Band Was Going To Break Up- Then UNKNOWN Singer IGNITED 'em to 50 Million Sales! | Professor Of Rock
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- Today’s track is like rollin’ thunder. And it comes at you just like a hurricane. It’s a powerful, heavy hitting anthem, and designed to blow you away. Hells Bells by AC/DC But in spite of that, it was actually written as a tribute to a fallen frontman, Bon Scott. Brian Johnson came into the band with some big shoes to feel as Angus Young and his brother Malcom young along with uber producer Mutt Lange created the biggest selling rock record ever… Back In Black . Charged with writing the lyrics to this rock epitaph on the tight deadline of just one day, Brian Johnson found himself paralyzed with writer’s block. But after some unexpected inspiration and spooky, supernatural experience, his fortunes began to improve. He felt like he received some help from the grave, then later the band had a 1 ton bell commissioned to get the right sound for the song...the story is coming up next on Professor Of Rock.
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So I’m excited today to get into the story behind the opening track of one of the biggest selling albums in history. AC/DC’s ‘take no prisoners, spare no lives’ tribute to the late great Bon Scott, Hell’s Bells. Just weeks into the recording of AC/DC’s landmark album, Back in Black, newly hired lead singer Brian Johnson was suffering from writer’s block.
It was the spring of 1980 and the band had gathered at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas… The Young brothers, Malcolm and Angus, were furiously churning out new material for the record at breakneck speeds. Just as Brian finished the lyrics to one song, the brothers were right there with another riff ready to go.
Finally, one morning Johnson hit the wall. Or as he described it, he was “dead in the head.” In his newly released memoirs, Johnson recounted what happened next. I’ll just paraphrase what he said…
Outside there were black clouds were forming and the horizon. And soon a storm was raging over the ocean. About this time there was a knock on the door of Johnson’s guesthouse. When he opened it, he saw legendary producer Mutt Lange, a certifiable musical genius. Lange had produced AC/DC’s previous album Highway to Hell and was on the island with them to helm the sequel.
The second Brian opened the door, Mutt saw the look on his face. “What’s the matter Brian?” “I’m struggling here, Mutt… I’ve just got a bit of writer’s block, that’s all.” As Mutt stood there in the open doorway, he thought for a moment and asked “Are you stuck on anything in particular?” Brian said he was working on a new riff from Malcom called Hell’s Bells. Just then, somewhere in the distance, there was a loud, earth-shaking roar. “That’s rolling thunder,” said Lange. It was an expression Brian hadn’t heard before, but instantly something clicked. And Mutt could see it in Brian’s eyes. “There you go,” he said, “your first line.”
After that, it started dumping rain. “Pouring rain,” Brian said.
“And listen to that wind,” said Mutt.“It’s coming on like a hurricane!” said Brian Boom that was it! AC/DC’s newly anointed lyricist was off and running.
POLL: What is your pick for the greatest opening track on a classic album?
"More Than a Feeling"- Boston(Boston);
"Thunder Road" - Bruce Springsteen(Born To Run);
"Baba O'Riley- The Who(Who's Next);
"I Feel the Earth Move"- Carole King(Tapestry); "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)"- Billy Joel(The Stranger).
Burning Down The House on Speaking In Tongues by the Talking Heads.
Whole Lotta Love or Black Dog (yeah I'm a Zeppelin fan)
Them Bones - Alice In Chains on the album Dirt.
We are the Champions - Queen
Baba O'Riley - The Who
There are good albums, there are great albums, and then there’s albums that transcend time and belongs in a league of its own. “Back in Black” is such an album.
Absolutely
Truth.
Agreed along with Let There Be Rock and Powerage
@@shewolfcub3 - lol disagree. Those 2 album are nowhere near in the same league as BiB
@@brianstrutter1501 Horrible take, Bon Scott was an absolute lyrical and musical genius and without him the band wouldnt have gotten as big either. Those 2 albums are just as influential and well made alongside Highway To Hell
Back in Black is still a must have and must play. Simply one of the best albums ever recorded. So good, sound engineers use it to tune their equipment. It's a masterpiece.
