AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) (1981)

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At the UCLA Bruins and Michigan Wolverines baseball game a couple of Saturdays ago, "For Those About To Rock, We Salute You" was blaring from the P.A. system as UCLA took the field in the top of the 1st inning after the national anthem. God, it was awesome.

What a relief from the previous 2 hours of newer, contemporary douchey music they had been playing while both teams took infield/outfield practice, batting practice and then the ground crew prepped the field for the game. God, it was awful.
 

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This is an interesting topic for a POST.
I thought they should have waited a while after releasing the BACK in BLACK album.

Some Bands, such as STATUS QUO, had very little or no control over their career.
Between 1968-1983 STATUS QUO released an album every year.
Their 1982 & 1983 albums were patchy with a few gems on both albums.
Their original Drummer left in 1981, must've known what was coming - John 'Spud' Coghlan
Original Bass player/Singer left in disgust in 1984, he returned to open LIVE AID though in 1985 - Alan ' Nuff ' Lancaster RIP

Lancaster & Coghlan were disgruntled with poor Record Co. decisions & Cocaine turning Rossi into a dictator.

In 1981, AC/DC's Record Co. may have coerced them into rushing out another album.
The Band may've had a Contract that forced them into releasing the album.

In general, they're not a Band that have consistently released quality material.
Some of it is really good and some is embarrassing.
" Danger, Danger don't talk to Strangers " is an example of embarrassing.

An AC/DC song that I feel is under rated is HEAT SEEKER.

After the collapse of STATUS QUO & the acrimonious court cases, the renegade QUO produced some absolutely disgusting rubbish in the mid-late 80's.
In 1991, Francis Rossi produced one of the best Rock albums ever made.
"Rock 'til You Drop " is a sublime and superb album.
Then Rossi's 'renegade, pretend' QUO fell back into mediocrity for the rest of the 90's.
From 2000 onwards they have miraculously produced some of the best Rock albums ever made.

As one of QUO's biggest fans, I'm also their biggest critic.

" Hotter than a Rolling Dice, Cooler than a Body on Ice, ..........I'm a LIVEWIRE, (livewire) I'm a LIIIVE....WIRE "

Bon Scott was AC/DC 09/07/1946- 19/02/1980 - RIP Bonnie Ronnie
 

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You sure like The Quo STATUS QUO don't cha!.

I remember reading when Alan Lancaster quit Quo back in the early 1980s he claimed that the other two Rossi and Parfitt regarded him all a long as a 'sideman' or so he believed?.
 

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Hey Leslie West, great to hear from you again.
Yes, I do LIKE the QUO!! (Just a bit)

One little correction to make is that LANCASTER left QUO in the mid-80's not the early 80's.
John Coghlan left after QUO's 1981 " Never Too Late " album.
Alan Lancaster left QUO in 1984, though he did play at LIVE AID in 1985.

When Band members leave a Band, their emotions are running wild, and sometimes they make rash comments that aren't necessarily accurate.

I can say quite confidently that it was the Record Company that treated Alan as a 'sideman'
Most of the songs that Alan wrote were sung by Rossi, because the Record Company decided his voice suited the sound required.
Musicians and Actors have very fragile egos, I think we all know that.

Lancaster & Parfitt were close, Rick was very sad & disappointed when Alan left the Band.
Rossi is very close with Rossi, then and especially now.
Rossi's Cabaret QUO is proof.

Could you imagine if Paul or John or George or Ringo were to call their solo Band 'THE BEATLES' after they split in 1970.
No, that would've been ridiculous.

Alan Lancaster was nobody's 'sideman'
Most QUO fans see him as the MAIN MAN in THE FRANTIC FOUR & in the 60's line-up as well.

It was Rossi, Cocaine & the Record Company that drove a wedge between Lancaster & Rossi.

Oh, I nearly forgot, Rossi's love of Country music and The Eagles.
Though The Eagles would never record rubbish like 'MARGUERITA TIME'
 

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Thanks for the correction STATUS QUO. Yeah I do remember reading in SOUNDS that John had departed the band in 1981 I was getting mixed up with both John and Alan when they both departed the band at different times.
 

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The title track is one of the best songs the band has ever done

After Back in Black, the band did get more formulaic, (but the song FTATR is not formulaic)...Their older stuff has more variety in sound.

Standout tracks here are FTATR! snowballed, let's get it up (cheesy, but fun)...
 

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There is an ongoing 'joke' in Australia that AC/DC keep recording the same album over n over, again and again.
Yes, I can hear variations on a theme and that's cool.

AC/DC needed to take a leaf out of STATUS QUO's BOOK of self-plagiarism and repeated the dozen styles they used in their very long and very successful career.

QUO were very clever and crafty.
QUO had a dozen different styles that they kept regurgitating, using light n shade etc.
I own 33 studio albums by the different QUO line-ups and there's only 3 albums that were 'rubbish'
Even the 'rubbish' albums had some good tracks.

Back to AC/DC, I was lucky to be born in 1961 and saw BON SCOTT's AC/DC, quite a few times in the 1970's.
I even saw Dave Evans on Vocals once with AC/DC at The Sydney Opera House in 1974.
They were supporting STEVIE WRIGHT who had the #1 song 'EVIE' & the #album 'HARD ROAD'
STEVIE was the Singer in THE EASY BEATS with GEORGE YOUNG (ANGUS' & MALCOLM'S Brother)

As a teenager, I noticed that Bon & Angus were the Showmen & Mark Evans & Malcolm Young stood right in front of their amps providing the driving rhythm. (The Girl's got Rhythm)
Phil Rudd on Drums quickly became known as the Human Metronome.
Bon Scott was the #1 Frontman in the Country (always will be)

The Band members already knew Bon was 'nuts' though when he suggested they use Bagpipes on " Long Way to the Top" they thought he was a total lunatic (which he was, of course)

Australia was spoilt with a plethora of Premier Rock Bands in the 70's and 80's and 90's.
 

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THESE ARE NOT MY COMMENTS - They are Sam Quentin's comments
Sam Quentin said:
The title track is one of the best songs the band has ever done

After Back in Black, the band did get more formulaic, (but the song FTATR is not formulaic)...Their older stuff has more variety in sound.

Standout tracks here are FTATR! snowballed, let's get it up (cheesy, but fun)...
 

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