"Metal School Boy Boogie"

Close your eyes and you can see it alone a  silhouted figure standing high above a vast stage bathed in red it's clad in shorts a uniformed matching waist length jacket and white ankle socks, a guitar clutched in congruously in it's hand. The fingers move effortlessly over the strings peeling off a single, repeating loop of notes as hypnotic as they are penetrating, the knobby knee bobs in beat as if possesed by a mind all it's own. The head pulses in the same rhythm, long curly hair swirling around like a dark halo.The rest of the band kicks in to the song the singer raises the microphone to sing and "Angus Youngs" S.G. rocks into a metalic boogie with "A.C.D.C." In early days the "Australian" rockers were fronted by a singing tough force of nature known as "Bon Scott" who could arguably make any venue no matter how big feel like a local pub with his intimate rapport and sordid, last call sense of howling, entertainment story telling. This was "Angus Youngs" band one of the most electrifing and toe tapping guitar players in the rock music world "Angus" with a clutch of classic rock and roll songs under his belt and one of rocks true showman icons. Of course "Bon Scots" time was long gone a victim of his own excesses in "1980" his lurid come hither snarl greatly missed but repaced by his buddy bravado of brawny scream "Brian Johnson" a recomended "Bon Scott" associated friend. Drummer "Chris Slade" in the engine room having followed both original drummers "Phil Rudd" + "Simon Wright" bassist "Cliff Williams"  and of course "Angus Youngs" brother "Malcom Young" on the other guitar.Were still in place after a quarter of a century as the granite core of "Angus's" rock and roll mountain, whach the expressions on "Angus Youngs" face in boogie mode as he tortures those scorching leads out of his "Gibson S.G."  burgundy guitar. This is an individual who is bred to perform on the stage live, in a cluttered world of over produced studio creations and faux outlaws "Angus Young" is still every inch the real macoy raw feel no holds barred  metal boogie player steeped in blues and good old rock and roll dalmation.       

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