Fan Reviews - Week 7, USA

• Mjmurra
  The San Antonio show got off to a somewhat negative start, as concert attendees were accosted by Christians from the First Baptist Church of Boerne as we left the Alamo Dome parking lot with "Jesus loves you" messages. When will these people understand that this is not about devil worship, but rather an appreciation of both talent and showmanship, which they have apparently never experienced. I suggest, and wish I had invited these folks inside so they can see what really goes on.
  Enough though, I am off the soapbox. Slash's Snakepit started off, and there is no question about he still being one of the worlds phenomenal guitarist. The only problem is that Slash works best as the mysterious guy who hides behind his hair and top hat, so he needs a strong front man backing him up. The lead singer is quite talented with a great voice, but he doesn't cut the mustard with the charisma required to fill this gap. If you can appreciate this band strictly from a guitar expertise perspective, I think you would enjoy this part of the show.
  AC/DC were absolutely fantastic though. Each band member commands respect, mostly because every member of the audience that I could see knows not just every word, but every note of every song that was played. Brian Johnson did a fantastic job, and still inspires awe at the staying power of his screaming voice. I would like to see Malcolm and Cliff share more of the spotlight that they have earned, but I also understand that Angus is, and always has been the accepted "lead" in more ways than with his Gibson SG. The last time I saw these guys was when they warmed up for Moxy in 78', with Bon Scott, and I don't see any less energy out of Angus than I did at that time. I also appreciated his respect for his wife, by not only wearing his ring, but deleting the quick butt flash that usually comes with a show. There was not any boob flashing to speak of either from the crowd during the Jack, but for one sneaky peak at the end of the song. Also, I was looking forward to "Get it Hot" from previous reviews, which was deleted in this show, though we did get a couple of mini guitar solos from Angus, which may have replaced that song. I still cant even come close to complaining though. Absolutely fantastic, and I hope these guys stick around forever. I am sure San Antonio will never get tired of AC/DC.

• Bert Muro
  If you want blood....you got it!!! Just doesn't get anymore ROCK 'N ROLL then this! Hats off to Angus and the boys....Terrific show at the Alamodome last night. Crowd of about 15K really got into the Rock 'n Roll Rhythm right from the get go. Of course, this band never disappoints !!!!!!!!! Can't wait for the next tour!!!!
  Great job lads!!!!!

• Hal Engstrom
  The show a typical display of the boys at their best. The set list was a healthy mix of old and new, the sound was good, the songs were tight and the canons were loud.
  It was the first time in recent memory, however, when I have seen (or even heard of) a fan becoming seriously confrontational with one of the band members on stage. (I'm sure in the early days of playing in the tough bars of Sydney and Melbourne this was more common).
  The incident happened during Bad Boy Boogie - just after the second chorus when the band begins to head into that melodic and rhythmic groove for Angus' striptease. Angus was over on the far left side of the stage still working his solo licks around the music when a full cup of beer flew over his head and spilled out onto the middle of the stage. Angus looked out into the crowd and pointed at someone and shook his finger, as if to say "None of that."
  Not two seconds later, another full cup of beer is thrown and hits Angus squarely on the chest - soaking him and, I'm sure more annoyingly, his guitar. So Angus whips off his guitar, lays it down on the stage begins gesturing with both hands, for the same perpetrator to "bring it on!"
  Some guy from the crowd looks to be getting over the seats and up to the side of the stage. Angus leans out as far as he can into the crowd, while holding onto the stage railing with his left hand, and from what I could see, hits the guy in the side of the head with a good shot. Immediately, security grabs the loser and halls him out of America West Arena.
  My buddies and the people around me were pissed. That's all we need - to have AC/DC leave Phoenix with a a bad taste in their mouth. But, to his credit, Angus grabbed another guitar and continued on. After the song was over, Brian didn't mention it in anyway and the band seemed to carry on in a good mood.

