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High Voltage

2016-02-25

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Released: 30 April 1976

Recorded: 1974–75 at Albert Studios in (King Street) Sydney, Australia

Label: ATCO

High Voltage is the first internationally released studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It contains tracks from their first two previous Australia-only issued albums, High Voltage and T.N.T. (both from 1975). Originally released internationally on 30 April 1976 on Atlantic Records and in the US on 14 May 1976, this edition of High Voltage has proven popular, selling three million units in the US alone. In December 1976, Atlantic Records' UK head Phil Carson signed AC/DC to a worldwide deal. The group's first two albums, High Voltage and the harder driving T.N.T., had been hits in their native Australia - the single "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" peaked at #5 - and now plans were made for the band to tour England in 1976. The group had already recorded their next single "Jailbreak" (for which they had shot a music video) and had already begun recording their third LP Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap when, in April 1976, they flew out on their first British tour. The international release only included two tracks from the Australian High Voltage release - "She's Got Balls" and "Little Lover" - with the rest of the songs taken from the T.N.T.

Band members:

Tony Currenti - drums on tracks 7-9

Mark Evans – bass guitar

Phil Rudd – drums

Bon Scott – lead vocals, bagpipes

Angus Young – lead guitar

George Young - bass guitar on tracks 7-9

Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Producers: Vanda & Young for Albert Productions

Recording Studio: Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia

Michael Putland - cover photo

T.N.T.

2016-02-24

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Released: March 1, 1976

Format: 7"

Label: Albert Productions

"T.N.T." is a single released in 1976 by the hard rock band AC/DC, taken from their Australian album T.N.T. and the international version of High Voltage. The song was written by Bon Scott, Angus Young and Malcolm Young. It peaked at No.11 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. A slightly modified line from the song, "Lock up your daughters", was used as the title of AC/DC's first headlining tour of Great Britain in 1976 after the band's move from Melbourne, Australia, to London, earlier that year.

Band members:

Mark Evans – bass guitar

Phil Rudd – drums

Bon Scott – lead vocals

Angus Young – lead guitar

Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Harry Vanda – producer

George Young – producer

It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)

2016-02-23

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Released: 1975

Format: 7-inch single

Label: Albert Productions

It is the first track of the group's album T.N.T., released in December 1975, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott. The song is notable for combining bagpipes with hard rock instrumentation; in the middle section of the song there is a call and response between the bagpipes and guitar. A slightly shortened version of the song is also the first track on the international version of High Voltage, released in May 1976. George Young (the older brother of Angus and Malcolm), having heard that Scott was in a pipe band, encouraged the use of bagpipes in the song. Scott obliged despite having never played them before; he had actually been a drummer in the band. Scott used a set of bagpipes to play the song live until 1976, following an incident where he set them down at the corner of a stage and they were destroyed by fans. The music video for "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", was filmed on 23 February 1976 for the Australian music television program Countdown. It featured the band's members on the back of a flatbed truck travelling on Swanston Street in Melbourne Australia, being followed by members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band. Known members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe Band at the time of the video's filming include: Alan Butterworth, Les Kenfield and Kevin Conlon. The video was directed by Paul Drane. David Olney was the cameraman.

Band members:

Mark Evans – bass guitar

Phil Rudd – drums

Bon Scott – lead vocals, bagpipes

Angus Young – lead guitar

Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Harry Vanda - Producer

George Young - Producer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCs7ijNUVM

T.N.T.

2016-02-22

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Released: 1 December 1975 (Australia only)

Recorded: March–April, July 1975 at Albert Studios in Sydney, Australia

Label: Albert

T.N.T. is the second studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released only in Australia, on 1 December 1975. After the success of the single "Baby, Please Don't Go" and the album High Voltage, AC/DC returned to Albert Studios in Sydney to record their second LP with producers George Young and Harry Vanda. George is the older brother of guitarists Malcolm Young and Angus Young and had enjoyed his own success in the group the Easybeats. T.N.T. marked a change in direction from AC/DC's debut album, High Voltage, which was released on 17 February 1975; whereas High Voltage featured some experimentation with the styles of its songs and had a variety of personnel filling multiple roles, T.N.T. saw the band fully embrace the formula for which they would become famous: hard-edged, rhythm and blues-based rock and roll. They also simplified their personnel system and would use it from then on out, which was Angus strictly playing lead guitar, Malcolm Young playing rhythm guitar, and the drummer and bassist being the only ones to play drums and bass guitar respectively on the albums. T.N.T. was originally released on Albert Productions, and has never been reissued by another label. However, all songs except "Rocker" and "School Days" were included on Atlantic Records' High Voltage, which was released internationally in May 1976.

Band members:

Tony Currenti - drums, percussion on track 8 (uncredited)

Mark Evans – bass guitar

Phillip Hugh Norman Rudd – drums, percussion on tracks 1-7,9 Born to Lithuanian parents on 19 May 1954, in Melbourne, Rudd began playing drums in his teens and became quite serious about pursuing a career in music. He played in several bands in Melbourne before joining Buster Brown with future Rose Tattoo vocalist Angry Anderson. They went on to release one album, Something To Say, in 1974, before Rudd left to join the Coloured Balls with Lobby Loyde. In 1974 Rudd was told about AC/DC's rhythm section auditions by his former Coloured Balls bandmate Trevor Young. Rudd asked Buster Brown bassist Geordie Leach to accompany him to the auditions, but Leach refused due to other commitments. Rudd auditioned and was hired immediately. Rudd's drumming style suited the band's style of music and became an integral part of AC/DC's sound from 1975 to 1983. The band relocated to the United Kingdom in 1976 and followed a heavy schedule of international touring and recording.

Bon Scott – lead vocals, bagpipes on "It's a Long Way to the Top"

Angus Young – lead guitar

Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Harry Vanda – production

George Young – production

High Voltage

2016-02-21

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Released: July 1975

Format: 7-inch single

Label: Albert Productions

"High Voltage" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was first released in Australia as a single in July 1975, and it is the eighth track of their second Australian album T.N.T. The song was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott, and peaked at #48 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980. "High Voltage" shares its name with the band's first Australian and international albums. It is the ninth and final track on the international version, released in May 1976. "High Voltage" was also released as a single in the UK and various countries in Europe in 1976. Although Phil Rudd is erroneously credited with recording the song, the drums were actually recorded by a session drummer Tony Currenti, not long after recording sessions for the debut album High Voltage.

Band members:

Tony Currenti – drums

Mark Whitmore Evans – bass guitar. Mark Whitmore Evans was born on 2 March 1956 and raised in Melbourne, Australia. He was originally a guitarist and early in 1975 he was introduced to hard rockers AC/DC at the Station Hotel, Melbourne, by his friend and the band's roadie, Steve McGrath. AC/DC had formed in 1973 and had released a debut album, High Voltage, in 1974. By January 1975, Malcolm Young was playing bass guitar in a four-piece line up alongside his brother Angus Young on lead guitar, Phil Rudd on drums and Bon Scott on vocals. Evans had been working as a clerk in the pay section of the Postmaster-General's Department when he auditioned for AC/DC and joined in March on bass guitar, allowing Malcolm to switch back to rhythm guitar. Evans learned all the songs from the original version of High Voltage overnight and did not meet Scott until the next gig. In April, with Evans, AC/DC's first TV appearance was on pop music series Countdown. They played "Baby, Please Don't Go" with Scott dressed as a school-girl.

Ronald Belford Bon Scott – lead vocals

Angus McKinnon Young – lead guitar

Malcolm Mitchell Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Johannes Hendrikus Jacob van den Berg Harry Vanda - Producer

George Redburn Young - Producer