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Rating: In 1978, AC/DC is a successful band and they decide to release this live album, probably to showcase their abilities to the audience in this setting, and this is also the only live performance with the legendary Bon Scott on vocals.
Let's dive into this work, the audience is already in frenzy even before I think the band takes the stage, because afterwards applause and even louder screams erupt and schoolboy Angus Young's guitar starts biting with the sharp riffs of "Riff Raff", then Scott's voice, Malcom Young's rhythm guitar, Cliff Williams' bass and Phil Rudd's drums enter the scene, AC/DC’s live ability is astonishing, everything is perfect and all supported by an impressive energy amid Scott’s screams and Angus’s solos, there's not even time to catch a breath and "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to be" has already started, a flawless execution, but the highlight comes now, with "Bad Boy Boogie", where Angus Young goes wild and gives us moments of pure rock n' roll with his guitar always hungry for solos, here played very energetically, after the improvisation ends, "The Jack" begins, a song which, if I'm honest, I wouldn't like if it weren't for the guitarist and the singer, the first one shredding and the second one yelling like crazy the chorus line: "She's Got the Jack", the next song is "Problem Child", featuring like the other AC/DC songs an incredible rhythm, it doesn't add anything new, but the riffs are carved in stone along with the catchy chorus, it's time for the classic "Whole Lotta Rosie", where the fierce guitar strokes pause to let Bon sing the low notes, afterwards the singer will regain his grip with the usual screams and grit, two qualities that will prevail in "Rock n' Roll Damnation", much more "real" and raw than on record, we're now returning to the band's first album, with "High Voltage", very well executed, like "Let There be Rock", with that pounding drum keeping the beat of the song, it concludes with "Rocker", surely one of the band's most screamed songs.
A great live album, which shows us the perfection AC/DC achieves, unfortunately, two years later, singer Bon Scott would die suffocated in his own vomit after a night of alcoholic excess.
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By TheAlex
One of the most thrilling live albums ever, captivating from the first to the last note.
This remains in any case a great testament to the greatness of AC/DC with Bon Scott (light years better than with Brian Johnson).
By sarced
They are the first band that introduced me to the world of hard rock (and not heavy metal because they are NOT HEAVY METAL!!).
'Whole Lotta Rosie' is the best track of the album where all members make a great contribution, reciprocated by a massive roar from the audience at the song’s end.
