Fans to AC/DC: Change Your Set List
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Friday, November 6, 2009 @ 9:54 AM
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AC/DC fans have issued a formal complaint to the band via the website www.acdcfans.net to change the show setlist. The Black Ice tour has featured the same songs in the same order since the start of the tour.
From the site:
"On the current Black Ice World Tour, during which some of us having travelled across Europe, the United States and flown between the two continents (with flights already booked to Australia to catch the Australian leg), we have listened to you play the same great songs each and every night. We absolutely appreciate every song you play, but we can't help but wonder if the band is getting a little bored of playing the same songs night after night.
Are you aware there are thousands of fans just like us who have spent months discussing the Black Ice World Tour setlist, every one of them hoping that the band will play something other than songs geared towards casual fans? - the sort of fans that put money in your pockets, but who don't have the same level of passion for your music as us. They may cheer at the concerts, they may go home happy... but they only came to hear Thunderstruck. They don't eat, sleep and shit AC/DC like we do.
As the greatest band on Earth, we think it is a travesty that you are not playing songs that are dear to yourselves and your long term loyal fans - the songs from albums that critics wrote off, but which we both know are some of the finest from your back catalog.
So, we'd like you to consider changing the setlist. We won't be rude and say "play this" or "don't play that" - we'll leave it to you to decide - surprise us!
Please give us, and the many thousands like us, some hard hittin', heavy rockin' tracks that we, the true long term fans of AC/DC, know and love.
Thank you for your time and your music."
Here is the AC/DC setlist for the Black Ice Tour:
'Rock N' Roll Train' (from Black Ice, 2008)
'Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be' (from Let There Be Rock, 1977)
freakflag - 11/19/2009 5:33:06 AM Amerikaner Steve Tyler auf der bandishe Areosmith sind mortem auf schlong globbin.
SmaugJr - 11/16/2009 11:07:37 PM Coincidentally enough, Maiden and AC/DC are the only two bands I'll still go out to see anymore, though I've seen them both on every tour for the last 20 years. Maiden and Rush are two bands that I never expected to see mess around with their setlists during a tour. Neither are what anyone would call jam bands, the live versions of their songs are often practically note-for-note just like the studio versions, and their material is just kinda too complicated to change around from one night to the next. AC/DC, being more of a bar band kind of outfit, you'd think would be better able to rearrange their material, or jam on it a little differently. But they never really have.
I remember when Maiden played their Matter of Life and Death show in LA, the first LA gig after the infamous Ozzfest gig. Bruce was a little defiant at first about playing the whole damn album, like he expected the crowd to boo or leave or throw shit at him. I don't know if the crowd was on their best behavior because they felt a little guilty about Ozzfest (though that wasn't their fault) or if they genuinely loved the new material, but it warmed the cockles of my heart to see how appreciative the crowd was... and how much it touched Bruce. I wouldn't be surprised if the Somewhere Back In Time tour wasn't a gift to all their fans, just in thanks for the awesome response the Life and Death tour got in Los Angeles.
parasite13013 - 11/15/2009 7:59:00 PM WOW.....I know this is not a KISS page but fuck.....KISS has played the same setlist for nearly 20 yrs with maybe one or two song changes here and there. I agree, AC/DC needs to change the set.
FMJsPoolBoy - 11/15/2009 7:52:31 PM MikkiMunday: I am merely her dedicated pool boy but I can give her the heads-up on your band. Sounds like something she'd happily swim a couple of laps to.
MikkiMunday - 11/15/2009 6:17:09 PM Hey FMJ do you know my band Mikki Munday? We're in NY and Miami and we're going to be signed by Roadrunner real soon.You're going to hear alot about us in 2010 and our manager Jeffery has alot of big surprises and says that all I have to do it just keep rocking it and he'll do the rest because he knows alot of insiders in the music business and can make the dream happen.
FMJsPoolBoy - 11/14/2009 1:15:09 AM "there's probably a band that you WOULD see more than once. Maiden just isn't it." - For me it would be.
deadguy - 11/13/2009 3:45:25 PM Saw AC/DC last night...amazing show, amazing performance. They played Dog eat Dog and Shot Down in Flames in addition to the playlist mentioned in the article. And of course Angus Young still has that unbelievable energy...
blueflamer - 11/13/2009 12:09:46 PM For those about to Blob, we salute you.
QueefySuthy - 11/13/2009 11:21:12 AM A Preist, a rabbi and a black guy walked into a bar and the bartender said "get the fuck out of here". I include you in that group cloner.
Ownebyskull - 11/13/2009 10:50:05 AM Anybody here have the tabs for CC's solo in Unskinny Bop? I'm having trouble with the technical parts of that lick.
Ownedbyskull - 11/13/2009 9:24:43 AM Yeah, your a real Metal security guard.
blueflamer - 11/13/2009 8:44:59 AM Saw Springsteen once. 3+ hours....zzzzzzzzzzz
Glam_Chowder - 11/13/2009 7:34:46 AM Hey, scrap, mixing up the encores creates controversy, too. "Fuck, they played 'Red Barchetta' in Houston but didn't play it here! Assholes!" Basically, you can't win...someone is going to complain when you have catalogs of so many good songs like these bands do.
Imotorhead - 11/13/2009 12:00:01 AM At least AC/DC, Scorpions, Van Halen when they reunited, Rush, and other bands can play 18 to 20 song plus sets unlike the famous Maiden (who don't get me wrong are great live) but only give us 13 to 15 song sets every tour in the states if were even that lucky. I belive in bands/shows that give us 20 songs or more, no excuses and I don't want to here the complaint that Maiden songs are so long that this is why we get short set lists!
fizzgig - 11/12/2009 2:28:13 PM Oops, I missed the D.
