Just listen to the four Highway to Hell tracks on Bonfire Vaults cd (pre ML versions, origin unclear and producer unknown) to get a flavour of the contribution ML made to BiB and HtH. We and acdc were so lucky he showed up at the time.
December 11 1981 AC/DC was my first concert at the Boston Garden. I was 13, and the first sound I ever heard live was that bell for Hell's Bells. Amen. Thanks POR
I'm 60 and an AC/DC fan since 1980. Hells Bells grabbed me and carried me away. I discovered Bon in the next few months. I wasn't even a rock fan. This album and song changed everything. They had already passed me on tour, so I had to wait another year to hear them live on "For Those About To Rock We Salute You." in 1981. I've loved them ever since and Hells Bells got me started down the road.
I'll never get tired of this song. I remember the day Back In Black was released, a local radio station played it in its entirety. I was in awe from the opening bell until the end of the song. A true masterpiece.
I had friends and their brothers who introduced me to Led Zep, The Who and Sabbath. Uncle's turned me onto Pink Floyd and Yes. But, my first album (actually a cassette) that I purchased with my own paper route money was Back in Black. I played it over and over on my 1 speaker Emerson "boombox." Yeah, epic, classic and inspiring to this neophyte, long-haired, guitar learning, scrap of a young man. Long live Bon Scott, AC/DC, Rock & Roll and the ever-awesome Prof of Rock Show. Keep on rockin'!
The bell is something that needs to be witnessed live in concert. As do the cannons used for the 21 gun salute. AC/DC is one band that will always be remembered for their performances. Nobody rocks harder than the Young brothers! R.I.P. Mal.
@ProfessorofRock I was driving down the road a couple nights ago and heard you on the Radio i got that old feeling like I did when I heard Kasey Kasum when I was a teenager Thank you 👍
@@ProfessorofRock We got our MIL who is not at all uptight and a retires elementary school teacher and artist - to go to a bar with us and the band there played it and she got up and sang that with me! Long Live Bon - but he did want Brian to replace him and ACDC has alway sbeen my fav with Bon but took me a bit to accept Brian - but this song did it!
My favorite AC/DC moment happen in the '00s: My son was giving me a ride, and put on a tape, (we follow the "driver picks the tunes" rule), and when one of AC/DC's songs came up ("Hells Bells" "Back in Black"?) came up, and I immediately identified it, and my youngest child was shocked. I knew AC/DC? He contemplated never being able to listen to them again. I guess he forgot that: I worked at a couple of record stores in the '70s, whenever I'd visit my cousins in Australia I'd listen to their records, plus AC/DC was not a new band. As always, thank you so very much for the videos.
I read part of a book that has quotes and stories from the band and those involved. Bon went out to a bar to meet someone who never arrived that night, but he (Bon) ran into some other friends and “held court”. Everyone said his usual routine was to drink two bottles of hard alcohol I believe whiskey. A friend offered to drive him home and Bon lay down in the back seat. When they got to his house his friend said, Bon, you’re home. He said something to the effect of leave me be I’m sleeping. His friend thought ok I’ll take him to my house. When he got home he said Bon come on inside. No I’m sleeping. His friend got a blanket covered Bon and went to bed. The next morning he went to the car and found Bon unresponsive. He had turned in his sleep with his neck at a bad angle vomited and choked. 😢 The official cod was alcohol poisoning. But if he drank less than half of what he drank regularly shouldn’t be have had more tolerance? I think of it as positional asphyxiation. Malcolm said on Behind The Music Bon had been drunk before. He didn’t have to die! 😢
The boys say that when they record, they do it live. All together (with Brian in a booth) laying down their parts all at once. All their tracks are missing is the noise of the crowd, because I can tell you they sound just as good in concert.
Yes ACDC's a lot of people's favorite bands. The only people who don't like ACDC say two things about the band. One they don't like the sound or the misogynistic lyrics 🤷 or they write the song several times and it sounds the same. Well it doesn't matter to me. 17 albums and 51 years in their career I love it.
What a landmark album. Everyone thought they were done when Bon Scott died, but AC/DC proved everyone wrong with one of the great rock albums ever. I was about enter HS and this resonated with just about everyone in my age group. I was more into Rush's "Moving Pictures", but that is all relative!
same at classmates house graduation party she had bought back in black that day i opened it put on parents ttable and flipped it over we were like new guy brian johnson he rocks also a few weeks later friend and i stood right below geddy pictures tour ironically i never saw rush again highlight recall was 2112 encore start ti finish wish i still had the star logo tshirt
AC/DC in my opinion the greatest rock band that ever existed with all that they have been through, has been my favorite band ever since they came out and still is today , Rest and Rock Malcolm you are missed, your Little brother is still rocking the school boy outfit , praise to you Angus , Keep Rockin like no one else can , your Loyal brother Lonnie just a Laid-back country Boy 😎👍
Seen them 14 times since 81, and have tickets to see them a 15th time in Tampa next year, they have been and will always be my #1, despite critics saying they made the same album over and over, I've heard Angus say something like "if it isn't broken why fix it?" 🤘🏻 🤘🏻 Thanks for your content sir.
IMO ! simply the greatest band that has ever played a concert. AC/DC is frakkin amazing live, the energy is better then any other of the 300ish concerts I have been too.
I didn’t see them until 2009/10. Walking up to the stadium they just rang the bell for a while while people were piling in. Amazing way to build anticipation for a show.
