is that why shirts direct from bands are now 50 fucking dollars? LOL, SCREW THAT, ebay will always have them cheaper and buy them used as well.

They simply haven’t sounded the same since Malcolm left us.

Magic sams boogie

I enjoyed the video. Hi from centralamerica.

Thank you Sammy G for putting the spotlight on Malcolm! He's the machine that made those songs work. What always struck me the most ever since I discovered AC/DC for me (long before starting to learn how to play guitar) was how the brothers work together outside of the solos (you mentioned that too) and of course the AC/DC-pan (tm) ;-) Still, if you ask guitarists for their influences and idols you'll hear the usual suspects: "Satriani, Vai, SRV, etc..." (Yes Hendrix, but his embelished accompainments are quite something - not exactly rhythm, but not solos either). Please make a series about great non-soloing guitar players! (Cropper, Diddley, Schenker, Summers, etc...) Thank you again for spreading the love of music!

Yeah, but look on the bright side, the very few people who are actually needed to run the servers that provide the actual streamed music. They're making bank. The only answer is live music. We need to move even further back into live music performed by musicians. The future of AI generated music is going to make the streaming era of actual music look like the golden era of music. We are about to be drowned in AI generated 'hit factory' music, written by no one, performed by no one - purely for the profit of the AI owner/publisher.

This pretty much explains what happened with duster, and this is coming from someone who isn't a duster fan lol

I appreciate the effort you always seem to put into thinking outside convention, Sami! For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was "just" a rhythm player. As I developed into more of a lead player, I came to realize that rhythm is everything. No matter how much I could jam on blues licks or fly across the fretboard, it just didn't have any impact without a solid rhythm track thumping under it. That said, a solid rhythm can stand strong on its own. Great vid! 🤘

Exactly...I can hear when a song is suffering from "One-man-ism" !!!

When the record industry embraced ITunes and single track, 99 cent MP3 downloads (including the piecemealing out of album tracks), they killed the album. Revenues began to drop. Then when streaming hit the big time, that wiped out even more revenues than MP3 sales did. The record industry makes 40% less revenue, accounting for inflation, than it made during its peak year in 1999 (the relative loss might even be greater than that with inflation lately). Napster was an issue, but it wasn't the problem. The industry's caving in to the new, 'kill the album' business model was the problem. The introduction of the MP3 sale as the standard could have been worked out differently. But instead, the record industry allowed the piecemealing of tracks, making albums unnecessary, and the number of "albums" today (Album Equivalent Units, 1500 plays) that come anywhere near to the level of a year 2000 top seller like Staind's Break the Cycle in 'sales' make much less money. A million CD sales in 1999 brought in somewhere around $18,000,000. A million AEU's today brings in maybe $5-$6 million. Most "albums" today don't really go anywhere. The upside is anyone can get heard. In theory. In reality, unless you're already known, your music gets lost in the vast, internet static.

Selling 100,000 albums got you dumped because the costs were so high there was no profit . Unless you turn out mulitiple albums selling 100,000 there is still no money to be made

Lust For Kicks by The Cars

Plaster Caster by KISS.

There‘s a reason libraries are run by society, having record companies invested in streaming platforms disincentivizes progressing culture. Nothing is better than having loads of people subscribe to your service and never going beyond AC/DC/Abba/ Kanye. Keeps server count low and profits high.

Reaching out to others is the hardest thing now. When the Algorithms on social medias, segregates your range, doing it in a legal way. 😕 People judges the music from the number of followers you already have, and very few adds on to what you already have if your only focus is music.

Never done num 2, I'm not that retarded

Fun fact, the case lock thing? It's not just Fender cases this applies to. In fact, I think the only exception is flightcases with TSA locks built in - everything else will have a key that's identical to something else, whether Fender cases, Gibson cases, or store's-own-brand cases. Even there, you can get a universal key for TSA locks pretty easily so it's not gonna be theft-protection - it's pretty much just there to prevent the case from being knocked open on an airport conveyor.

Groove: hitting the notes shifted from the actual beat without changing the actual rithm? Along these lines?

