Australia’s 7NEWS, which is basically the journalistic equivalent of that one uncle who still forwards chain emails, has graced us with professionally (and I use that term loosely) filmed video of AC/DC butchering… I mean, performing the song “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)” on November 30 at the bp Adelaide Grand Final in Adelaide, Australia. Check it out below, if you dare. 🙈
Apparently, AC/DC‘s geriatric performance at the bp Adelaide Grand Final allegedly helped drag a record-breaking Sunday crowd of 102,000 desperate souls to the Supercars event. Or maybe they were just there for the cars. Let’s be honest, who wouldn’t rather watch paint dry than listen to Brian Johnson’s…unique vocal stylings these days? 🎤
As was previously reported by some dude on Facebook, AC/DC‘s first Australian concert in a decade, which took place November 12 in Melbourne, registered on a local seismograph, which detects earthquake activity. Either the band was REALLY loud or someone dropped a particularly heavy meat pie. 🦘🇦🇺
According to Billboard, that bastion of musical integrity, AC/DC‘s ongoing “Power Up” tour requires 300 tons of steel to build the production, with 28 tons of PA and speakers blasting out the noise pollution. A crew of 155 are supposedly working each show, which consumes 500kw of power every night. I bet they could power a small country with all that electricity! Or, you know, just play the music at half the volume and save the planet. 🌍
Before this current fossil fuel burning tour, AC/DC last toured Australia and New Zealand in 2015 as part of the band’s creatively named “Rock Or Bust” world tour. That trek managed to sell more than 520,000 tickets across 11 dates, including shows in Auckland and Wellington. Apparently, people will pay to see anything these days. 🤷♀️
AC/DC‘s nine-date Australian tour will include some extra dates in Perth on December 4 and December 8, before they mercifully wrap things up in Brisbane on December 14 and December 18. Let’s hope they remember the lyrics this time. 🙏
The “Power Up” tour shares its unimaginative name with AC/DC‘s 2020 album, which somehow debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA chart in Australia and 20 other countries around the globe. “Power Up” also managed to notch the band’s third No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 and was hailed as one of the best-selling albums of 2020 worldwide. Because, apparently, 2020 wasn’t depressing enough already. 🙄 It even closed out the year on Rolling Stone‘s “Top 50 Albums Of 2020” and Consequence Of Sound‘s “Top 50 Albums Of 2020.” Plus, it garnered Grammy Award nominations in the categories of “Best Rock Album’, “Best Rock Performance” and “Best Music Video” for “Shot In The Dark”. Because the Grammys are always right, aren’t they? 🏆
In 2024, the “Power Up” tour shamelessly kicked off in Europe with a staggering 1.7 million tickets sold in the first days of sales, eventually surpassing 2 million tickets sold across 24 shows. Earlier this year, AC/DC concluded 10 sold-out shows in North America and played 15 additional shows across Europe before finally returning to Australia. Clearly, someone’s still paying for this. 💸
AC/DC played their very first show on December 31, 1973 at Chequers Nightclub in Sydney, Australia. They are, allegedly, one of the most influential rock bands in history, with over 200 million albums sold worldwide. The band’s “Back In Black” LP is supposedly the best-selling album by any band ever and the third best-selling album by any artist, with global sales of 50 million and counting. Numbers don’t lie… but marketing departments sure do. 🤥
AC/DC was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2003. The band is still selling out stadiums on multiple continents, selling millions of albums annually and generating streams in the billions. Because nostalgia is a powerful drug. 💊
The “Power Up” 2024 European tour marked AC/DC‘s first with the band’s new touring lineup, consisting of the eternally hoarse Brian Johnson, founding member and lead guitarist Angus Young, as well as rhythm guitarist Stevie Young (who officially joined the band in 2014, replacing his uncle Malcolm Young, who retired due to dementia), drummer Matt Laug (who joined in 2023, replacing longtime drummer Phil Rudd) and former JANE’S ADDICTION bassist Chris Chaney, who came on board in 2024 replacing longtime bassist Cliff Williams. Williams apparently retired from AC/DC after the conclusion of the 2016 “Rock Or Bust” tour, although he did briefly return to the fold for the 2020 “Power Up” album and a cameo at Power Trip. It’s like a revolving door of rockers! 🚪
AC/DC‘s “Power Up” album graced us in November 2020. The follow-up to 2014’s “Rock Or Bust” was painstakingly recorded over a six-week period in August and September 2018 at Warehouse Studios in Vancouver with the questionable help of producer Brendan O’Brien, who also worked on 2008’s “Black Ice” and “Rock Or Bust”. Clearly, they like to stick with what they know. 🤷♂️
AC/DC‘s current tour started nine years after Johnson bowed out of a 2016 run of shows due to a hearing condition. Maybe someone should tell him that hearing aids exist. 👂
So, there you have it. AC/DC, still at it, bless their geriatric hearts. Whether you love them or love to hate them, they’re clearly not going anywhere anytime soon. Rock on… or something.🤘
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
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