AC/DC - Family Jewels
by Russell Mulcahy, George Young (VI), Derek Burbidge, David Mallet, Eric Dionysius
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Actor: AC/DC, Cliff Williams, Malcolm Young, Mark Evans (IV), Simon Wright (IV)Director: David Mallet, Derek Burbidge, Eric Dionysius, George Young (VI), Russell Mulcahy
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), PCM Stereo; English (Original Language), PCM Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Albert/Epic Music Video/Sony BMG
DVD Reviews of AC/DC - Family Jewels
DVD Review: Bon Scott is the greatest frontman of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
This truely is the ultimate AC/DC video collection. The first ever video footage of Bon Scott on DVD (I believe) is here. DVD 1 starts off with the band doing a cover (and a very good one) of Baby Please Don't Go from 1975. It starts off with Phil Rudd with a smile on his face and you soon find out why that smile is there. Bon Scott looks like a Heidi from hell with a blonde wig and a dress, rolling his make-up covered eyes like a woman. Angus, innocence stitched into every fabric of his school boy uniform, is there rocking moving his legs and banging his head like a demonic child. Phil is wearing a Camel cigarrete shirt. In the middle of the song Bon Scott lights up a cigarrete and starts smoking, then proceeds to hitting Angus over the head with a pink rubber mallet. When I saw it was hilarious and I knew this would be one unique DVD experience. Song two, Show Business, has Bon wearing a striped jacket and top hat prancing around the stage brandishing a cane. Then come a live version of High Voltage. The next song is It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll). The band is riding on the back of a flatbed truck playing as they drive through some British city, with Bon and other Scots playing their bagpipes along in unison. T.N.T. is next, then Jailbreak. The video of Jailbreak starts off with Bon breaking rocks. Then it moves to Malcolm is his guard uniform and Angus dressed as a prisoner. In Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap some girls rush on the stage, and one of them is very ugly. After that there's Dog Eat Dog, then Let There Be Rock. Let There Be Rock takes place in a Catholic Church with Bon as the father and Angus and a demented choir boy with a halo bouncing around his head. It's hilarious. Then there's Rock 'N' Roll Damnation, Sin City, and Riff Raff. In Fling Thing/Rocker, the band are all dressed in soccer uniforms, to solute the "champions". Angus starts the song off by playing the Scottish (I believe) national anthem, and it sounds great. After that there's Whole Lotta Rosie done live, then Shot Down In Flames, Walk All Over You, Touch Too Much, and If You Want Blood (You've Got It) filmed in the studio. Then great versions of Girls Got Rythym and Highway to Hell live from "Aplauso". DVD one is what Bon Scott fans have been waiting for for a very long time. It has Bon prancing around showing amazing showmanship and Malcolm playing high voltage power chords (standing still). Then it has Angus bouncing his brains around and doing a crazy, fast version of Chuck Berry's duck walk. Angus Young is one of my favorite guitarists. He might not be as talented as say Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton but he's way cooler. He runs around like a demonic school boy not a day over twelve. The only songs I felt were missing were The Jack, Bad Boy Boogie, Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be (false statement) and Problem Child, maybe a few others.
The second disc showcases the band from the 80's and 90's under their second lead singer, Brian Johnson. People bash Brian because he's not as good as Bon, but he's still great. I don't think AC/DC would be near as popular as they are now under any other lead singer. It anyone could fill the role of Bon, it's this guy. Brian is a coal miner's son and represents the working class. His voice sounds like he drinks a glass of boiling water every morning but I love it. When most bands get a new singer, like Van Halen with Sammy Hagar, I lost interest in them, but with AC/DC they just got better. The first four songs of DVD 2 are Hells Bells, Back In Black, What Do You Do For Your Money Honey, and Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution, all filmed in studio. It's amazing, I think Brian's voice really shines in these songs. His voice with the Young Brothers' riffs, Phil's druming, and Evan's bass sound like the full forces of nature. Then there's live versions of Let's Get It Up and For Those About To Rock (We Salute You). Then a studio version of Flick Of The Switch and Nervous Shakedown. Then comes a weird but cool home video called Fly On The Wall, featuring Fly On The Wall, Danger, Sink The Pink, Stand Up, and Shake Your Foundations. It has a guy introducing the band and he says "AC/DC! What is that an electrical company?". Then there's promo clips of Who Made Who and You Shook Me All Night Long. Then an excellent version of Heatseeker featuring Angus poping out of a missle. Then there's That's The Way I Wanna Rock N Roll, Thunderstruck, Moneytalks, and closes with Are You Ready.
This DVD set is a must-own for any true fan of AC/DC. There is no filler on these DVDs, its all excellent hard blues-rock at its best. Every song on his is worth listening to more than once, that's what makes it so great. This is the greatest AC/DC DVD set ever released (in my humble opinion). Get it now.
Also, after this, they need to release a DVD of Let There Be Rock - The Movie - In Paris from 1979. I own the VHS version and it rocks.
Description of AC/DC - Family Jewels
It?s always been quite rare to see AC/DC - unless you go to their concerts. Television appearances, and later music videos, have always been a necessary evil to this band of nononsense rockers. Consequently, only their early years were documented on television - mostly in Australia and Europe - and when the time came to switch to promotional video clips, the band always made their own and gave them the appearance of a live show. But they?ve also never wasted an opportunity to make a big statement with their clips. From singer Bon Scott dressing like a school girl (to Angus Young?s school boy) and smoking(!) on their first major television appearance, to the giant rocking spectacle of the "Big Gun" video (with guest appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger), AC/DC has always been larger than life and their timeless brand of rock and roll has been as big on screen as it has off. Now for the first time Epic Records is proud to announce the first ever compilation of AC/DC videos from all parts of their storied career. Starting in 1975 on Australian TV?s Countdown show through the Spanish TV clips filmed just ten days before Bon Scott?s death - the first great era of the band is chronicled on Disc One. Disc Two starts with the promo videos for Back In Black (several never before available) and sees many of the 80?s and 90?s clips on DVD for the first time. This is truly a monumental collection of clips from one of the world?s greatest bands - all completely remastered for DVD with the same care as the Epic CD remasters and the Live At Donington DVD.Classic Rock Music CDs
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