It isn't until you try to play the song that you realize how complex and masterful the arrangement really is. First, the opening riff is syncopated so your ear can't quite find the beat. Then they layer in a touch of drums, a splash of rhythm guitar and you hear it come together. Then the groove starts with more drums and rhythm, the bass comes in, finally once the song is fully rockin the vocals start... Masterful.
Bon wrote the songs, and there are demos of Bon doing "You shook me all night Long" from "Back in Black." I had been a long-time fan when Bon died. I was 15, and I cried buckets. Check out which songs are considered their iconic tunes. Nearly all were Young-Scott-Young on the credits. Bon had a turn of phrase in his lyrics that Brian Johnson never came close.
AC/DC got me into hard rock. At 12-years old, whenever I was home alone. I would put this record on. I felt so rebellious because I knew both, my parents and my big brother (whose record it was) would tear me a new one.
This album and song came out my senior year of high school and being a AC/DC fan I bought it. As everyone knows it flat out rocks! I got tickets for the 1980 tour at Cobo Hall in Detroit in September by that time school was starting and I had tickets for the hottest concert of the year! Needless to say everyone wanted to go and I was the envy of all my friends. Great times I still remember the striking of the bell. Man to be young again, great episode professor many things I didn't know!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980hard to say we of course had heard back in black on the radio but was new then so hadnt heard the record before my younger bros. friend and classmate and his brother had they played guitar and bass drums in their parents house may of heard a few songs when we hung out in school they probably had only recall def leppard scorpions van halen we rocked to
@ProfessorofRock One of my top five TH-cam channels. Always enjoy your content. I have been working on a book and would love to talk to you about making a contribution to it. Maybe I could be the one interviewing you! The tables have turned!! 😁
I enjoy the earlier albums the most. They had that raw, stripped down, feel to the music. Ibget they had to start producing more polished albums as time went on, but none of the newer albums have that grit from the 70's. Still one of my favorite top 3 bands and scattered throughout my play list to this day. Sticking to their basic structure as a band and performers, they have had an awesome career in music.
FIrst album I can remember where everyone in my immediate family could agree on as being good music . My brother and I were 8 , my sister was 16 and my folks were mid 30's ...
In a town called dundurn in Saskatchewan Canada someone made a joke saying dirty deeds dundurn cheap when I saw that I was like Lol obviously the guy is a big fan of AC/DC and has a great sense of humour
This was the first album I bought with my own money in 1980 at the age of 13. I was immediatly blown away. The album is so good!! It has stood the test of time and is the best hard rock album of all time. AC/Dc is an inconic band!! I was fortunate enough to see them in concert in 1989 and they didn't disapopint me.
I , on the other hand, have had to replace mine at least twice...as I played them so much I wore them out. My kids love all the old stuff but they learned very early in their lives that all the old thick pictures in the milk crates were so of limits they were never even talked about. but they totally enjoyed the CD mini versions.... :)
I still have my vinyl first run pressing... my kids are fighting over who gets it when I die. I haven't told them, I am considering being buried with it!
Good morning Adam and music lovers. AC/DC is my first favorite band (sure miss Bon Scott) along with Queen and older Journey.💜🥰💖 I did get to see them twice, once with Bon Scott and then Brian Johnson.💜🥰💖
My older brother by 6 years walked into the garage, I was painting my bicycle. I was 11. He popped a tape into the boom box and hit play. I was hooked. I'm not a crazy acdc fan, more of a dead head, but for those about to rock is my favorite rock song.
I first heard Hell's Bells in my music class at school. The teacher had us bring in our own music. I was never the same after hearing it. I needed more. It was a few years later, but I got a lot more. Huge fan of AC/DC.
I was 9 years old when my sister gave me the cassette of Back in Black, she said she didn't like the album much because she didn't like the new singer much. I loved it and am still a fan today
One time someone I knew at work who thought they could learn programming told everyone about his idea where he wanted to make a compilation of songs that were like top 3 or top 5 all time on Billboard. I said "Why? You'll skip all of the most influential songs of all time if your algorithm works that way." It's funny how so many of the most influential artists, except for the mid to later 80s, never got radio airplay and thus were rarely top 10 hits.
I remember my parents going nuts because my brothers and I kept playing this album day and night on the new turntable and stereo we got to share from the Cristmas before. 😂 we had two copies because both my brother and I wanted one. 😂
I was a teenager when this one came out. In the pre-internet and cellphone days, news didn't get around as broadly as it does now. I had no idea Bon Scott had died. I heard the DJ announce, "This is the latest from AC/DC." He never mentioned Bon's passing. I heard the bell and intro guitar and knew right away it was going to be great. When Brian began to sing, my jaw dropped. I still thought it was Bon, but I remember thinking, "Bon sounds absolutely evil on this one!".
A friend and I broke all kinds of traffic laws getting to a music store the day Back In Black came out. The manager knew I was a big ACDC fan and played Hells Bells for me. I can't describe the feeling of hearing that song for the first time. I will never forget it!
You want a Hell’s Bell’s funny story. My wife said her and a friend of hers thought the volume was turned down during the silence before the bell rings, so she turned up the volume and put her ear up to the speaker and BAM the bell hit😂🤣😂🤣
I was lucky and saw the Back in Black tour in Toronto . Show starts out with this huge bell being lowered and Johnson hitting it with a sledge hammer , in the dark for about ten minutes . The lights start to come up when the guitar came in . Totally amazing and timeless !
A friend of mine back then was a HUGE AC/DC fan. I was a fan but not like my friend. When we heard that they were releasing a new album with a new vocalist my friend said something to the effect of “No one can replace Bon Scott. This album is going to suck.” When the album was released another friend brought it to his house and they played it. My skeptical friends jaw just about dropped to the ground. He was blown away. He went and immediately bought the album and practically wore a hole in it over the next few months. 😂 We blasted that album a lot. It made me a bigger fan than I already was.
