{"id":2447014,"date":"2019-07-31T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=865751"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T21:49:27","slug":"watch-ac-dc-perform-a-scuzzy-whole-lotta-rosie-in-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-ac-dc-perform-a-scuzzy-whole-lotta-rosie-in-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch AC\/DC Perform a Scuzzy \u2018Whole Lotta Rosie\u2019 in 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/acdc.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ac-dc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ac-dc\" data-tag=\"ac-dc\">AC\/DC<\/a> have released a vintage live video of \u201cWhole Lotta Rosie\u201d <span>in celebration of the 40th anniversary of<\/span> <em>Highway to Hell<\/em><span>.<\/span> Shot for the Dutch TV show <em>Countdown<\/em> in 1979, the clip follows the recent release of live versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ac-dc-highway-to-hell-videos-40th-anniversary-859822\/\">\u201cHighway to Hell\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ac-dc-the-jack-video-highway-to-hell-863060\/\">\u201cThe Jack.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video features late lead singer Bon Scott shirtless and screaming lines that would deem inappropriate today, like \u201cShe ain\u2019t exactly pretty\/ Ain\u2019t exactly small\/ Fourt\u2019two thirt\u2019ninefiftysix\/ You could say she\u2019s got it all.\u201d Malcolm Young, who once said the band was trying to go for \u201ca feel like Little Richard, a good old steamin\u2019 rock feel\u201d with the song, shreds next to Scott, also with no shirt in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Released off 1977\u2019s <em>Let There Be Rock<\/em>, \u201cWhole Lotta Rosie\u201d tells the scuzzy story of the time Scott had a sexual encounter with an Aussie groupie he described as a Tasmanian devil. \u201cWe were all staying in the same hotel and this chick Rosie lived across the road,\u201d Scott famously recalled on the live album <em>Bonfire<\/em>. \u201cShe was so big she sort of closed the door and put it on ya\u2019, half your body, and she was too big to say no to\u2026That girl was some mountain. So you can imagine the problems I had. So I just sorta had to succumb\u2026I had to do it. Oh my God, I wish I hadn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AC\/DC\u2019s future has been the source of much speculation in recent months. Photographs of them outside of Vancouver\u2019s Warehouse Studio (where they recorded their last three albums) strongly suggest they are working on a new album and that lead singer Brian Johnson, drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams are back in the group, but group has yet to publicly comment on any of this.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ac-dc-whole-lotta-rosie-1979-highway-to-hell-865751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC\/DC have released a vintage live video of \u201cWhole Lotta Rosie\u201d in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Highway to Hell. Shot for the Dutch TV show Countdown in 1979, the clip follows the recent release of live versions of \u201cHighway to Hell\u201d and \u201cThe Jack.\u201d The video features late lead singer Bon Scott shirtless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 15:05:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}