Angus!
That’s the call of the audience before the first song. And it’s understandable.
When you’re 15, you think AC/DC is all about Angus. But when you get older, you realise that Malcolm is actually the beating heart of the band. He’s got the groove, he’s got the drive. He’s got the roll, to go with the rock, that sets this band apart from their many imitators.
The old joke is that AC/DC only ever made one album. 16 times in a row. I mean there’s an element of truth to that, but it’s a little unfair. This album is the closest they came to releasing a greatest hits album and the arrangements don’t veer too far from the studio versions (they just have added crowd noise). But do you want AC/DC to go off on a jazz odyssey? No. quite clearly you don’t.
They might have made the same album 16 times in a row, but they know what they do and they do it well.
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