"Back In Black" was the first album that I bought with my own money. "Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" is my favorite song on the album 🤘🤘 Definitely going to look for Brian's Autobiography.
I wasnt born when BiB or any of the other classics came out but i remember at a young age hearing "You Shook Me All Night Long" thinking that was the coolest song i heard. Many years later I would leamt about this great band. As much as I love BiB and HtH albums, i think Powerage is my Favorite AC/DC album. Its so raw and powerful. I noticed a lot of AC/DC fans think so too. I would love to see some commentary about that album.
I remembered Bon dying 1 day after my 11th birthday. I thought ' what the hell are they going to do now?' Hells Bells was the answer to my question Ironically enough. 😈
I was already a fan of AC/DC when Bonn passed. I thought they are crazy for trying to replace him. it will never be the same. When I listened to the album for the first time, I was blown away! They pulled it off!
It's been suggested that the late Bonn Scott wrote the Black in Black songs and after his death they were credited to Johnson. If you look at Brian Johnson's time with his former band, Geordi, he wrote very few songs. Which ought to make one wonder how he was suddenly able to write so prolifically within AC/DC.
Yeah Brian did good. Later he sounded so strained it hurt. I'm a Bon era guy but the band is so good I still supported them. Brian worked hard to make it work and did pretty good. Like usual, there is only one original, Bon was it. He was the one that relayed what the band was playing to those needing a show and a story. Just a great band in both iterations, with talent to spare.
Being a drummer, it always gives me goosebumps when that PAiSTe 2oo2 about 20 inch diameter crash comes in at the beginning and shows JUST how powerful and gorgeous they sound when they make that B-20 alloy bronze bell sound like a tiny finger bell when that B8 alloy bronze of these beautiful cymbals comes through with presence and power no other make of cymbal can even hope to come remotely close to 2oo2’s! I am SO proud and grateful I switched to these magnificent instruments! They live up to this and I hear it first hand on my set up! PAiSTe are simply the best cymbals on EARTH, and they EARNED my admiration! They LOOK as good as they sound and feel fantastic when playing them, past cymbals from another famous maker sounded way too dry, trashy, and weak and were a chore to play. My 2oo2’s are on a scale as high as my Hammond C-3 organ with a Leslie 122, and it CANNOT get any better than that, being the greatest musical instrument ever made! So that is the ultimate compliment to what PAiSTe can achieve! I will never look back, best cymbals I ever played and I tried then all, they were nice but can’t match these!! Cheers all!! 👍🏻👌🤘😋😊
Ive always been on the fence when it comes to who wrote songs on this album. Bon was always writing quotes and ideas in his book and it seemed to disappear after he died. Angus himself that Bon had his blueprints on Back in Black and the family was paid royalties . After for those about to rock , the writing seemed to be "different".
Totally agree. I believe Bon had 2 exercise books that he would jot bits and pieces in, and when the brothers would give him a tune or riff, he'd sometimes say, "I got something for that", flip through his books and find the line or lines or idea then get to work on fleshing the lyrics out. Those books went missing after he died but were probably useless to anyone but Bon because they were only bits and pieces. Like an artists sketch book, full of scribbles, ideas, and tinkerings that only he could decipher. A line or phrase that might trigger a memory, something funny he had heard or a joke or wordplay that he just knew he could use at some later date.
As a lifelong San Diego Padres fan, HELLS BELLS will Forever be associated with the Hall of Fame Closing pitcher Trevor Hoffman, as it was his introduction music as he ran out to the pitchers mound in games where he pitched! Totally Badass riff and one of the first and best uses of “intro music” in sports!
I remember saving up money from my paper route to by this album and then waiting until my parents were out of the house to listen to it. That opening sound was amazing and just pulled 12 year old me into the rest of the album. I still have that album and the last time I played it, I played it on an old tube stereo system my father in law built in the early 60's. My husband and I sat in our easy chairs with the lights turned down and had a great listen to a great album.
I gave the record to my sister for her birthday when the album first came out. She wasn't quite a teen at the time. It was also one of the first CDs I bought for myself when CDs became mainstream. You Shook Me All Night Long is still my favourite AC DC song 40+ years later-I'm playing it as I type this! 😀
I’ve commented on this before, but my mother was majorly caught up in the Satanic Panic. AC/DC was either “Anti-Christian Devil’s Child”, or meant bi-sexual - and both were unacceptable horrors back then. I would have been 10 when this album came out. I, of course, wasn’t allowed to listen to any rock other than Elvis. But a friend of mine up the street got this album - and that made him a genuine hero. We would run from school to his house to buy time, then listen to a track in his room before heading home so I wouldn’t get in trouble for being late. These songs blew my mind!!!
I saw AC/DC first in '79 just months before Scott died. I've seen them with Brian Johnson. Very loud and hard rockin band. Super high energy great show.
I bought the album the day it came out and blasted it from my dorm room all the time and nobody ever complained, even when we put the speakers in the windows.
It’s been 44 years since Bon Scott’s death, and I still refer to Brian Johnson as “ the new guy”. I don’t hate Johnson, it’s just I love Bon Scott that much more. For me AC/ DC died the second Bon Scott drew his last breath.
