AC/DC - Bonfire (1997) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 1 ("Live From The Atlantic Studios"): Bon Scott - Lead Vocals Malcolm Young - Rhythm Guitar Angus Young - Lead Guitar Cliff Williams - Bass Phil Rudd - Drums 1) Live Wire (Young, Young, Scott) 5:46 2) Problem Child (Young, Young, Scott) 4:24 3) High Voltage (Young, Young, Scott) 5:40 4) Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be (Young, Young, Scott) 3:57 5) Dog Eat Dog (Young, Young, Scott) 4:13 6) The Jack (Young, Young, Scott) 8:02 7) Whole Lotta Rosie (Young, Young, Scott) 5:08 8) Rocker (Young, Young, Scott) 5:57 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 2 & 3 ("Let There Be Rock (The Movie Live In Paris)"): Bon Scott - Lead Vocals Malcolm Young - Rhythm Guitar Angus Young - Lead Guitar Cliff Williams - Bass Phil Rudd - Drums 1) Live Wire (Young, Young, Scott) 5:56 2) Shot Down In Flames (Young, Young, Scott) 3:16 3) Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be (Young, Young, Scott) 4:02 4) Sin City (Young, Young, Scott) 5:01 5) Walk All Over You (Young, Young, Scott) 4:36 6) Bad Boy Boogie (Young, Young, Scott) 12:57 1) The Jack (Young, Young, Scott) 5:25 2) Highway To Hell (Young, Young, Scott) 3:12 3) Girls Got Rhythm (Young, Young, Scott) 3:10 4) High Voltage (Young, Young, Scott) 6:17 5) Whole Lotta Rosie (Young, Young, Scott) 4:39 6) Rocker (Young, Young, Scott) 9:10 7) T. N. T. (Young, Young, Scott) 4:11 8) Let There Be Rock (Young, Young, Scott) 7:10 Mixed by Tony Platt. Recorded live at the Pavillon, Paris, France on December 9, 1979. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD 4 ("Volts"): Bon Scott - Lead Vocals Malcolm Young - Rhythm Guitar Angus Young - Lead Guitar Cliff Williams - Bass Mark Evans -Bass guitar on "Dirty Eyes", "She's Got Balls", "School Days", "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll)" and "Ride On". Phil Rudd - Drums 1) Dirty Eyes (Young, Young, Scott) 3:20 2) Touch Too Much (Young, Young, Scott) 6:35 3) If You Want Blood You Got It (Young, Young, Scott) 4:24 4) Back Seat Confidential (Young, Young, Scott) 5:21 5) Get It Hot (Young, Young, Scott) 4:11 6) Sin City (Young, Young, Scott) 4:51 - Live version from "Midnight Special" 7) She's Got Balls (Young, Young, Scott) 7:58 - This version is taken from "Bondi Lifesaver" 8) School Days (Chuck Berry) 5:05 9) It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll) (Young, Young, Scott) 5:10 10) Ride On (Young, Young, Scott) 5:47 Produced by Harry Vanda and George Young. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Commeents: CD 1: Recorded live in New York (Atlantic Recording Studios) December 7th, 1977. This is taken from the promotional-only album "Live From The Atlantic Studios", released by Atlantic Records in the USA in 1978. The tracks were remixed this year by George Young from the original master tapes. Never available on official CD before, but widely bootlegged over the years. + Shortly before returning to Australia at the end of their 1977 US tour, the band performed this intimate concert in front of a small crowd at New York's Atlantic Recording Studios. The concert was recorded and later pressed on the Lp "Live From The Atlantic Studios" for limited distribution to US radio stations only in 1978. Although widelily available on bootleg since 1980 (This was the concert used on the legendary first AC/DC boot "110/220"), and more recently on CD bootleg, this version sounds better than even the best quality bootlegs around, due to the remix by George Young and obviously CD Mastering from original tapes rather than from the actual original vinyl release. It has been rumoured over the years that more tracks were performed and recorded during that concert (people mentioned "Soul Stripper", "It's A Long Way To The Top" and"Let There Be Rock" among others), this is still unconfirmed and this release tends to prove otherwise. The concert was apparently also filmed on video, but never shown anywhere. CD 2 & 3: Recorded live in Paris (Pavillon de Paris) December 9th, 1979. This is taken from the original master tapes used for the movie "Let There Be Rock", including a track not in the movie, "T. N. T.", and the full version of "Walk All Over You" which was cut in the film. Mixed by Tony Platt. Never available on official CD before. + Much more than the soundtrack of the still available video "Let There Be Rock", this concert presents also one song not in the video ('T.N.T.") and the full version of "Walk All Over You". (ie. The reason "TNT" was omitted from the movie? "We just didn't like that song and decided not to include it. That pissed off their manager" was the answer from the movie directors) Although the movie was shown in Dolby Stereo, the video is still on mono only. Also available on bootleg over the years (Notably "Bon Scott's Last