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Touch Too Much - Live On BBC Television
Rare appearance of AC/DC playing Touch Too Much on BBC Television
Nice video. Bon died not to soon after this video was recorded. Nice Post
Damn I was hoping for live singing at least. IDK about the rest of you but IDC about mimed stuff personally.
ya i agree. ac/dc is one of the best live shows you'll ever see, but they dont do too well when it comes to miming
This was their last performance with Bon (R.I.P.)
If only this nice little tune had actually been done live.
I have this video. Is it on any Boxset? How do i have it?I don't think i can find it in the mess of my room right now.
the aplauso tv performance was actually their last performance with Bon
@jr71, Have you read Maximum Rock & Roll? It says that the aplauso performance was filmed late Jan and it says that this was filmed Feb 7th and it notes that this was their last performance with Bon.
Ummm no it doesn't. Both the Aplauso performances and this BBC segment were filmed in February. Within days of each other. I believe the BBC show was taped on the 7th and Aplauso was filmed on the 9th. It says in that book that BBC told the band that they were only going to film Angus from the waist up for whatever reason and that attitudes were much different in Madrid.
Well in my book it say's this (quote): "Their first Spanish TV appearance on 'Aplauso' in Madrid had gone exceptionally smoothly. It was taped in late January, and aired on 2 February, and they ran through Beating Around The Bush, Girls Got Rhythm and Highway To Hell, then faced a press conference the next morning. But an appearance on 7 February on the UK's 'Top of the Pop's,' where they performed Touch Too Much, was another hugely frustrating ball game entirely. Playing before studio cameras was never their situation of choice and, to make matters worse, on this occasion, to their amazement, in a flashback to Elvis Presley's historic first appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show', Angus was told that he would only be in shot from the waist up. It was a mirroring of the type of attitudes that prevailed a few years earlier when AC/DC were seen as 'punks' and a threat to the established social order. The tragedy was that it would be Bon's last-ever performance with the band., but rather than being respected they were faced with the exact same shit they had worked so hard to rise above." (end quote) I was just going by what I read in the book. Maybe the book was wrong?
Well I don't know which book you have because if you go to page 288 it says: "On 7 February, they appeared on the UK's "Top Of The Pops" and performed Touch Too Much. Playing before studio cameras was never their situation of choice, and to make matters worse, on this occasion, to their amazement, in a flashback to Elvis Presley's historic first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan" show, Angus was told that he would only be in shot from the waist up. Attitudes were very different two days later with their first Spanish Tv appearance on "Aplauso" in Madrid, where they ran through Beating Around The Bush, Girls Got Rhythm, and Highway To Hell then faced a press conference the next morning." You could also look on the back of the Family Jewels DVD where it says (Feb 1980) under Girls Got Rhythm and Highway To Hell and in the booklet it gives the date February 9, 1980.
I have "AC/DC Maximum Rock & Roll" so..... I saw Family Jewels and I believed that until I read the book, I chose to believe the book, I thought they made a mistake on Family Jewels. Thanks for correcting me :)
Your welcome. I dunno why your book would be different from mine...