AC/DC concert

so on Tuesday, my friend (whose name i won't mention) and I went to see AC/DC at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. I believe it's safe to say that we were both hit by a bullet train (go CA. High-Speed Rail!) made out of PURE ROCK

some notes from the concert:

1) the opener, a band from Belfast, Ireland, called The Answer, were actually pretty good. imagine an okay bass/drums section coupled to half of Angus Young's guitar-playing godliness and 2/3 of Robert Plant's voice. it's pretty good. if you like AC/DC or Led Zeppelin, I recommend checking them out.

2) The Screens had some pretty awesome graphics. for example, during War Machine, a song from the new album, Black Ice, they had a graphic of a WWII era bomber flying around, and then SGs started raining from its bomb bay. 'twas pretty cool.

3) so the stage was shaped like a T, with a big spit going out into the audience, and during Let There Be Rock, Angus Young went out to the end of the spit, which rose about 15 feet into the air on 3 scissor lifts, and he then proceeded to play a ridiculous solo while running around the edge of the circular platform lying on his back. this solo lasted about 6 minutes and was SO INTENSE!!!!

4) for the encore, it was two songs: Highway to Hell and For Those About to Rock. at the beginning of Highway to Hell, a trapdoor opened up in the stage, and a smoke machine started pouring smoke all over the stage, and then Angus came up onto the stage with devil horns...it was good, but FTAtR was the best song of the night... 6 CANNONS ON STAGE GETTING SHOT OFF!!!!

5) Angus did his usual striptease on stage during "the jack"

6) for Hell's Bells, Brian Johnson jumped onto the bell-rope of the giant bell that got lowered from the ceiling and swung around on it.

7) we sat next to a guy who'd seen them about 15 times, plus a bunch of other really awesome bands. you meet cool people at concerts