Oui Oui-Live In Paris"), this is definitely much better than any of the many releases available on the black market. All the bootlegs available were taken from a radio broadcast (from french FM station Radio 7 in December 1980), with static, cuts, and missing tracks. This was originally recorded on 24-Track and later mixed by AC/DC engineer Tony Platt at Family Sound Studios in Paris (where AC/DC later recorded parts of "For Those About To Rock") for the movie "AC/DC The Film Let There Be Rock". The band performed two concerts on that same day (the original date sold out and there was no other date available on the tour!), and the second concert was filmed and recorded for the movie. However, the version of "bad Boy Boogie" presented on this release is taken from the first show, due to technical problems on the original tape. The short instrumental that was used during the movie opening credits is a solo from Angus recorded during a soundcheck at Metz on December 6th, 1979, this is also included on this CD. To many fans this is probably one of Bon's ultimate performance (and definitely his last live concert recorded professionally) and presented here in an absolute killer sound!! CD 4: The ultimate bonus of this "Bonfire" for any AC/DC fan. Its has been said over the years that very few if any unreleased AC/DC's studio song with Bon Scott existed. Presented here are 5 tracks absolutely never heard before by the public, even the die-hard AC/DC fans. And much more than unfinished demos, these are vintage tracks! The first track "Dirty Eyes" being the original song that evolved into "Whole Lotta Rosie", with different lyrics, and 4 tracks most probably recorded at Albert Studios in January 1979 (produced by Vanda & Young) during the pre-production of "Highway To Hell" before the band took off to Miami to record with Eddie Kramer at Criteria Studios. (Those Miami sessions are still unreleased). "Sin City"'s versionis taken from the band's live TV performance on ABC's "Midnight Special" in the US. Recorded during september 1978, this was showed on November 26th 1978. That legendary show was hosted by Ted Nugent and Aerosmith, with whom AC/DC had performed during that year. "She's Got Balls", recorded during AC/DC's secret gig at the Bondi Lifesavers in Sydney (as a benefit for the club at which they performed many times in their early days) in late June or July 1977. The band gave two concerts and were billed as "Live Wire" and "Dirty Deeds" (Although liners notes on the booklet seem to indicate it might have been "Live Wire International Guest Act "), this was also Cliff Williams' first ever live performance with the band. A killer verion of the song. "School Days", "It's A Long Way To The Top" and "Ride On" are available on regular CDs, even though the first one has never been published outside Australia and New Zealand. There is apparently some confusion among people as to why "Ride On" is stated as "The last song Bon ever performed", even though the version presented here was recorded in 1976. It is actually true, Bon's last performance was sharing the lead vocals on "Ride On" with Bernie, backed by French band Trust on February 17th, 1980 during their second album's recording, two days before he passed away. This fantastic version of the song was recorded but not available for the Box Set, andmost probably will never be released. CD 5 ("Back In Black" remastered version): AC/DC biggest-ever seller (at over 15 million copies sold), this might come to some people as a dissapointment to include it without any "musical" bonus (alternate versions, extra tracks or demos) but this was the band's tribute to Bon and the album that would have probably brought him to his peak, thus the decision to include it. This is the recently remastered version, presented in a digipack-version with all the original components of the vinyl release, and this packaging is exclusive to the Box Set. For some reason this is only available in the USA, so in a sense fans still have the choice of getting the Box Set with or without this album. It has been rumoured over the years that Bon actually wrote some of the lyrics on "Back In Black", and that demos were cut with Bon singing some of the songs. This has always been denied by the band and nothing has ever been brought up to prove the contrary. In a recent interview they said that some instrumental working demos were cut with Malcolm, Angus and Bon on drums in February 1980. