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Well, being a very new AC/DC fan, I know that there are 3 eras : the Dave Evans era, the Bon Scott era and the Brian Johnson era...I am not quite sure which era produced the best music. What do you think? Any input will be appreciated!
Reading your post, you think that the Bon Scott era is the best?I recommend getting a hold of Plug Me In it's a DVD collection of live performances from the 1970's with Bon and the second disc with Brian.
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I have been "THUNDERSTRUCK"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:yay: Love AC/DC! They rock!!!
Are you familiar with the Bon Scott fronted material of the band? AC/DC is always in my top three bands because of the Bon Scott years.
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http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=148698
Doom Legends Pentagram Sign With Metal Blade Records
Long-running D.C. doom legends PENTAGRAM, with riff-meister Victor Griffin back in the fold, will record their new album, "Last Rites", between November 29 and December 21 for a late March/early April release via Metal Blade Records. The effort will be a double-disc set consisting of the new studio album and a DVD of the band's performance at this year's Maryland Deathfest, which was held on May 28-30, 2010 at Sonar in Baltimore.
Working songtitles set to appear on the CD:
* Walk In The Blue Light
* Horseman
* Virgin Death
* Figure Eight
* Everything's Turning To Night
* Mark My Word
* Sunday's Child
* Old Man
* Thrill Of The Kill
PENTAGRAM's current lineup:
Bobby Liebling - Vocals
Victor Griffin - Guitar
Greg Turley - Bass
Gary Isom (SPIRIT CARAVAN) - Drums
PENTAGRAM: to the enlightened few they are one of the primary architects of heavy metal and obvious progenitors of doom metal, while to others they remain a mystery.
Less mysterious and downright miraculous is how the band (or more specifically the sole remaining original member, iconic vocalist Bobby Liebling) has triumphantly survived countless setbacks to return to the stage, armed with a limited yet astonishingly influential back catalogue.
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and the next week : Zappa Plays Zappa
I saw ZPZ a while ago with Ray White as the singer, they were great I'm sure you'll enjoy them.
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Here are some of those photos scanned from the Black Sabbath book.
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A priceless newspaper clipping from 1969 when Black Sabbath were still called Earth.
That is a great picture of Earth/Black Sabbath. The book I recently read How Black Was Our Sabbath has some cool pictures of Sabbath when they were called Earth. There's also one of Mythology 'Mark III' with Bill Ward and Tony Iommi.
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Rather old news but it hasn't been posted here. Also three sold out shows were filmed at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 2, 4 and 6 for an upcoming DVD release. As with the supposed new live album there is no release date.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t5w72
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/ac-dc-0802/
During an interview on BBC 2’s The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson said that his band will "probably bring a live album out" in the near future. The performances likely would be drawn from AC/DC’s 2008-10 Black Ice World Tour, which was enormously successful. As it was previously reported, it is the second-highest-grossing tour of all time.
Last week, Johnson also spoke to The Pulse of Radio about AC/DC’s legendary Back In Black album, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Having recently joined the band, which was already a force in hard rock, Johnson said he had no idea if Back in Black was going to turn out OK.
"I’d just melted me brain in there, and I didn’t know if it was good or bad," he said. "That was the first time I’d been in the Bahamas, anyway, or near America, you know, and you [have to] remember, I was just fascinated by the whole culture and all, and I had no idea what the hell I was doing! And [laughs] lucky, really – I was a bit lucky, I think."
Back in Black is tied for fifth (with Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Vols. I & II) on the list of the best-selling albums in the U.S. It also recently was named one of the Top 10 Guitar Albums of All Time by Gibson.com.
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BTW, Dennis is currently in a band called Blue Coupe with original Blue Öyster Cult members Albert and Joe Bouchard.
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Neil Young Live at Massey Hall 1971 CD/DVD
Black Sabbath Black Mass 1970 & 1975 DVD
These two on vinyl:
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath Paranoid
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Cool news.
