AC/DC Marathon
Dirty Deeds Indeed - “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Live)” mp3
Špeljbl’s Helprs - “You Shook Me All Night Long” mp3
AB/CD - “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)” mp3
Back In Black (NL) - “Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be” mp3
OC/DC - “Highway To Hell” mp3
Bonfire - “Sin City” mp3
Action In DC - “Night Prowler” mp3
Ballbreaker - “Thunderstruck” mp3
Back In Black (USA) - “TNT” mp3
BC/DC - “For Those About To Ride” mp3
The world first AC/DC Marathon is in action at the moment, in Oulu, Finland. Starting 10 AM, bands play the whole AC/DC backcatalogue in chronological order. They should finish early Sunday morning which means it’ll be quite an overdose of power riffs. Approximately 17 hours in total. All the benefit from the show is donated to The Finnish Association for Mental Health.
I went on a crusade as well and sought out ten tracks of AC/DC covers. There are hundreds of AC/DC tribute bands (and tributes to other classic bands as well) out there, some sound good, some not so good, but most interestingly - some sound exactly alike. For example number two on the list, Czech band Špeljbl’s Helprs, I can’t tell the difference from the original. I was kind of hoping to find some really OTT cover versions of AC/DC songs, but the trend is that all AC/DC tribute bands must sound as close to the original as possible.
Of these ten bands only the first one, Dirty Deeds Indeed, performs at the marathon, playing Let There Be Rock end to end.
daveyboy wrote:
Well Lupatarkastaja, first things first.
If you’re going to post in english from now on, we’re going to have to give you an english name. I’d say pick one from the list below and stick with it.
a) John
b) Loopy
c) Frank
d) Kirk
e) Billy Bob
Second, for the American market it might be wise to switch to the latino language or learn how to write with an accent. For the Canadian market just do the whole blog in french. Apparently, I’m the only one here that speaks english, so you might as well go for the larger market-share.
For the Oriental market write in ingrish.
When you post in England, type with a Jamaican Patois.
France. Well once they find out your from Finland they won’t read your stuff anyway.
And so it goes.
By-the-way, you did extremely well with your switch to english,
Well done.
Posted on 18-Feb-06 at 3:43 pm | Permalink
lupatarkastaja wrote:
Thanks, Davey! I’ll sure take your advices under consideration. With my learning skills, it’ll take only about 15 - 25 years and I’ll have weblogs in all three different languages my three readers speak. And then, I’ll take over the world.
Posted on 18-Feb-06 at 4:03 pm | Permalink
Eddie wrote:
Hi lupatarkastaja,
This is Eddie from the band Ballbreaker. I want to thank you for adding our mp3 to your blog!!!! Although we do our ac/dc tribute show ( as they are a fav of everyone in the band ) I would like to invite you to our myspace page ( http://www.myspace.com/ballbreakerusa ) and check out a few mp3 downloads from our second full legnth all-original cd “Hangmans Tree.” Tell us what you think. Thanks again!!!!
Posted on 01-Mar-06 at 8:47 am | Permalink