The ultimate live 'Rock 'n' Roll' album - bar none, no arguments. This album is like a big, everlasting bone, that should be gnawed at in a frenzy, then buried and dug up every time there's a party or the pack are going out.
This is heavy rock as it's supposed to sound, loud, dangerous, tongue in cheek, and right in your face.
The opening guitar damage of "Riff Raff" comes straight out your speakers, dragging you round the walls like a sledgehammer with claws. "If you want blood" captures AC / DC in their rebellious prime. Angus Young rushing round the stage like an electrocuted school kid with it all to prove.
The school boy image sometimes hides the fact that Angus is one of the finest Rock 'n' Roll guitarists to hit the boards, you can almost hear him moon the audience in "Bad Boy Boogie".
The late, great Bon Scott tells stories as only he could, leaving nothing to the imagination, even in the song titles. Try "The Jack" or "Whole Lotta Rosie". The rhythm section of Angus's elder brother, "Malcolm", the absurdly hardrockin "Cliff Williams" & old Thundersticks himself, "Phil Rudd" don't let up for a second and you don't want them too either. What makes this mongrel's hair stand on end is half way through "Problem Child", Angus turns it up to eleven and sends the crowd onto another plain of ecstasy.
By the final conclusion of "The Rocker", you look round and your air guitar is in pieces and so are you.
This album was recorded in 1978. A year later Bon Scott left us and AC / DC were never the same. Good yes, this good never. If you haven't got an AC / DC album, get this, forget the rest.
Mott the Dog.

What makes this CD a classic for every AC/DC fan is the raw hungry energy that is unleashed upon the audience. Recorded on the band's 1978 World Tour, this live recording has ear splitting guitar work from Angus, and features Bon Scott at his drunken best. Angus's SG is absolutely on FIRE! Specific classic's on this one are BAD BOY BOOGIE, HIGH VOLTAGE, and THE JACK. An absulute must for the guitar listener.

You just don't hear live albums like this anymore!

You don't go to an AC/DC concert to hear intellectual pretensions or artsy-fartsy self-indulgence; you go for no-frills crunch rock. And if that's what you get on every last live album this band has offered up, you don't get it anything better than this, their first live album. It came out just in the nick of time, too, for the fans who were about to be swept into the quintet's flamethrowing following Bon Scott's death almost two years later - this was one of the albums which caught a huge piggyback on the success of "Back in Black" and, more than practically anything they'd done prior to that exquisite album, "If You Want Blood...You've Got It" illustrated what Scott really did mean to the band. But he was far from the sole attraction: Angus and Malcolm Young have been about the deadliest one-two guitar punch of their generation, Malcolm a sharply sensitive rhythm guitarist, Angus a master of understated, economic metallic fire. And he can still teach the shredmeisters a lesson or three in knowing when to keep your damn fingers in one place and let the note sing: Angus Young has always said more, even when getting lost in the crunch, in five well-squeezed notes to the bar than Joe Satriani, Kirk Hammett, or pick your favourite metallic meathead, will ever say in five hundred. So why would you want to consider anything else? Easy - so you can listen to the unsung stars of the AC/DC show here, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd.

To begin, most will agree that while Brian Johnson is awesome, Bon was one of the greatest of all time. Scott rips through hit after hit after hit in this racous set. The Jack is in its most loud and slanderous form here, and it's still hillarious when Bon screams "siphilous!" After the Jack, AC/DC carries on with "Problem Child" and "Rosie." With the exception of maybe "Riff Raff" and "Bad Boy Boogie," this is a great CD. If the band would have added "Dirty Deeds" and "Its A Long Way To The Top", this would habe been the best AC/DC album ever. But, the most important thing to mention is that the version of "Rocker" on this cd is perhaps the greatest AC/DC track ever recorded. If You Want Live, You Got It!

This is totally mandatory rock. Bon's vocals sound better than ever, Malcolm keeps it fast and loud, speedy rythms by you-know-who, and Angus's guitar solos are just PHENOMINAL.

"Let there be rock" sounds WAY better live than it does in the studio, same with "Rocker". At maximum volume, there are few bands that can provide such a head-bangin', foot-tappin', finger-snappin', flat out ROCKIN' expeience as does AC/DC, album after album after album...