Wednesday, May 21, 2008

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Sorry, but I have to give the nod to Bon Scott. The new incarnation of AC/DC is great and it keeps an amazing band going in a way that adding Sammy Hagar did not for Van Halen, but Bon was the original and Highway to Hell rocks harder than Back in Black (which you should also own).

I first heard this record in 1979, my cousin Alan had a copy in Scotland before it was released in the US. When I got home it was an instant hit with all my 14-year-old heavy metal loving friends. My feeling now is that AC/DC is not a heavy metal band, but more of a hard rocking roadhouse band - they never were into all the leather, etc.

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