?>{"id":798,"date":"2013-01-21T14:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:58:19","slug":"hot-106-6-back-in-black-acdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Hot 106 #6: Back in Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Hot 106<\/a>\u00a0is a musical hit list of 106 \u201cclassic rock\u201d songs that should be banned from radio airplay forever. In an effort to be fair, and to flaunt their quasi-musical quasi-snobbiness,\u00a0Kent<\/a>\u00a0and Jen have tasked themselves with finding replacements for the overplayed tunes. \u00a0Today’s installment: “Back in Black” by AC\/DC.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Much to the chagrin of\u00a0sports\u00a0teams everywhere and anyone else pretending to be tough, “Back in Black” is history… man.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kent: “Walk All Over You”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I am a fanboy. \u00a0Yes, I have\u00a0previously\u00a0put, in print, a love letter about this song. \u00a0Yes, I, too, have rock-and-roll-type\u00a0fantasies\u00a0about being in the bang (oooh!) with a gang.<\/p>\n

However, if I get to take electronic pen to paper and do my classic rock radio revisionist duties, Brian Johnson era AC\/DC can’t make the list. \u00a0Please replace “Back In Black” with “Walk All Over You”.<\/p>\n

Don’t think about it as poo-pooing Johnson, but celebrating Bon Scott. \u00a0Johnson took an impossible job on balls first, but his gruff and tough impish image did little to compliment the duo of singer\/lead guitarist that the band had developed. \u00a0Angus is the imp, Chuck Berrying around in a schoolboy’s uniform, making stubby little devil horns with his blues-possessed fingers, contorting his face and huffing for air to fuel his rock trance, Kussmaul style.<\/p>\n

Bon Scott? \u00a0A three-quarter turgid Pan in ill-fitting jeans. \u00a0Musky, damp, cooing and begging sex. \u00a0A prefect combo between the two styles.<\/div>\n
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Musically the band was already headed toward the\u00a0Back In Black<\/em>\u00a0sound;\u00a0Highway To Hell<\/em>,\u00a0the album prior to\u00a0Black and Black<\/em>\u00a0and featuring “Walk All Over You”, was \u00a0the first to be produced by Mutt Lange, who made a signature sound that fans kept on loving after Bon Scott’s death at the age of 33 (just like You Know Who).<\/div>\n
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I know this video is poorly synced. \u00a0It won’t keep you from getting rocked to pieces. \u00a0Don’t choke on it.<\/div>\n
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