Their best songs were from the Bon years. Yes, Thunderstruck, You shook me, Hells Bells, etc. are good songs, but they just aren't the classics of Dirty Deeds, Big Balls, The Jack, TNT, Whole Lotta Rosie, Highway to Hell, Jailbreak, etc.are.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you compare bands across their entire catalogs, you won't find any better than AC/DC or the Scorpions. Pure Hard Rock at its best. Love these kinds of trivia nuggets you bring our way, whether we already know them or not!
Kinda funny I use to have a female Rottweiler and every time I would play anything from AC/DC she would dance , funny part she would not dance to anything else , I GUESS SHE ALSO KNEW THEY ARE GREAT , Sadly missed she is gone now she got some rare blood disease that Rottweiler get after 5 or 6 blood transfusions at 15 hundred a pop she still passed I had to very sadly euthanize her 😢 BUT at the end I played Hells Bells and as sick as she was she still tried to Rise , Brang her home and buried her in my backyard overlooking the patio where she spent her time with the kitties when she wasn't inside, so when I play her music she could hear and be part of it one more time 👍
When I was young, I had every early LP, or cassette. This one blew my mind, but then, it got over played. I remember counting the beel rings. Great album.
I missed seeing AC/DC on the Back In Black tour so I made sure saw them on the next one, 'For Those About To Rock' tour at the old Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. What an amazing gig especially when Brian shouts 'FIRE!' during the title song and the two cannons they had on high rostrums fired like real ones. The sound was deafening but thrilling; the same creepy thrill I got when I listened to the Bell in Hells Bells. Great night.
This video made me remember the scene in Battleship when they played Thunderstruck while prepping the USS Missouri to go into battle. Maybe not believable, but I’m from MO and built a replica of USS Missouri as a kid. Favorite scene in the movie and the AC/DC score was spot on.
The first time I heard the song "Back In Black" was on the radio when it came out. At the end, the DJ commented "That was some controlled screaming from Bon Scott and AC/DC..." 😮
Poll: What is your pick for the GREATEST ROCK ALBUM EVER?
Boston's debut album
Relayer Yes
for my final answer, Pet Sounds of course.
Def Leppard- Pyromania .
My favorite Great White - Psycho City
Queen, day at the races
I'd love it if you did a segment on Mutt Lange. He's clearly brilliant musically, but sounds like a taskmaster in the studio.
Will do! One of my favorites! If only I can get an interview!
Sounds like He should get writing credits also ?
@@gerrylambert5225 He's written a ton of great songs starting with Do you Believe In loVe!
Just listen to the four Highway to Hell tracks on Bonfire Vaults cd (pre ML versions, origin unclear and producer unknown) to get a flavour of the contribution ML made to BiB and HtH. We and acdc were so lucky he showed up at the time.
@@ProfessorofRock Wishing you luck! Mutt is so reclusive. No interviews for 20 years or something.
I was recently at a Wedding of some young kids getting married.
What got everyone on the dance floor?
"Shook Me all Night Long." 😅
Long live AC/DC !!🤘
Of course!
It’s a karaoke staple too!
When BIB came out, believe it or not, we used to dance to it at the clubs!
December 11 1981 AC/DC was my first concert at the Boston Garden. I was 13, and the first sound I ever heard live was that bell for Hell's Bells. Amen. Thanks POR
Now that's cool! Thanks for watching!
I saw that same tour in Jacksonville Florida with the 🔔
14 yrs old August 1980 Knoxville. I don't remember the exact day but it was right after school started and midweek. It was all a blur after that...
Wow that’s cool. Was it an actual bell?
Yes it was @xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980
I'm 60 and an AC/DC fan since 1980. Hells Bells grabbed me and carried me away. I discovered Bon in the next few months. I wasn't even a rock fan. This album and song changed everything. They had already passed me on tour, so I had to wait another year to hear them live on "For Those About To Rock We Salute You." in 1981. I've loved them ever since and Hells Bells got me started down the road.
I'll never get tired of this song. I remember the day Back In Black was released, a local radio station played it in its entirety. I was in awe from the opening bell until the end of the song. A true masterpiece.
For sure!
Due to rising costs dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap but rather at a reduced price.
Ha!
Lol
Someone needs to record the price of gas in January.
Absolutely fluffin' EPIC!✌️😸
ha and us would yell yaahhh in friends old clunker car 8 track
I had friends and their brothers who introduced me to Led Zep, The Who and Sabbath. Uncle's turned me onto Pink Floyd and Yes. But, my first album (actually a cassette) that I purchased with my own paper route money was Back in Black. I played it over and over on my 1 speaker Emerson "boombox." Yeah, epic, classic and inspiring to this neophyte, long-haired, guitar learning, scrap of a young man. Long live Bon Scott, AC/DC, Rock & Roll and the ever-awesome Prof of Rock Show. Keep on rockin'!
The bell is something that needs to be witnessed live in concert. As do the cannons used for the 21 gun salute. AC/DC is one band that will always be remembered for their performances.
Nobody rocks harder than the Young brothers! R.I.P. Mal.
@ProfessorofRock I was driving down the road a couple nights ago and heard you on the Radio i got that old feeling like I did when I heard Kasey Kasum when I was a teenager Thank you 👍
AWESOME! What station?
@ProfessorofRock 94.3 South Bend Indiana where I live
First time I heard AC/DC? Dr. Demento played “Big Balls”
You could always count on Dr. Demento!
@@ProfessorofRock We got our MIL who is not at all uptight and a retires elementary school teacher and artist - to go to a bar with us and the band there played it and she got up and sang that with me! Long Live Bon - but he did want Brian to replace him and ACDC has alway sbeen my fav with Bon but took me a bit to accept Brian - but this song did it!
