night Long." Other highlights included a lumbering "Hells Bells" and "Shoot to Thrill" (both from Back in Black). The former featured the band's trademark oversized bell falling from the ceiling; impressively, Johnson took a running leap, grabbed on to the bell's string with one arm and swung around for a bit.
The fit (but solid) vocalist stalked the stage and a catwalk that jutted into the crowd, pausing to give high-fives to super-excited fans and warbling with his garbled yowl. Guitarist Malcolm Young was looking every inch like a 56-year-old, but the energy of little brother Angus - who sure as shit wore his trademark schoolboy outfit and sturdy black shoes with white socks - never wavered.
He duck-walked, strutted like a peacock, skipped like a jump-roper and shuffled stiff-limbed, all the while happily tapping out iconic riffs. Young had fun with the band's devilish motifs, too. The encore started with a cauldron-caliber cloud of smoke wafting from the stage floor, backlit by deep red lights - from which he finally ascended, sporting devil horns on his head and a wicked grin. Cue "Highway to Hell," which was as raucous and bawdy as one would hope.
That summed up the show itself - to a certain extent. For as sexually charged as its music is, AC/DC itself treats sex in quite a cartoonish way. During "Whole Lotta Rosie," a gigantic blow-up doll appeared onstage - one with absurdly gigantic boobs. (Like, if this was a normal-sized woman, she would have basketball-sized breast implants.)
And during "The Jack" Angus Young did what amounted to a striptease. First he removed his velvet jacket and rubbed it back and forth between his crotch. Then he removed his tie and rubbed it on his ass. Then - as a drum solo built anticipation - he turned his back to the crowd, unbuttoned his shirt and then spun around and ripped it open like a superhero, to the delight of fans. Finally, he mooned the crowing audience - revealing boxer shorts with "AC/DC" written across the butt.
Titillating, it wasn't. (Nor was it meant to be -- don't worry, I get it.) If anything, these antics just underscored his playful, theatrical nature. Exhibit B: During "Let There Be Rock" Young entered Shredsville -- population: one -- and put on a clinic. Playing with one hand? Check. Stepping onto a platform, which then rose above the crowd very high - while still playing? Check. Proceeding to play guitar on your back, while wriggling around in a circle? Check. Playing guitar on your back, entire body shaking as if you're having a seizure? Check again.
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Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
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Let There Be Rock
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Review: Cincinnati Enquirer
by Chris Varias
AC/DC: a timeless classic
Thanks to a certain local hard-rock radio station, fans who attended AC/DC's Sunday-night concert had heard most of the songs in the set list precisely 75,000 times before. Maybe it was 80,000 times in the case of "You Shook Me All Night Long."
Despite that station's best efforts to turn AC/DC into the aural equivalent of processed cheese by playing them over and over, the songs stand up to the beating and endure. Those riffs, so primitive and archetypal, are the '70s and '80s equivalents of "You Really Got Me" or "Satisfaction" - you can dare to say that they can't be overplayed. Sunday at U.S. Bank Arena, a good dozen of the classic ones were put forth in their full glory, and the fans responded with an excitement as if it were only the 5,000th time that they heard them.
The show, sold out for several weeks, was the Australian hard-rock group's first local appearance since 2000. As was the case with that tour, AC/DC is on the road in support of a new record. They filled out the 18-song, hour-and-45-minute set with four tunes from "Black Ice," which they released in October. The new stuff ranged in quality from derivative to a notch below the oldies. You couldn't blame members of the crowd for making a beer run during a new song, but it wasn't painful to stick around and listen, either.
Nobody was leaving his (mainly "his," lots of dudes at the show) or her seat during "Back in Black" or "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" or "Thunderstruck," three high points from the first half of the show. Brian Johnston is now 61 but his shrieking vocals came off as timeless. He kept pace on the wordy "Back in Black" and held his own on "Dirty Deeds," originally sung by the late Bon Scott, whom Johnson replaced in 1980.
