AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD

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285

This is a GENUINE "promo only" of Live From Atlantic Studios and NOT a bootleg or counterfeit. I purchased this from a friend of mine who worked at KZAP here in Sacramento back in 1984

By Every Record Tells A Story on April 21, 2012 • ( 7 )

The Album cover from the promo sent to DJs…

AC/DC’s Live from The Atlantic Recording Studios is a lost classic – and in my view is their best album.

Very soon after I bought AC/DC’s Fly on the Wall, The Friday Rock Show broadcast an entire live show of AC/DC from December 1977 live from the Atlantic Recording Studios. I was there hovering over my tape recorder like an expectant teenage father hovering over the phone waiting for the CSA to catch up with him. I imagine there were a number of AC/DC fans across the country that night doing exactly the same thing.

After seven songs the tape was running perilously close to the end of the reel – and I flipped it over faster than a five-stars-on-badge McDonalds worker can flip a cheeseburger off the floor…if I had messed up the recording I would have had to wait twenty years to hear that show again.

Live at the Atlantic Recording Studios is unlike any other “live” album I have heard. It sounds so intimate, it is more like having the world’s loudest rock band turning up to play in your living room in front of you and a few friends. At one point you can even hear beer cans being opened and handed round the handful of people in the “audience”.

The guitars growl, but in a friendly way, like a couple of slightly tipsy lions.

The thing I couldn’t help but notice compared with “Fly on the Wall” was that the singer was different: less rough, and his banter between songs was funny and charismatic.

As anyone even vaguely familiar with AC/DC will know, I had stumbled on a band that had to replace its first singer, Bon Scott with Brian Johnson after the former tragically choked to death on vomit after a heavy drinking session. This, along with the death of Jimi Hendrix gave Spinal Tap that awful line about choking on “somebody else’s vomit”…….”you can’t dust for vomit…”. That’s some dark humour right there…

It is this record, I think, that captures AC/DC at their very best. Many of the songs sound better than their original versions (I’m thinking Livewire, The Jack, High Voltage), which is always a good test of whether a live album is worth listening to.

We also learn that the lady in Whole Lotta Rosie was from Tasmania, and actually weighed 305 pounds, which for pedants everywhere is actually more than the “nineteen stone” in the song itself. Maybe she’d put on a few pounds over Christmas.

Recorded after the Powerage album “Atlantic Recording Studios” eventually found an official release on the Bonfire box set. It also exists on vinyl: the original album sent to DJs in the seventies can fetch over £120 for those with more money than a small country (er, excluding Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal – OK bad analogy). I recently bought a newer version at a record fair for a few quid.

AC/DC, with Let There be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell and Back in Black are one of only a few bands who have managed to string a number of classic albums together. In the middle of that run, they also lost a lead singer and produced this (and another) amazing live album.

It seems extraordinary that their record label (Atlantic) had been at the brink of dropping them prior to the release of “Let There Be Rock” (a move that would have been about as smart as buying EMI in a private equity buyout) as revealed in an excellent Classic Rock Magazine article this month. Good job they didn’t. “Back in Black” turned out to be the best selling rock album of all time…

Record#34: AC/DC – Livewire – Live from the Atlantic Recording Studios

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Ok good luck on selling hope you get what your asking..regards debbie

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From: kaliforniz
To: debclar-ml9jkq
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-22-15 13:24:05 PDT

Dear debclar-ml9jkq,

I cant answer it definitively, however, to the best of my knowledge, it is authentic. I submitted the question to the resource from the website you suggested and here is what he said.

Hello Deron,

Thank you for your message. I cannot tell you for certain without seeing the album cover, labels of the record, and other details about it visually. However, if you had received this record in 1980, then there are extremely high chances that it is real. I don't believe that counterfeits of this album had surfaced until much later than that.

Best Regards,
Bill
"Let There Be Rock!"


- kaliforniz

From: debclar-ml9jkq
To: kaliforniz
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 19:22:14 PDT

Dear kaliforniz,

It best to get it.checked out and be sure if you google it en.allexperts.comac/dc it will show you the label numbers

- debclar-ml9jkq

From: debclar-ml9jkq
To: kaliforniz
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 19:13:08 PDT

Dear kaliforniz,

Yer its the first s that has been tamperd with.it should also.say pr after the letters for promo.its deffo a bootleg numbers dont match the genuine LAAS

- debclar-ml9jkq

From: kaliforniz
To: debclar-ml9jkq
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 19:09:31 PDT

Dear debclar-ml9jkq,

It looks like it has a A scratched over the S or a S scratched over the A....
http://www.discogs.com/ACDC-Live-From-The-Atlantic-Studios/release/1851931

- kaliforniz

From: debclar-ml9jkq
To: kaliforniz
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 17:50:26 PDT

Dear kaliforniz,

LASS Is a bootleg and LAAS is genuine and yours is LASS lovely item and am.a huge collector and have most albums.yer please send another.

- debclar-ml9jkq

From: kaliforniz
To: debclar-ml9jkq
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 17:45:13 PDT

Dear debclar-ml9jkq,

They do read lass. Do you need a clear picture because I'm more than happy to send you picture that is 1080p.  I am 100 percent sure it's the real deal because I got it from the program director of KZAP.

- kaliforniz

From: debclar-ml9jkq
To: kaliforniz
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 17:41:49 PDT

Dear kaliforniz,

The matrix numbers on the album.are wrong they should read LAAS gor genuine and LASS for bootleg.

- debclar-ml9jkq

From: kaliforniz
To: debclar-ml9jkq
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 17:38:28 PDT

Dear debclar-ml9jkq,

Trust me its not a bootleg my friend works at the radio station and got it directly from you. What makes you think its a bootleg?

- kaliforniz

From: debclar-ml9jkq
To: kaliforniz
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 17:32:04 PDT

Dear kaliforniz,

Hi thanks for that but i wont buy it as its a bootleg copy.the numbers on the album should be ST-LAAS-001-A-PR and not LASS the fist s has been scratched to be made in to an A making it a bootleg many thanks debbie

- debclar-ml9jkq

From: kaliforniz
To: debclar-ml9jkq
Subject: Re: debclar-ml9jkq has sent a question about item #271812586831, ending on Apr-19-15 10:57:29 PDT - AC/DC Live From Atlantic Studios LP--Super Rare--PROMO WITH LETTER & POSTCARD
Sent Date: Mar-21-15 17:07:56 PDT

Dear debclar-ml9jkq,

It looks like it will be between 55 - 65 dollars. That's using USPS.  Depends on how you would want it shipped?


- kaliforniz