My favorite AC/DC moment happen in the '00s: My son was giving me a ride, and put on a tape, (we follow the "driver picks the tunes" rule), and when one of AC/DC's songs came up ("Hells Bells" "Back in Black"?) came up, and I immediately identified it, and my youngest child was shocked. I knew AC/DC? He contemplated never being able to listen to them again. I guess he forgot that: I worked at a couple of record stores in the '70s, whenever I'd visit my cousins in Australia I'd listen to their records, plus AC/DC was not a new band.
As always, thank you so very much for the videos.
AC/DC was the first rock band I ever got into, and I still have fond memories of blasting their music non stop, much to the chagrin of my family.
Ya, I got in trouble many times for playing 'em too loud!
Elvis was my first introduction to rock and roll in 76 then in 78 I got into kiss then in 81 I got into AC/DC then later that I year I got into Ozzy 😂
Haha sounds like so much fun!
ha friends dad would bang a broom on the ceiling meant turn it down his older bros. klipsch floor cabinets
I read part of a book that has quotes and stories from the band and those involved. Bon went out to a bar to meet someone who never arrived that night, but he (Bon) ran into some other friends and “held court”. Everyone said his usual routine was to drink two bottles of hard alcohol I believe whiskey. A friend offered to drive him home and Bon lay down in the back seat. When they got to his house his friend said, Bon, you’re home. He said something to the effect of leave me be I’m sleeping. His friend thought ok I’ll take him to my house. When he got home he said Bon come on inside. No I’m sleeping. His friend got a blanket covered Bon and went to bed. The next morning he went to the car and found Bon unresponsive. He had turned in his sleep with his neck at a bad angle vomited and choked. 😢 The official cod was alcohol poisoning. But if he drank less than half of what he drank regularly shouldn’t be have had more tolerance? I think of it as positional asphyxiation. Malcolm said on Behind The Music Bon had been drunk before. He didn’t have to die! 😢
Thanks!
That's what I had heard. He aspirated.
@ he was sleeping with his neck bent at an angle and vomited.
This album was just solid ! What great music
Amen!
The boys say that when they record, they do it live. All together (with Brian in a booth) laying down their parts all at once. All their tracks are missing is the noise of the crowd, because I can tell you they sound just as good in concert.
Very cool Where did you see them?
Skydome, and Massey Hall (I think). Razors Edge, and Ballbreaker tours respectively (I think). Lol, too many concerts. I could have bought Land Rover.
AC/DC is a staple - I've always loved them. Stephen King's favortie band too. LOL - loved the vid!
Thanks Bart! Hope your Christmas was great!
Yes ACDC's a lot of people's favorite bands. The only people who don't like ACDC say two things about the band. One they don't like the sound or the misogynistic lyrics 🤷 or they write the song several times and it sounds the same. Well it doesn't matter to me. 17 albums and 51 years in their career I love it.
I’m surprised Stephen King’s favorite band isn’t The Cure.
What a landmark album. Everyone thought they were done when Bon Scott died, but AC/DC proved everyone wrong with one of the great rock albums ever. I was about enter HS and this resonated with just about everyone in my age group. I was more into Rush's "Moving Pictures", but that is all relative!
Amen!
Ah I guessed right
same at classmates house graduation party she had bought back in black that day i opened it put on parents ttable and flipped it over we were like new guy brian johnson he rocks also a few weeks later friend and i stood right below geddy pictures tour ironically i never saw rush again highlight recall was 2112 encore start ti finish wish i still had the star logo tshirt
Thank God for Brian Johnson.
both guys great in their own way was telling other viewer i subscibe to midnight special sin city listened to 74 classic this past week
Best song on a album full of great songs.
For real!
Good morning Adam and all Music Lovers!
Hello!
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Hello to You Shirol! I hope you have a a wonderful day and weekend! 🎶🎶🎶🤘
@@chrissad3349 Thank you, Chrissad! I hope you and your family and friends do, too! Blessed holidays!
AC/DC in my opinion the greatest rock band that ever existed with all that they have been through, has been my favorite band ever since they came out and still is today , Rest and Rock Malcolm you are missed, your Little brother is still rocking the school boy outfit , praise to you Angus , Keep Rockin like no one else can , your Loyal brother Lonnie just a Laid-back country Boy 😎👍
Amen!
Seen them 14 times since 81, and have tickets to see them a 15th time in Tampa next year, they have been and will always be my #1, despite critics saying they made the same album over and over, I've heard Angus say something like "if it isn't broken why fix it?" 🤘🏻 🤘🏻 Thanks for your content sir.
IMO ! simply the greatest band that has ever played a concert. AC/DC is frakkin amazing live, the energy is better then any other of the 300ish concerts I have been too.
First sound you heard when the curtains were pulled back was the Bell. My first concert ever 1980
I didn’t see them until 2009/10. Walking up to the stadium they just rang the bell for a while while people were piling in. Amazing way to build anticipation for a show.
It isn't until you try to play the song that you realize how complex and masterful the arrangement really is. First, the opening riff is syncopated so your ear can't quite find the beat. Then they layer in a touch of drums, a splash of rhythm guitar and you hear it come together. Then the groove starts with more drums and rhythm, the bass comes in, finally once the song is fully rockin the vocals start... Masterful.
Bon wrote the songs, and there are demos of Bon doing "You shook me all night Long" from "Back in Black."
I had been a long-time fan when Bon died. I was 15, and I cried buckets.
Check out which songs are considered their iconic tunes. Nearly all were Young-Scott-Young on the credits. Bon had a turn of phrase in his lyrics that Brian Johnson never came close.