Johnson, rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd gladly let the spotlight shine on Malcolm's brother Angus. The lead guitarist was decked out in his trademark schoolboy outfit of a necktie, a maroon-colored jacket with matching short pants and cap. Angus failed to exclude any portions of his typical stage routine. During "Thuderstruck" he duck-walked down a glass walkway that ran left-to-right across the stage. A camera followed the action from underneath the glass and showed it on the video screens.
He turned the bluesy "The Jack" into a striptease, during which he shed the cap (thereby allowing his "skullet" to flow), the tie, the jacket and his shirt. He also temporarily dropped his shorts, revealing underpants with the AC/DC logo stretched across the backside.
Angus' act came to a climax during "Let There Be Rock," the set-closer. He made his way to a circular stage at the end of a runway that cut through the floor seats. As the circle rose 10 feet in the air, he played a solo, fell to the deck and spun in circles. Later, when he was back on the main stage, the band went silent as he played a five-minute solo, capping it off by once again falling to the floor and sliding down a ramp as he hit his final notes.
The only things as big as Angus' showmanship were elements of the production. The show began with a giant video screen splitting in half as a life-size steam engine busted though. Fireballs were bursting from the stage in time with the chorus of "T.N.T." A humongous female blow-up doll straddled the steam engine during "Whole Lotta Rosie." Six cannons fired as the band encored with "For Those About to Rock."
Those sorts of arena-rock trappings were fun but ultimately unnecessary. AC/DC's no-frills riffage could have carried the show on its own.
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Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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For Those About To Rock
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Review: Toronto Sun
by Jane Stevenson
AC/DC makes a triumphant return
You just know it's going to be a good year ahead in Toronto when the first week of 2009 sees the return of the best, biggest, loudest, and lewdest rock show of 2008.
That would be Aussie veteran hard rockers AC/DC, who revisited the Rogers Centre Friday night a mere two months after blowing the roof off the joint last November with their so-called Black Ice tour in support of their huge comeback album of the same name which was also the best-selling disc in Canada in 2008.
It's certainly no small feat to fill the same stadium twice in such a short time.
And the sight of 45,000 fans gathered again, many of them wearing blinking red devil horns in a shout out to guitarist Angus Young who donned them on the cover of AC/DC's 1979 breakthrough album, Highway to Hell, was a beautiful thing to behold one more time.
Especially during the the first standout song of the hour-and-45-minute show - Back In Black, as Young - this time dressed in a black velvet private school boy uniform and matching cap and tie (in November it was burgundy) - let it rip with the first of many memorable solos on the band's mammoth stage featuring an impressive number of speakers, video screens and a catwalk into the crowd.
"You're making us real proud up here," said robust-sounding lead singer Brian Johnson, 61, afterwards.
Other songs delivered with the same intensity were Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap), Thunderstruck, Hells Bells, Shoot To Thrill, You Shook Me All Night Long (with Johnson again changing the lyrics to "Knocking me out with those Canadian thighs!"), TNT, Whole Lotta Rosie, a marathon version of Let There Be Rock, Highway To Hell (despite the back speakers annoyingly going out a couple of times), and For Those About To Rock (We Salute You).
There's something to be said for a band that formed back in 1973 still doing the same songs the same way and still making them sound vital some 36 years later.
AC/DC - rounded out by rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd - also brought back their usual arsenal of bells and whistles.
There was the backdrop of a devil-horns-wearing train locomotive, in a nod to the first Black Ice single, Rock 'N' Roll Train; the descending bell that Johnson hung off during Hells Bells; the large inflatable woman riding the aforementioned locomotive during Whole Lotta Rosie; the ascending platform that raised Angus high above the crowd during Let There Be Rock as part of his longest solo of the night; and the Spinal Tap-like six cannon salute during For Those About To Rock (We Salute You).
Meanwhile, on a much smaller scale, The Jack saw Angus do his trademark striptease down to his AC/DC underwear as the cameras alternated between his backside and bodacious women in the crowd.
