AZ/DZ The Ultimate AC/DC Experience

10/30/2025

13 Things You Might Not Know About 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap...
'On September 20th, 1976, AC/DC released their third album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. To mark the album’s 47th anniversary, here are 13 things you might not know about the record:
1. The band began recording the album in early 1976 and put it out in their native Australia on September 20th. However, Atlantic Records didn’t like the vocals and production on the effort so they originally rejected it, but wound up putting it out in America five years later.
2.George Young, the older brother of guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young, co-produced the album.
3. The term “dirty deeds done dirt cheap” is a reference to a cartoon called Beany and Cecil, which Angus watched as a kid. One of the characters in it, Dishonest John, carried a business card that read “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Holidays, Sundays and Special Rates.”
4. The title track invites listeners to call 36-24-36 if they’re having problems. In the 1960s, that was an actual phone number in Australia.
5. In “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” the number 36-24-36 is followed by the word “Hey,” which sounds a little like the number 8. This led to a lawsuit. An Illinois couple, whose phone number was 362-4368, sued Atlantic Records for $250,000 because they were getting hundreds of prank calls.
6. There is a backing vocal on the song “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” that is just heavy breathing.
7. Among the dirty deeds done dirt cheap mentioned in the song are high voltage and TNT, the names of two tracks on AC/DC’s first album. They’re also the names of the first two albums the band put out in Australia.
8. Singer Bon Scott explained that the song “Squealer” is about a sexual encounter with a virgin.
9. The track “Ride On” is about a guy who has made mistakes in a relationship because he drank too much.
10. Bon has said that “Problem Child” is about Angus.
11. The album features one of just a few AC/DC songs that includes cursing. In the track “Ain’t No Fun (Waiting Round to be a Millionaire),” Bon says, “Hey Howard, how ya doing my next door neighbor? Get your f***ing jumbo jet off my airport!”
12. During the sessions for Dirty Deeds, the band wrote a song called “I’m A Rebel.” It was never released by AC/DC and is in their vaults. German band Accept wound up releasing a version of the song.
13. The album has been certified six-times platinum in America for sales over six-million copies. It is the third-highest selling AC/DC record behind the 22-times platinum Back in Black and the seven-times platinum Highway to Hell.

10/29/2025

Entertainment, Events & Productions Presents...A Monsters Of Rock night in Yuma with
Animal Magnetism 7:00-8:00 & AZ⚡️DZ 8:15-9:45.
Animal Magnetism is a TRUE tribute to the Scorpions!! From all the hits to the deepest cuts, they will “Rock You Like A Hurricane.”
The lights-the stage-the sound it will be LOVE at first sting! And a “Big City Night” in Yuma, “Arizona”
If that’s not enough you will get “Thunderstruck” with AZ⚡️DZ!!
Join AZ/DZ on a journey through the eras of Bon Scott and Brian Johnson. Each performance is a no holds barred celebration of AC/DC anthems that have defined rock'n'roll for generations.
With an arsenal of authentic AC/DC gear: including guitars, bass, drums, back-line equipment, and stage props such as replica cannons and The “Hell's Bell”. This tribute band doesn't just play the music; they embody the look, feel, and the “HIGH VOLTAGE” of a real AC/DC concert experience.
Compromised of five highly skilled musicians, the band brings an unparalleled level of talent and experience to the stage.
For the Ultimate AC/DC Tribute Experience that captures the essence of all that is AC/DC, look no further. Let AZ/DZ transport you into a Live AC/DC Performance with every riff, every beat, every legendary Chorus.
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10/27/2025

AC/DC with Bon Scott circa 1978.

10/26/2025

AC/DC outside the Bel-Air Motel in Springfield, Illinois in 1979.

10/25/2025

New AC/DC Powerage Funko to be released ⚡️

10/23/2025

With Highway To Hell, AC/DC raced ahead of the rest by making a record that finally helped them break America... but such success came with a huge cost.
For Malcolm Young, AC/DC’s rhythm guitarist, it was always about the riff. And with one in particular, as soon as he came up with it in the early days of 1979, he knew in his bones it was something special. As he put it, with the kind of bluntness and vulgarity that had always defined the band’s work: “It stuck out like a dog’s balls.”
This riff was perfect in its simplicity: the way it moved, in staccato bursts, reminiscent of Free’s All Right Now. And from it came arguably the most important song of AC/DC’s whole career. Its title started out as a joke, when lead guitarist Angus Young, Malcolm’s kid brother, described the band’s gruelling 1978 tour as “a fu***ng highway to hell”. And in the words, belted out by singer Bon Scott, was a signature statement of devil-may-care rock’n’roll attitude.
Highway To Hell was the title track of AC/DC’s first million-selling album. In the UK it was the band’s first Top 10 hit outside of their native Australia. Most significantly, as Angus Young said: “That was the album that broke us in America.”
All of this did not come easily. In the making of the Highway To Hell album, the band were under intense pressure from Atlantic Records in America to come up with a hit record. This led Malcolm and Angus to make one of the toughest decisions of their lives: dispensing with the services of their elder brother, George Young, who had produced all of AC/DC’s earlier albums with Harry Vanda, a former member, like George, of Australian group The Easybeats. There were even whispers around Atlantic that Bon Scott should be fired from the band, his hard-drinking lifestyle making him too much of a loose cannon and his voice deemed too raw and idiosyncratic for mainstream tastes.
In the end, Bon proved the doubters wrong, delivering the performance of a lifetime on Highway To Hell, pushed on by Mutt Lange, the brilliant young producer who replaced George and Harry. What Lange got out of the band was exactly what Atlantic had demanded – a straight-up, no-bullsh*t hard rock record that was true to AC/DC’s roots, but with a cleaner edge.
But while Highway To Hell was the hit record that elevated AC/DC to major stardom, it was also the last hurrah for Bon Scott. On February 19, 1980, less than a month after the Highway To Hell tour ended, the singer was found dead in London following a night of heavy drinking. The exact circumstances of Bon Scott's death would be the subject of conjecture for almost 40 years.
There was always a toughness about AC/DC, in the music they played – the sound of Chuck Berry and Little Richard and the Rolling Stones jacked up to maximum volume and intensity – and in the way they carried themselves. It came from years of graft, sweating it out in the pubs and clubs of Australia, where bottles were thrown if a crowd could smell blood. No matter that the members of AC/DC were all short-arses, that Angus was teetotal and wore a schoolboy uniform on stage, and that bassist Cliff Williams, the band’s sole Englishman, was quiet and easy going.

10/22/2025