AC/DC got me into hard rock. At 12-years old, whenever I was home alone. I would put this record on. I felt so rebellious because I knew both, my parents and my big brother (whose record it was) would tear me a new one.
Thanks for sharing!
Kevin should have played this when he was home alone
This album and song came out my senior year of high school and being a AC/DC fan I bought it. As everyone knows it flat out rocks! I got tickets for the 1980 tour at Cobo Hall in Detroit in September by that time school was starting and I had tickets for the hottest concert of the year! Needless to say everyone wanted to go and I was the envy of all my friends. Great times I still remember the striking of the bell. Man to be young again, great episode professor many things I didn't know!
Thanks My Name! Glad you enjoyed it!
yeh waa telling other viewer i opened the record and put on classmates parents ttable for graduation party she had just bought
Was Hells Bells your favorite song played?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980hard to say we of course had heard back in black on the radio but was new then so hadnt heard the record before my younger bros. friend and classmate and his brother had they played guitar and bass drums in their parents house may of heard a few songs when we hung out in school they probably had only recall def leppard scorpions van halen we rocked to
Fantastic episode. You killed again! 🎉
Thanks!
@ProfessorofRock One of my top five TH-cam channels. Always enjoy your content. I have been working on a book and would love to talk to you about making a contribution to it. Maybe I could be the one interviewing you! The tables have turned!! 😁
They made kick ass albums & are one of the best rock & roll bands of all time. They deserve more recognition.
Agreed.
AC DC ❤❤❤ love their music!
Hey Cherrie!
@ProfessorofRock hi Adam hope you and your family had a blessed Christmas and hope you all a happy New year
These sun of a guns were so great its almost hard to comprehend. And you can give me either lead.
Amen!
I enjoy the earlier albums the most. They had that raw, stripped down, feel to the music. Ibget they had to start producing more polished albums as time went on, but none of the newer albums have that grit from the 70's. Still one of my favorite top 3 bands and scattered throughout my play list to this day. Sticking to their basic structure as a band and performers, they have had an awesome career in music.
I saw this tour with Sammy Hagar and ZZ Top..what a show!! 😊 The professor has to have the coolest t-shirt collection ever.😊❤
FIrst album I can remember where everyone in my immediate family could agree on as being good music . My brother and I were 8 , my sister was 16 and my folks were mid 30's ...
That's awesome!
In a town called dundurn in Saskatchewan Canada someone made a joke saying dirty deeds dundurn cheap when I saw that I was like Lol obviously the guy is a big fan of AC/DC and has a great sense of humour
This was the first album I bought with my own money in 1980 at the age of 13.
I was immediatly blown away. The album is so good!!
It has stood the test of time and is the best hard rock album of all time.
AC/Dc is an inconic band!!
I was fortunate enough to see them in concert in 1989 and they didn't disapopint me.
Cool!
Favorite song from the album?
I STILL have all my old Record Albums, including AC/DC BACK IN BLACK and all my Led Zeppelin abums, etc
Very cool!
I , on the other hand, have had to replace mine at least twice...as I played them so much I wore them out. My kids love all the old stuff but they learned very early in their lives that all the old thick pictures in the milk crates were so of limits they were never even talked about. but they totally enjoyed the CD mini versions.... :)
phoenix good to hold on to our local indie stores sell for big dollars g.c. if they have them at all
I still have my vinyl first run pressing... my kids are fighting over who gets it when I die. I haven't told them, I am considering being buried with it!
Good morning Adam and music lovers.
AC/DC is my first favorite band (sure miss Bon Scott) along with Queen and older Journey.💜🥰💖 I did get to see them twice, once with Bon Scott and then Brian Johnson.💜🥰💖
Thanks Candie!
Any time Adam! ❤you!!! And the all the great stories you tell, so awesome 💜🥰💖
Who was better, Bon or Brian? 😊
My older brother by 6 years walked into the garage, I was painting my bicycle. I was 11. He popped a tape into the boom box and hit play. I was hooked. I'm not a crazy acdc fan, more of a dead head, but for those about to rock is my favorite rock song.
I first heard Hell's Bells in my music class at school. The teacher had us bring in our own music. I was never the same after hearing it. I needed more. It was a few years later, but I got a lot more. Huge fan of AC/DC.
I was 9 years old when my sister gave me the cassette of Back in Black, she said she didn't like the album much because she didn't like the new singer much. I loved it and am still a fan today
One time someone I knew at work who thought they could learn programming told everyone about his idea where he wanted to make a compilation of songs that were like top 3 or top 5 all time on Billboard. I said "Why? You'll skip all of the most influential songs of all time if your algorithm works that way." It's funny how so many of the most influential artists, except for the mid to later 80s, never got radio airplay and thus were rarely top 10 hits.
I remember my parents going nuts because my brothers and I kept playing this album day and night on the new turntable and stereo we got to share from the Cristmas before. 😂 we had two copies because both my brother and I wanted one. 😂
It's a perfect album.
I was a teenager when this one came out. In the pre-internet and cellphone days, news didn't get around as broadly as it does now. I had no idea Bon Scott had died. I heard the DJ announce, "This is the latest from AC/DC." He never mentioned Bon's passing. I heard the bell and intro guitar and knew right away it was going to be great. When Brian began to sing, my jaw dropped. I still thought it was Bon, but I remember thinking, "Bon sounds absolutely evil on this one!".
Ring that Bell and charge things up; it's AC/DC Friday! Good morning, Professor and community.
It's AC/DC Friday! Amen!
A friend and I broke all kinds of traffic laws getting to a music store the day Back In Black came out. The manager knew I was a big ACDC fan and played Hells Bells for me. I can't describe the feeling of hearing that song for the first time. I will never forget it!
