The ultimate live 'Rock 'n' Roll' album - bar none, no arguments. This album is like a big, everlasting bone, that should be gnawed at in a frenzy, then buried and dug up every time there's a party or the pack are going out.
This is heavy rock as it's supposed to sound, loud, dangerous, tongue in cheek, and right in your face.
The opening guitar damage of "Riff Raff" comes straight out your speakers, dragging you round the walls like a sledgehammer with claws. "If you want blood" captures AC / DC in their rebellious prime. Angus Young rushing round the stage like an electrocuted school kid with it all to prove.
The school boy image sometimes hides the fact that Angus is one of the finest Rock 'n' Roll guitarists to hit the boards, you can almost hear him moon the audience in "Bad Boy Boogie".
The late, great Bon Scott tells stories as only he could, leaving nothing to the imagination, even in the song titles. Try "The Jack" or "Whole Lotta Rosie". The rhythm section of Angus's elder brother, "Malcolm", the absurdly hardrockin "Cliff Williams" & old Thundersticks himself, "Phil Rudd" don't let up for a second and you don't want them too either. What makes this mongrel's hair stand on end is half way through "Problem Child", Angus turns it up to eleven and sends the crowd onto another plain of ecstasy.
By the final conclusion of "The Rocker", you look round and your air guitar is in pieces and so are you.
This album was recorded in 1978. A year later Bon Scott left us and AC / DC were never the same. Good yes, this good never. If you haven't got an AC / DC album, get this, forget the rest.
Mott the Dog.

This is totally mandatory rock. Bon's vocals sound better than ever, Malcolm keeps it fast and loud, speedy rythms by you-know-who, and Angus's guitar solos are just PHENOMINAL.

"Let there be rock" sounds WAY better live than it does in the studio, same with "Rocker". At maximum volume, there are few bands that can provide such a head-bangin', foot-tappin', finger-snappin', flat out ROCKIN' expeience as does AC/DC, album after album after album...

What makes this CD a classic for every AC/DC fan is the raw hungry energy that is unleashed upon the audience. Recorded on the band's 1978 World Tour, this live recording has ear splitting guitar work from Angus, and features Bon Scott at his drunken best. Angus's SG is absolutely on FIRE! Specific classic's on this one are BAD BOY BOOGIE, HIGH VOLTAGE, and THE JACK. An absulute must for the guitar listener.

You just don't hear live albums like this anymore!

Bon Scott at his lecherous,leering animalistic best.The crowd was totally into it and you will be to.You can count on 3 things in life: death,taxes and AC/DC concerts!

This is one of the best live albums ever. All the songs sound a lot more intense than in their previous studio versions. The riffs just rock non-stop and Bon Scott growls better than he ever had before. This album rocks harder than almost anything else that had been produced up to this point, including most punk rock. A classic of rock music.

GET THIS CD , IT HAS THE BEST SONG'S OF HIGHVOLTAGE'DIRTYDEEDS'LETTHEREBEROCH AND POWERAGE .[DIRTYDEEDS AND TNT ARE GOOD TO] INSTED OF BUYING ALL OF THE ABOVE, BUY IF YOU WANT BLOOD, YOU WILL LOVE IT IF YOU ARE A HARDCORE FAN [SUCH AS MYSELF]IT'S SONG'S ARE BETTER THEN THE STUIDO RECORDINGS BECAUSE IT'S LIVE.I HAVE THIS AND AC/DC LIVE,THEY ARE THE BEST LIVE ALBUMS MADE. AC/DC IS THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD,BON'S SOUL LIVE'S FOREVER.

You don't go to an AC/DC concert to hear intellectual pretensions or artsy-fartsy self-indulgence; you go for no-frills crunch rock. And if that's what you get on every last live album this band has offered up, you don't get it anything better than this, their first live album. It came out just in the nick of time, too, for the fans who were about to be swept into the quintet's flamethrowing following Bon Scott's death almost two years later - this was one of the albums which caught a huge piggyback on the success of "Back in Black" and, more than practically anything they'd done prior to that exquisite album, "If You Want Blood...You've Got It" illustrated what Scott really did mean to the band. But he was far from the sole attraction: Angus and Malcolm Young have been about the deadliest one-two guitar punch of their generation, Malcolm a sharply sensitive rhythm guitarist, Angus a master of understated, economic metallic fire. And he can still teach the shredmeisters a lesson or three in knowing when to keep your damn fingers in one place and let the note sing: Angus Young has always said more, even when getting lost in the crunch, in five well-squeezed notes to the bar than Joe Satriani, Kirk Hammett, or pick your favourite metallic meathead, will ever say in five hundred. So why would you want to consider anything else? Easy - so you can listen to the unsung stars of the AC/DC show here, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd.

All of the great live albums have common characteristics such as a classic band playing a timeless set during their hungry years. Also the set must be the best versions on record of their greatest songs, a real historic document if you will. AC/DC's 'If You Want Blood You've Got It', released in October 1978, was that kind of recording, a one of a kind event. Many of the best live artifacts in hard rock came out in the 1976-1979 period and 'IYWBYGI' snuggles right in with all of its sleazy high energy. AC/DC were still in late '78 the world's greatest barband and had not quite made the big time yet ('Highway to Hell' was less than a year away) so there is a rawness and newness to the band that is hard to imagine ever existed for one of rock's iconic outfits. Bon Scott served as master of ceremonies as only he could; bringing his raging rasp and double entendres to the fore in most of the songs while on "The Jack", he adlibs brandnew dirty lyrics which take out all the prentense of what the "jack" is. Angus Young of course steals the show and he never played with as much menace, high energy and blues virtousity as he does here. "Whole Lotta Rosie" is all high tension excitement while "The Jack" shows a true master at the height of his powers. "Let There Be Rock" rumbles and careens while "Bad Boy Boogie", "Riff Raff" and "High Voltage" gives the listener a very visceral impression of the greatness of AC/DC in this era. The interplay betwee Scott and Angus is what made this band so special and though he tried, Brian Johnson could not capture it. As a singular AC/DC purchase after the prerequesites of 'Highway' and 'Back in Black', AC/DC's first live record should be a must own...a true landmark live release.

Gotta tell you all I'm now 34 and have been an avid DC fan since the age of 10. This album is the ultimate in Rock n Roll without exception. You will NEVER EVER hear anything like this. It's raw, mean, smutty, loud and massive. If you die without hearing this, pray to God that it's playing in heaven coz this is the most phenomenal recording ever produced, trust me. The legend that is Bon Scott along with Angus and the boys make every other Rock band embarrasingly ordinary . . . Oh yeah, one more thing, play it so loud that your ear drums are in danger of bleeding. It's the best way . . . . . Buy it, buy it, buy it . . . . .

This was definitely one of my finest music purchases ever. I have been a die-hard AC/DC fan for a couple years, and I find that Bon Scott is one of THE best songwriters and showmen ever. This CD was great, due to its raw energy and great songs. It starts with the biggest Angus displays "Riff Raff" with Bon Scott's alcohol fueled voice. The rest of the CD rips. Classics "The Jack", "High Voltage", "Hell Ain't A Bad Place" and others never get old, and I liked this album much better than the later Live album. A couple things puzzled me, like why didn't they include TNT, Sin City, or Jailbreak (an early set song) in their setlist? Anyhow, get this fine album from the greatest band ever.

Bon R.I.P