Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Angus Young: Let There Be Rock, essential guitar god

Enrique (from Madrid, met him outside AC/DC’s hotel in Paris the day after the June 12 concert) sent a link for Angus’s scorching Let There Be Rock performance at the Punchestown show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Td0j59Ze8

As you know, Angus is Bibi’s favorite and watching him play Let There be Rock at a concert is just one example of why. He’s a complete guitar god up there on the riser—his usual place during the first solo; in the rain or not, fabulous fingers flying, yet with a focus that is amazing to behold. It’s such a cool effect when the spotlights are on him, bathing him with a golden glow and sometimes his image is gone and all you see is a confluence of the lights, like a sun that’s so bright that you have to squint your eyes to look. You can’t turn away because you hear the fantastic guitar and you want to see how and where it's coming from, so you keep watching until Angus reappears out of the light, always playing, never missing a beat, having a great time performing. Watch any Youtube video of LTBR, you’ll see what I mean; you won’t be able to look away from that small, yet incomparably bright sun up above us all.

Check it out.

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