AC/DC PoweRage Vintage Vinyl Promo 1978
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AC/DC PoweRage
Vintage Vinyl Promo Atlantic SD 19180
- Test plays excellent - some surface noise due to hair line or sleeve scratches, mfr marks - cover has some scuffs and edge wear, but in remarkable shape for its age - this is a one-owner record that has been in storage since the mid-'80's
- Original, inner, Atlantic sleeve (shown) has some edge splitting
- This is a rare chance to own a first pressing promo of many of AC/DC's original band members, including Bon Scott on vocals
- This album was designated promotional with a saw cut (visible in cover photo at upper, right) - this type of promo designation was done by the mfr/label (Atlantic), at the Branch Office level, in this case, San Francisco
- Pressed at Monarch Record Mfring, 1978
- Email with questions
- Int'l shipping via Ebay Global program
Powerage is an album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's fourth internationally released studio album and the fifth to be released in Australia. It was also the first AC/DC album to feature Cliff Williams on bass. All songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott.
After a 12-date European tour opening for Black Sabbath in April, bassist Mark Evans was fired from AC/DC on 3 May 1977. In the AC/DC memoir AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, former manager Michael Browning states, "I got a call one day from Malcolm and Angus. We were in London, I went to their apartment and they told me they wanted to get rid of Mark. Him and Angus didn't see eye to eye. They used to have a sort of tit-for-tat thing going, but nothing that I would have ever thought was going to be gig-threatening." According to Browning, the Young brothers were seriously considering Colin Pattenden of Manfred Mann fame until Browning, who feared Pattenden was too old and did not fit their image, pushed Englishman Cliff Williams, who had played with Home and Bandit. Williams, who could also sing background vocals, passed the audition and would go on to record on Powerage, although Evans insists that the album also has bass by him, as the Powerage songs started being done during the recording of his last album Let There Be Rock, and producer George Young while Williams was having trouble getting his work visa.[1]
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