Jam fans are pretty lucky in that their favorite bands change up the setlist from night to night. AC/DC fans aren’t so lucky. The Australian natives’ Black Ice tour has gone around the world and back with the band playing the same exact set night in and night out to the dismay of their hardcore fans.
A group of AC/DC fans want them to bust out some rarities & have issued a formal complaint against the band to try to get them to mix it up. I’m just surprised the band doesn’t get bored playing the same show every night.
Here’s a look at six other stories of interest…
- Dave Grohl isn’t happy about the Foo’s’ Greatest Hits release
- U2 was joined by Jay-Z on Thursday night at the Berlin Wall
- Umphrey’s schedules a Stew Art event at the Higher Ground
- Neil Young will release a live album featuring a show from ’92
- JamBase has a review of the moe. Halloween show in Albany
- Bob Seger raids the vaults to find material for Early Seger, # 1
Finally, we were very surprised to hear that the Derek Trucks Band is going on hiatus next year. As you may recall, the Allman Brothers Band coaxed Trucks into a full year of touring with them by saying they’d take it easy next year allowing Trucks to devote ’10 to his solo band. We wonder whether the Allman Brothers Band will reconsider slowing down next year or if Trucks has something completely different up his sleeves.
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That’s funny you mention that. My buddy and I went to see AD/DC last year at the Garden and he got us skybox tickets from his job. A couple of the guys in the box were these huge fans and seen them 30+ times and were even trying to make a documentary about the band and the fans.
We asked them about the setlists and it hadn’t even occurred to them that they might change them night to night. They weren’t the least bit irritated that it was always the same. In fact, it was like they enjoyed comparing the same show to the other ones and nitpicking the precise differences and mistakes each night, and awaiting for the perfect execution.
They also liked comparing one tour to the next and the big highlight of seeing them on different tours was the stage props, video, and ordering of the songs.
Anyway, it was my first time seeing them and I thought they put on one of the better big huge rock shows I’ve seen (although that’s not very many). It sure beats KISS, that’s for sure. Those guys suck.
what? man, those people arent hardcore ac/dc fans. any real fan would know that theyve been doing the same show for like 20 years now.
its too awesome to change it, ive seen em twice this tour and its just so awesome
I have to agree with the fans who wrote this letter. AC/DC have an incredible arsenal of songs at their disposal but all they do is play the same songs night after night without any change at all. You can’t take a tour through the same US states twice within 12 months and expect people to turn up without doing something different. And the attendance levels at recent shows is proving this point. AC/DC don’t understand that their best songs aren’t the so-called classics. So like the letter-writers said, play Thunderstruck and keep half the crowd happy and then pull out some less played material that sends the other half home happy. As it stands, the casual fans have seen them and won’t go back, and there’s nothing to attract the hard core fans. Change the setlist AC/DC.
Reminds me of when I saw Rush twice on the Roll The Bones tour, first at Nassau and again at MSG. They played the exact same show, note for note, right down to the stage banter. It’s a great show, but when a band has such a deep catalog, why not offer a rare deep cut at least once in awhile?
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what a band, i can’t have enough of their new album – AC DC Rocks