Opening Friday night were suitably hard-rocking Belfast four-piece The Answer, making an auspicious Toronto debut.
The Zeppelin-esque sounding band, fronted by long-haired, Robert Plant-like wailer Cormac Neeson, were originally scheduled to open for AC/DC at Rogers Centre last November, but were stopped at the border due to their bus driver's pot selling conviction stemming back to 1971.
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The determined group ended up getting a new bus driver but then got stuck in traffic and couldn't get to Rogers Centre in time for their opening slot.
Good thing the band - rounded out by guitarist Paul Mahon, bassist Mickey Waters and drummer James Heatley - were worth the wait as they fired-up up the crowd with a lively half-hour set with a chatty and animated Neeson providing the suitable stadium rock dialogue in between their six songs.
"Our business with you tonight is rock 'n' roll," said Neeson, who delivered on the promise.
The Answer, whose new album, Everyday Demons, will be released March 31, have previously opened up for the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and The Who in Europe and are a favourite of Zep guitarist Jimmy Page.
No surprises there given their blues-influenced classic rock sound.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Highway To Hell
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Review: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
by Rege Behe
AC/DC delivers its usual thunder at Mellon Arena
Tickets for the AC/DC show Wednesday night at the Mellon Arena sold out in a mere 18 minutes last October.
It took perhaps a millisecond for the anticipation that built up in the interim to reach a frenzied crescendo. Maybe each of the 17,000 or so in attendance didn't roar in approval when AC/DC took the stage, but it sure seemed like it in the afterglow of blazing flashpots and blinding lights.
And the masses got what is implicitly promised in any AC/DC concert: A high-intensity performance by one of the most popular bands in the world.
The quintet tore through a set that was marked by a certain sameness throughout; the last thing AC/DC would ever be accused of is being musical dilettantes. Instead, you get the wail and screech of Brian Johnson's vocals in the standards "Back in Black," "Hell's Bells" and "Thunderstruck." You get the steady hands of Phil Rudd (looking quite professorial in spectacles and short hair) behind the drums and Cliff Williams on bass. You get Malcolm Young's even-keeled rhythm guitar.
But most all, there's Angus Young, still in his schoolboy outfit after 35 years, still unleashing some of the most scabrous, scathing guitar solos on Earth. His riffs are uneven, jagged wonders, all of a piece, whether in showstopping favorites such as "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Whole Lotta Rosie" or "Shoot to Thrill," or in the newer numbers "Rock 'N Roll Train" and "War Machine."
And the lyrics ... well, let's just say they're reflexively juvenile, all about the lure of sex and release and all that is promised late at night. It's the stuff one constantly thinks about on the cusp of adulthood, and that's the true appeal of an AC/DC show: For a couple of hours, everyone is 18 again.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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Review: Cleveland Plain Dealer
by John Soeder
Loud and proud, AC/DC salutes those about to rock during sold-out show at The Q
The music of AC/DC is many things. Unrepentant. Primal. And very, very, very loud, for starters.
But recession-proof? Who knew?
The hard-rocking Australian quintet's sold-out concert Monday night at The Q drew 14,000 fans who paid $91.50 a pop for the privilege of having their eardrums shattered by some of the best in the business.
Singer Brian Johnson, guitar-playing brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd announced their arrival with their latest hit, "Rock n Roll Train." It sounded exactly like every other AC/DC hit, going back three decades. If you're into groundbreaking, stick to Radiohead, dude.
In keeping with the choo-choo theme, a massive steam engine loomed behind the imposing wall of amps onstage. During "Whole Lotta Rosie," the locomotive was mounted by a 50-foot inflatable woman in a bra and torn stockings. Don't count on seeing her anytime soon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
"It's [expletive] fun, isn't it?" Johnson said. "Nothing like a wake-up call at the new year."
With that, the band locked into the bluesy groove of "The Jack." The crowd eagerly sang along. Who can resist a ditty about venereal disease, right?
