AC/DC May 14, 2015 Red Bull Ring Zeltweg Spielberg, Austria Rock or Bust World Tour
Disc 1: 01 Intro (2:19) 02 Rock or bust (3:23) 03 Shoot to Thrill (5:45) 04 Hell ain't a bad Place to be (4:33) 05 Back in Black (4:43) 06 Play Ball (3:09) 07 Dirty Deeds done Dirt cheap (6:02) 08 Thunderstruck (6:00) 09 High Voltage (5:50) 10 Rock 'n' Roll Train (4:17) 11 Hells Bells (6:10)
Disc 2: 12 Baptism by Fire (4:05) 13 You shook me all Night long (4:00) 14 Sin City (5:30) 15 Have a Drink on me (4:58) 16 Shot down in Flames (4:08) 17 T.N.T. (4:13) 18 Whole Lotta Rosie (5:43) 19 Let there be Rock (20:25) 20 Highway to Hell (4:34) 21 For those about to Rock (we salute you) (6:52)
The biggest AC/DC Show in Europe during 2015
Taped from about 30 m from the stage, left side (Stevie Young side), front wavebreaker area, about 3 m in front of FoH
Special Notes: As noted above, the audience was the biggest for a single concert in Austria ever (the previous record was also held by AC/DC, the gig in Wels 2010) - check out Brian's comment after 'Thunderstruck', and from what I know it's also the biggest on the Rock or Bust World Tour (so far). Some media platforms said 105.000, some others 115.000, so I went with 110.000, simply! The bootleg title: The day of the gig was on "Christi Himmelfahrt" (Ascension Day), and I came by car... and it was hell - to drive back at least (well, actually not THAT bad, for us at least... just delayed by an hour or so, there were many who were stuck in the car park/traffic jam much longer!)... so maybe it was just a hell getting from the car park to the highway?! Unfortunately, I had not only one, but two whistlers around me, one of them a meter or two next to me so I gave him a few angry looks and nasty comments... As the concert moves along it gets less, and fortunately the whistles are soon mostly at the end of/between songs. I could literally choke people who keep whistling at concerts - whether I'm taping or not. It is just plain irritating, a high frequency noise drowns out even the loudest music... I don't mind people clapping, singing along, and general audience cheers (in fact, this might even add a little to a recording, an AUDIENCE recording and gives it a 'live' feel), but constant yelling and whistling is something else...
On to the show & how to identify my recording: At the beginning of the Intro you can hear someone saying: "Wie du sogst!" and me [jokingly] replying "Pünktlich wie die Sonnenuhr!" ("Just like you say!" - "On time like the sun dial!"). These guys wondered about when AC/DC would come on and I'd explained to them that the schedule is at 20:30, but that they will get on between 20:40 and 20:45... it was 20:43! A little later during the Intro (when the Astronauts with the American flag were shown, a friend of mine shouts "Canned Heat!" (as the picture strongly resembles the album cover of Canned Heat's 1970 album 'Future Blues', only that there the flag is upside down), and me replying "Na, verkehrt ... Future Blues!....Fahne verkehrt!". After 'Shoot to Thrill" you can hear us discussing which song is next: "Wos kumt jetzt? Hell oder Back? ...Hell ain't a bad Place to be is die vierte glaub I!" ("What's next? Hell or Back? ... Hell[...] is the fourth I think!"). After the four repeating opening bars of 'Hell ain't a bad Place to be' of someone next to me shouts "Hey you!" during the break, before Brian sings it. During 'Dirty Deeds done Dirt cheap' at 3:33 you can hear me joining in with Brian, saying "High Voltage!". Before 'Thunderstruck' Angus seemed to be undecided about his guitar(s), or maybe it was a small technical issue, as he changed guitars twice (and giving away his jacket), with me commenting to my mates "Andere Klampfe... jetzt hot er sein Sakko weggschmissen...THUNDER!" (~"Different axe... now he's thrown off his jacket") and later on a loud yell follows, and then somebody complaining "Samma am Friedhof oda wos? ...so a Schaas!" meaning that there was no real audience banter, rather dead silence like on a cemetery... Oh well, that happens all the time at such big concerts where there are not only fans but everybody, sometimes not even rock fans, who just think they gotta be 'there' just for the sake of it, and get drunk... After 'Thunderstruck' Brian asks "How you're doin' out there, good?! ... You guys broke some kind of record in Austria tonight, congratulations!" and then he asks to sing the next song with him, and announces 'High Voltage' with me shouting "Voltage ... Rock an' Roll". After 'Hells Bells' you can hear me talking to my mates about the song on the 2010 Tour gig in Wels, Upper Austria, where Brian had a rope on the bell where he hung onto at the start of the bell tolls (which he didn't do on this tour). After 'Baptism by Fire' you can hear a few people around me starting an Angus chant, with me commenting "Whole Lotta Rosie kumt später" ("WLR is due later on!"). Before 'Have a Drink on me' I say "Have a Drink? Na I hob kan mehr!" ("No, I don't have one anymore", meaning I've run out of a drink a few songs earlier. Right after 'Have a Drink on me' you can hear me explaining to a mate "Des homs letzte Mal '85 gspüt" ("Last time they played that one was in '85"). After 'Shot down in Flames' some drunk guy near me mumbles "Aaahaahaahaa" (like that one in the Thunderstruck intro) to which I'm replying to myself and to my mates "Des homs scho..." and a mate replies "Des hot er worscheinlich vergessen!" ("They already did that!" - "He probably already forgot that!". A little later you can hear me jokingly shouting for an encore "Zugabe!". After 'T.N.T.' I start the Angus chant (knowing that 'Whole Lotta Rosie' would follow) and a friend of mine jokingly rhymes "Zfuaß oder mit die Schi, Rosmarie!" (~"By foot or ski, Rosie!"). Before 'Let there be Rock' you can hear me saying to a mate "Letzte Nummer jetzt... vor der Zugabe... aber das dauert noch a Viertelstunde!" ("Last number now... before the encore... but it'll take another quater of an hour!"). During the first bars of the closing chords of 'For those about to Rock (we salute you)' Brian says "We salute you, Austria!".