• Debbie
  I really can't say enough about how awesome this show was!!! INCREDIBLE!!! The guys sounded excellent, in every way. Watching Angus down there truly inspires awe, that man can play. And Brian's vocals, as always, were right on. I loved how during Back in Black, the two screens behind the band remained on the cover of the album B in B, because in my woeful little romantic heart, I took that as a tribute to Bon. Loved Angus' boxers!! Loved the lights, lasers, cannons, everything. This was my first time seeing them in concert, and I will see them again or die trying haha. By the way, my friend and I tried like hell to get a contact high off all the wacky tobacky smoke wafting thru the place but it didn't work. Gotta love those AC/DC fans.

• Karen
  What can I say? An incredible show by the most incredible band on the planet. The previous reviews here have pretty much said it all, the set list, the effects, the added bonuses for the guys during "The Jack", but I will nonetheless offer my biased critique of the festivities ...
  I had read in the press that Brian's voice wasn't holding up ... Do Not Believe This! The man is in amazing form! He hit every note perfectly and strongly, and has more energy, stamina, and guts than any 20-year-old. He's the perfect host, really getting the crowd into it.
  And Angus played the proverbial life of the party, as only he can! It will forever astound me how he keeps his physical presence and energy level up after all these years! The greatest guitarist in the world!
  Malcolm, Cliff, and Phil were their usual dependable selves as well. The band did put in "Meltdown", dedicated to the 112 F degree heat in Phoenix that day! Standouts? Definitely "Safe in New York City", "TNT", "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap", "Shoot to Thrill", "Rock & Roll Ain't Noise Pollution". On and on, really. AC/DC, please don't ever change!
  Again, it was a solid two-hour show. The crowd's enthusiasm was off the chart. When I've attended concerts by other artists, you always see people streaming out of the venue during the last song ... not AC/DC fans. Every single concertgoer in that filled-to-capacity arena stayed until the very last note. Everyone was on their feet through the entire concert. It's impossible to sit at an AC/DC show. I actually had a dream that night that I was still at the concert. Awesome band, awesome tour, come back next year, will ya? You are the best!

• Travis
  The concert was good but that slash band sucked ass, and you couldn't hear shit. and I was sitting kind of far away off to the left side of the stage on the second or third level. and I saw some guy cleaning Malcolm's guitar and I saw the band come from this area from behind the stage and it was cool. during the show some fuckin' wank threw beer at first Brian and then got angus reel good. and angus still had his school boy uniform on an also his guitar which he handed to a member of the crew and then went down kind of off the stage where like 1 or 2 security guards were holding him and angus kind of pulled on his nose and they just took him away and the show went on. What a fuckin wank, I hope he got arrested....fucker. Anyway I was pretty deaf the rest of the night but the next day my hearing was fine. Everything else was pretty much like the other tours so far.

• Charlie
  As expected, AC/DC got it done in a big way. How many other bands out there are still around or alive from 1974? They showed neither signs of age or boredom. As in other cities, Angus took the stage, took a bow, and cranked up his SG for that famous opening riff of "You shook me."
  It was great to see them do the older tunes like Shot down in flames, Hell ain't a bad place to be, and Rosie. Would have loved Sink the pink, Are you ready, Guns for hire, but all in all they mixed up the set with new and old. Angus really stretched out on Ain't noise pollution and the Jack. He is a damn fine blues player.
  Brian Johnson seemed to really thoroughly enjoy himself as did the rest of the band-Malcolm cranked out his usual nasty rhythm guitar and Phil was great at pounding out the beat while smoking. Overall great sound.
  God love the Boys from down under!