"Back in Black," the immortal "You Shook Me All Night Long," "T.N.T." and other time-tested favorites were intermingled with five tunes off AC/DC's new "Black Ice" album, including Johnson's personal favorite, "Big Jack." It came across a bit like the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" in a fun-house mirror.
The members of AC/DC range in age from mid 50s to early 60s, although they haven't lost a lick. For nearly two hours, these Rock and Roll Hall of Famers (Class of 2003) performed with an intensity most younger groups would've been hard-pressed to match. Back in the ring to take another swing, indeed.
As on previous tours, Johnson dangled overhead from a huge bell during "Hells Bells," and cannon fire punctuated the national anthem of Kick-Butt-Topia, "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)."
During "War Machine," another new song, video screens depicted cartoon bombers dropping electric guitars and AC/DC groupie paratroopers over enemy territory. It's a strategy the Obama administration might want to consider.
Cameras also caught Rudd flagrantly disobeying Ohio's indoor-smoking ban.
Raspy as ever, Johnson remains an effective vocalist, even if his larynx seems permanently in the grip of an invisible Darth Vader chokehold.
Guitar hero Angus Young let his fingers do the talking, and they spoke volumes during "Thunderstruck," unleashing a flurry of quasi-classical riffage. It did the heart good to see him up there in his iconic schoolboy uniform, duck-walking from side to side and down a runway into the middle of the audience.
Despite AC/DC's hell-raising sound and hell-bent lyrics, Young often paused between deafening power chords to point heavenward.
Or was he merely instructing the sound guy to crank up the volume even louder?
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Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Review: The Tampa Tribune
by Curtis Ross
AC/DC Lets There Be Rock At The Forum
During "Let There Be Rock," near the end of AC/DC's set Sunday night at the Forum, guitarist Angus Young sprinted down the catwalk to a small circular stage near the middle of the arena.
As the stage rose, Young threw himself to the floor, playing his solo while frantically kicking his legs, a spectacle somewhere between a Three Stooges routine and a child's temper tantrum.
If you're of the opinion that the best rock 'n' roll is something between a Three Stooges routine and a child's temper tantrum, you probably were among the 17,181 who packed the Forum. If you're not, you probably don't like AC/DC in the first place, and why are you even reading this?
Young likely has done that leg-kicking routine during every AC/DC show since as far back as anyone can remember. It wouldn't be an AC/DC show without it, or the cannons during final encore "For Those About to Rock, We Salute You," or the inflatable harlot during "Whole Lotta Rosie."
This time Rosie straddled the "Rock 'n' Roll Train" which appeared to crash into the rear of the stage as the band opened with the song of that name.
It was one of five songs AC/DC played from this year's "Black Ice," album, which must be some kind of record, considering that the 28 years between the new disc and the career-making "Back in Black" were represented by exactly two songs.
Beyond that, any fan could have called most of the set list - nice to hear "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" and "Shoot to Thrill" in there. But no one goes to see AC/DC to be surprised.
You go to see Angus go nuts; to hear his brother, rhythm guitarist Malcolm, and bassist Cliff Williams hammer out the riffs; to hear lovable lecher Brian Johnson howl about rolling thunder and dirty women; and to watch drummer Phil Rudd smoke cigarette after cigarette. And that's what they did.
Thank heaven or hell, depending on your inclination.
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Review: Miami Herald
by Howard Cohen
AC/DC rocks fans all night long
There's a reason AC/DC is once again rock's best selling act with its new Black Ice album and on a recession-proof, sold-out arena tour, which included Saturday night's high voltage concert at Sunrise's BankAtlantic Center.
