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He was a great front man. Saw them in 1979 at Hammersmith Odeon, amazing gig ably supported by a youthful Def Leppard. Still had that raw edge to them then, Scott had that glint in his eye & great stage presence.
Brian Johnson tbf was a bloody good replacement.
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
I must have seen him when AC/DC supported The Stranglers and The Who at Wembley in 1979 but I am probably going to ignite the ongoing debate with Radlett Blue when I say I thought that AC/DC were mediocre (Nils Lofgren was great, The Stranglers were immense and The Who were astonishing). The only song I can remember AC/DC doing was 'Whole Lotta Rosie' and that was mainly because a bunch of lads in front of us were ecstatic about it. Sorry but just not my thing, although I am nowhere as scathing about them as contributor Mike Doherty on this link:
I must have seen him when AC/DC supported The Stranglers and The Who at Wembley in 1979 but I am probably going to ignite the ongoing debate with Radlett Blue when I say I thought that AC/DC were mediocre (Nils Lofgren was great, The Stranglers were immense and The Who were astonishing). The only song I can remember AC/DC doing was 'Whole Lotta Rosie' and that was mainly because a bunch of lads in front of us were ecstatic about it. Sorry but just not my thing, although I am nowhere as scathing about them as contributor Mike Doherty on this link:
He would have been lead singer on the night in question, he died February 1980. Although i,m an immense fan of the band, they were mediocre at best mid 80,s at the NEC, but that was the only gig they were not at their best in the 8 or so times i saw them live.
Mike Doherty obviously not a fan though.
Fair enough, not every ones cup of tea. Got to agree re the Stranglers, great live band.
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
Was going to make the same point - he is widely regarded as one of the greatest front men ever!
Yes I didn't use the best word there did I. What I was getting at though was that whenever you see clips of the band, I've seen two this week, they always show Brian Johnson yet all the bands best stuff was with Scott although Back in Black stands right up there.
I must have seen him when AC/DC supported The Stranglers and The Who at Wembley in 1979 but I am probably going to ignite the ongoing debate with Radlett Blue when I say I thought that AC/DC were mediocre (Nils Lofgren was great, The Stranglers were immense and The Who were astonishing). The only song I can remember AC/DC doing was 'Whole Lotta Rosie' and that was mainly because a bunch of lads in front of us were ecstatic about it. Sorry but just not my thing, although I am nowhere as scathing about them as contributor Mike Doherty on this link:
As soon as I saw this thread I couldn't wait to get involved! When I went to this gig, I was no fan of heavy metal or AC/DC and when their set started, to paraphrase Mark Antony, I came to mock them, not to praise them. However, apart from their amusing tendency to finish every song with a crescendo of thrashing guitars, which meant you could tell when one song finished and the next one began, they played an excellent set and won me over. As to The Strangler, this piece from your link says it all for me "I don’t think Wembley really lended itself to a band like them and this wasn’t assisted by them playing pretty much all of their new and relatively unheard ‘Black & White’ album." Were you the nutter who got his kit off by the pitch? As to The Who, I thought they were great, although having never seen them before, I then couldn't quite get that Kenney Jones could never be Keith Moon.
As soon as I saw this thread I couldn't wait to get involved! When I went to this gig, I was no fan of heavy metal or AC/DC and when their set started, to paraphrase Mark Antony, I came to mock them, not to praise them. However, apart from their amusing tendency to finish every song with a crescendo of thrashing guitars, which meant you could tell when one song finished and the next one began, they played an excellent set and won me over. As to The Strangler, this piece from your link says it all for me "I don’t think Wembley really lended itself to a band like them and this wasn’t assisted by them playing pretty much all of their new and relatively unheard ‘Black & White’ album." Were you the nutter who got his kit off by the pitch? As to The Who, I thought they were great, although having never seen them before, I then couldn't quite get that Kenney Jones could never be Keith Moon.
No, I was clothed throughout, but thank you for considering me as someone suitably unrestrained. Would have been a shock for my younger brother, although I did know a lad from Racecourse Ward who threw his kit off and danced onstage with Hawkwind at a Windsor Free Festival about five years earlier.
It was the uncompromising attitude that day that I loved about The Stranglers, they didn't come just to be a support band, they were not interested in satisfying the crowd with a set full of past hits (perhaps you could level the charge of being just another rock band out to shift the latest product) and they filled the stage with a disgustingly overwhelming cloud of brown and green smoke, a full on punk attitude to leaven the standard rock stadium gig. The set listing on the link I posted does not correspond to my memory, I am sure they opened with the suitably confrontational 'Tank' but I agree on 'Toiler On The Sea' closing things.
Nils Lofgren was great that day too, suffered the usual opening act indifference of the crowd and countered it by playing blistering solos as he did backward somersaults off his twin mini trampolines either side of the stage. I think it was a month later that he played the Gaumont and Anne Nightingale introduced him because the gig was recorded for a BBC Two 'In Concert', that was even better than his Wembley set.
Yes I didn't use the best word there did I. What I was getting at though was that whenever you see clips of the band, I've seen two this week, they always show Brian Johnson yet all the bands best stuff was with Scott although Back in Black stands right up there.
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Simply the case that a lot more (modern broadcast quality) video has been recorded - and more albums produced - in the Johnson era than Scott's time. It was only really four or five years between their international breakthrough and the latter's death.
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