AC/DC made River vibrate with a show full of emotion, classics and a passionate back and forth with the public

Among the ties that so many fundamental bands in history have achieved with our country, and vice versa, that of AC/DCforged in Australia with British components (Angus Young and the deceased Malcolm Young and Bon Scott were born in Scotland) was sealed forever with their last, to date this Monday, March 23, shows at River in 2009, immortalized in the thunderous Live At River Platewhich documented the Black Ice Tour of that year, later published in 2011 based on the undeniable framework of euphoria and color that the local public gave it then.

With those years of waiting and with the months that passed since the announcement that AC/DC would return to Argentina, River’s night this Monday began with a preview deeply musicalized with songs from Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne, greatly applauded by a packed stadium.

Among the audience, the Horn Devils clattered, those bright, red horns that they gave away in 2009 and today are part of the merchandising.

At 9:04 p.m., the typical video of all their tours was seen on the stadium screens, in which a speeding car leaves them in River.

Angus Young, with blue school uniformcame out with a pure riff with the first song, If You Want Blood (You’ve Got it). At his side, singer Brian Johnson He wears black, a classic sleeveless shirt and his inevitable cap.

“Buenos Aires, how are you doing?” Brian Johnson greeted the audience. “It’s good to see you after so long. This will be a night of rock and roll.” And to confirm it, they are just sent with Back in Black, great classic that turns the public on for the first time.

Angus Young, the guitarist, and his wall of Marshalls, remains the soul of the band. Johnson’s voice gives everything it can, and what it can do is a soft croak that cuts through the permanent electric shock.

For the fifth topic, Thunderstrucka thunderstorm is emulated and Angus is already walking around without a blazer. A little later, the bell of hell lowers to Hells Bells.

Stevie, the Youngs’ nephew who replaces the deceased Malcom, is not the driving force that his uncle was, but at least he does not show physical discomfort that prevents him from doing the task with care.

Average the show and song 10 is the super classic Highway to Hell.

One topic passes after another and one certainty remains: AD/DC is a vital test of rock and roll in the age of holograms.

Within rock and roll, AC/DC is a kind of Ugly Duckling turned Messiah. A concrete definition of the genre itself. Like a school uniform, the one that the guitarist and soul, Angus Young, still wears, or a jean that wears all those who are in rock, whom the band never tires of greeting with a salute of cannon shots in the song of the same name.

Surrounded by the vast and paternal arms of heavy metal, they were confused and intertwined with the incipient punk rock when they settled in England around 1976, with a couple of albums under their arms. “Our songs were always about cars, girls and drinks. When I first heard the Sex Pistols singing about anarchy, I honestly had to go to the dictionary because I didn’t know the term,” Angus Young eventually admitted.

In fact, the same guitarist also once remembered a friend who wanted to introduce him to the world of classical music: “As soon as I played a Beethoven album, a kind of anxiety began to run through me. After the first minute, I admitted it was because the battery never came in, so I got up and left.“, confessed the guitarist. There is no colloquial approach to the band without being able to resolve it with a brutalist-rock manifesto.

Our Pappoanother adherent to the Young’s exciting quadrature, executed his most brutalist theorem around them: “I like rock. Rock is AC/DC. ¿Fito Paez looks like AC/DC? No. So: it’s not rock.”

Who knows, “resilience” could be another of the words that would lead the band’s lead guitarist straight to the bullpen. What cannot be said is that the musician has not experienced firsthand, and on countless occasions, the concrete meaning of the term.

Since the early death of the band’s second singer, Bon Scott (the first had been Dave Evans), in 1980, after his last album to that date (Highway to Hell1979) gave them the sought-after world fame, to end up raising the bar with a new singer, the still current Brian Johnson, and an album (Back in Black1980) that To this day it is the best-selling in history in terms of rock as a pure & hard genre.

The other big shock occurred in 2017, with the death of his brother Malcolmthe real driving force of the band and seriously considered one of the great rhythm guitarists in history, whose last show had been in 2010, a few months after those historic River. Malcom’s permanent replacement, Stevie Youngor rather his state of health, was the first news they brought, coming from Chile according to the trajectory of the tour, when an illness kept him hospitalized for a few hours last Friday, setting off all the alarms.

Luckily, the 69-year-old British musician walked out of the Mater Dei Sanatorium clinic, just one day after being admitted. It is worth remembering that Stevie is the nephew of the remembered Malcom and Angus, and had already had an internship in the band around 1988, when his uncle Malcom was undergoing rehabilitation for his problems with alcoholism.

To celebrate Stevie’s discharge and the euphoric preview, the group published a very Argentine video on their official social networks, with a strong rock stamp and a clear connection with the local public. “Che, welcome to Buenos Aires,” says a fan at the beginning of the clip, setting the tone for a piece that tours some of the most emblematic points of the city, completely influenced by the band’s aesthetics. Throughout the video appear the Obelisk, the Floralis Genérica, Caminito and, of course, the River stadium itself, the epicenter of the shows they will give: in addition to tonight, let’s remember that they will also go up to River on the 27th and 31st of this month.

The video images showed fans wearing AC/DC t-shirts in different parts of the city, as if Buenos Aires was completely taken over by the spirit of the Australian band. The music that accompanied the tour could not be other than Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation, one of their most recognized classics, which gives the video a powerful and celebratory pulse. The closing of the clip put the focus on the Monumental Stadium, where you could already see the impressive assembly of the scenery that the band brought especially for this tour.