At a time of great uncertainty and forced change, AC/DC offers reliable comfort food -- albeit of a very loud and unrelenting variety -- for the eyes and ears. Thanks to the popularity of video games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, classic rock riffs are back in vogue which could explain why so many teens, as well as some of their dads, came to hear a 61-year-old lead singer howl innuendo-laden '70s staples like Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Highway to Hell and why, nearly two hours later, everyone kept cheering in the arena's miles of aisles as fans slowly made their way to the exits, long after the band left the building. If Washington, D.C. could somehow figure out a way to corral the recipe and unleash the rapture AC/DC pumps into its fans, the nation's depressed mood could improve tenfold.
There are few things that are dependable these days, but an AC/DC concert works for precisely that reason. AC/DC will always close its shows with For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) and its ''21 gun salute'' round of cannon fire, leather and gravel throat singer Brian Johnson will briefly ride the rope of a huge bell that descends from the rafters for Hells Bells, and guitarist Angus Young, in his trademark English schoolboy costume of course, will drop trou after a strip tease in the middle of The Jack. (Except rather than the full moon of yesteryear, the ever-lean and diminutive Young reveals undies emblazoned with the AC/DC logo).
The band, formed in 1973 in Australia by the Young brothers (Angus and Malcolm), does one thing only but it does it exceptionally well: AC/DC plays hard, blues-based rock. It has never recorded a ballad, never tarnished its image with ill-advised forays into disco, techno, hip-hop or any of the other trends it has outlived. Aside from the alcohol related death in 1980 of original vocalist Bon Scott, we've never had to endure tiresome tales in the tabloids of interband squabbles or egos run amok from these guys.
If all of this sounds like an AC/DC concert is rote, these clever lads find new ways to keep its delivery fresh. The band's opening alone might well have been the most visually impressive entrance any rock band has conceived of yet.
The 105-minute concert opened with a train wreck, but that's not a critical summation of the show to follow. A video on high-definition screens flashed cartoon images of the band amid lusty women who performed suggestive acts with relish. All the while, a locomotive screeches its brakes and chug-chug-chugs down the track. The sexy images and roaring train merge and ultimately climax in an explosion of pyrotechnics. When the smoke cleared, a life-sized replica of a locomotive appeared, precariously tilted off the tracks, at the back of the stage above the band. The familiar crashing chords of the current hit, Rock N Roll Train, kicked off the set and that same train would later belch fire during TNT and serve as transportation for a gigantic, buxom inflatable doll who straddled it during Whole Lotta Rosie, an ode to a portly groupie immortalized in song by the late Scott more than 30 years ago.
Songs from the new Black Ice would be the only post-1990 music (save Thunderstruck) AC/DC would offer on this tour and these new songs -- Rock N Roll Train, War Machine, Big Jack -- fit seamlessly with the Back in Black favorites they resemble. For a band who refuses to sell its tracks digitally as singles and steadfastly forbids its labels from releasing greatest hits compilations, the contradiction is that its concerts are greatest hits packages, especially since the group purposefully steered away from material from its commercially overlooked albums like the underrated Flick of the Switch (1983) or the Black Ice predecessor, Stiff Upper Lip (2000), for instance.
Other subtle changes reigned, too. While the '80s hard rock style has come back -- exemplified by the look and sound of opening act, Belfast's The Answer -- that decade's penchant for Lead Singer Potty Mouth Syndrome has not yet returned. This was a show you could take the kids to -- well, except for the train sex visuals at the start. Sure, AC/DC's lyrics are locker room naughty but you can't make them out in the cavernous acoustics of the arena when the music is cranked this loud.
AC/DC as family entertainment? It happened to all the once lascivious rock icons -- the Stones, Kiss, Aerosmith. Long may AC/DC -- as good as any of these acts, rock.
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Back In Black
Big Jack
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Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
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Highway To Hell
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Review: The Charlotte Observer
AC/DC crowd cranks up the voltage
More than current pop stars like Kanye West and the Jonas Brothers who played Charlotte last summer, the hard rock of 35-year-old AC/DC was probably the most anticipated concert in 2008 considering how quickly tickets sold out.
