(03-28-2018 09:52 PM)BEARCATDALE Wrote:  

(03-26-2018 08:02 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  I've been playing some 70's era AC/DC myself.

I had just entered jr high in 1980 when Back in Black smashed onto the airwaves that fall. For Christmas I got a wood burning kit. First thing I made was an engraving of AC/DC onto a 1'x2' board. In 8th grade my parents let my sister (she had only gotten her license two weeks previous) drive me downtown to see them the day before Thanksgiving. Saw them again my sophomore year, then senior year, then drove back while in college to see them again. One of the best bands live.

So, long story long....

In grade school one of my buddies was all about some AC/DC and would talk about Bon Scott / Brian Johnson ect... Angus Young.... ect... all the time. I think my first hearing them was some radio songs off Back In Black and the Who Made Who via Maximum Overdrive ...and then of course The Razor's Edge and Thunderstruck et. all off that cd. I got AC/DC Live as my first cd of theirs. I got into so many more songs I hadn't already heard before. I dug that cd a lot. I believe I got Back in Black next. I liked it a lot as well. Then, on some EPIC BMG music club sale I ended up getting their entire back catalog. I kind of get the Bon Scott Brian Johnson thing... to me its kind of like DLR vs. Sammy Haggar. In each case, both lead singers work with the music well and each have their own hits but its kind of like the band's identity is still defined by the first guys to do it.