A good record producer knows how to give a band, or a lyricist a push when they need it. Good job Mutt.
Loved his work.
He did the same thing with Def Leppard.
These guys are great and LOUD! I saw AC/DC perform in the 1980's. That was the last time I went to a concert WITHOUT ear plugs. My ears rang terribly for four days afterward and whenever somebody talked to me, my response was, "What did you say?" I was left with permanent hearing impairment, but still love their music.
Wow. That's amazing. Well worth it.
....My ears are STILL ringing....maybe it's because I'm still listening to Bananarama!! ...ha-HAAA!! ...juskiddin'!
LOL, I saw them twice and luckily that didn't happen to me. The band that did leave my ears ringing for days was The Who, probably contributed to my current tinnitus.
Same! I saw them in 1983 on the Flick of the Switch tour. My hearing was impacted for about a week. Thankfully it returned to nromal.
While AC/DC was loud, Black Sabbath is my hearing loss concert.
This album is a coming of age album for me. I was 15 at the time and it just blew me away.
When I first heard Back in Black it changed my life. There was a whole new kind of music being born.
I remember it like it was yesterday: A few of us teens were walking home one hot Summer night. Steve put in his newly purchased Back in Black tape in his big boom-box and hit play. We were mesmerized. We took the looong way home that night.
A masterpiece of unadulterated Rock and Roll.
The 80s: _Lived ‘em. Loved ‘em. Miss ‘em._
So glad I got to see ACDC live in 1981 during the early days of the Brian Johnson era. They were, as the name implies, electric in concert.
They lit up the stage.
A few years after this album was released I was hanging out with some friends listening to tapes. Someone popped in Back in Black and encouraged by alcohol we all started singing along. We didn't stop after the first song, or the second, or the third, but actually sang all nine songs. My friends were actually cool is what I thought. ACDC to my knowledge never released a sub-par song therefore will remain in the number one spot of my favorite bands always.
Because they’re all classic rock standards!
The first time I hear Back In Black I was speechless. Truly blown away and knowing AC⚡️DC was back and rocking. Great Album and a great comeback from despair.
RIP Bon Scott and Malcom
This great track , "Black Sabbath" - BLACK SABBATH ... "For whom the bell tolls" - METALLICA ... and "Division Bell" - PINK FLOYD ... the 4 greatest songs that starts with a sound of the Bell ... makes the 4 pillars that builds the unholy temple of Rock & Roll and Metal ......
Greatly done Professor ... cheers and respects as always from Korea ......
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The second you hear that bell strike and that clean clear opening riff you knew this was going to be their opener for future concerts. Great story behind the song and the inspiration behind the lyrics. I love Bon but they couldn't have picked a better lead singer after his death than Brian.
I mean, it’s a no brainer! At least everyone I’ve spoken to immediately recognizes the intro to Back in Black.
Such a good comment! You've hit the nail (or bell?) smack bang on the proverbial head. I couldn't agree with you any more, even if I tried!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 maybe the best known rock album
@@jo.s7993 who would have thought Brian could pick up where Bon left off and made them even bigger?
@@MyName-pl7zn It’s in the running.
The Back In Black album was such an incredible accomplishment given the tragic circumstances. The greatest tribute album to a fallen band-mate's unexpected death. This album really solidified AC/DC as legends of hard rock. My favorite song from the album is "You Shook Me All Night Long" which has already been covered on this channel.
That's right. Great song.
It remains a classic to this day. Every song is iconic.
I am about to download TH-cam music to listen to interruption free
@@ProfessorofRock great video, I like your channel, next, you should cover how Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks helped Fleetwood Mac to go on to sell over 100 million albums worldwide while having relationship drama.
My only gripe with that particular song is that Led Zeppelin did it 11 years prior, and AC/DC's version is the one most people think of instead
Great video on the backstory on this song, PoR! Funny how things just happen to come together.
