If You Want Blood You've Got It - AC/DC

Well I've yet to come across better, a bold statement if ever there was one but this is a live album that is a living, breathing work of sheer quality and the energy of the performances as fresh as when they were recorded nearly 26 years ago.I see it has been reviewed three times already - and I will read my fellow reviewee's opinions after I've put in my two penn'eth - but can't help but have my say about this album.I recently bought the remastered CD version but have had it on 12" record for many years now - about 16 yrs and it still plays perfectly. If you want blood.....well you'll find plenty on the cover which has a ...

AC/DC have always, first and foremost, been a live band. In the late seventies there were very few bands that could touch them when it came to putting on a show. It didn't matter if they were playing in a small pub in front of an old man and his dog, or supporting some megastars, like The Who, the end result was invariably the same. One Hell of a good show. This album is a perfect document of that era in AC/DC's history. Here we have a band on the verge of super stardom, and you can tell by the performance that they knew it. This is a remastered copy of the album I'm listening to, and it sounds fresher than it did when it came out all those ...

AC/DC: five pint-sized, sour-faced Aussies whose tough, no-nonsense style has made them rock's ultimate riff machine. Lead guitarist Angus Young - he of the schoolboy uniform - is their totem, but if AC/DC has an unsung hero it is Angus's elder brother, rhythm guitarist Malcolm, who is to AC/DC what Keith Richards is to the Stones. Powerage is the best of these four reissues. Rock'N'Roll Damnation and Sin City are lean and mean and full of the devil-may-care attitude that led, in 1980, to the boozy death of roguish singer Bon Scott but after that the second greatest AC/DC album of '78 was If You Want Blood You've Got It, a raw live recording ...