"THE ALBUM ABOUNDS WITH WICKED, FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF RIFF RAFF, PROBLEM CHILDREN, BAD BOY ROCKERS, AND VD-INFESTED GROUPIES."
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on record adverts for "If You Want Blood You've Got It" (a.k.a. "If You Want Blood"), the first live album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, and their only live album with Bon Scott (1946-1980) as lead vocalist. The album was released on Atlantic Records and Tapes in the fall of 1978.
ALBUM OVERVIEW: "The image on the album cover says it all.
Angus Young, innocence stitched into the very fabric of his standard-issue schoolboy’s suit, stands impaled by the depraved spear of rock and roll. Behind him, tattooed singer Bon Scott welcomes the diminutive guitarist over to the dark side, clearly aware from personal experience that it ain’t such a bad place to be.
In a sense, the AC/DC sound itself is a product of the pure and the perverse, and If You Want Blood You’ve Got It drops you right in the middle of a live, in-the-flesh celebration of that unholy union. The album abounds with wicked, first-hand accounts of riff raff and problem children, bad boy rockers and VD-infested groupies, for the most part shouted over three simple chords played loud, proud and with joyous abandon. The blood spewing from Angus’ stomach in the cover photo may have been fake, but make no mistake about it: blood and guts were exactly what he and the rest of the boys – guitarist and older brother Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams, drummer Phil Rudd, and the irrepressible Scott – left on the stage every single night."
-- RICHARD BIENSTOCK, "If You Want Blood..." (1978) 2003 CD remaster liner notes
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