Happy 70th Birthday Angus Young!
Celebrating the legendary guitarist and co-founder of AC/DC… Thank You Angus!
Angus McKinnon Young was born on March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland
“Happy Birthday” Image by Gift Habeshaw from Unsplash (filter by Anthony Woodard)
We salute you!
Oct. 3, 1982: AC/DC - Angus Young - Manchester Apollo
Photo Credit: Harry (Howard) Potts, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Later that Winter (1993), I again had the urge to learn how to play the guitar. Being that I didn’t have an electric guitar, I reached for the only axe in my shed, my student-size acoustic guitar; the little instrument that brought with it memories of my past “performance” in ‘82. Coincidentally, since those early days of MTV, there was a certain video, a concert video that captured my attention. The video began with a shirtless guitarist under the spotlight, rhythmically marching in place while playing one of the most haunting, bad a$$ opening riffs in Rock history; Angus Young and AC/DC performing ‘For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)’. In retrospect, perhaps it was fitting that this was the first riff that I learned how to play on the guitar. I initially could only play it using the B string and the high E string. Something didn’t sound quite right though and unfortunately, I didn’t have sheet music or guitar tab for reference, nor did I have a copy of the music video. Eventually, my friend and I figured it out; I needed to also include some notes on the G string. After a few more tries, I had it down.”
- Woodard, Anthony. “For Those About to Rock…”. Feb. 16, 2023
My first guitar.
Photo Credit: Anthony Woodard