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> Concert Review: AC/DC still performing with powerful rock
> 10:11 AM CST on Saturday, January 24, 2009
> By MARIO TARRADELL / The Dallas Morning News music critic
> Talk about an explosive opening.
> AC/DC began its blazing gig Friday night at American Airlines Center
> with a video, an animated doozy of a clip that featured guitarist
> Angus Young as the devilish train operator too tempted by the female
> persuasion to keep his locomotive from crashing. When it does jump the
> track, it ends up center stage in a ball of smoke. It’s equipped with
> the band’s trademark horns and logo, of course.
> “Rock N Roll Train,” from the band’s comeback smash Black Ice, started
> it all and for the next hour and 45 minutes the group never let up.
> For an entity that’s been together since 1973, these five rockers
> still perform as if they have plenty to prove. The 18-song set
> featured five from Ice, three from 1980’s seminal Back In Black and
> pretty much every other AC/DC anthem.
> Anthems are key. For AC/DC, rhythm-heavy rock tunes need a chorus the
> crowd can chant. The packed house did just that time and again. Let’s
> see here: “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” “Thunderstruck,” “Hells
> Bells” and “T.N.T.,” to name a few.
> During “The Jack,” a bluesy number from 1975’s T.N.T. album, the
> unstoppable Young launched into a striptease, removing pieces of his
> trademark schoolboy uniform until he revealed boxers with AC/DC
> emblazoned on his backside. That was one of many memorable moments.
> Another was lead singer Brian Johnson screeching and wailing “You
> Shook Me All Night Long,” still one of the sexiest rock classics ever
> put on wax. The man’s incredible. How can he do this for 29 years and
> still be able to speak, let alone sing with sandpapery passion?
> Back to Young, who’s 53, busting out a piercing 10-minute guitar solo
> at the end of “Let There Be Rock.” Amazing.
> This is real rock ‘n’ roll, people. You can’t learn it. You just live
> it.
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