Angus Young Quotes

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

In my touring rig, there's a pedal drawer, where I'm able to switch pedals in and out, going into the front of the amp.

That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't just stop the show and say, 'Oh, Jeff's got a guitar problem.'

On one level, we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they'll be an echo in the mic. It's like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.

My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along with a Catalinbread Calissto Chorus.

My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon.

It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it 'fuzz.'

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

I always use my Les Paul. I have a Hamer as well. I use a Tele and an Esquire - once in a while, I will use a Strat, and I never use any pedals... except for in my car.

I used my Schecter for all my rhythms and most of my solos, certainly the fast solos.

Every show with my Jazzmaster is like a new show.