1977
by AC/DC
Compact Disc
ZCCD118
Label: ZIP CITY
By the late summer of 1977, AC/DC were ripping things up across many parts of the world. 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 release garnered the group a large following in the UK, where Sounds magazine sponsored their UK 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 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 near perfect 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.
1 Introduction 0:43
2 Live Wire 5:52
3 Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be 4:05
4 Up To My Neck In You 8:21
5 Kicked In The Teeth 4:23
6 The Jack 10:46
7 Whole Lotta Rosie 5:05
8 High Voltage 6:12
9 Baby Please Don’t Go 8:19
10 Problem Child 5:50
11 Bon Scott Interview 1977 12:26
