That is all, you ****ers :)
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That is all, you ****ers :)
Squealer. There's a record that wouldn't get made today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
it since first div football in the mental seventies. Let There Be Rock!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I was stunned to find out that Back in Black is the second biggest selling album of all time. Unbelievable......Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Not that it isnt ****ing great but still....
Clearly there are some serious issues around their references to women but **** that...... who really gives a toss, aside from a few ugly chicks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Christ, I see what you mean....that is dangerously loopy. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Highway to Hell
TNT
Hells Bells
etc
Quality
it ain't in some kind of smart arsed 'ironic' way - they fackin' well love 'em!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Find 'Whole Lotta Rosie' - madness
THe numbers as well..... theremust be 200 thousand there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Not for me though I can appreciate the somewhat prolonged and dramatic opening of Hells Bells.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
It's the 70's school stigma attachment for me. Let's face it, anyone into that sort of noise was brill at maths and physics.. On the flip side, they were also socially awkward, nerdy, and largely considered weird by the top babes in the year; so never really got a look in.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Back in Black has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and is the second biggest selling album of all time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
I think it is safe to say that the appeal has broadened beyond a few geeks who were good at maths.
That said, you have a point :)
I loved AC DC when I was 17. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
And it turns out you were right to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
How is your maths? :)
I have a degree in nuclear physics. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Textbook :)Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Did you have AC/DC written on your lab coat?
Probably Rush imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I saw Rush once.
:-\
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
You will be quite well versed in Ac/Dc I would imagine. THey were an almost constant presence on the jukebox in the Queen's Head in Tunrpike Lane. I pretty much got to kn ow that album from drinking in there.
Yes, I had 2 older brothers who were very much steeped in “rock” so it would have been a constant factor in my youth – Lizzy, Deep Purple, AC/DC, Rainbow, Rush and then lesser lights such as Blackfoot, Molly Hatchett.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
The Rush exposure came not long after I moved to London in 87 and was living in Finchley Central, they were playing Wembley Arena and I went along with another lad I lived with, him a fan and me just being kind.
It was a truly awful venue from memory and in general a long evening.
Queens Head would have had a lot of AC/DC as you say and I seem to recall a lot of Metallica and Faith No More.
Wembley Arena isnt great. THe onlyoneI have been to thatis worse is probably Earls Court. Oh, and HydePark is a complete waste of time as you can't hear a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Queens Headwas a rock boozer. They used to have a band in there most weekends that did almost exclusively DeepPurple covers. They werent bad....
I saw U2 in Earls Court, freebie tickets. Now I am not a fan there either but I could appreciate them being as big as they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I loved the QH, back room where the pool tables were, so dark as to hide many a sin. Good and loud also. No idea how I did it on reflection, an afternoon in the pub on whatever trip we had. Surely better to just sit indoors and hide.
Earls Court was OK if you were down the front or in the corporate hospitality. Wembley Arena was, and remains, appalling. Indeed, it's reason for me not to book, even someone I desperately want to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
The problem with Hyde Park isn't Hyde Park, it's the ridiculously low maximum noise levels applied by the Elf and Safety brigade. You're not allowed to hear rock music as it should be heard any more, lest it trigger your earlobes or something.
A rational I employ with respect to gigs in the O2. Not so much that the venue is awful as by all accounts it is excellent, I just don't like the massiveness of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
So far my policy has only really caused me issues with The Waterboys and Roger Waters.
I can cope with 'big' if I have to, but Earls Court... bleeeurgh. I remember sitting back in the middle for a Van Morrison show once where I heard the sound once from the speakers and then again half a second later as it bounced off the back wall, making the whole thing a cacophony of nonsense. Dreadful place.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Angus looks weird though imoQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Did you see the picture of him coming out of Malcolm's funeral?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
:-(
The pension-age bloke who has spent his entire adult professional life wearing a school uniform 'looks a bit weird' you say?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Well I never.
Obligatory 'so can your mum'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Precisely the issue I had there. I saw the Eagles (it was free) and you literally couldn't hear anything but echoes. It was ludicrous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
If I had paid to sit through that I would have been fuming.
I will never go to a gig at Hyde Park again. That Springsteen show was beyond absurd. You had to shush people around you even from whispering because nobody could hear a ****ing thing. When they pulled the plug at the end because he was beyond curfew, I didnt even notice, I just thought it had got a bit quieter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Never, ever again.