AC/DC to retire, Malcolm Young Terminally Ill

[toejam]

Right, it's more power tube saturation and not preamp distortion.

[shramiac]

Anyone think they'll get Vai to fill in for Malcom?

[paulbag]

Glad to hear they've announced they'll continue on. What a strange couple days for them, the weirdest part being purported friends tripping over themselves to break the news ahead of the band. How unseemly. I'll never understand the attention dramawhore need to be seen as "the guy in the know" that motivates people to violate the privacy of someone in such a way.

What's the point? In the end you just look like a blabber mouth cunt.

Yup, people really do suck. I don't get it.

[BYeh1]

Sad news about Malcolm, hope he recovers and/or copes well.

But this band is a global cultural phenomenon and unstoppable force of nature.

AC/DC will carry on.

[Hellbat]

In the blog post I linked they have a YouTube link to an isolated track of Malcolm playing. His tone is mid gain. A lot of the character of his sound comes from his Gretsch. They have a real hairy initial attack on power chords then cleans up as the notes sustain.

[Sephiroth]

Well yeah their sound came out of the 70's which was more about pushing low-gain amps to the "sweet spot" since amps didn't have a lot of heavy distortion

[Firebird V]

Sad news. They are pretty much a staple in every guitarists influences that are into hard rock, metal etc. I hope he recovers and proves the docs wrong.