Wednesday 2 June 2010

AC/DC - Back In Black

Once again the power is on the time machine and today the year is 1980 and the tune is taken from the first AC/DC record i purchase. A record that has been played so many time that not much is left :) AC/DC is out touring atm and tomorrow they will stand at the Stadion here in Stockholm witch i really looking forward to see, yes im going to see the show :)



So lets take a look on todays tune "Back in Black" witch that is appearing as the first track on side two of their 1980 album (Vinyl version talk here), Back in Black. The track is very well known for its opening guitar riff, the song was AC/DC's tribute to their former singer Bon Scott. His replacement Brian Johnson recalled to Mojo magazine in 2009 that when the band asked him to write a lyric for this song, “they said, ‘it can’t be morbid-it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.” He added: “I thought, ‘Well no pressure there, then‘ (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. ‘Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.’ The boys got it though. They saw Bon’s life in that lyric.”



A number of artists have sampled "Back in Black" without permission from the copyright holders.

In 1984 the Beastie Boys sampled "Back in Black" without permission for their song "Rock Hard". In 1999, when they wished to include it on an upcoming CD compilation release, they sought permission but AC/DC refused. Mike D of the Beastie Boys quoted Malcolm Young's reason for refusing as: "'Nothing against you guys, but we just don't endorse sampling.'"



Rest of the European 3:rd Leg Tour

June 3, 2010 Stockholm, Sweden, Olympiastadion
June 5, 2010 Horsens, Denmark, CASA Arena
June 8, 2010 Bern, Switzerland, Stade de Suisse
June 11, 2010 Donington Park, United Kingdom, Download Festival
June 13, 2010 Stuttgart, Germany, Cannstatter Wasen
June 15, 2010 Nice, France, Stade Charles-Ehrmann
June 18, 2010 Paris, France, Stade de France
June 20, 2010 Dresden, Germany, Ostragehege
June 22, 2010 Berlin, Germany, Olympiastadion
June 26, 2010 Seville, Spain, Estadio Olímpico
June 28, 2010 Bilbao, Spain, Estadio San Mamés

More info @ Official AC/DC Website

2 comments:

Chief Rebel Angel said...

Fyyyyyyyyyyyyy fan vilken spelning! GRYMT BRA!

Stones said...

Ja det var det verkligen!