AC/DC – 1977 The Classic West Coast Broadcast [Remastered, Live On Broadcasting] (2025), MP3+FLAC

By the late summer of 1977, AC/DC were ripping things up across many parts of the world with the “Let There Be Rock” World Tour. Bon Scott had joined the Young brothers to form AC/DC three years earlier, and the group’s first

worldwide release, High Voltage, was issued in 1976 on Atlantic – the label they had recently signed an international deal with. The album garnered the group a large following in the UK, where Sounds magazine sponsored their British tour, gaining the band a large following in the then emerging punk community, despite Bon Scott announcing publicly his disdain for the movement.
AC/DC’s first American exposure was through Michigan radio station AM 600 WTAC in 1977. The station booked them to play at Flint’s Capitol Theater in Michigan in December of that year. The supporting act was MC5, who had briefly reunited and agreed to play at the event.

The performance included on this CD “1977 The Classic West Coast Broadcast” comes from a couple of months before the Michigan show and was recorded for a live FM radio broadcast at the legendary Old Waldorf, one of Bill Graham’s venues in San Francisco.
With a raw rocking energetic sound and a set-list that includes tracks from all their albums to date, along with the preview of a couple of tracks from 1978’s Powerage, this show was clearly one hell of an AC/DC gig and remains a classic illustration of where the group were at this juncture in their career.
Highly Recommended

01 – Introduction
02 – Live Wire
03 – Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be
04 – Up To My Neck in You
05 – Kicked In The Teeth
06 – The Jack
07 – Whole Lotta Rosie
08 – High Voltage
09 – Baby Please Don’t Go
10 – Problem Child
11 – Bon Scott Interview 1977

Bon Scott (vocals)
Angus Young (lead guitar)
Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar)
Cliff Williams (bass)
Phil Rudd (drums)

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