In case you missed it, George Young passed away just recently.
George Young, "Easybeats" guitarist and AC/DC producer dead at 70........
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-at-70-w509890
If you don't know who George Young is, you should smack yourself in the face a couple of hundred times and turn in your Thunderstruck Makers membership card.
George Young is the older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young, and was extremely influential in the forming of AC/DC, helping craft it's iconic sound, and mentoring his two talented guitar playing brothers throughout the years. George is credited with suggesting that the band pick up Bon Scott as lead singer, whose vocals and charisma helped launched the band into stardom. George also produced many of AC/DC's classic albums, especially most of the early (and best, say hardcore fans) ones in their catalogue.
George is also known to have encouraged the melding of bagpipes and rock 'n roll on the very influential "Long Way To The Top If You Wanna Rock And Roll", and is rumored to have actually played the pipes on that recording, although Bon Scott is credited with doing so. Either way, there probably would have been no iconic bagpipe sound on that record without George Young, and there very likely would have been no AC/DC with out the man either.
That's right, folks.............no George Young, no Thunderstruck! Can you imagine ...............without George, we might very well be starting football games with another boring and overdone version of the "Are You Ready To Rumble" mix. Oh man, I just can't bear to even think of what a chintzy disaster that would've been!
Rest in Peace, George Young!! Thank You and Well Done!!