With eight years between albums, the threat of not seeing them live again was enough to fill Time Warner Cable Arena on Thursday. The Australian rock veterans didn't disappointed either, presenting one of the biggest productions and most impressive sounding shows this year. The crowd was so pumped even little known Irish hard rockers the Answer, who opened with a short set bathed in equal parts Led Zeppelin and AC/DC's influences, received a warm reception.
AC/DC was introduced with a runaway train animation featuring guitarist Angus Young as a devil that played on its opening song and recent hit, "Rock n' Roll Train." As the group hit the stage, the screen split in two and a huge, smoking locomotive appeared to "bust" through the backdrop.
The entire crowd, which ranged from college boys (well inebriated before even hitting the doors) to women and men who were as old as the band, rose to its feet and never sat down. For their part, the Young brothers, in their early-to-mid 50s and singer Brian Johnson, 61, still rock extremely hard for their age. Never a band known for its slick look, the stage looked much like their '80s videos that appeared a 1,000 times on MTV: Young kick-hopping across the stage in his school boy uniform, Johnson wailing in his cap, and rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young in tank top and jeans.
Johnson, whose voice has been a point of speculation on this tour, was a force - appearing to sing decades-old songs in the key they were written in. Sure, his voice sounds like its fighting shards of glass to escape his throat in songs like 1980's "Shoot to Thrill" and "Back in Black," 1976's "Dirty Deeds," and the new track "War Machine," but it always has.
Although the lead-in animation was pure adult entertainment, the crowd wasn't all 21 and up. A 6-year-old named Jack apparently knew the song "Big Jack" well. He rose to his feet and nodded to his dad knowingly when Johnson introduced it - one of five tracks from its No. 1 2008 album "Black Ice." It was one of two jacks, in fact. "The Jack" came later.
The production was impressive for a hard rock band that could've ignited a riot without bells and whistles beyond the lone power of its gritty grooves and Angus Young's hyper soloing. Instead, they performed beneath an archway of lights with animated video occasionally adding a bit of sexy spirit to songs like "You Shook Me All Night Long." A giant bell reading AC/DC was lowered as the bell tolled the introduction of "Hell's Bells."
The drunken, fist-pounding mood and heart-thumping bass elevated as the band fired off "You Shook Me%u2026," "TNT," and "Whole Lotta Rosie" before taking its bow following Angus Young's solo during "Let There Be Rock." For the encore, he rose from a flaming hole in the stage wearing his devil horns for "Highway to Hell." To cap that, the train was replaced by seven cannons for "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)." Fans would've jumped out of their seats as the deafening cannons boomed, had they not already been on their feet. For his part, Johnson tore his throat to shreds even more during the blasting finale.
While probably the season's most anticipated show, it was also the most unruly. Few fans left without some evidence of beer spill or avoiding vomit in the concession area.
AC/DC Setlist and Review Philips Arena Atlanta GA Dec 16, 2008
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Review: The Gwinnett Daily Post
by Nate McCullough
If it's too loud, you're too old - and you should know better
I love hard rock music.
I love all sorts of music actually. I guess it's the musician in me. I taught myself to play the guitar a long time ago, and it's something I continue to this day. The process of learning to play an instrument, I think, gives you an added appreciation for the musical abilities of all sorts, which is why I have everything from Amadeus Mozart to B.B. King to George Jones to Rob Zombie on my iPod.
But like I said, it's the guitar I play - the electric guitar to be specific - and that's why I'm such a fan of hard rock. I grew up in the 1980s during the heyday of heavy metal, and while the blues will always be my first love, I rarely pass a day without a little screaming vocals, driving bass and overdriven guitars taking up a part of it.
That kind of music moves me, which is what good music should do. A good song should excite you, make you happy - or make you sad as the case may be. The bottom line is you should identify with it, and if it's catchy then it's done its job.
But no matter what you're listening to, and no matter how much you love it, it's not worth damaging your ears to indulge. The reason I say that is I had a close call this week.