Thank you Adam, PoR, for having me as an honorary producer for this video on a very amazing band.
The whole album is a masterpiece. It's one of the very few Rock albums you can just put on and push play. No need to skip anything. "Have a Drink on Me" is still one of my favorite AC/DC songs. I personally have bought the album at least 3 times. It's a standard. At times in my life when I've been without it, buying it was a no brainer. There's a reason it's the greatest selling Rock album of all time.
I’ll never forget the first time I heard “Hells Bells” 🔔 I was at 6th grade camp and some kid had the album and played it. I was a little spooked honestly and in aww at the same time. I couldn’t believe it cause I felt like I never heard anything like it!
I can see how haunting that song must have been to newbies.
Hells Bells is one of my few immediate crank-up songs.
The very first band I ever loved!!!! Early 80's were a cool time to be a little kid!
No question. Thanks Michael!
What a great start to your childhood.
Acdc turned a tragedy into a positive, every song on back in black is a masterpiece, just like highway to hell , I have to give mutt Lange credit, he has his mark all over the music industry, rip bon Scott
Wouldn't go that far. Great album, but only four truly great songs for me. Powerage is the only ACDC album no fillers .
I agree with you!
@@spanishpeaches2930 ehhhh disagree heavily. Let There Be Rock, Highway To Hell, Flick of the switch, and Back In Black are the same
They did Bon proud on this album. Even making the album cover all black was a powerful tribute to him.
It’s so amazing.
Every song had an overnight deadline.... for the whole Back in Black album.... pause in stunned silence.
I felt the same way when Brian May said that Queen didn't rehearse Bohemian Rhapsody.... They just showed up and figured it out.
Brian's friend knows nothing if he thinks this was "too high". As a die hard Bon Scott fan even I think it was just perfection. It wasn't Bon ... but it was GOOD. I like both singers.
Back in Black is an album that's very special to me. It was the first tape I ever owned. My really cool metalhead aunt bought it for me when I was 11. It was a flea market knock off though so side a was on side b and vice versa. A couple years later she took me to see them on the Razors Edge tour. She saw them in high school with Bonn Scott and went to see them every time they came around. It was awesome and I still have one of the AC/DC dollars that they dropped on the crowd during Money Talks
I ❤️ you aunt Sarah
Sweet! I wonder if they still do that tradition of dropping money on the crowd during Moneytalks.
What a great aunt!
I was fortunate enough to see AC/DC at the Riverside Theater in September 1978 . The seating capacity for the Theater was 2450, and it wasn't even a sold-out show. Unbelievable concert.
I had no great expectations for Back In Black, but when the needle hit the vinyl, I knew this was the new Era for AC/DC. Fantastic album!!
OMG ! Professor you did it again ....lol Just answered this the other day as "what is the best album of the 80s" Back in Black changed my mind and my life ! Was a huge fan of Bon Scott and didnt think they could replace him at all. I was right they didnt replace him they exchanged him for Brian and kept the ROCK a ROLLING !
couldn't agree more. Thanks Randy.
There is no “who is better than the other”. The only answer here is: Bon and Brian.
Hell, i remember exactly where i was when i found out Bon died...I was 18 and it really shook me. I had only seen them gig ten weeks earlier at the Birmingham Odeon. What a gig that was.
I had this album on 8 track,Vinyl, cassette and finally CD. Amazing album!
I remember playing this album on cassette on my Jensen stereo in my 74 Bronco driving home from school. I felt so cool blasting it at top volume. Those were such amazing times.
I had a Jensen super tuner in my car I think it was 40 Watts total. Sounded awesome with a REO song riding in the storm out live. Cranked up to full blast naturally.
As soon as you hear the opening guitar riff, then you know that you're in for a rocking treat! 🎸😎
Exactly right!
I know NO ONE who hasn’t heard this riff before.
You Shook me All Night Long is one the greatest rock-n-roll songs ever! having met Brian and his wife, he's a great guy!!
How fortunate. ❤
Bon and Brian both brought unique vocal styles to metal.
