by Steve Newton on February 9th, 2021 at 10:36 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Remember concerts?
Twenty-five years ago today on February 9, 1996 AC/DC played the second of two nights at GM Place (now called Rogers Arena) on its Ballbreaker World Tour.
Maybe you were there?
To jog your memory, here s my review, which was published in the February 15, 1996 issue of the Georgia Straight
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I’ve been going to AC/DC concerts for almost 20 years now which either gives me bragging rights or is a severe embarrassment, depending on your musical tastes. Actually, at the very first AC/DC gig I went to, I missed the group’s performance it was opening for Aerosmith and I arrived late but I still remember the wiped-out look in the eyes of one of my teenage buddies who’d gotten there in time to see the Bon Scott–led quintet blast through tunes from its new
It is a line
AC/DC are obviously pleased with: theyâve wheeled it out more than once. The gag runs that, during some or other promotional campaign, some upstart critic accused them of having made the same album 11 times.
AC/DC retort to the effect that this is an outrageous, ignorant and insupportable calumny: they have, in fact, made the same album 12 times. The numbers vary with the telling, but
AC/DCâs repeated deployment of this quip is itself almost a meta-commentary on the joke theyâre telling against themselves. Itâs also an assertion of the â correct â belief that they got everything absolutely and unimprovably right the first time, back on 1975âs
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