What is it?
2.88 GB disc PC authored,NTSC,MPEG2,AC3,720X480,29.970 fps
Two television cameras are capturing this for broadcast...it looks just like watching a local nightly new program in the 70's. The sound is good. There is no bottom end, however, if you are interested in a hearing a bass line or a booming kick drum, you are going to be disappointed... I've watched dozens of bootlegs that were of far worse quality, but the sound on this is probably a little too thin for AC/DC to put out officially and earn a few dollars from
setlist:
livewire
problem child
sin city
bad boy boogie
the jack
rocker
How is it?
HELLO CLEVELAND!!
I was tempted to start out these reviews with a band I know a lot more about, but this disc is from some event Cleveland event billed as: "The World Series of Rock!" and seems a fitting way to inaugurate the proceedings...Is this really the greatest performance that has ever appeared on a rock and roll stage? Probably not, but you can see that a lot of people are having a really good time. If there really was a world series of rock, would AC/DC be the winner? Perhaps they aren't the most famous, most popular, or most financially successful pop stars in world history, but damn are they close AND they do kind of embody rock and roll in a generic sense. There is nothing political, or artsy, or puppet head film actor, or multidimensional about AC/DC: if somebody from Mars wanted to know what "Rock" was, you could hand them this disc and I think they'd get a fair idea.
What you really need...as a Bon Scott era AC/DC fan- is a three DVD set which features this entire set and a whole lot else besides. It's called the early years and features:
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Early Years Vol. 1
promo vids: -High Voltage -Jailbreak -Let There Be Rock
Apollo, Glasgow, 4/30/77: -Riff Raff -Dog Eat Dog -Fling Thing
HTH promo vids: -Highway To Hell -Shot Down In Flames -Touch Too Much -If You Want Blood -Walk All Over you
Arnheim, Holland 7/13/79 -Highway To Hell -Bad Boy Boogie -The Jack -Rocker -Whole Lotta Rosie
Sydney, Australia 12/12/76 -Problem Child -Baby, Please Don't Go
Toronto, Ontario 6/12/79 -Bad Boy Boogie -The Jack -Whole Lotta Rosie -Dog Eat Dog
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Early Years Vol. 2
London, England Hippodrome '77 -Let There Be Rock -Problem Child -Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be -Whole Lotta Rosie -Bad Boy Boogie -Rocker -TNT
Essex, England University 10/28/78 -Live Wire -Problem Child -Sin City (!!!) -Bad Boy Boogie -Whole Lotta Rosie -Rocker -Let There Be Rock
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Early Years Vol. 3 -
Can I Sit Next To You Girl (promo w/ Dave Evans '74) -Baby Please Don't Go (promo, Countdown '75) -Jailbreak (promo, Countdown '76) -Dirty Deeds (promo, Countdown '76) -Jailbreak (UK TV, 'So It Goes' 10/14/76) -Rock & Roll Damnation (!!!) (UK TV, 'Top Of The Pops' 6/24/78) -Sin City (US TV, 'Midnight Special' 9/6/78) -Highway To Hell (German TV 'Rock Pop' 9/8/79) -Touch Too Much (UK TV, 'Top Of The Pops' 2/7/80) -Baby Please Don't Go (live snippet, Australia, late '76)
Glasgow Scotland, Apollo 4/30/78 (*** = repeats from Vol. 1) -Riff Raff *** -Rock & Roll Damnation -Dog Eat Dog *** -Bad Boy Boogie -Let There Be Rock -Fling Thing *** -Rocker
Cleveland, Ohio "World Series Of Rock" 7/28/79 -Live Wire -Problem Child -Sin City -Bad Boy Boogie -The Jack -Rocker
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I have these but I haven't really looked at them.
in addition to all this, I also have:
12/09/1979 Pavillion de Paris show Live Wire - Shot Down In Flames - Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be - Sin City - Interview - Walk All Over You - Interview - Bad Boy Boogie - The Jack - Interview - Highway To Hell - Girls Got Rhythm - High Voltage - Interview - Whole Lotta Rosie - Rocker - Let There Be Rock
As far as the World Series of Rock goes, the Cleveland Stadium hosted a dozen events billed with this title over a period of six years. I haven't looked into whether any footage of comparable quality exists for other acts. Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Journey, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, and the Scorpions were the 07/28/79 lineup.
If I was a little more of a completest for the band, I would look into how all of this overlaps with the first disc of the Plug Me In footage and go on to investigate what other videos are out there that might be of interest to the AC/DC fanatic...but 30 seconds into a casual search revealed that this could be done easily via the beautifully arranged www.acdc-videos.com: where existing footage is divided into promos and shows...and shows are provided with setlists, screenshots, coverart, and camera angle diagrams(!)...All of which renders this blog entry more or less superfluous...Especially interesting is that the site has tailored some download options and done it in such a way that they don't exceed their bandwidth and overload their servers...Very interesting. My trading ended a couple of years ago and was limited to snail mail transactions. As I mentioned before, I've moved over to the blog neighborhood because I'd like to understand where the bootleg thing is all headed- and how it interacts with how official productions are made and distributed.
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