Both were equally awesome.
I agree. Team Both!
Except that Malcolm and Angus never described their music as "metal".
Ac/DC are not metal
I remember getting it brand new on cassette when it came out. I wore out four copies of that cassette. It was my ONLY album I would go to for about a year.....and when my Dad died unexpectedly in 1982, it somehow provided comfort and escape for me. Still one of the greatest albums of all time. It PERMANENTLY shaped me as a musician.
I had heard "You Shook Me All Night Long" years ago as a kid back in the 80s, but it wasn't until 2001 when I was thrusted into AC/DC fandom. I was in the navy and on my first 6 month deployment. Our second stop was Fremantle, Australia. When I was able to leave the ship, I went straight to a local record shop. They were playing "You Shook Me All Night Long" on the radio in the shop, so I asked the clerk if I could listen to the CD. They had listening stations set up by the counter. I was hooked from the beginning with that church bell. I listened to about a minute of each song and it was an immediate buy! While speaking to the clerk, he looked as if he had just created a monster...which he had LOL. I ended up buying Back In Black and Highway To Hell. As a "Welcome To Australia" gift, he threw in For Those About To Rock, TNT, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and The Razor's Edge for free. Needless to say, it was an experience I will never forget.
That was epic. You did absolute justice to such an iconic album. This is actually the first album I ever remember somebody breaking because they had played it so much LOL. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
L the f*** OL! How do you break an album?
If you ever get the opportunity to see them in concert you must. There are few feelings more emotional than the start of Hells Bells with Brian Johnson hitting the giant bell with the sledge hammer. Then the guitar riff comes in. As the music is playing and Brian is working swinging that hammer. The sound of that bell and guitar live will move you. If it doesn't you have no soul.
One of my top 3 favorite bands of all time. I bet I've worn out at least 5 copies of Back in Black!! 🙌🏻🎼 Thanks for this one!! 💘 it!!!
Awesome!
🔥
My very first cassette that I purchased was "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC. My 2nd cassette was April Wine's "Stand Back". My 3rd purchase was AC/DC "Back In Black". To this day, Back in Black is my favorite AC/DC album of all time. I hope I will get to see AC/DC live before they call it a career. Sadly, I have never had a chance to see them before.
Same here. I want to very badly.
Me neither, and nowadays when you go to a concert you cannot really hear the band playing your favorite song without all the whooping and hollering. 😢
Don't feel bad , I actually wrote it and designed concerts , videos , and directions on how to do videos , and I've never been to a single concert either , that's why they made a video of the concerts called , Plug Me In...
Has 1 song from every concert up to that time ,
R/Steven Schweinfurth Ghostwriter of ACDC
&A Ghost of Joan Jett too.
My favorite AC/DC song of all! The album was a super strong start for Brian Johnson with the band. The full story of the recording experience is fantastic 😁
The greatest comeback album of all time.
AC/DC has had number one albums on billboard. For those about to rock went to number one as well as black ice. AC/DC is in the top selling of all time because of sustained sales, which means you don’t necessarily need to be number one to be top selling
They’re one of the biggest bands of all time.
I remember The first time I heard this on 8track. My sister had it in my dads Pontiac Bonneville. We drove all the way to North Carolina to pick her up from her moms house. On the way back my dad threw the copy he had just bought her out the window screaming at her saying that was junk. She started crying and he promised her he would buy her another copy as soon as we got back to Austin. We listened to that 8track that whole summer nonstop at Travis Lake. I had such good memory's of my sister and all the good music she turned me onto. I love you and Miss you Brenda!
Couldn’t have been easy to come in and replace Bon Scott-but Brian Johnson did it fantastically!
I was in college when Back in Black came out. We would put our speakers in the window of our dorm room and blast Hells Bells to the world at full volume. Nobody ever complained. It's always been my favorite song on the album.
