ACDC: Lange Years Done and April 11th

ACDC: The Mutt Lange Trilogy

(Much longer post from my Music Blog)

Here we come at last, after over a month of listening to ACDC albums, in order, repeatedly, I get to the end of the Mutt Lange produced albums.  Three albums, 2 singers, and enough classic hits to fill a best of album release themselves.  Looked at sequentially, I think you can see the influence of Lange in the band quite well.  The first album they did had much more of the original ACDC feel to it.  There's some genuine rock and roll mixed in with the pioneering Hard Rock sound.  It is with Back in Black and Brian Johnson's introduction that we leave a lot of the Rock and Roll behind, and are full in to Hard Rock that will exemplify the successful albums and songs from here on out.

Let's talk about that 3rd album, as its the one I had heard the least of.  I read that they went to France and had troubles with the technical side of their first chosen recording space.  That kind of things leads to tension and resentment in most cases.  They ended up scrapping things and heading to a place outside Paris.  I think the band was feeling the strain, and it probably lead to them parting ways with Lange.  Lange, himself, was a very busy man at this time.  The #1 album before and after "Those About to Rock"'s #1 stint was produced by Lange as well.  He was establishing what would be almost as huge a stint with Def Leppard, and would produce The Car's hit album: Heartbeat City.  If Giving the Dog a Bone from Back in Black, or Touch Too Much from Highway To Hell were among your favorites, then you have an entire album of these kinds of songs in For Those About to Rock.

A hugely successful, but physically draining arena tour later, combined with the problems in the studio, and ACDC decided with Lange to make a change.  So ended one of the greatest meet ups of talent that changed popular music for over a decade after(remember when #1 hits contained guitars?), and influenced home and weekend guitar warriors for decades after.


April 11th, 2014

Got a tiny bit scorched at the park today.  I have decided that its a good thing that I am not limited by endurance while walking at the park.  My limitations are the amount of Sun I can handle and the amount of time I spend.  I'm sure this means I need to start jogging during it more.  I have ankle problems, so I have to get used to walking on the asphalt.  Over the Summer and the Fall I got used to walking and jogging on grass at home, I may have to get some shoes designed for that and jog next to the track instead of on it.

Also another resident of Spring showing up, butterflies were all over the place at the park.

Decided to have a special dinner for me and my girl yesterday.  We went with Persian influence.  I got some sirloin medallions that were wrapped in bacon.  I know that's a big popular thing to have right now, but they are small enough to not weigh us down a ton, which is good because there was more I wanted.  I got some Naan for the first time.  I knew i was grilling the steak with charcoal, so I wanted to grill the naan too.  To go with that, I resisted the hummus route, and got some cucumber and mint couscous salad.  They went perfectly together.  I like lentils, so I grabbed a can of the Campbells condensed lentil soup, and holy crap did it turn out to be pretty good.  I think with all the marketing and nice pictures on the Chunky and Homstyle brands lately, I didn't think the old blue collar condensed soups would be good; I was wrong.  We also got some red and green bib lettuce.  We eat a lot of romaine, so I wanted to change things up a bit.  Lastly I got a few mini-cannolis and 1 of each type of Petit Fours they had.  All in all, less than a full Little Debbie cake, but enough variety to make us feel like we had lots for dessert.  Everything, especially the steak, turned out perfect.