The culprits: AC/DC. You know who they are, even if you're not a fan. Your kids wear their
T-shirts and pretend to be them while banging on plastic guitars to their songs on video games.
They are the world's best at what they do, playing simple, strong, hard-driving, good-time music. The lead guitarist has heavily influenced my playing. And they've never done a ballad. Not once in 35 years. There's something to be said for that.
So needless to say, when I found out they were going on tour for the first time in eight years, I had to go. I was able to get good seats, and so Tuesday night, stepson in tow, I showed up at Philips Arena ready to be blown away.
And when I say ready, I was ready. I'd been to an AC/DC show before. I knew how loud it would be.
Did I mention that AC/DC used to hold the record for being the world's loudest band? Well, I knew that, so I did a very un-rock 'n' roll thing and took earplugs.
The aforementioned record has been held by several bands over the years. The record sound level tends to fall in the 120- to 135-decibel range. For reference, that's roughly 30 decibels louder than a jackhammer and about the same as a jet engine. It's also at the threshold of pain and the level at which permanent hearing loss can occur after brief exposure.
Why would anyone submit themselves to such a thing? If you have to ask, you probably wouldn't understand the answer anyway.
I don't know what kind of digital and electronic gizmos they're using these days to mix live concerts, but the sound was amazing. So much so that it was deceptively "unloud," so when the band started to play, I thought, "I can take this." And the earplugs stayed in my pocket.
What a dumb idea.
The show was great, but afterward I couldn't hear a thing. I'm talking nearly Helen Keller deaf.
No big deal, I thought. I'd been to loud concerts before. My hearing had always come back in a few hours.
But the next morning I still had a ringing/whooshing sound in both ears and I was saying "Huh?" a lot more than usual. By mid-afternoon, I was starting to get concerned because it had never taken that long for my hearing to return to normal.
By late afternoon, with my ears actually hurting a little bit, the concern was full-fledged. I started wondering what life with hearing aids would be like and if the annoying ringing/whooshing would ever go away.
To make a long story short, my hearing finally returned to normal Thursday. At least I think it's normal. I'm sure there's an ear-nose-throat doctor out there somewhere who will e-mail me to tell me that even though it seems normal, I actually did damage my hearing, and to that person I would say, "You're preaching to the choir."
Even though it seems normal, I can't imagine that I haven't at least hurt my ears a little. But it would seem that for the most part, I dodged a bullet this time. For that I'm thankful. I'm also thankful that in this instance my stepson was smarter than me and actually used his ear plugs.
I can assure you that next time, I'll do the same, no matter how un-rock 'n' roll it is. It doesn't do much good to love music if you can't hear it anymore.
AC/DC Tour 2008 Setlist and Review Toyota Center Houston TX Dec 14, 2008
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Review: The Orange Leader
by Tommy Mann, Jr.
AC/DC: Four decades and still rockin'
After more than 30 years since the release of the its first album, AC/DC proved they can still rock as hard and long as any young band out there.
AC/DC performed at the Toyota Center in Houston on Sunday night in support of its newest album, "Black Ice," which is its first album since 2000.
From the introductory video of a devilish Angus Young sending a locomotive out of control and off the tracks to the opening song, "Rock and Roll Train" complete with a huge, authentic looking locomotive as the stage backdrop, AC/DC grabbed fans by the throat for a 100 minute, out-of-control joy ride.
Vocalist Brian Johnson's voice was as powerful as ever, as was the band's PA system. This was easily one of the loudest concerts I've attended in some time.
The band did a fine job of mixing in classic tunes one expects to hear at an AC/DC concert, while still managing to work in a number of new tunes from "Black Ice," such as "Big Jack" and "War Machine."
A bevy of classic tracks like "Back in Black," "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Thunderstruck" and "Hells Bells" kept the sold out crowd's fists in the air and heads banging.
No AC/DC concert is complete until guitarist Angus Young proceeds to delight the crowd with his hilarious striptease down to the AC/DC boxer shorts, which he did during "The Jack."
