![]() And they were playing the song that Angus used to do his guitar solo and strip to, and Malcolm would just barely keep a steady rhythm-he couldn't even do that. When AC/DC went out to take the stage, Malcolm had clearly had too much to drink. The band's former US agent Doug Thaler recalls seeing the band at one of the Monsters of Rock shows in 1984: "I'd gone into AC/DC's dressing room and had a scotch with Malcolm and Jonno while Mötley Crüe played. Unlike Angus, who had always been a teetotaller, Malcolm enjoyed drinking but in recent years it had escalated to the point where it began to affect performances. On the eve of the North American leg of the tour (a long stretch that would run from May to November), Malcolm Young decided not to participate in order to deal with a by-now problematic alcohol addiction. The band played live four tracks from Blow Up Your Video on the tour: "Heatseeker", "That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll", "Nick of Time" and "Go Zone". ![]() ![]() The band began a world tour in Perth on 22 February, playing 16 dates in Australia for the first time in seven years. Main article: Blow Up Your Video World Tour For us, the best thing as a band it was always we were great onstage." You can turn on your radio and get rock coming in from America. A kid can flick on the button on a TV, he's got a remote control and he can zoom through everything and get it coming in from all over the world. 'Cause everything's automatic these days. ![]() In 1988 Angus Young explained the title to MTV Australia: "We were probably a band that's best seen in a live situation and that's how the title came about. The title of the album was taken from a line in the song "That's The Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll". "Blow Up Your Video" is the last album to feature Brian Johnson as a lyricist / songwriter (all songs on subsequent albums were written by the Young brothers). Demo tracks for the songs "Let it Loose" and "Alright Tonight" were stolen and bootlegged, so they were omitted from the final album cut. All three of these songs were later included on Backtracks in 2009. The song "Down on the Borderline" was recorded, but not released until 1990 as a B-side. Two additional songs, "Snake Eye" and "Borrowed Time", were recorded but not featured on the album. The band recorded 16 tracks during the sessions, including the unreleased songs "Let It Loose" and "Alright Tonight", as well as other versions of " Heatseeker", and " That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll". I said if he didn't get his act together, I was out of there. In a 2008 Rolling Stone cover story, George Young admitted to David Fricke that the Blow Up Your Video session was when he realized his brother Malcolm, who had always been a heavy drinker, was in the grips of alcoholism: "I saw the signs. This was also the final studio album to feature drummer Simon Wright. Had a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches, they all found Jesus on their own.Writing sessions for Blow Up Your Video took place in London's Nomis Studio in July 1987, with the band convening at Studio Miraval in Le Val in Provence in the south of France in August and September with Harry Vanda and George Young, the production team behind the band's early albums. We blew up your TV, threw away your paper, went to the country, build us a home. I said "You must know the answer," she said "No, but I'll give it a try." To this day we've been living our way, here is the reason why. Well, I was young and hungry, and about to leave that place. Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own. Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country, build you a home. Yeah, singing a song all night long, telling me what to do. She danced around the room awhile and she did the hoochy coo. Cause I knew that topless lady, she had something up her sleeve. I sat there at the table, and I acted real naive. She gave me a peck on the back of the neck, and these are the words she spoke. Well, she pressed her chest against me about the time the jukebox broke. She was a levelheaded dancer on the road to alcohol, I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal.
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