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I always liked the double cutaway. It looked like two horns. It's like a red devil. So I went to the guitar shop, saw an SG that was sitting there looking rather lonely, and said, 'Hey, that's for me.'Collection: Angus
When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.Collection: Angus
I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.Collection: Angus
We never go overboard and above people's heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we've always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.Collection: Angus
It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.Collection: Angus
We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.Collection: Angus
For the two hours I climb on stage, I become the schoolboy. But as soon as it is over, I get off stage and go home and get told to wipe my feet before I come in.Collection: Angus
The hardcore fans have hung with us because they go, 'Hey, they don't disappoint.' And we stick to that style.Collection: Angus
The playing is great. The traveling is tough. It's a hard thing.Collection: Angus
I don't know how many bands I saw who would try to wreck a hotel room, but I never wrecked a hotel room in my life! If I'm gonna sit there and throw a TV out the window... if it's a good TV, maybe I should just take it home.Collection: Angus
I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.Collection: Angus
To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.Collection: Angus
Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library and find the jazz magazines. They didn't even sell them at the time in news agents and stuff.Collection: Angus
Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.Collection: Angus
There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.Collection: Angus
Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.Collection: Angus
For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what's going to happen next.Collection: Angus
I never thought we'd be put into any sort of historical thing. When we started as a band, it was a day-to-day thing. You sort of played a gig, you got your money and thought, 'OK, where's tomorrow's gig?' You never thought you'd get past a summer.Collection: Angus
When I was young, and I would see bands playing, I would dig the rock & roll and get excited, but when they would start to take the pace down, my attention span would start going.Collection: Angus
I think we're just one of those bands that we know what we do best.Collection: Angus
By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.Collection: Angus
A good record is one where I can tap my toes. I always say let your feet do the thinking.Collection: Angus
What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.Collection: Angus
We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.Collection: Angus
I'm constantly surprised when people say, 'But you haven't changed!' It's like saying, 'You've got a wheel. Now why don't you make it a square?'Collection: Angus
Go back to the very beginning, when we first started playing in local pubs. We used to play Chuck Berry covers. Every now and then, we'd slip in one of our own songs, and we found that we were getting away with it - nobody seemed to know these were original tracks.Collection: Angus
We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party, and it gets people tapping their feet, then it's in.Collection: Angus
We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.Collection: Angus
I've been shocked for a long time in a lot of circumstances. I get shocked when they say, 'Hey, we're paying ya.'Collection: Angus
We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.Collection: Angus
We're not the prettiest bunch of animals in the world.Collection: Angus
We always try to get new songs. That's what AC/DC has always been about. You can listen to what we do, and you can go, 'Well, it's AC/DC, but it's a new song.' So that's what we've always tried to achieve. So we've always got that style.Collection: Angus
Riffs are a repeating thing. They come back to you. Some of the things on 'Back in Black' were ideas we had knocked around on tracks before that: 'That bit - maybe we should take a chunk of that and slug it in here.'Collection: Angus
There's nothing worse than trying to patch something or make do. If there wasn't something there in the beginning, it won't be there at the end.Collection: Angus
I found that pedals were too much to fool around with. You'd be halfway through a solo, and the batteries would go dead and conk out. And if you tread on the lead going to the pedal, something would always go wrong. Or some crazy kid would pull the lead out just at the moment when you're about to do your big number on it.Collection: Angus
I don't regard myself as a soloist. It's a color; I put it in for excitement. It's not great loss if a solo has to go. We've made songs without solos.Collection: Angus
In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic. We just use a couple of cabinets each - sometimes just one, if we think that's enough. We mainly go for 100-watt and 50-watt heads.Collection: Angus
With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to come up with something that's nice and simple without getting something that's hard but easy.Collection: Angus