Malcolm and I were working on “Have a Drink on Me,” and Mal had been on the drum kit and wanted to play some guitar. He had this pile of lyrics he’d been kicking about and he said, “Well, maybe I could come in and try out some ideas.” A week earlier, however, Bon did come down to the rehearsal room and play some drums. He was actually supposed to come in that same week he died. GW Probably one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding the band is that there are demos of Bon singing Back in Black songs.ĪNGUS He never sang. To my ears I still don’t play the thing right! In fact, I was never able to do it exactly the way he had it on that tape. GW Was the little single note lick his, too?ĪNGUS Oh yeah. What do you think?” He was going to wipe it out and reuse the tape, because cassettes were sort of a hard item for us to come by sometimes! I said, “Don’t trash it. I remember during the Highway to Hell tour Malcolm came in one day and played me a couple of ideas he had knocked down on cassette, and one of them was the main riff for “Back in Black.” And he said, “Look, it’s been bugging me, this track. Some stuff, like “Hells Bells,” was obviously written with Bon in mind, but then a lot of it was written when Bon was still around. Was that a result of Bon’s passing, or was the band naturally heading in that direction anyway?ĪNGUS With Back in Black that’s just where it was going. GW After Highway to Hell your sound got considerably darker and heavier. Regarding the amps used in Back in Black, there is also a part of interview done by Guitar World magazine that reads: Prior to that, JMPs were still available but in non Master Volume configuration. From the available videos, it’s still hard to determine.Īlso keep in mind that Master Volumes were introduced around ”76/’77. Because at the time, they were exactly in the same box, with only one or two knobs being different, and the same box was in fact for the 50 watter and the 100 watter. The rather difficult thing about these would be to determine whether they were 50 or 100 watters. There’s plenty of videos online showing AC/DC using these (this is just one among the many, please submit all the ones you can find: AC/DC Goes To College). Let me show one of the many pictures that you can find around of a late ’70s JMP Master Volume head: I am reading on the Marshall forum specifically that people with good ears and good knowledge of Marshall Amps tend to think that given the sponsorship AC/DC got in 1977 from Marshall, Angus – NOT Malcolm – has been using the latest models that Marshall was putting out in those years, namely, the JMP models that according to someone, would have been used from 1977 until 1983 continuosly. Truth is instead, that the JTM45 was used only recently or very early and for the most part in the 1970s, it was other models most likely being, JMP models! So one would think that it was a JTM45, as since Ballbreaker, everyone has been talking about the JTM45. I don’t know about you, but the type of Angus tone I’m after – and I’ve always been after – is the early one up to 1980-1983 at the most (so basically, 1974 to 1983), with the top – for me – being Back in Black. Well, I have a surprise for you: this is just plain wrong, would you believe it? I’m researching this pretty deeply, as deep as I can, everywhere, including interviews, pictures and video footage. Or some other JTM amp, such as a JTM50, which is also the Metro replica I just got. Weird statement, don’t you think (I’m referring to the “Angus Young’s Marshall Amplifier”)? Most have always thought it’s always been the JTM45 and that’s it. Update: despite what I had stated (please see below), the “Back in Black recording session” images are NOT them: those are barely Vanilo rehearsal room, Pimlico London, auditions for new singer, March 1980, 8004004, © 1980 Robert Ellis/Repfoto, i.e., pictures shot while trying a replacement for Bon. “Angus has also taken to replicating his recorded lead tone live with a JTM45, which is sometimes miked through an isolation cab under the stage. a JTM50, and a later JMP50 in the studio (the former with KT66s, the latter two with E元4s)” “Angus also often records through the 100-watters, he has been known to use any of a range of several JTM45s. Update of Mon, Oct the 4th: our own headwhop26 has posted info from a reliable source stating the following:Īngus has frequently recalled the use of a 100-watt late-60s Marshall JMP100 Super Lead amp with E元4 output tubes in the early days of the band, while Malcolm often played through a slightly earlier JTM100 Super Amp with KT66 output tubes, a late-’60s Super Bass with E元4 tubes, or a 100-watt Plexi Super Lead much like his brother’s”
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