[kj] (OT) AC/DC Last Night in LA

[Bette Dillinger]

Too funny.  I remember that an AC/DC album that I saw at a local shop and got a friend's mother to buy (yeah, I couldn't believe it either) was confiscated by my irrate father due to it's "Satanic cover" ("If You Want Blood.....You Got It").  He couldn't believe they sold it to this little kid (me).  This was many years after its initial release.  Of course, that made me have to have that album and several others too.  
 
Bon Scott would be crying right now.  But he never really saw eye to eye with the Young brothers, now did he?  Le sigh.
 
Bette
 

> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:09:40 -0500> From: vassifer at earthlink.net> To: gathering at misera.net; gathering at misera.net> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) AC/DC Last Night in LA> > > Speaking of AC/DC.....> > http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2008/12/dirty-deeds-indeed.html> > Alex in NYC> > > > -----Original Message-----> >From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>> >Sent: Dec 10, 2008 3:05 PM> >To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>> >Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) AC/DC Last Night in LA> >> >Nice, summary, TB. Spoken like a true fan! : )> >> >k.w.> >SoCal> >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "TB" <partyslammer at socal.rr.com>> >To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" > ><gathering at misera.net>> >Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:23 AM> >Subject: [kj] (OT) AC/DC Last Night in LA> >> >> >> Caught AC/DC last night in Los Angeles at the Forum arena. It's been a > >> long time since I've been to a show that wrecked my hearing like this one > >> did.> >>> >> I had the "paperless ticket" entry which is something I suppose > >> Ticketmaster came up with to prevent people from scalping the best seats > >> in the house. Basically, you buy your seat(s) online at TM, they give you > >> a confirmation code but you never get a physical ticket, not even a PDF > >> file ticket so in theory you have nothing to sell, especially the day of > >> the show if you're a scalper unless you're going in with the person(s) you > >> sold your tickets to.> >>> >> I originally got a pair of 21st row seats right next to the end stage in > >> the center of the floor and when a friend bailed a couple days after I > >> bought them, I was able to sell my extra on eBay for a few hundred bucks, > >> thus paying for both my tickets. The buyer met me at the Forum at a > >> predetermined time and location and what I had to do was present the > >> credit card I bought the tickets with at the door, the security dude scans > >> my CC with a handheld ticket printer which spit out a little receipt for > >> each ticket that looked like it came from 7/11 that had the seat number > >> and in we went. Congratulations, TM - nice try. No problem for me but > >> the couple behind didn't have the right credit card they bought their > >> tickets with. I dunno what happened with them but they were freaking out.> >>> >> After a few drinks we caught some of the opening band's set. "The Answer" > >> was kind of like a more boring, anonymous version of The Darkness. Some > >> solid tunes but nothing revolutionary or memorable.> >>> >> AC/DC came on right about 9pm on the money and man, they were fucking > >> loud. Not only loud, but really crisp and clear, especially Angus' guitar > >> which could have cut through a nuclear blast. Although singer Brian > >> Johnson was a bit buried in the mix, he sounded very strong for the entire > >> show and overall, I'd say the sound was among the cleanest, sharpest hard > >> rock shows in an arena (especially the notoriously shitty sounding Forum) > >> I've heard in years. Angus Young (and his brother Malcom) have one of the > >> purest rock n' roll guitar tones especially live of anyone you'd see and > >> hear. the live album "If You Want Blood" is one of the best sounding live > >> records imo, and last night's show has that same direct, clean live sound.> >>> >> Following a short CG animated cartoon introduction video on a set of big > >> clear video screens, they opened with "Rock and Roll Train" off the new > >> album followed by what I'd call the only semi deep classic cut of the > >> night, "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be."> >>> >> Of course, as per any AC/DC show, you get the big hits, meaning the four > >> main cuts from "Back in Black," as well as the usual suspects from the Bon > >> Scott era. What breaks the current set up is the inclusion of 5 tracks > >> spread throughout the main set from the new "Black Ice" album. Of those > >> tracks, I'd say "Anything Goes" came off the best. The title track, Black > >> Ice is a beer run song. Interestingly, aside from "For Those About To > >> Rock" and "Thunderstruck," there were no songs in the set from any Brian > >> Johnson album after "Back in Black" up to the new album which is basically > >> a 20+ year chunk of their career ignored.> >>> >> The band are physically really showing their age. Angus looks pretty > >> creepy these days and someone should tell him it's just fuckin' weird for > >> a guy who looks like a trollish, balding grandpa to be doing a > >> semi-striptease in the middle of "The Jack." Still aside from struggling > >> a bit with the intro to Thunderstruck, he still has all his chops even if > >> he has slowed down a tad as far as running around the stage from the old > >> days. But from a musical standpoint, the band as a whole sounded every > >> bit as sharp and solid as they ever have.> >>> >> If I had one complaint, the Forum crowd wasn't really that loud, kinda > >> tame overall. Pretty wide mix of ages, a lot of people my age or even > >> older for whom this was and will be their only rock concert in the past > >> few years but a lot of 20-somethings and younger kids as well. Pretty > >> much the same kinda crowd as the Van Halen show I caught last year. At > >> least the drunken asshole factor was non-existant.> >>> >> Overall, a really solid, kinda predictable (if you know anything at all > >> about AC/DC's history) but highly enjoyable nearly 2 hour show right down > >> to the silly giant inflatable "Rosie" which gyrated on the huge train > >> backdrop during "Whole Lotta Rosie."> >>> >> T.B.> >> _______________________________________________> >> Gathering mailing list> >> Gathering at misera.net> >> http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering> >> > >> >_______________________________________________> >Gathering mailing list> >Gathering at misera.net> >http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering> > _______________________________________________> Gathering mailing list> Gathering at misera.net> http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

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