Need to listen to The Dennis Dunaway Project Bones From The Yard heard it's pretty good, love Dunaway's playing.
Here's a recent interview with drummer Neal Smith.
http://www.bravewords.com/news/147674
By Mitch Lafon
The ALICE COOPER BAND’s influence on the rock community is immeasurable. They created “the stage show” and delivered iconic rock songs such as ‘I’m Eighteen’ and ‘School’s Out’, but for some reason none of it mattered to the uber nerdy pseudo-hip Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame nominating committee. Well, that was until this year. The band (frontman Alice Cooper, drummer Neal Smith, late guitarist Glen Buxton, bassist Dennis Dunaway and guitarist/keyboardist Michael Bruce) finally got their criminally overlooked nomination. Even though, this doesn’t mean they’ve been ‘Elected’ to the hall, BraveWords.com sat down with original drummer Neal Smith to discuss what it means to him and his band.
BraveWords.com: Have you had a chance to speak to any of your former bandmates since the nomination was announced?
Neal Smith: “Dennis and I always throw emails back and forth to each other, but no. I know we’re all aware of it, but we haven’t talked about it.”
BraveWords.com: Are you surprised that it took so long for the Alice Cooper Band to be nominated?
Smith: "I want to be perfectly clear. This is the band that is being nominated because I’ve seen things on CNN and CBS where they have a picture of Damon Johnson and Alice… You will see that line blurred an awful lot during this process I’m sure. It’s the band and all five (original) members that are the nominees. You know me and from the word ‘go’, I’ve always been 100% behind everybody’s solo projects, but without the band nobody would have a solo project. I think the nomination is sixteen years overdue. Looking back historically, the vein of music that the band opened up… before that maybe Dr. John or Screaming Jay Hawkins touched on theatrics, but nothing to the extend of where we took it. So, to be totally ignored for sixteen years, to me, is still a bit of an insult. We didn’t change music as much as the show, but the music we had certainly has stood the test of time. That’s the one thing that surprises and humbles me more than anything… That people still want to listen to our music. That’s the greatest testimonial that we have. Alice is still out there basically doing the same stuff we did, but with a little bit of a spin on it. The bulk of the music is our original music and that’s great. I’m glad that fan can still hear it. It’s still not the same to me as when we play it.”
BraveWords.com: Would be nice to hear you play it again…
Smith: "It looks like we’ll be going out to Phoenix to play another of Alice’s X-Mas Pudding shows. We did it four years ago and this is the tenth anniversary. Alice has asked Dennis, Mike and I to join him and do some songs…”
BraveWords.com: If the Hall Of Fame does elect you, and since Glen is no longer with us, would you play as a four piece or bring somebody else in?
Smith: "In the past, we’ve brought in Damon Johnson. He’s a great guy and a great guitar player, but whether he’d go onstage with us there or not… The only thing I know is that, at least, a decade ago we all agreed that if by chance we were elected – we’d all play together.”
BraveWords.com: You brought up the word ‘insult’ before. Are you insulted that a band like ABBA was inducted before the Alice Cooper Band was even nominated?
Smith: "Well, it is the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame. I’m looking at this year’s nominees. How many of those acts are rock n’ roll? Maybe five. BON JOVI, J. GEILS and us… there might not even be five. I’m not sure what I would call NEIL DIAMOND. DONOVAN definitely isn’t rock. DONNA SUMMERS is not. I love THE STOOGES, but why are The Stooges in the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame? I love that band, but I don’t get it. What’s their significance versus a band like ours? But like with anything else there will always be the political aspect of it. The one thing that I find cool is that if Donovan and we make it… Donovan sang on the song 'Billion Dollar Babies' and it would be great that, if he’s at the ceremony, he sang 'Billion Dollar Babies' with us. Overall, it’s cool and like anything we do – I’m happiest for the fans. I know that they’ve signed petitions for years and at this point in my life and my career my motivation to do anything musically is for the fans. I’m happy and it would be a nice thing, but nothing will outdo the album Billion Dollar Babies being #1 at Cash Box, Record World and Billboard. That was the shocker of shockers for me… for April 1973 we were on top of the world.”