You want a Hell’s Bell’s funny story. My wife said her and a friend of hers thought the volume was turned down during the silence before the bell rings, so she turned up the volume and put her ear up to the speaker and BAM the bell hit😂🤣😂🤣
I was lucky and saw the Back in Black tour in Toronto . Show starts out with this huge bell being lowered and Johnson hitting it with a sledge hammer , in the dark for about ten minutes . The lights start to come up when the guitar came in . Totally amazing and timeless !
Keep up the good work bro love your show keep on trucking.
Thanks Robin!
Cool story about the bell !
Right?!
A friend of mine back then was a HUGE AC/DC fan. I was a fan but not like my friend. When we heard that they were releasing a new album with a new vocalist my friend said something to the effect of “No one can replace Bon Scott. This album is going to suck.” When the album was released another friend brought it to his house and they played it. My skeptical friends jaw just about dropped to the ground. He was blown away. He went and immediately bought the album and practically wore a hole in it over the next few months. 😂 We blasted that album a lot. It made me a bigger fan than I already was.
AC DC rocks hard
I used to go roller skating ⛸️ to back in black
I had an original first pressing AC DC back in black, which was inboststed with no outline. The lable was shiny chrome with black lettering
Very cool!
@@danohstoolbox AWESOME!
my first ever album by AC/DC was TNT back in 75 just before i joined the aussie army what a great album
"Back In Black" was the first album that I bought with my own money.
"Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" is my favorite song on the album 🤘🤘
Definitely going to look for Brian's Autobiography.
I wasnt born when BiB or any of the other classics came out but i remember at a young age hearing "You Shook Me All Night Long" thinking that was the coolest song i heard. Many years later I would leamt about this great band. As much as I love BiB and HtH albums, i think Powerage is my Favorite AC/DC album. Its so raw and powerful. I noticed a lot of AC/DC fans think so too. I would love to see some commentary about that album.
Happy that I recently found your channel.
Such a classic "music first" approach. 👍
I remembered Bon dying 1 day after my 11th birthday. I thought ' what the hell are they going to do now?' Hells Bells was the answer to my question Ironically enough. 😈
Why, ring the bell, of course!
Oh this is going to be fun. Thanks Adam.
You're welcome!
I still have the 40ish year old CD with the Iconic all black cover. Depending on my mood, my #1 album has to be Boston's debut.
That was the first album I ever bought Boston’s first album…awesome!
I knew it was AC/DC from the description.
I was already a fan of AC/DC when Bonn passed. I thought they are crazy for trying to replace him. it will never be the same. When I listened to the album for the first time, I was blown away! They pulled it off!
It's been suggested that the late Bonn Scott wrote the Black in Black songs and after his death they were credited to Johnson. If you look at Brian Johnson's time with his former band, Geordi, he wrote very few songs. Which ought to make one wonder how he was suddenly able to write so prolifically within AC/DC.
Adam, pretty sure its a carillon (carol on), rather than carillion. Thanks for another interesting story!
Yeah Brian did good. Later he sounded so strained it hurt. I'm a Bon era guy but the band is so good I still supported them. Brian worked hard to make it work and did pretty good. Like usual, there is only one original, Bon was it. He was the one that relayed what the band was playing to those needing a show and a story. Just a great band in both iterations, with talent to spare.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Love AC/DC!! We played Back in Black at our high school football games!
Thanks for a great show! Hope you have a wonderful day! 😊
Very cool! We did too. Thunderstruck!
Being a drummer, it always gives me goosebumps when that PAiSTe 2oo2 about 20 inch diameter crash comes in at the beginning and shows JUST how powerful and gorgeous they sound when they make that B-20 alloy bronze bell sound like a tiny finger bell when that B8 alloy bronze of these beautiful cymbals comes through with presence and power no other make of cymbal can even hope to come remotely close to 2oo2’s! I am SO proud and grateful I switched to these magnificent instruments! They live up to this and I hear it first hand on my set up! PAiSTe are simply the best cymbals on EARTH, and they EARNED my admiration! They LOOK as good as they sound and feel fantastic when playing them, past cymbals from another famous maker sounded way too dry, trashy, and weak and were a chore to play. My 2oo2’s are on a scale as high as my Hammond C-3 organ with a Leslie 122, and it CANNOT get any better than that, being the greatest musical instrument ever made! So that is the ultimate compliment to what PAiSTe can achieve! I will never look back, best cymbals I ever played and I tried then all, they were nice but can’t match these!! Cheers all!! 👍🏻👌🤘😋😊
AC/DC with Bon Scott.......SUPER. AC/DC with Brian.........equally SUPER!
Ive always been on the fence when it comes to who wrote songs on this album. Bon was always writing quotes and ideas in his book and it seemed to disappear after he died. Angus himself that Bon had his blueprints on Back in Black and the family was paid royalties . After for those about to rock , the writing seemed to be "different".
Totally agree. I believe Bon had 2 exercise books that he would jot bits and pieces in, and when the brothers would give him a tune or riff, he'd sometimes say, "I got something for that", flip through his books and find the line or lines or idea then get to work on fleshing the lyrics out.
Those books went missing after he died but were probably useless to anyone but Bon because they were only bits and pieces. Like an artists sketch book, full of scribbles, ideas, and tinkerings that only he could decipher. A line or phrase that might trigger a memory, something funny he had heard or a joke or wordplay that he just knew he could use at some later date.
The moment I opened this segment today, my local radio station played 'Hells Bells' to start a 3 song set on their AC/DC weekend.
