28 AC/DC Books part4: Music Books
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This article is from the AC/DC FAQ, by Phil Rose acdcfaq@yahoo.com with numerous contributions by others.
28 AC/DC Books part4: Music Books
Original Angus Young-An Annotated Guide To The Guitar Technique of
Angus Young
Arti Furnaro Amsco-Wise Publications
This book contains musical transcriptions of 20 AC/DC songs and the
solos
Angus plays in them. There are many good BW pictures of Angus in here.
This
book is interesting because the author knew little of the band when he
did
the transcribing. His comments in the introduction and with each
transcription provide some interesting insight as to AC/DC's music and
Angus'
playing from a musicians standpoint.
AC/DC Best Of Their High Energy Hits "The Years With Bon Scott" Big3
Books
[Thanks to Dave Rector <daveacdc@ix.netcom.com> for the Oakland
Coliseum info]
This book has music to a bunch of songs through Highway To Hell.
The
cover has a great series of pictures of the band...from the 'Day On
The
Green' concert at Oakland Coliseum in 1978. There are some nice
pictures
inside as well. There are also Angus and Bon cutout paper dolls
included!!
"Here's your very own Angus Young paper doll, to bend, fold and
mutilate...
...and your very own Bon Scott paper doll, cut him out and color him
in...
let your fantasies run wild!"
AC/DC Back in Black Big3 Books
Music to all the BIB songs, as well as earlier hits from the Bon
era.
Some good BW pictures, looks like they were taken at the early video
shoot
that went with the BIB album.
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Big3 Books
Music to all the DDDDC tunes (the US and Europe version of the LP.)
A
few interesting pictures, all BW, and all with the band members eyes
covered by that blackout as used in the LP.
AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You Big3 Books
Music to all the FTATR tunes, as well as many color pictures, most
all of them taken from live shows.
*********************The following is a comic
book*************************
AC/DC Rock-n-Roll Comics Jay Allen Sanford, Mike Sagara, Todd Loren
A history of the band through release of The Razors Edge, in comic
book form. It's decently put together, but there are some questionable
perspectives on things. Ex: The book states that Phil Rudd left the
band because he thought they were stale and could not keep up with
him.
Has anyone ever heard that story before? The book does include a
classic
Malcolm Young quote at the end, which originally was published in a
Musician magazine interview with Charles M. Young (no relation.)
"Most people, when they progress, they progress right up
their asses...we just try to keep it exciting."
Malcolm Young
There is also a short cartoon at the end of the comic book about a
drunken young man helped out of the gutter by a stranger who warns him
that a bottle, like any drug, equals death. The stranger's identity is
revealed at the end of the story...he is Bon Scott.
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