AC/DC‘s Angus Younger has recalled the very first time he heard Jimi Hendrix‘s music.
Talking in a brand new interview, the guitarist mentioned a few of the influences that helped formed a few of AC/DC’s earlier albums.
“The factor is a variety of what goes in these albums, once we had been youthful, that’s the place a variety of all of it goes again to, at that time — like once I was an early teenager; 13 or 14,” Younger instructed Tiny TV. “Music excited me, nonetheless at that age.”
He continued: “And I feel again, in my time, what I favored music-wise, I needed to wait up all evening. I’d be there all evening, after which at about two o’clock within the morning, there was a person on the radio, and he would play rock music of this time. He was an American man. And I had just a little radio, and I’d sit there in my mattress and get up only for this man. And there I used to be. And he would bang out the most recent stuff.
“I heard [Jimi] Hendrix on there, I heard Cream — folks like this. And in a while, you began to get your [Led] Zeppelins and bands like this. And particularly when Jimi Hendrix, once I heard ‘Purple Haze’, boy, that was it. I used to be so excited. After which I assumed, ‘How am I gonna discover out about Jimi Hendrix?’ I used to be out strolling wherever. I went as much as {a magazine} retailer, and I’m attempting to look in the event that they’ve received {a magazine} from England, ’trigger I knew he was in London. And I discovered just a little image of this man with a guitar, and I used to be going, ‘Wow! I wanna look that cool.’”
Elsewhere in the course of the chat, Younger defined that his aim with AC/DC’s new albums and stay reveals is to channel the identical feeling he had as a baby when discovering rock music for the primary time.
“I’m simply attempting to provide the pleasure of that point,” he mentioned. “I discuss with that my entire life; I nonetheless assume that. Once I get on a stage, it’s the identical factor. I get on a stage and I play, I’m enjoying to the brand new child who’s 13 [or] 14 who’s by no means seen me earlier than. And I’m going, ‘Okay, a variety of these older ones on the market, they’ve seen me earlier than. They know what you’re about. However that new child, he’s not seen me earlier than.’ And I’m going, ‘I’m gonna impress him. I’m gonna play for him.’ And it pumps you up. That’s all I must do. I see some youthful faces, and I’m going, ‘Right here I come.’”
AC/DC launched their comeback album ‘Energy Up’ final week. In a four-star review, NME’s Nick Reilly mentioned of the band’s seventeenth album: “After 50 years within the sport, the band don’t reinvent the wheel – after they mainly created it, why would they? – however their well timed comeback is a hell of a journey.”
In the meantime, AC/DC have launched a new clothing line that pays tribute to the band’s classic albums ‘Highway To Hell’ and ‘Back In Black’.