As a lifelong San Diego Padres fan, HELLS BELLS will Forever be associated with the Hall of Fame Closing pitcher Trevor Hoffman, as it was his introduction music as he ran out to the pitchers mound in games where he pitched! Totally Badass riff and one of the first and best uses of “intro music” in sports!
I remember saving up money from my paper route to by this album and then waiting until my parents were out of the house to listen to it. That opening sound was amazing and just pulled 12 year old me into the rest of the album. I still have that album and the last time I played it, I played it on an old tube stereo system my father in law built in the early 60's. My husband and I sat in our easy chairs with the lights turned down and had a great listen to a great album.
I gave the record to my sister for her birthday when the album first came out. She wasn't quite a teen at the time. It was also one of the first CDs I bought for myself when CDs became mainstream. You Shook Me All Night Long is still my favourite AC DC song 40+ years later-I'm playing it as I type this! 😀
I’ve commented on this before, but my mother was majorly caught up in the Satanic Panic. AC/DC was either “Anti-Christian Devil’s Child”, or meant bi-sexual - and both were unacceptable horrors back then.
I would have been 10 when this album came out. I, of course, wasn’t allowed to listen to any rock other than Elvis. But a friend of mine up the street got this album - and that made him a genuine hero. We would run from school to his house to buy time, then listen to a track in his room before heading home so I wouldn’t get in trouble for being late. These songs blew my mind!!!
Saw them at MSG, May of 2001- Best concert I've ever witnessed!
Thank you for these shows. Love them.
I saw AC/DC first in '79 just months before Scott died. I've seen them with Brian Johnson. Very loud and hard rockin band. Super high energy great show.
I bought the album the day it came out and blasted it from my dorm room all the time and nobody ever complained, even when we put the speakers in the windows.
The first time I heard this album it Shook Me All Night Long.
Amen!
Great Band.
Hey Wayne!
I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this song 🛎
AC/DC is my favorite band. Going to see them in Nashville in May! I can’t wait.
It’s been 44 years since Bon Scott’s death, and I still refer to Brian Johnson as “ the new guy”. I don’t hate Johnson, it’s just I love Bon Scott that much more. For me AC/ DC died the second Bon Scott drew his last breath.
Their best songs were from the Bon years. Yes, Thunderstruck, You shook me, Hells Bells, etc. are good songs, but they just aren't the classics of Dirty Deeds, Big Balls, The Jack, TNT, Whole Lotta Rosie, Highway to Hell, Jailbreak, etc.are.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you compare bands across their entire catalogs, you won't find any better than AC/DC or the Scorpions. Pure Hard Rock at its best. Love these kinds of trivia nuggets you bring our way, whether we already know them or not!
Thanks!
A rival school had colors of black & white - I was crazy jealous when they took the floor to Back in Black.
That album brings back so many memories of my teenage years. My favorite band and album!!
Back in Black was my first 8 track, went through 2 of them. 3 cassettes before getting it on cd. AC/DC is the band that started my interest in rock.
Thanks Mr. Professor. Yea, man, I remember this album. I was 14 in 1980, and Hells Bells was the first song I heard from it! I was hooked!
A perfect album. Back in Black, Hotel California, and Rumours. All perfect. And all 3 got huge record player time at my house.
The responses say it all. Long live AC/DC \m/
Great album!
☕️☕️🎶🎵🎶
Amen!
Lucky to have seen ACDC perform with Bon months before his death. Cleveland, July 1979.
Kinda funny I use to have a female Rottweiler and every time I would play anything from AC/DC she would dance , funny part she would not dance to anything else , I GUESS SHE ALSO KNEW THEY ARE GREAT , Sadly missed she is gone now she got some rare blood disease that Rottweiler get after 5 or 6 blood transfusions at 15 hundred a pop she still passed I had to very sadly euthanize her 😢 BUT at the end I played Hells Bells and as sick as she was she still tried to Rise , Brang her home and buried her in my backyard overlooking the patio where she spent her time with the kitties when she wasn't inside, so when I play her music she could hear and be part of it one more time 👍
Thanks for sharing.
When I was young, I had every early LP, or cassette. This one blew my mind, but then, it got over played. I remember counting the beel rings.
Great album.
I missed seeing AC/DC on the Back In Black tour so I made sure saw them on the next one, 'For Those About To Rock' tour at the old Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. What an amazing gig especially when Brian shouts 'FIRE!' during the title song and the two cannons they had on high rostrums fired like real ones. The sound was deafening but thrilling; the same creepy thrill I got when I listened to the Bell in Hells Bells. Great night.
This video made me remember the scene in Battleship when they played Thunderstruck while prepping the USS Missouri to go into battle. Maybe not believable, but I’m from MO and built a replica of USS Missouri as a kid. Favorite scene in the movie and the AC/DC score was spot on.
I wonder if this album would have been as big as it was if people were as closed minded then with lineup changes as they are these days ....
I remember it being so. No one I knew wanted to give the new guy a chance and then the needle dropped!! 😮
@@allengray5748 Did it ever !!!!
Good point!
Van Halen did it twice lol
@CasualSpud
Technically, 3x.
But, learned they can't go back.
Saw AC/DC in the early 80's in Jacksonville Florida and they had the bell up on the stage
The first time I heard the song "Back In Black" was on the radio when it came out. At the end, the DJ commented "That was some controlled screaming from Bon Scott and AC/DC..." 😮
Oh boy!
Haha!
I was late to the party. But Back in Black was my first AC/DC album. I'm surprised I didn't wear out the cassette.