Confessions of a Fanboy

So, how did AC/DC’s plan to distribute their new album Black Ice exclusively in the US through Walmart work out for them?  Not bad.  They are set to debut at #1 on the US charts, selling more than 780,000 copies in its first week.
Of course, Black Ice went to #1 in 28 other countries and [...]

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I don’t know what a Rock ‘N’ Roll Train is, but there’s something undeniable and catchy about this first single from AC/DC’s latest.
People can knock them for being derivative and dumb all they want.  I say it takes a hell of a lot of talent to make the same old thing sound catchy, and that’s [...]

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I needed to not start the day with the navelgazing of yesterday’s Springsteen/Tunnel of Love stuff so I started as far away from that as I could:  AC/DC!
This reminds me of those breakfast cereal commercials when I was a kid.  This cereal is part of a properly balanced breakfast.  Yeah, in other words none of [...]

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I went home for lunch, hoping the mail had already run.  When I opened my mailbox, there it was: the new AC/DC album Black Ice.  15 brand new songs, the first album in eight years.  I feel like I’m back in college, working at that classic rock radio station where I was a DJ:  “It’s [...]

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Tomorrow is going to be a good Tuesday.  How good?  So good that I’m talking about it on Monday.  I guess that could also tell you how I’m feeling about Monday and that has a lot to do with Sunday.  Now would be a good time for a PSA:  Anyone with pro-Tampa Bay Devil Rays [...]

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When I was discussing AC/DC as the Soundtrack For Saturday, I confessed that my library was slimmer than Al Davis’ grip on reality and that I set out to do something about it.
On the day I bought Highway to Hell, I bought two other CDs.  After really listening to H2H, I decided to buy a [...]

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I’ve always liked that bit in the Foo Fighters’ song “All My Life” where Dave Grohl screams “On to the next one.”  I tend to be that way too much with my musical listening.  I’ll obsess over an album or a song or an artist and then I’ll either lose interest or be drawn to [...]

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After watching No Bull on DVD, I looked at my CD towers and realized there are only two AC/DC albums in my library: Back In Black and the 2-CD Live, which is the closest thing to a career-spanning retrospective in their catalog.

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Today’s working vacation is off to a good start.  I wrote and published my review of AC/DC’s No Bull DVD for BC Magazine and I’m getting ready to start writing my review David Gilmour Live in Gdansk.  A quick word on the AC/DC before we move on.  Even though the No Bull set didn’t light [...]

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Well, I don’t know where I disappeared to this weekend but I’m back. Sort of. I’m back long enough to tell you that today’s break is a working break. I have research and writing to do today- research in the form of AC/DC’s No Bull, David Gilmour’s Remember That Night (and Live [...]

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