My friend and I went to the Fort Wayne coliseum to see AC/DC on their Back in Black tour. Back in those days smoking was allowed inside and we were in the nose bleed section of the coliseum. Within 20 feet of us there was at least 40 people smoking, but only 3 of them had cigarettes. We left the concert with the best contact buzz you could ask for. We walked around the coliseum 3 times before we found the car. It was the first concert I ever went to. It was a great time!
My all time favorite band and an album! I think I may have purchased this 4 times! This is Rock n Roll!
Thank you. Professor.
I never realize how much I did hear these songs throughout my life.! With my friends would turn me on to rock, to just about every construction job I've ever had,
I first got into AC/DC when I was 10 or 11, right around 1990. My dad was a garbage man and regularly brought home things people threw away that were still fine. He picked up in a lot of rich neighborhoods. One day he brought home High Voltage on cassette and was playing it loudly on his little tape player while he was cutting the grass. I walked around to the back yard and heard "Can I Sit Next To You Girl" and was hooked.
Fast forward a few years, I was in middle school, and a friend of mine got me Back In Black on cassette for Christmas. My dad had been hanging out at a bar down the road from our house and heard "Rock n Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" on the jukebox and said "That has to be AC/DC. Sounds just like them." But he had no idea where it came from. When my buddy handed me the cassette and I looked over the track list, there it was. I listened to that cassette a million times with my dad. The cool thing about that cassette is, it was printed wrong. The track names for side 1 is printed on side 2, and vice versa.
Over the years I've gotten up to 5 copies of that album. Still one of my favorites, of course, cause AC/DC is my favorite band ever. This was a cool episode, thanks for this.
I was in my sophomore year of college, working at the college radio station. I remember that I was reluctant to accept Brian Johnson as the new lead for AC/DC, because I was such a huge fan of Bon Scott. After listening to the album I was sold, and still a fan of AC/DC. However, still love the Bon Scott era the best.
I was 13 when this album came out......going on 43 years later still an amazing album
Fresh off the album release of Back and Black, I was lucky to see them in concert. Angus mooned the audience and was banned from playing there in the future.
I was 9 or 10 riding in my uncle's tiny car with his 3 daughters and my little sister. He had the speakers up to heaven and the little blue car was shaking from the farm into town where we were going singing ALL the songs from the Dirty Deeds album word for word is one of my favorite 70's memories. I didn't get a chance to see them live until May 2001. Such a great band!
A Rock Band for the ages, this band is truly the spirit of what it is to rock and get your blood going. Another perfect video for the music
Didn't get to buy the cassette (was 11 when it came out) until a few after the release. Hells Bells like the rest of the album absolutely killed it! Bet I went through 3 cassettes of BIB from playing it so much.
Haha, no wonder!
We played the entire album almost constantly the first year it came out. It lived in the cassette deck in the car. Lived on the turntable at home. That summer everywhere you went you'd hear AC/DC playing. All these years later I still play it quite frequently. Thankfully CD's eventually came out so we stopped wearing out tapes or vinyl. I think a lot of sales are due to repeat customers buying replacements as tapes failed or wore out over the years.
I was thinking the same thing! I totally understand your struggles with the cassette tape and having to wind it up with a pencil! ✏️
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Not to mention the sound quality of cassette tapes sucked.
AC/DC used to be my favorite band...... still love them. I remember hearing the storm coming in that inspired Hells Bells. Both Bon and Brian were great for the band. Both great showmen too.
Thanks for this episode Professor. AC/DC is one of the most important bands in history.
Rock on!
Not a bad song on their books.
Truely is the greatest rocking roll album. When I'm singing Hells Bells with my band Stiff Upper Lip I know the crowd is going to go crazy as soon as they hear the first bell ring
Brian Johnson wasn't totally unknown before AC/DC. He was in Geordie, Goodbye Love is a 70's classic.
i have been to so many concerts i cant count but AC DC made the people wild and the girls crazy. wow what a great time and priceless Memories to look back on and smile .what a lucky wild time to be alive in this ERA Thank you Adam
This album all throughout is killer with no filler. AC/DC really came into their own in 1977 with Let There Be Rock and just kept going along releasing more great albums! Back In Black I've already played a ton of times since I got it on vinyl, and Nothing's gonna slow me down! I think that their best albums in order are: Powerage, Let There Be Rock, Highway To Hell, Back In Black, and Flick of The Switch. Also you definitely earned a new sub, I look forward to more videos
Malcolm and Angus should be on everyone's list of the top greatest guitarists who have ever lived.