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Dirty Eyes (Young, Young, Scott) 3:20 (first title and lyrics to the riffs of "Whole Lotta Rosie") You hypnotize Honey Yeah honey You do it Woooo, do it good Do it all right Every night When you turn off the light It's outta sight (Alright) You hypnotize Mezmorize with your dirty eyes Dirty eyes Your dirty eyes Breathin Breathin heavy Heavy Heavy breathin Send shivers down my spine And I'm so glad that you're mine [when you're so bad and you're mine] That's what turns me on All night long You hypnotize Mezmorize With your dirty eyes Dirty eyes You got dirty eyes Dirty eyes Dirty eyes I love your dirty eyes Dirty eyes Right through me Your dirty eyes Dirty eyes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Touch Too Much (Young, Young, Scott) 6:35 (same title as the track on "Highway To Hell" with other lyrics and music) Yeah, yeah, yeah Bottles on the floor Rumors spreadin' 'round [Room is spinnin' 'round] You ask for more ???? by the ground [Me, I'm by the ground] Tryin' to find the light Searchin' for the switch Might as well be a dead man Lyin' little bitch [Lyin' in a ditch] ???? my eyes The way I feel ???? ???? in ???? sin Promise you everything Down on my bended knees Devil ???? Put a spell on me Feels like a touch A touch too much Feels like a touch A touch too much ??????? Telephone way She said she's always on Wanna prove you're a man How could I say no? I was up and on the way I know the ????? She wanted me Oh you woman She was ??? Prove my body Made a mess of my soul Chorus: You never know what happened to me Made me as happy as a man can be I had a touch A touch too much She had a touch A touch too much I'm makin' me happy I'm makin' me sad She's made me everything I ever had She had a touch A touch too much Chorus She had a touch, a touch too much x6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) If You Want Blood (You Got It) (Young, Young, Scott) 4:24 (this version is the first recording of the track) It's criminal, there ought to be a law Criminal, and you know what we're shootin' for Shouting at the other guy when his back is turned Don't know the reason why Ain't it 'bout time you learn If you want blood, you got it If you want blood, you got it Blood on the sheets, blood on the rocks Blood in the gutter, give my last drop You want blood, you got it Wha-ooh It's animal, livin' in the human zoo It's animal, and I know what you gotta do It's the curse of the working man Givin' more and gettin' less Doin' everything he can, cleaning up the mess If you want blood, you got it If you want blood, you got it Blood on the sheets, blood on the rocks Blood in the gutter, give my last drop You want blood, you got it Ooooh (shove it)? You want blood, you want blood After you Blood on the sheets, blood on the rocks, blood in the gutter, give my last drop You want blood, you got it If you want blood, you got it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Back Seat Confidential (Young, Young, Scott) 5:21 (Bon's first title and lyrics to the riffs that ended up as "Beating Around The Bush") ???? almost every night ???? still alright ???? drive in show ???? gonna sit in the back ???? Tune in the soundtrack Turn down the lights A chance she won't and a chance she might Ain't no woman in the world I know ???? ???? ???? Who know what's going on Back seat confidential Sittin on ???? ???? ???? connection She ???? my prediction ???? listen to me ???? ???? real nice Every man's got his price ???? ???? ???? Back seat confidential ???? almost every night ???? still alright ???? drive in show ???? Turn up the soundtrack Turn down the lights Don't suppose there's a chance you might Ain't no woman in the world I know ???? on the back seat floor ???? ???? going down ???? ???? Back seat confidential ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Get It Hot (Young, Young, Scott) 4:11 (same title as the track on "Highway To Hell" with other lyrics and music) No money ???? Nothin' gonna get me down Don't worry About nothin' Nobody gonna push me around ???? women [Pretty women] I love them ???? [Don't matter if they're black or white] And I'm thinkin' About you baby About what you're gonna do tonight Get it hot I've got the touch and you've got the spot Get it hot You go in a little, gonna give you a lot Get it hot Your daddy said someday I'm gonna get shot Get it hot Here I come baby ready or not ???? Big city Baby let me show you around Feelin' good Feelin' pretty Runnin' with a ???? Good livin' It's all I ever wanna do Sun city Moon risin' I wanna make a mess of you Get it hot I've got the touch and you've got the spot Get it hot Go in a little, gonna give you a lot Get it hot Someday baby I'm gonna get shot Get it hot Here I come ready or not Your mommy Your daddy do ya ???? me ???? wild honey going down around your knees You got it and I want it we can make a fair exchange ???? ???? And maybe you can keep the change Get it hot I've got the touch, you've got the spot Get it hot Gonna give you a little, gonna give you a lot Get it hot Someday I'm gonna get shot Get it hot Well here I come baby ready or not ------------------------------------------------------------------------