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Malcom Young died Saturday
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Here's to Malcom Young and his mates blasting from the 8 Track Player with Cassette Adapter of my 1972 Pontiac Grand Prix, jamming down the gas pedal on that steel behemoth and it's 454ci motor, as my crew and I scream out the song at the top of our lungs and toss the spent Coors cans out the window.
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hotseatgames wrote: Your brain eventually just quits telling your body to keep working, if I'm correct.
A neighbor just went through it. It's not a pretty death by any means.
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He got the Jack
And if he'd known what she was dealin' out
He'd have dealt it back
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Sagrilarus wrote:
hotseatgames wrote: Your brain eventually just quits telling your body to keep working, if I'm correct.
A neighbor just went through it. It's not a pretty death by any means.
Ugh sounds terrible. But isn’t that more Alzheimer’s that does that? Tells the body to quit working ?
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It's sad that Malcolm Young died without great notice recently, but he was less famous and colorful than Angus. I've been reflecting on the fact that all these great musicians are passing away and they haven't really been replaced by equivalent stars in modern times. Maybe downloading cut deeply enough into the music industry that rock star isn't really a career for most musicians anymore. They can get by with a single and some constant touring for a while, but maybe it's hard for most to write good songs while touring.
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Shellhead wrote: I've been reflecting on the fact that all these great musicians are passing away and they haven't really been replaced by equivalent stars in modern times.
There's been a huge change to the music industry in the last ten years, and it's not about how the product is delivered. It's about how it is produced. Big name acts now buy music kits, essentially a set of electronically produced music segments that you can cut and paste together and sing over top to produce a hit song. The lyrical aspect remains, but nobody is working in a studio to create their sound anymore. (And this is the biggies we're talking about -- Taylor Swift, Beyonce, the household names. The music comes to them in a zip file.)
The result is that you get a repeating riff with no variation whatsoever, no opportunity for a guy like Malcom Young to put a stamp on the sound. Malcom arguably had one of the most heavy, industrial sounds in the business, one that changed as the song progressed and gave you a reason to listen over and over to catch the subtlety of sounds. Even with an in-your-face band like AC/DC there was nuance that you could pick out in the sound.
That's not the business anymore. It's too expensive, too expensive to produce, takes too long, and it's too expensive to reproduce on tour in a live format. Everyone sounds like they're from Sweden now.
So I think you're looking at the end of an era, the opportunity for guys like Angus and Malcom Young to make a living in the business isn't available anymore.
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Our high school bus driver was a big classic rock guy, so I heard lots of AC/DC growing up. Back in Black was our football team's theme song. The basketball team used Psychedelic furs.
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hotseatgames wrote: Your brain eventually just quits telling your body to keep working, if I'm correct.
My grandfather died like this. His brain decided that swallowing isn’t something really important and so he lost the ability to swallow. Because he had a DNR order he died of emaciation
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