I remember the first time I heard back in black as a kid. It blew me away. It really help put me on the path of loving hard rock and metal.
Great episode, Adam. My local classic rock station did a phone interview with Brian, and he talked about his book. The guy is a great storyteller. How he ended up in the band is like a fairytale.
I just love how some of the best music did not chart well when it came out. Shows so many artist are ahead of their time on the music.
Way ahead of their time!
Exactly. The Hot 100 did not accurately reflect how classic these songs, albums, and artists were.
I managed to see AC/DC in 1978 with Bon Scott at the helm.it was the highway to hell European tour at the Glasgow apollo, it was my 1st big gig,it was friggin fantastic.
And Brian Cameron and did a great job in his own right.
Both were great singers 👍
It was Bon Scott who 'chose' Brian Johnson as his replacement. Malcolm Young told this great story in an interview. According to Malcolm, Bon Scott was a huge fan of Geordie, particularly the frontman Brian Johnson. He was in awe of Brian's unique voice, how diverse it is. Bon said to his bandmates during or after a Geordie concert ; "If anything happens to me,...pointing to Brian he said...I want that man to replace me."
Brian Johnson tells a hilarious story of how AC/DC Persued and tricked him into auditioning for them.
A few years back when I was trying on my Dr. DOOM costume and the door started knocking. I was listening to my ACDC greatest hits I opened the door as the bells 🔔 began and the 2 young Mormon Missionaries stared at me. They ran off I said close the gate behind you in my most terrifying voice 💀. After the the gate slammed. I exclaimed Hahaha Hahaha! The neighbors from San Dominican 🇩🇴 😆Republic said "Dios Mijo!" Hours later they were saging near my front door! 🚪 I'm going to ask her what she thought about that! 😏
This was the first Album I ever heard from ACDC and I thought this band takes it right to the edge and hangs it there, best band ever.
Oh those young teenage years...
I remember, rolling down the windows in my '75 Cougar, red w/ white half top, Air shocks jacking up the rear with mags on it.
I would turn up the volume on my Pioneer stereo with a Pyramid EQ running through 6 Jenson Tri-axels in my back window (2 mounted and the other 4 propped up facing the front)
I would have the tape ready to go and as I slowly entered the parking lot in front of our local movie theater (which was our hangout spot) I popped in the tape and the Bell intro leading into the guitar riff was my virtual page announcing that I had arrived and the party can begin..
I felt like I was such a bad ass and had my own theme song.
If anyone else tried to show off with that song they got ridiculed for copying me. Everyone had to find what was their own signature song to cruise with or at least beginning the cruise and when you pass in front of others that weren't from your neighborhood kinda like a challenge to them.
The music back then was not just part of your life but a part of your psyche, there was something for every memory you created.
Back then when you were able to finally buy that one album, you took it home and listened to it from side one to the end of side two straight through and then played your favorites from that group over and over for a couple weeks then you got back to mixing your songs from the other albums back into your daily play list.
Buying an album and listening to music was an actual event back then. You invited friends over to hear it, you saved money up and had to pick the one choice that was sometimes where you could only buy 4 or 5 a year and just had to listen to others on the radio, over at your buddies house or, if you were really lucky, a good friend or girlfriend would record you a tape of it.
