Description
Double album on white vinyls with gatefold cover. Limited 150 numbered copies
Outside Le Zenith, Paris (6th of April 1988) it was lots of fans swinging their beers, cheering and having a good time. And why shouldnt they. They were all standing in line for some real fun, a good time that only rock’s premier blues-metal band, Ac/dc, can deliver. No, lead guitarist Angus Young was not wearing long pants. And no, he didn’t have a crewcut. He hasn’t been working out at the gym either. The heart and soul of the band was the same scrawny, long-haired demon in schoolboy shorts that his fans idolize and pay $20 for life-size posters of. They wouldn’t have it any other way. Only three tunes were performed from the bands latest album, Blow Up Your Video. It was their old hits that the Aussie five some relied upon to get the crowd all riled up, and rile them they did. During the second tune, Shoot To Thrill, dozens of fans charged the floor from the bleachers, hoping to get closer to their heroes. Most of them made it past the skimpy security, but the poor unlucky ones who got caught were treated to a headlock or two and dragged kicking and screaming away. Before long the entire floor was covered with a seething mass of fist-thrusting bodies, and the security guys gave up their posts and took to keeping fans away from the sound and light-system enclosure on the floor. One thing you don’t want to do is deprive thousands of Ac/dc fans of the electricity they’re thriving on by having the power supply disrupted. Then you’d really be talkin’ trouble. With steel-throated screamer Brian Johnson roaming the stage like a brawny thug in sleeveless denim jacket and cloth cap, the band belted its way through songs of sex (You Shook Me All Night Long, The Jack), rock n roll (Let There Be Rock, That’s the Way I Wanna Rock and Roll), and the place you might end up if you have too much of both (Highway to Hell, Hell’s Bells). Angus did his obligatory mooning of the crowd on Jailbreak–a quick down-and-up of the shorts that you’d have missed if you blinked–before playing a solo on his back while his kicking little legs spun him around in a circle. For their last song–the 17th in an almost two-hour show–the band brought out two long-barreled cannons for a 21-gun salute on For Those About to Rock. Talk about going out with a bang.
Track list:
1. Who Made Who
2. Shoot To Thrill
3. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
4. Back In Black
5. Heatseeker
6. Jailbreak
7. Hells Bells
8. Nick Of Time
9. The Jack
10. That’s The Way I Wanna Rock N Roll
11. You Shook Me All Night Long
12. High Voltage
13. Whole Lotta Rosie
14. Let There Be Rock
15. Highway To Hell
16. Tnt
17. For Those About To Rock