• Colin Hartridge
  Last week was my 50th birthday, and being a long time AC/DC fan, I wanted to do something memorable for my b-day. I booked a room at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas and went to the AC/DC show at Thomas & Mack Center. All I gotta say is that I had a **FANTASTIC** 50th birthday celebration, one of the best vacations I've ever had! The concert sound was of course what you'd expect to hear in an arena, but the band worked with it in their favor, to churn out some good old fashioned, loud & proud 70s Arena Rock. I wasn't disappointed in any way -- the lighting, special effects and musicianship were world class, and any reports of AC/DC being "tired old geezers just going through the motions" is crap, pure and simple. These guys were absolutely killer -- and Malcolm Young's guitar sound can STILL peel paint! :))) Yow! I'd seen AC/DC about 22 years ago in Vancouver when Bon Scott was the lead singer (they opened for Aerosmith), and Angus Young has no less energy today than he did back then. The guy's a powerhouse. Someone who was sitting beside me hit the nail on the head as far as Angus's guitar influence, though: listen closely to his solos and you can hear echoes of the ever-lovin' ALVIN LEE! I'm not kidding!
  The only glitch occurred as a result of the fact that I had ordered my ticket online through tickets.com, and like a dummy I'd ordered the $35 seats instead of the $45 seats. Bad move! Well, when I got to the arena, my seat was the VERY last row up in the nosebleeds -- I couldn't have picked a shittier seat if I'd tried my damnedest!! I said to myself, "Self -- this well and truly SUCKS!", and I tracked down the venue's Guest Services counter to see if I could exchange my ticket for a better one. As luck would have it, they did have a few single seats still available: one right beside the stage and one at the back above the soundboard. One of the gals at the Guest Services even went to the trouble to take me down to the first choice seat, to see if I liked it! (She said, "No problem!") Fortunately I picked the seat by the soundboard for SOUND reasons (I only had to pay the difference of $10), and had the pleasure of seeing every single detail of all the lighting effects, Jumbotron, big cannons etc. as if it was a private show for yours truly. Many thanks go to the nice gals at Thomas & Mack for letting me upgrade my seat! It had to be the best seat in the house!
  The show was a rocker, just the way I like it!

• Paul Stackhouse
  Damn I hate "For Those About To Rock..." The only sure thing about an AC/DC concert is when you hear the intro to this, the night is almost over. 8 times now I have seen the band since the FTATR Tour back in '82, the previous 7 in the UK, and every time they have closed with this song, and every time the crown are left hoping, praying, begging for more!!!
  As others have noted, the guys are definitely getting better with age. The sound was much better that last time I saw them ('96 in Brian's home town of Newcastle-upon Tyne, not Edinburgh as one reviewer said) His voice was much stronger and the sound in general was clearer. The three "new" songs that they played (Stiff Upper Lip, Safe In New York City and Meltdown were, in my opinion, the weakest of the set. The opening Riffs of SINYC are great, but the song itself, as with the other two, didn't come over as well as some of the older stuff. The set list was in keeping with other gigs. I though that the arena was good - I had flown in from Portland, Oregon for the show - if the mountain won't come to Mohammed and all that!! and the show was fantastic. The lights, pyrotechnics etc were good. Highlight songs for me were "Shoot to Thrill", "Dirty Deeds", "Bad Boy Boogie". I would have liked to have seen "High Voltage" and half expected "Sin City" given the venue.
  Still the weekend in Vegas was a bonus - I reckon that AC/DC were the only genuine thing in Vegas though - Slash and his band were just 30+ minutes of screaming and swearing (calling the crowd MotherF#@$%@#S ad nauseum) Brian on the other hand spent 2 hours coaxing and working with the crowd. I don't think I saw 1 girl with original tits (including the 2 or 3 who got them out for the crowd during "The Jack"). The whole town is just unreal!!
  Still seeing AC/DC again was fantastic, for those of you reading this who have never seen them, or who are not sure about going to see them, read all of these reviews and believe it, THEY ARE THE BEST LIVE BAND IN THE WORLD PERIOD. Here's hoping that they tour again, soon!!!!!