Back in black is the album that took AC/DC to become the leader of hard rock in the 80s and with mutt Lange returning as producer and the young brothers becoming the premier guitar team with a killer rhythm section with cliff Williams and Phil Rudd this was a band primed to rock stadiums
Just an all around great team of musicians.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 also check out Angus and Malcolm's older brother George's work he and his musical partner Harry Vanda were members of 60s Australian legends the easy beats which spawned the smash hit Friday on my mind and after that band folded Harry and George emerged in the late 70s as flash and the pan kind of a strange studio band who were almost like a quirkier steely Dan their big hits were hey st.peter and waiting on a train well worth exploring and also George and Harry became an massive production team in their native Australia producing the early bon Scott AC/DC and pub rock veterans the Angels or in north America known as Angel city
@@georgemathie8123 I remember Friday on My Mind! It’s a nice little ditty.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 have you heard the Gary Moore cover of Friday on my mind it's a really good cover
@@georgemathie8123 I have. He died too soon.
The Back in Black album was the first album I ever bought when I was 15 years old.
I remember it like yesterday. As a kid I was playing basketball with a few friends at the neighborhood park. Instead of a fence the town had mounded hills around the court to keep the ball from bouncing away and to separate it from the baseball field. We were just shooting around when we heard that bell. But there was no church nearby and and it was getting closer and closer. Just as the guitar riff was getting started a guy came over the hill with a massive boom box on his shoulder. I don’t remember much more from that day. What I do know is that my taste in music changed from that point forward.
It’s the biggest hard rock album ever made, for sure, but I can’t bring myself to say it’s their best. For me, the Bon Scott era is where it’s at. High Voltage. Dirty Deeds. Powerage. If You Want Blood. Those can’t be topped.
Props to the boys for carrying on, though. How many bands can survive such a tragedy?
Get all the Aussie releases.. TNT etc
When I was 6 and I first heard Dog Eat Dog, I knew acdc would be my favorite band for life.
ACDC has no equal. Brian did the impossible.
Thank God for them!
For my part, as a rock, guitarist, and a Christian, I pretty much didn’t listen to any of that stuff in those days, but I do appreciate the genius of a playing, though I am certainly concerned about the final resting place of those involved
Another great episode from the Professor 🔥
Much appreciated!
BONG! 😮 Hell's Bells! Volume goes to eleven immediately.
When people talk about "Desert Island" albums, they are talking about Back in Black. Every track is killer, no filler.
Brian Johnson trivia is hilarious. Some group took him in because he was part of the Highlanders. They thought he played bagpipes. But he played drums
And when the band was checking Brian out. He layed on the stage and screamed a blood curdling scream. Turns out he had a case of acute appendicitis
I saw them a few times.
I love the cannons .
They loosened plaster from the ceiling in the Sam Houston Collusium in Houston .this was in the 80s.
Collusium was condemned shortly.
I remember being on the school bus on a Monday I was in middle school 6th grade. And a girl got on the bus she was a couple years older than me. She had a brand new back and black concert tee. She introduced me to the band and man hood. Will never forget back in black.
Back in the 80's, no band, or no album in hard rock hit so many people around the world. AC/DC influenced millions of people to become musicians. Whether for hobby or for a living. They are living, breathing proof that 3 chords and a groove is that magical combination in Rock and roll. They know who they are, they refuse to change their music and have become the most recognizable bands worldwide. They sell out arenas everywhere.
They deserve every bit of praise they get
I've never had any interest in ACDC... until a few months ago when, for whatever reason, my brain acknowledged Thunderstruck... I have no idea why, but while it was playing on my coworker's crap boombox, an Emerson from the 80's so it's about as crap as you can get and with a perpetually half-dead 'left' channel, I heard Thunderstruck on the classic rock station than plays the same songs all day, every day..., but I noticed that it's amazing. No, like AMAZING. To the point where I've put it on a practice playlist that I play along to frequently because the structure and sound in general are just perfect and it FEELS SO GOOOOOOOOD. Now I hear your audio through my home stereo and I'm like 'well, shite then, I finally understand what it's like to actually HEAR ACDC'. I watch your videos because they're so well done that I always learn something and usually am enlightened or even swayed by your passion for insight, accuracy and insight.
