Constant rock

In the 1980s that the Australian group AC / DC performs music for morons, teachers, newspapers and energetic young propagandists-corresponding people of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, shod in the fashionable boots-Dutiki reported. They would try to pronounce this outside of school and editorial walls. Where the love of AC / DC or at least the knowledge of the subject was a saving amulet, during the evening promenade in any district of Moscow or at the subbotnik discoes of the surrounding recreation center! Perhaps most of the then fans of AC / DC - guys in jeans vests and quilted jackets with ballpoint pens and water -based in four letters separated by lightning, with Maphone “Vesna” and “Electronics” in one hand and painted perhydrous girlfriend in the other - and were not seven spots in the forehead. But certainly was not a moron of Kolya Prophets, one of the creators of the Moscow Group "Ship".

A pleasant, sociable guy for a class older, Kolya lived with his parents in Budapest for several years, where he acquired a whole clip of real “branded” cassettes, one of which was a brown box with a unique pattern. " High Voltage ” - the very first and my favorite album AC / DC ! I must say that I “stuck” in their music not at all at all. Well, yes, there are almost like my beloved Rolling Stones , just faster and easier. After some time, Stones will take the Australians to their support group.

Another my favorite Mike Naumenko also walked through the local cult, arising around four Latin letters, asking in his “gopniks”: “Who has a bag with the inscription AC / DC ?” A few years later, Mike will write down the song “I forget” -almost tracing paper from the minimalist rock-gyms of the Australians. The same pulsating rhythm, growing pace, a whipping text and not a single extra note ...

Then, with criticism of AC / DC, Mark Nopfler spoke. In a translated interview, published in the main official source of musical information for the youth of the USSR - the magazine "Owl", he stated that he would be the biggest reason for sadness if the listener puts the AC / DC record after Dire Straits . Colin Casset " High Voltage ” for a long time served for a long time to the Sverdlovsk district of the city of Moscow, and later - the Moscow State Academic Art School, where Kolya, Vera and Truth moved.

Last year, in a shop in the Latin quarter of Paris, I stumbled upon the vinyl plate " High Voltage " . She lay in the farthest box. The seller kindly listened to my love story, did not make a discount, but wished him all the best. He also loved this plate. The time remaining in Paris, I periodically thought: “ High Voltage ” A quarter of a century later, just as then with Kolina Kasseta? Arriving home, he threw off his suitcases, unloaded dutifric bags and lowered the needle onto the path. And all! Nothing has changed-the same power, energy, the reckless daring and thousands of thousands of volts of one hundred percent rock and roll.

AC/DC is a current generator, and from the generator you need to be charged.

Listen to all the albums of the group, which recently exchanged the fifth dozen, from the first to the last song is a difficult occupation, and by and large, if you are not an orthodox fan, meaningless. AC / DC is a current generator, and from the generator you need to be charged. There are only a few albums in my collection - already mentioned “ High Voltage " and the necessary set: " Highway to Hell " , " Back in Black " , " For Those ABOUT to Rock ( We Salute You ) " . Further - the failure, the eighties were ruthless to the group, successful songs will be set for a collection. The 1990s began with the " Razor ' s Edge ” , which opens with an inimitable hit “ Thunderstruck ” , followed by crazy Fire Your GUNS " , " MoneyTalks " and " Are You Ready " .

At one time I liked to listen to their spite of the "advanced" public. Advanced, appreciating difficulty, did not like AC / DC more than the discrepancy went crazy in the group. The thing is that in Russia AC / DC had too many fans. Four treasured letters that decorated the walls of boiler houses, transformer booths and public toilets from Tallinn to Vladivostok are already hidden by the thirtieth layer of oil paint. And what masterpieces of the versification at one time arose as the first Soviet graffiti: “We do not need Babi Sisi - we are fans of AC / DC !”, “AC - oh*omnible rock!”. It is not surprising that the music lovers look at the AC / DC fans onto - well, how can you write such a harass and love this monotonous, repeating from the album to the album a gimp. Where some people hear only a monotonous hobby in the style of the Old Testament rock and roll, others feel the power and rage, under which you can and should be frantically spin and spin.

On the eve of the release of the next AC / DC plate, each time they fool the public, which now they will certainly bring “certain changes” to their style! Fans grin, do not believe - and do the right thing! If someone should change here, then this is not AC / DC (and also not MOT O RHEAD , not ZZ Top , NOT STATUS Quo and not Ramones , although this does not threaten the last one in earthly life)-a powerful bunch of 100 % rock and rolling workers, great primitives, feeling for their style, from which much more exquisite, polystyrene and versatile.

Concerts AC / DC - Oh, these five brave on stage and a couple more hundred people for, under and above, stadium shows, in which nanotechnology and deliberately Lumpen surroundings are combined! Two hours of rock and roll circus, similar to which few people do on the planet today. Unless The Rolling Stones . Maybe at some stage the recording of new albums became the only reason for the group to go to the tour and give a crowd again, fascinated by a huge bell, swinging in the back of the back, the opportunity to hide their breath. Bom-mm! "Ladies and gentlemen, AC / DC !"

New Album " Rock or Bust ” The group cooked nervously. The founder of the group Malcolm Young left his brother-broller Angus in unchanged school shorts to pull the strap in the company of his nephew Stephen Yang. Rock and Roll has no age, but his soldiers have it. And these soldiers sometimes even go to the self -military soldiers, and now the drummer Phil Radd accused no less - of preparing the murder of two people . On the key, of course, they released, but in the tour he will be clearly replaced by Chris Slade, who has become one of the faces of the group for several years in the early 90s. Then the Yangi brothers dispersed creatively with Phil, and now Phil himself has spread out with the law. Help, Chris ...

Well, are you waiting for a new album, or what? So in vain, everything is the same there - what you used to hear with AC / DC . They are rock, and it is pointless to demand more from them. Their rock does not allow flirty consoles "post". He is the same “high -voltage” and to the funny constant.

“If you do not like rock and roll, then you will never understand that this is music. If you do not like rock and roll, I'm afraid to understand him today too late, ”was sung in one old song.

This is perfect for any AC / DC album, and Rock or Bust ” , of course, too. In a different way, they never had it.

And it will not, do not hope!