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Originally Posted by Norma J
In Australia they were a pub rock band. They played in Pubs with the likes of Rose Tattoo. They were very descriptive of the Australian culture and what was happening here at the time. Which is probably why alot of you see them as 'heavy metal'.
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I see them as a band with heavy metal elements for exactly the reasons I stated. They have 'em. It's not all that they are about by any stretch, but to deny it, or their influence on all heavy metal to come after, is to try to insert your own distatste for such things into the band because you love the band. It's not accurate, however.
They were a global band and not an Aussie pub band long before Bon died, and he made it entirely clear in his songs that this was what he was gunning for. To try to blame the heavy metal connection on Mutt Lange and Brian Johnson is easy, but it's not taking into account that Bon is the force that pushed them into the world wide arena with his evil smile and wicked gleam in his eye.