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Let There Be Rock is the story of AC/DC written by rock journalist Susan Masino, who met the band during their first American tour in 1977. Over the years, she remained in contact with them, watching AC/DC climb to international stardom. Since 1977, Susan has interviewed the band many times and their friendship has lasted nearly three decades. Now she tells the true story of AC/DC's illustrious career and how they became one of the true great rock 'n' roll bands in history. The book traces the band’s history, from their beginnings in Sydney, Australia in the early 1970s to trail-blazing the U.S. mainstream to the devastating death of lead singer Bon Scott in 1980. The band pulled together and rebounded to the top of the charts with new front man, Brian Johnson and the watershed album, Back in Black. Through it all, AC/DC continues their quest to build a legion of new fans in the 21st century.
- Sales Rank: #5911506 in Books
- Published on: 2007-11-01
- Released on: 2007-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.16" h x .78" w x 6.27" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 280 pages
About the Author
Susan Masino has been a rock journalist for twenty-nine years and is the author of Famous Wisconsin Musicians and Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy: My Life and Times With AC/DC, Van Halen and Kiss. She pubished her own music newspaper Rock Central, for siz years and has written for WI Music News, a monthly music news column, since 1991. She created a radio show for 94.1 WJJO in Madison, WI, which she produced and hosted from 1997-2004.
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Solid Effort and Fair Overview for an Unauthorized Biography
By Tome Raider
This book is really more of a tribute than a real biography. Ms. Masino is clearly a serious AC/DC fan and her effusive enthusiasm for the band leaches through in almost every paragraph. In my view, this is a good thing. It takes a real fan to do justice to a band like AC/DC; any author only mildly interested in this type of music(e.g., Springsteen or Bjork types), or, more likely, anyone biased by envy, could do a tragic disservice to those of us interested in learning about this legendary rock and roll institution. Ms. Masino is interested in only telling the real story, a story which has some up and downs but is none the less one of the most majestic and awe-inspiring stories in the history of music. Her admiration only fuels our own as she reviews the evidence which supports the proposition that this is the best rock band in history....or at a minimum is matched only by the Beatles, The Stones, and Led Zeppelin for both album sales and mythological intrigue.
A few frustrations surface, however, as you read this tome. First, there is lots of tour data, and reading it is mind-dulling. "Two dates in Holland and then three in France and then back to the UK to record and then on to some barn to write new tracks..."--stuff like that. Endlessly. But I guess that is the price you pay for reading a bio about a band that has toured incessantly for going on four decades. And, due to her efforts, I was able to nail down the probable dates in the late 70's when I saw Bon-era AC/DC at two Days on the Green, and a Brian-era show at the Cow Palace. That was fun to do, as I didn't keep good records as a teenager and I thought I'd never excavate that information. But it was in this book.
Another frustration is that Ms. Masino paints a picture of the band members which is woefully superficial. I was really hopeful to gain better insights as to the thinking and personalities of these guys, especially Angus and Malcolm. I've spent over 30 years in awe of these gentlemen from Down Under, and when I use the word "Mythological" I am not exaggerating. At 5'2", and all sweaty and pimply, Angus is still larger than life. He's up there with Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Churchill, Howard Hughes, Hefner, Mick & Keith, John & Paul, Bruce Lee, Ronald Reagan, Jack London, John Muir, John Wayne, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Evel Knievel, Vincent Price, Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood....you get the idea: The Full Pantheon of World-Altering Revolutionaries. Angus is on that list, and towards the top in my opinion. I really wanted to know all about him. Where does he live? What does he smoke? Drugs? Children? Does he have other hobbies, or does he live only to burn incredible riffs into the fabric of the Universe with his SG? How did he get so good on the guitar?
We have a few of these questions obliquely answered in this book, but the picture is thin at best. Angus paints, he has a place in Holland, he drinks some tea, he is really funny, he has a wife named Ellen. He treats all the crews with respect, and although an ultimate superstar, there is not even a hint of arrogance in his bearing. He is a solid man in terms of meeting his commitments to labels, venues, and fans. I already knew that last fact, as does everyone who ever saw them in concert. AC/DC delivers the goods.
There is another part to that which makes Angus so amazing. It is not just the great music, the primal riffs which are so mathematically perfect and neurologically affecting. There is another dimension to his appeal. Angus represents a man who has found his Ultimate Calling, his pre-destined mission in the Universe. Having found that mission, he applies 120% of his energy, day after day, year after year. He is the ultimately fulfilled individual, he has met his true love and he is sweating all over her, and her six strings, in a city near you as I write this, just as he has for the last four decades. It is perhaps this aspect I wanted to learn more about. Was he born with This Calling, or did he just fall half-arsed into it? He's a lucky little fella regardless!! Ultimate fulfillment.
Ms. Masino has a little bit of connection with the band, but not really a whole lot . It does not appear that there were any interviews with the band which were conducted by her for this book. She mostly quotes them from various guitar magazines, and then she quotes a lot of peripheral players from the crew and other musicians who knew the band in their earlier days. There are some really weak simulated hand-written letters from a road-crew guy who corresponded with Ms. Masino for a few years. I think it would have been more effective to simply quote him rather than "reproducing" his letter in faux handwriting. Ms. Masino does recall some of her rather fleeting interactions with the band at post-concert meet-and-greets. These interactions don't add much to the picture, but to her credit it does not appear that she embellishes at all, because these are really minimal encounters, the type of which AC/DC probably has with thousands of journalists and fans every year. Overall, it was like she was trying to make herself part of the AC/DC story, and it appears that she clearly is not part of the story in any significant way.
Ms. Masino also inexplicably starts writing in italicized print at various points. I could never quite nail down her methodology in using this technique. Are the italicized portions her inner thoughts, her whispered confidences, or are they personal asides? Oh well, I guess it visually made the page a little bit more interesting. One final criticism: sometimes incomplete sentences work, and sometimes they don't. Ms. Masino ought to stick to complete sentences. I found her intermittent sentence fragments really distracting.
In the end, though, I found myself really liking Ms. Masino. She did roll up her sleeves and work hard on this, and given the constraint that she did not have access to the band for interviews, I think she still did a good job. And there is zero gratuitous dirt, which would have been sacrilege in my view.
As I initially mentioned, her biggest credential for doing this book is her love of the band and her appreciation of their musical style. I really enjoyed her description of when she first saw them. She had met them upstairs at a club, and she presumed that they were mere mortals. She then saw their set, and by the third song she realized they were of divine inspiration. I appreciated her reaction, because it was similar to my own when I first saw them. And, since then, every band has paled in comparison. Metallica, Springsteen, Roth-era Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Rage Against the Machine, U2, and so many others. No other band comes close. It takes a few days to emotionally recover from an AC/DC concert; they are just on that amazing level where you know you are peeking through a crazed "door of perception" when you watch them play.
The book does a nice job on Bon and his legacy. It probably covers Bon better than Angus. You do come away feeling like you know Bon, and of course you like him even more for what you have learned.
Finally, there are some nice photos in the book. I had never seen most of them and they are worth having. The hardback version of Ms. Masino's book is very well made: it's cloth-covered hardback, which you don`t see often nowadays. Omnibus Press is to be commended. This is a book you may want to keep in your permanent library, and so I recommend getting it in the hardback version.
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