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Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

Angus Young

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Angus Young
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 31
Guitarist
Songwriter
Glasgow
Scotland
Angus McKinnon Young
Even
Dancing
Trying
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People
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Stage
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Entertain
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Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'
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With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.
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Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
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Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
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We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.
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A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'
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Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.
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I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.
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The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.
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I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.
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I just go where the guitar takes me.
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Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse
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There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
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I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.
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That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
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Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
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I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
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