"...Malcolm Young of AC/DC dies at 64 years..."
I pointed out on another thread that Malcolm's older brother, George, passed away just a few weeks ago. George was a founding member of the Easybeats and also, one of my favorite all-time bands Flash And The Pan. Very strange and sad to have two Young brothers to die within a month of each other.
Was never a big fan of Malcolm's AC/DC - they rocked a bit too hard for my taste and gave me a headache! But AC/DC did have one album, "Back in Black" that resonated with me. That album came out around the end of 1980, a time when I was training for Marine Boot camp. I was getting up at 5am in the morning to go on a ten-mile run through the streets of Revere and Lynn (MA) and that was one of the cassettes that played on my Sony Walkman (remember those?). Those songs did give me a boost of energy during my runs.
Then, during boot camp in early 1981, I spent a week on mess duty and had to report to the mess hall at 3:30am to get breakfast ready. The cooks would play that album at top volume...what a wakeup call that was!
There are so many of us here that are truly happy to see duplicate posts on this news (okay from different sources of course) because we grew up on AC/DC. I think I became a Constitutional Conservative since I was very young partly due to For Those About To Rock.
RIP Malcolm, thanks for the music.
It has been said that he had big balls.
Undoubtedly one of the loudest, most painful and enjoyable shows I ever attended. The shows on the video monitors was half bad either.
Undoubtedly one of the loudest, most painful and enjoyable shows I ever attended. The shows on the video monitors was half bad either.