Finaly some AC/DC My good friend. Love it. Fantastic program👊. Probably the best i've hear on TH-cam. Thanks
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How those bells🔔 would toll were so ominous. And fear inspiring. Being a child raised in a GOD fearing and loving home 🏡 I couldn't listen to this album. So I did what anyone would do. I would go to an older friends house .🏠 She always greeted me with a big hug and a kiss. She would tell me whenever I see you 👀 I say here he comes Back in Black🖤
For whom the bell tolls…
Great video. 🎥 Thanks for posting.🎬
I am still certain Bon Scott wrote a large proportion of the lyrics on Back in Black! And nobody ever found Bon's lyric books? I bet Malcolm and Angus knew where they were!! 😉
This entire album was just classic. Again, this song was great and vibrated anyone sitting in the orange Pinto wagon with the power booster and six speakers. Love that the guy from the foundry got to strike that bell.
Australia was still in grieving for Bon, the album was too soon for many a diehard ACDC fan ❤
What a great story!! I bought that record the first weekend it was out. I still have it to this day. But I wasn't impressed at first. I was 100% Bon Scott. The record has grown on me over the years and I play it as loudly as Highway to hell!
From what I remember it was most likely Bon Scott playing the drums when ACDC was recording the Back In Black album.
Damn straight. One of my favorite rock stories ever....
I've heard that Bon had previously recommended Brian to the Young brother...
Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago is perfect for Hells Bells! I had been studying at the Reg (i.e. library) since the afternoon and got back to the dorm just before 10 pm (it was an early night) and I went to visit Elliot Hicks' room. He took out Back in Black (probably because of my name) and put it on the turntable.
We were tired from studying, waiting for the record to begin, hearing that quiet scratching noise and then we heard those bells. Those hair raising bells. But wasn't the vinyl. It was ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL, across the street, chiming for 10 pm! Then, in perfect time, we heard the record - DAMN, the album's bells were exactly, EXACTLY like Rockefeller Chapel's bells! It proved to us that we were in he!!.
We then listened to the entire album. Well maybe The U of C wasn't all bad...
(Please excuse the overuse of exclamation points - it was a memorable moment.😊)
I remember about the time the album came out I had been grounded by my parents some school related shit. The one thing I was allowed to do for 9 weeks was to go out for a walk after I finished my homework in the evening. I would grab my smokes and boom box and walk up to the street corner where I would smoke and listen to tunes from the cassette tape I had Back in Black, great memories!!!
Came out just before my 16th birthday, got a copy with birthday money, played it until it was no more, I have had three vinyl versions over the years and a couple of CD versions, including the anniversary edition, sounds as good today as when I was 16.
The album that changed my life. Maybe the perfect hard rock record. But having read the Bon Scott bio Highway to Hell, I'm convinced that many of the lyrics on BIB were written by Bon. Johnson & the Youngs likely made some changes, but those lyrics were completed right before Bon passed. Then they disappeared, after the band's management visited his flat. Bon's family was paid handsomely from BIB, and I'm sure that's why they Youngs made that gesture.
In my early college days (1987-88), my floor in the dorm had an intramural football team called "The Team from Hell", and we would jam Hell's Bells on the bus on the way to the field before games.
I was thirteen. For about two months straight, when I came home from school, I would put Back in Black on the record player and cranked it full. I screamed myself hoarse. I put their logo on my jeanjacket. I loved the album cover. It wasn't completely black as Adam said, but, it had raised lettering. I remember running my fingers over the name and loving the feeling. I was so weird. She Shook Me was my fav.
Brian Johnson certainly wasn’t unknown if you were around at the time.
Hells Bells was a double A side here in Australia with Rock And Roll Aint Noise Pollution and peaked at number 7 on our charts in March April 1981
I wasn't a big fan of this band, but when I heard "Hell's Bells," those bell tones hooked me, and I was blown away. Easily my favorite.
I'm pretty sure that AC DC would never have known who Brian Johnson was if it hadn't been for the high praise for him a couple years earlier from Bon Scott.