Backtrack: Let There Be Rock Review

AC/DC may also be the purest way for anyone to become interested in rock and roll music. Despite the image and the salacious lyrics, AC/DC is one of the most accessible rock bands, which explains how they can make the same album over again since 1980 and still be so popular. In the past few years it seems as though absence truly has made the heart grow fonder. AC/DC music has been in movies, commercials and on the t-shirts of every 13-year-old Walmart shopper. When I was 13 I had to hunt to find an AC/DC t-shirt.

That is why I shed a little tear when I see a commercial for the video game Rock Band that used "Let There Be Rock." A throng of bad haircuts, wearing their girlfriends' jeans, played fake instruments while some guy mimed along to Bon Scott. It made me sad. Not that a band would sell it's song to a commercial. The selling out argument should be over by now. The real problem is that something as personal as a rock song, no matter how silly, is nothing more than a haircut and a t-shirt to someone else. I guess in this case, it would be just a video game.

They don't make rock singers like Bon Scott anymore. They don't make rock guitarists like Angus Young anymore. No wonder it takes a nostalgic video game to get people interested in rock these days. Bon never said, "Let there be Wii!"

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