I'm ANGUS YOUNG, Angus McKinnon Young actually,(born March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland) I'm a rock guitarist I've been the lead guitarist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC since the group was formed in 1973. I'm is known for my hard-edge blues style lead (and signature vibrato), wild stage energy, and schoolboy clothing style. I started playing guitar when I was about five years old. A neighbourhood kid had one and I would play with it during visits. I got my own "guitar" by taking a banjo my family had lying around the house and re-stringing it like a guitar. I didn't really get into guitar playing seriously until my early teens. I got my first Gibson SG after seeing it in my friend's catalogue. Until then, I had been playing on an old Hofner guitar I inherited from my brother Malcolm after he got a new Gretsch Jet Firebird. Angus and Malcolm's brother George (of The Easybeats) would give us guitar lessons when we would come home during breaks from touring. Prior to AC/DC, I worked a part time job for an Australian soft-core pornographic magazine titled Ribald. I with AC/DC Angus Young practiced with my band, AC/DC, which was just developing at the time. I played with my brother Malcolm Young on rhythm guitar, drummer Colin Burgess, Larry Van Kriedt on bass and Dave Evans singing. I had developed a trademark 'schoolboy' style in the band. One rumour is that I did not have time to change between his school uniform and band practice, and simply wore the uniform. The truth is, though, that I very much disliked being at school and once I had left and was in AC/DC, my sister suggested that I wear the uniform as a gimmick. Henceforth, the schoolboy costume became a signature trademark of the entire band. I'm notorious for my wild onstage antics. I entertained audiences with my intense moves and jumps onstage and with my running back and forth across the stage while playing the electric guitar. During live shows, I would clamber on singer Bon Scott's shoulders and we would make our way through the audience with smoke streaming from a satchel on his back while I played an extended solo, usually during the song `Rocker'. I've currently have my own signature model Gibson SG.In later years, I performed moves such as my own version of the Duck Walk, which was inspired by my idol Chuck Berry, and his "spasm", during which he throws himself to the ground, kicking, shaking, and spinning in circles, while playing the guitar, of course; both can be seen in the "Who Made Who" video.[2] I developed the "spasm" while playing live in a small club in Australia when I tripped over a cable onstage, while playing my solo. I made it into part of my act by having a seizure-like "spasm" onstage to make it seem as part of the act. It has grown ever since. Other gimmicks employed by me include my strip act, which is viewable during "Bad Boy Boogie" on the most definitive live concert footage Let There Be Rock (1980). Also viewable in AC/DC DVDs: during "Jailbreak" on Live at Donington DVD, during "Boogie Man" on No Bull, and during "Bad Boy Boogie" on Stiff Upper Lip Live. Sometimes I would use my fingers to perform my devil horns act, whether being on-stage or having my picture taken by some local Paparazzi. My energetic guitar style has been an influence on an entire generation of young Hard rock guitarists.[citation needed] My work with AC/DC has been an influence on bands ranging from Guns N' Roses and Def Leppard to newer artists like Jet and Others as well. I cite my own influences on Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, and other blues/early rock players.[3] "I didn't join a rock band to be famous," I said in 2001, "I joined a rock band to play my guitar." Although I try to keep my private life out of the media it is known that I now live in Sydney, Australia and Aalten, Netherlands. It is also known that I married my wife Ellen in 1980 right before my beloved friend Bon Scott died. Maxim recently ranked the diminutive me (5 feet, 2 inches tall) as tops on their list, "25 Greatest Short Dudes Of All Time," ahead of such notable "short dudes" as Napoleon Bonaparte, Martin Scorsese, and Yoda.[4] I'm ranked #96 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Guitars And Style I have used Gibson SGs in various forms (my original and the basis on his current signature model, was a 1968 SG) throughout my career. I'm pretty much almost never seen with another guitar. However, I own Telecasters and Gibson Firebirds and ES335s. My amps have been plexi Marshalls: jtm45s, jtm50s, jmp50s and superleads (plus a few Wizard amplifiers). Speaker cabinets have been Marshall 4x12"s (model 1982 and 1960, mostly B models) with Celestion G12H 30watt (on old recordings), Vintage 30s (on newer recordings) and G12M 25watt speakers (on solos/overdubs on newer recordings). My playing style is very straight blues. I play in the minor pentatonic blues scale. My style is spiced by additional non-blues tricks. I also utilize touches of Scottish folk in my playing and pull-off apreggios (pull-offs, played one-handed) are a popular trick, appearing in songs such as "Thunderstruck," "Baby, Please Don't Go" and "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (though in the studio recording of "Thunderstruck", the guitar riff was played with a plectrum or pick.) In 1976, our band recorded an arrangement of the Scottish song "Bonny," retitled "Fling Thing," which has appeared in our stage act over the years. I'm is often said to be one of the most underrated guitar-players in history. I often receive critiscism from the music press as many believe many of AC/DC's songs sound too similar, focusing on the same three chords. However, as I stated in an interview with the Atlanta Gazette in 1979; "It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticised for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is." For the most part, each song has a simple chord progression , a chorus, repeat, a solo, and ends with the chorus one more time, sometimes with a solo played over while Malcolm plays the chorus regularly.Well this is me Angus Young thanks for coming by my site. To all my fellow guitarist...... Rock On!