As the show rolled on the band continued dishing out hit after hit as songs "Shoot for Thrills," "You Shook Me All Night Long," and "TNT," compete with its pyrotechnic display, which was met with roaring approval.
As Johnson informed the crowd the band had "brought an old friend along," the group kicked into "Whole Lotta Rosie" as a gigantic inflatable "Rosie" filled with air and straddled the locomotive.
"Let There Be Rock" included an extended guitar solo by Young before ending the regular set and returning with encores "Highway to Hell" and "For Those About to Rock," which included the traditional six cannon barrage at the end of the song.
All in all, it was a fabulous set from AC/DC, and, on this night, whether this album and tour proves to be the band's farewell or not, AC/DC proved why it is still one of the greatest rock acts in the world.
AC/DC Tour 2008 Setlist and Review US Airways Center Phoenix AZ Dec 10, 2008
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Setlist:
Rock n Roll Train
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot to thrill
War Machine
Anything Goes
You Shook Me all night long
TNT
Whole lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
Review: The Arizona Republic
by Larry Rodgers
AC/DC thrill fans with solid set
This year's AC/DC tour may be just what the doctor ordered for Americans worried about layoffs, disintegrating 401-Ks and paying the mortgage.
Primordial rock music paired with lyrics about people who enjoy a good time without worrying about any down side can put a smile on the face of even the most jaded listener.
There were thousands of smiles Wednesday night at US Airways Center in Phoenix as AC/DC ran through its catalog of rock classics as well as tunes from its latest album, Black Ice.
The Aussie band, led by guitarist Angus Young and singer Brian Johnson, hasn't toured in several years, but this rock and roll machine has a 25-year history. There was no sign of rust during the 105-minute set, which kept the sellout crowd on its feet the entire time.
The show opened with an animated video of a runaway train, transporting the band and some scantily-clad rocker babes. The message was clear: The driving rock of groups like AC/DC won't be sidetracked, no matter where the world at large may be headed.
As a full-size model of a steam locomotive burst into the main stage backdrop, the band took the stage, playing Rock N' Roll Train, the debut single from Black Ice. The slick, straight-ahead rocker illustrated how AC/DC is one band that isn't afraid to stick with a formula that has worked for decades.
Johnson also showed that he isn't intimidated by the shadow of his late predecessor, Bon Scott, when he sang 1977's Hell Ain't a Bad Place To Be early on.
But Johnson also wasted no time in rolling out one of his own early triumphs, the title cut from 1980's Back In Black album. Like most of the night's selection, this classic was by-the-book perfect.
"You guys make us feel proud up here," Johnson, 61, said in acknowledging the crowd's overwhelming reaction to the classic-rock staple.
During that song, and several others, Young threatened to steal the show, duck-walking across the stage like Chuck Berry while dressed in his trademark schoolboy's uniform.
Even after a hiatus from the stage, Young continues to be one of rock's most engaging guitar players and biggest crowd favorites. He prowled the stage during classics like Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Thunderstuck. (A clear floor allowing a camera to film Young dancing across the stage from below during the latter song was a fun touch.)
Young, who shed most of his clothes halfway through the show, threw down a lead during Let There Be Rock that was reminiscent of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page at his wildest
As the band moved through a collection of classics (You Shook Me All Night Long, Shoot To Thrill, T.N.T.) and new songs (Big Jack, Anything Goes, War Machine), it made a case for the ability of musicians in their 50s and 60s to keep rocking in a big way.
Young's brother, rhythm guitarist Malcolm, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd remain one of rock's most solid and understated backup units.
The band dished out just enough pyrotechnics as well an appearance by a massive inflatable woman (for Whole Lotta Rosie) and the obligatory row of cannons for the show-closing For Those About to Rock (We Salute You).
If there was one complaint, it was that only Johnson made extensive use of a walkway that stretched far into the crowd.
Angus Young stressed quality over quantity in