Good thing I never leave home without my trusty chopsticks!

No, he wasn’t right. Auto tune killed music in 1997. At that point it became what you looked like that was important, not whether or not you could sing.

Malcolm did play lead at one stage but he must have recognised that little brother had greater lead chops when Angus was invited to play with him. But he seems to have brought those lead sensibilities and intelligence into his rhythm playing. It's like his rhythm has a restraint but also is bursting out with creavity and musicality.

The Esteban guitar (my friend had one) had an extremely high action. She was just learning how to play and bought one (with included DVD lesson) off Home Shopping Network. She asked me to come over and tune it for her. I got it to somewhere around E standard, but it never stayed there long. It was completely unplayable beyond the 8th fret; the strings were 3/4 of an inch off the fretboard. Oh, the fretboard: it didn't have one. The frets were inlaid directly into the neck. The bridge had clearly been designed for a guitar with a 1/4 inch fretboard, which was why the action was so high. I took it home and filed the nut down nearly to the wood. Then tried to intonate it. It was a nightmare. I ended up removing the bridge, sanding it down to about half its thickness, regluing it, and it was nearly playable then. I put new tuners and bridge pins on it. The finish was cracked already, so I sanded it down and redid it in Tru-Oil. I was pretty proud of the end result, but it was quite literally one of the worst guitars I've ever seen. Even the $40 Wal-Mart First Act acoustic was more playable than the Esteban.

Another Angus Young paraphrased quote was when an interviewer asked him what it was like being known as one of the best guitarists in the world, his response was along the things of “I’m not even the best guitarist in the band”

I feel like rhythm guitarists. Don't get enough love. Should do one on bob weir

Very good topic to discuss with, I’ve been thinking about things related to these topics lately.

Awesome interview! 🔥🎸

Bro…lol your generation legit thinks it discovered everything, huh? 😂😂😂 I can’t wait to see you all get into your 40s and not be able to escape the fact that countless videos of you being proudly ignorant exist online forever

That’s. or really the case though man. It’s not misuse of the capo, it’s misunderstanding of tuning. Come on dude, weak showing on this one.

I have three albums streaming and on BandCamp. One Bandcamp album download is the same as thousands of streams. At 1/3 of a cent, it at least pays better than radio.

What was better in those days what thee were places for musicians to grow out side of the company system.

3,4,5,8,9,10,11,14🤣

Oh my God, I’ve been playing for 60 years, and hang my head in shame. I’ve done all 14 at one time or another!!!!! 🥺🤣🤣

You survive off making hit and good sounds.. Hollywood is dead

Idk why you'd want all that

na those eyebrows crazy

By the mid 90's we'd already had over 40 years of songs & every third song sounded like a song you'd heard before.

Love the video but I don’t quite agree with “busting myths” unless you’re also using the scientific method. As much as I love your logic, this is a horrible example of a scientific experiment lmao

No. Only 8-9-10-13

Concealed somewhere else you say? 👀

The B bend is much more natural feeling and looking when it's done the original method. See Clarence White's B Bender as designed by fellow Byrd's drummer Gene Parsons.

Dude that pocket fx was not bad at all for the price.

The interplqy of the SG and gretsch jet sound is also sublime

Got the beast from the great Harry Vander of the Easybeats!

Get a Morley Humno if you’re playing shitty venues with bad wiring and ground loops.

If you want to nail Malcolm Youngs tone you should dial down the distorsion way lower. He plays practically clean, and when he wants it to bite he hits harder AND, something which is almost always overlooked, he hits fast. Strumming speed is essential to his tone, you want all strings to almost sound at once when you hit a chord.

its 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, and 14 for me

I graduated from a top university, bought a van to sleep in, and drive from Michigan to Los Angeles, to break in the entertainment industry, complete nightmare.This world isn't for the innocent.

Disco 1978 ended lead guitar 🎸.

Do a video on Izzy Stradlin

Kurt Cobain, greatest guitarist? LOL! He was super sloppy, probably due to the drugs, Song writing, maybe....