BraveWords.com: Are you currently working with Alice and Bob Ezrin on the Welcome To My Nightmare II project/ album?
Smith: "We have been in the studio, but that’s all I’m going to say at this point.”
BraveWords.com: So there is some validity to reports that you might be laying down one drum track for the album.
Smith: "Yes, and it does include Michael as well. Michael did join us in the studio, so it’s Mike, Dennis, Alice and I.”
BraveWords.com: “That’s fantastic.”
Smith: "There’s more than one track too.”
BraveWords.com: Even better! Let’s hope it’s a whole album…
Smith: "Well, it’s not that.”
BraveWords.com: As a long-suffering fan of the original Alice Cooper band – I’ll take what I can get.
Smith: "I just know that everything, right now, with everybody is very positive. When we’re all together, it’s exactly like the old days and like I said we’re going to go down to Phoenix and do a show together in mid-December. Last time we did that four years ago, fans flew in from Australia, Canada, Europe… We’re excited to do it and it’s for a great cause, but I still want to do something where we can play a bigger show for the fans.”
BraveWords.com: It would be nice to have you record a full show for a Blu-Ray/DVD release.
Smith: "That’s what I imagine. I like what Cream did with their reunion and I could foresee something like that… I don’t know if it’ll ever happen, but all I know is that as time goes on people are a little more willing to talk about it and consider it. We’ll see what happens.”
For whatever happens – stayed tuned to BraveWords.com.
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^^ Cool, thanks. Is it a complete concert?
Here's the setlist:
Killing Yourself To Live
Hole In The Sky
Snowblind
Symptom Of The Universe
War Pigs
Megalomania
(Intermission)
Sabbra Cadabra
Instrumental Jam
Sometime's I'm Happy/Drum Solo
Supernaut
Iron Man
Orchid/Rock 'n' Roll Doctor/Don't Start (Too Late)
Black Sabbath
Spiral Architect
Children Of The Grave
Paranoid
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^^ Great sound! Is it taken from an offical live release?
That's taken from the Asbury Park NJ-1975 bootleg.
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I'm sure you've seen this, it's a legitimate release. There are a few others too. The Black Sabbath Story I and II have live snippets and there is a DVD with their performances at The Beat Club and MusikLaden are out there. Probably more I am forgetting ATM.
I've seen the Never Say Die video but not The Black Sabbath Story I and II, I know I need to. Have seen the Beat Club performances. There's also footage from the Cal Jam '74. I guess "Children of the Grave" appears in The Black Sabbath Story Vol I.
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^That's a good score. I have a few copies of those shows, that package looks well done. Let us know if the DKRS is good quality, every copy of that I have is somewhat fuzzy.
The package is well done except for missing the d in Rat Salad. I thought the overall quality of DKRC was quite good so much better than the youtube vids which is really the only thing I can compare it to. It would be cool for Sabbath to release a DVD with the '70 performance along with DKRC and Never Say Die performances. Not sure if any other footage of the original lineup exists? Anyway, so glad that the raw powerful '70 performance exists and seeing it uninterrupted. Also the fact it's in their early days playing in a small venue (no more than 200).
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Two songs sounded good. Neil is such a prolific guy puts out an album a year or just about.
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Just purchased this! Had been hoping my local record store would have a dvd of the '70 performance. Now I have it along with DKRC.
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Death Row aka Pentagram covering Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf". Incomplete though. Damn Bobby's facial expressions are priceless.
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Domo, heavy rock from Alicante, Spain. I see that in the picture one is wearing a Pentagram t-shirt and another is wearing a Graveyard t-shirt, nice.
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Reading your post, you think that the Bon Scott era is the best?
:yay: 
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Extra points for fronting a rock 'n' roll band.