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Airbourne - MTV Campus Invasion DVD
Hey! Thought I'm gonna share one of Airbournes recent shows. They did a brilliant performance on MTV last weekend which I captured of course ;) enjoy! jamtothis.com
Thanks, great post! I saw them today! They made a great show! and it was loud!
Anybody wanna upload it on YT? Here's Airbourne at T in the Park (proshot): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JqP_pBK3o
I didn't know MTV still played music. Until recently, I had only heard Airbourne and they're pretty cheap knockoffs of AC/DC. Nothing original whatsoever. I did see a video on some channel, though, and they are visually infectious with a lot of energy and enthusiasm for the completely unoriginal photocopy-of-photocopy-of-photocopy-of-AC/DC-style music that they play. Now I can understand the enjoyment in seeing them, although hearing them is something else.
I couldn't get the links,it says you have to Register. Can anyone post them? I'll Register if i have to,but I'd rather just have the show,lol Thanks
RnRDamnation: I look at it this way: they're a straightforward classic rock band, and there haven't been any since The Darkness broke up. Sure, they sound a LOT like AC/DC, but you have to put it into perspective. Every new heavy metal band that comes out is a carbon copy of the next. My brother is into that shit and they all sound the same. In comparison, Airbourne is nowhere near as similar to AC/DC as those tons of bands are to each other. Death metal is a whole genre of music that sounds exactly the same, but people accept it because there's so many bands. However people say Airbourne are an AC/DC ripoff because they're one of the few Aussie Pub Rock bands besides AC/DC, and they're arguably the next most popular. To sum up my point; yes, they sound like AC/DC, but is that a bad thing? Their first two albums were decent, and maybe they'll get a few hits. Classic Rock needs Airbourne right now.
I see your point, suicide, but I just don't get it. Why would you deliberately want to listen to something that's a cheap forgery of something which came before when it was genuine and relevant? I love Radiohead, but I'm not going to be moping around 40 years from now saying, "No one plays like Radiohead anymore except this group of kids who seem to have captured the surface but not the depth, so I'll settle for less." I won't do that because Radiohead will have said and done what they needed to say and do as artists using the tools, chordings and expressions specific to their time and place. Sure, they had a great sound, but I'm not going to hold onto that sound just because someone else once expressed something relevant with it. I would hope that someone in the future would take that sound as a starting point and run with it, rather than just blandly reproduce it as they understand it at a surface level. Your argument is basically for AC/DC as a museum piece rather than a living entity and Airbourne as a forgery of that museum piece which is acceptable because "culture isn't done like that anymore." Well, there's probably a reason it isn't done like that anymore and that is that it probably isn't relevant overall to the culture anymore EXCEPT as a museum piece of a time long passed. What Airbourne should be doing is trying to find their own sound. If they want to use AC/DC as a starting point, that's fine - they're not the first and they won't be the last. But the endpoint should be creative satisfaction and the delivery of something of relevance to the culture as it is. In time, but beyond time. This is how the Bon Scott records sound and feel, along with a few of the Brian ones (Back in Black, The Razor's Edge). This goes for AC/DC, too. When AC/DC's goal is to make an AC/DC-sounding record as their endpoint, we end up with a few good tracks and a lot of filler, not to mention something that becomes immediately dated, such as FOTS, FOTW, SUL and Black Ice. When AC/DC set out to just "be" AC/DC and hopefully catch a good record of it in the studios, they end up with timeless classics like the Bon Scott catalog, BiB, Ballbreaker and TRE. Why be a copy of yourself? Why strive for the past? The sentence "Classic Rock needs Airbourne right now" only makes sense in terms of a dying culture or a need to maintain a mausoleom to the past. If Classic Rock, as you call it, is dying, maybe it's better to let it die. Maybe it's not adequate for expressing what needs to be expressed right now. Maybe it's dying because it has its head jammed up the ass of its own past rather than striving to express the present and determine the future. Airbourne have a fun energy and are enjoyable to watch for their enthusiasm, but their sound and purpose is basically irrelevant. If they turn around and come up with something original, something their own, in the future, I will gladly embrace them.
Today's Lecture Brought To You By: RnRDamnation,lol Very well thought out dude
And I agree, my opinion is simply that they're bound to come up with something fresh and original with such a good starting point. Right now, they're not much more than an AC/DC tribute band who writes their own songs. BUT, I think eventually they will carve their own niche and write some great songs, if we allow them to fully develop.
Yeah I'm wlling to bet the next album will be pretty sweet. Bottom Of The Well might be their most original song yet.
Yeah I forgot about that one. Shame they don't play it live. But most bands tend to ignore some of their best stuff in favor of the hits.
Also, I thought Turn Up The Trouble was their best song until I found out it was a cover. Damn.
I've not heard that one, Turn Up The Trouble? I'm gonna go look it up,lol
Oh yeah, you gotta hear it. My favorite Airbourne song, I don't care if they wrote it or not.
I don't know. It's pro wrestler Mr. Kennedy's theme song and he's had lots of people cover it.
Ohh,I don't watch Wrestling so I didn't know that.
I don't either, I just came upon the song somehow and learned that somehow else. ... so back on topic, is anybody gonna upload the proshot Airbourne concert to YouTube or what????
I've seen parts of it on there,but not he full thing :( If I could download it,I'd upload it myself.Really don't want to register to yet ANOTHER site,I've got way to many already...
I thought I remembered a part of it but I can't find it now.
Dirty Eye: Can you put it on rapidshare or something? You have to join that site you linked to to see the attachment you posted.
Flick: This guy has Diamond in the Rough, Runnin Wild, and Girls in Black: http://www.youtube.com/user/zoso61#p/u/10/Tdbw3nN4oPM
I could convert the show to .avi if you guys want?
For those of you who don't wanna sign up on jtt, some has uploaded my version dime ;) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=315952