• Candy
  The people posted before me have adequately covered anything I would want to say, except, thank you AC/DC for keeping a stiff upper lip for going toward 30 years. I met the band 24 or so years ago in London and was on the road with them, saw the first custom made Angus uniform and nothing has changed 'cept we have all gotten 24 years older. They were fabulous and I was astounded that there were virtually three generations of rockers just having a great time, despite the heat and show delay. Can't wait for them to return, hopefully to a venue much closer to Los Angeles. And hey gang, give credit to Cliff, Brian and Phil, it is all the parts which makes the whole.

• Kat
  Great Show Boys !!! They played a 2 hour set, 20 songs. The stage set was cool.. I so loved the Angus statue.. I am from Portland Oregon flew to LA to see the show.. The crowd was so into it.. funny how old I was feeling there surrounded by people who were my age but looked old.. (I realized I am one of them) hahaha. Seen many AC/DC shows since their first trip to USA. Every one I think this is the best show!!. The fact that they play so well to the crowd is just amazing.. wish they would come up here for a show.. the weather is so much better... cooler anyway.. it was fabulous.. I rocked so hard.. still cant hear very well .. The sign of a great show for sure.... take care all kat

• Sandra Tompkins
  We saw the show in Devore, CA last night and it was great! However, there was a screw up with the starting time. Our ticket said 5:00 and the show didn't start until 8:00. We also had to wait 1 hour in 106 degree heat to get in the gate to sit down. Fortunately, it cooled down by the time the show did start. Getting out after the show was another story. Traffic was at a standstill for 30 minutes and security was lacking. A girl was doing a striptease on top of a truck and all the guys in the area were crowding around, blocking traffic. When security finally did show up, all they told them was to get back in the truck. As far as the show, Slash's Snakepit were okay. They played for half an hour, then AC/DC came on at 9:00 for 2 hours. They started with "You Shook Me All Night Long". They also played three songs from "Stiff Upper Lip". The earlier reviews said they only played two. The ones they did play were "Stiff Upper Lip", "Meltdown" (perfect choice, considering how hot it was), and "Safe in New York City". Angus did two solos. He did his famous strip-tease act during "Bad Boy Boogie" and rolled around on his back during "Let There Be Rock". There was a giant statue of Angus that lit up and breathed smoke during "Highway to Hell" and "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be". There was also a fire show during "Highway to Hell", cannons during "For Those About to Rock", and Brian swinging from a giant bell during "Hells Bells". We would've liked to hear "High Voltage", but other than that, it was worth all the aggravation getting in and out. This is one show you can't miss!

• Andrew
  The show rocked! This was my 3rd tour, so I've seen them in San Diego before ('90, '96) and they still rocked just as hard as before. From the opening of You Shook me to For those about to rock, they never slowed down. During the old songs, you could feel Bon's spirit in there with you and the band. They're ageless. Since I've learned from earlier experience, I wore earplugs, and it still sounded great! My personal favorite song was Hells Bells, Angus wore a Trevor Hoffman jersey (Hoffman is a San Diego Padre relief pitcher, and at home, when he comes into the game, they play Hells Bells. It gets the crowd cheering every time. Angus wearing it was a great gesture) and the crowd responded with a roar! I was stoked when they played Shot down in Flames, and Thunderstruck. The Jack was great, with lots of chest on the big screens! Let there be Rock was the highlight for me, As I was dancing (to me it's "Angusizing) their end solo went on forever. I almost collapsed! Amazing work for seasoned veterans! But I will never forget the cannons. SHOOT! SHOOT! Wow, they shook the whole sports arena. I wish they would have played Ballbreaker or Sin City, but the selection was marvelous! In 1990, AC/DC was the first real concert I ever saw…from that moment, I was hooked. I'd never seen such energy before. They truly are the monsters of rock!

• Tzleaze
  Outstanding show. Wouldn't miss another show. I thought it was going to be a bunch of old fogies in the crowd like myself but there a lot of fine young bush there. Angus and the rest of the group jammed till no end. bye