AC/DC

[Giants]

Fucking wow. If you have a chance to see them on this tour (and for those of you in the New York area you have a chance tomorrow night, go to stubhub now, I mean it). My brother freaked me out because he convinced me that since they had a new album out we were going to hear all new stuff and maybe we'd get the classics in an encore, so I was feeling apprehensive. We get to the Garden about 30 minutes before the show is supposed to start and our seats are a little elevated in the back level of the floor section, like we were in a temporary section hanging off what would be the corner of the hockey rink, so the view was unbelievable. They started with this sick animation of a devil driving a train and these hot ass girls seducing the devil to take the train away from him, only the devil gets it back and they show the train crashing into a wall and right when it crashes the set crashes and a train bursts through the fake wall. So obviously they played Runaway Train (the new single which isn't terrible if you haven't heard it) and I enjoyed it but I was kinda pissed because I didn't want to hear all new stuff. Then the lights went out and the familiar riff of Back in Black hit, I've never seen any crowd so electric as they were at the moment when they recognized the song (which sounds a little bit different live like most things do). The rest of the show was awesome, they played 2 classics for every new song they played (at least if you count Shoot From the Hip as a classic, as they did but I'm not sure I do), and they played every hit I could think of, though they skipped my favorite song (If You Want Blood). The video coverage was awesome too because they did a lot of zooming on Angus Young's hands as he was playing, and you could see how intricate the movement was as he was dancing around like a maniac. Seriously, how much blow does a 53 year old man have to do to be able to keep that energy level up? The other thing I didn't realize is that Brian Johnson's speaking voice is almost totally unintelligible, he sounded like Robin Williams' drunken Scotsman impression from the Live on Broadway special, I didn't make out a single complete sentence in any of his stuff. But those are minor complaints, the greatest Arena Rock band still going today was fucking awesome, and if you've ever enjoyed any of their music or even any music of that era, then do what you have to do to get to the concert.