No flash or flair just all business

Guess what happened to his falcon….

@@catlikemeew I have no idea, and have no clue what you mean

oh damn. rock in peace.

Rip malcom young

That guitar wrote most of the acdc songs or all maybe but it's worth millions

Rock in peace Malc

Damn did not realise this 😢

Calling an opinion a fact doesn't change what it is. It's still an opinion.

@@ivanjulian2532 Depends how you define 'greatest', if you really want to get pedantic. If by greatest you mean being rhythm guitarist on the best selling rock album of all time, then yeah, he is the greatest, and that is a fact.

​@@cirrus393you don't have the slightest idea what a logical fallacy is, do you?

And the Gretch Filtertron pickup. They are miles from a dark PAF humbucker, much brighter and clearer. That's why his sound is crunchy yet very crisp.

Stevie adored his Uncle Mal and vice versa.

Remember reading , when Stevie stood in for Malcolm back in the 80’s nobody could tell that it wasn’t Malcolm on stage

@@MYEVILTWIIN Yep, true.

Starfighters is such an awesome band. Me and my mom listen to them on my way to school :)

Alley cat howl❤

Sim 🎸 ❤⚡

Guess it could be a Gretsch, Stevie told me it was a JayDee. Bison (RIP) would probably have been the only guy who knew the truth.

@@guitartech1 Hey Greg! Thanks for commenting. Bison would have known for sure. As would Angus no doubt! I have researched this guitar extensively and I'm 100% certain its a Gretsch firebird with the finish removed. Jaydee did make 3 copies for Malcolm in 1980, which look nothing like that particular guitar purported to be a Jaydee. Even on their(Jaydee) website they speak about the 3 they made for the great man, but nowhere do they mention the Arrow guitar. I am certain that Jaydee did carry out the mods to the bridge setup and the filling of the toggle switch holes etc ,as you can see today on the guitar. The giveaway they were commissioned to do it was the addition of their Truss rod cover. They also must have done some work to Mal's original beast at the same time, as this was when the Quan tailpiece was changed to the Schaller 455 wraparound. Jaydee used these tailpieces when building their own guitars so it stands to reason the swapped them over then. I watched your vid when it dropped on restringing guitars and have adopted that way you string your guitars. Works great for my Gretsch's Thankyou. I may have come across as a bit rude in part of my original comment I do apologize Greg.

@@94xjrgodown2 No worries mate! I didn't take it as rude. Glad you got some use out of my restringing video.

@@guitartech1 Cheers Greg! See you next time you are Downunder!

Arrow guitar also used on the Heatseeker video I think

Yep, but I'm sure the one you're talking about which was given to Malcolm by George Young as you know is the No.1 Beast 🤘

My takeaway from what he was saying is that he’s never that far away so wireless doesn’t make sense for him like it does for Angus. Do you happen to know THE answer? Just asking.

@@allenmitchell09 I’ve no idea.

@@allenmitchell09 that's what I got as well. "He doesn't need wireless because he doesn't move". Given that everything is as simple as can be that's a pretty solid reason

Short answer “Because Malcolm used a cable”. But, really a cable sounds better than a wireless, unless the artist uses the compander circuit as part of their sound (Angus did this with the Schaffer/Vega).

12s!

@@akiukonmaanaho1025 12 to 56 is awesome to play on, I've been using them on a Gretsch for years. Solves tuning problems of Bigsby trem and tone, tone, tone! Great for lead too, just takes a but of work to develop good vibrato and bends is all. I could never go back to lighter strings.

AC/DC are a holy shit band!

You can shoot arrows from it

The string length behind the bridge makes for much less tension. Probably feels like 10's.

Listen to "Can I sit next to you girl"

Of course he did

Not very often, but yeah. As Angus once put it, "He never goes up the dusty end of the fretboard!" Listen to "Soul Stripper"... Mal and Angus did "call and response" solos, each only playing a bar or two at a time. If you listen closely, you can tell the difference in tone between the two as they go back and forth. It always amazed me how they could make a Gretsch and a Gibson sound nearly identical, so much that most people think it's Angus playing the whole solo.

Guns for hire, gone shootin, high voltage, whole lotta roise, touch too much, you aint got a hold on me, ...Ect.. Yes he did haha

@@Originalacousticmusic Meltdown

fr lol

No, Mal just figured out that he got better rhythm tone from the bridge pickup, so he had no need for a neck or middle pickup. He eventually decided to get rid of the tone control and pickup switch to simplify the wiring (fewer parts, fewer problems), so he figured he might as well just get rid of the other pickups since he wasn't ever going to use them.

"It's these cans. He hates these cans!" Steve Martin in The Jerk, when he's getting shot at by an unhinged loony.

don't forget, 'regular' '50s/60s string sets had a wound 3rd, all electric guitars were the same (basically acoustic string gauges). it was only when guys wanted to play solos that they used something like a banjo string for the top E then moved the other strings across.

That was the norm back when those guitars were made. Light gauge strings weren't exactly commonplace until the later '60s and early '70s

That’s what gives the guitar it’s tone , why change it if it works !

First he added a Gibson humbucker in the middle, then he decided he didn't like the tone from that or the original neck pickup, so since he was only using the bridge pickup, he removed them and DID cover the holes with a plastic cover. When the red "finish" coating chipped (it's not paint, it's actually plastic), he chiseled off the rest and put the plastic cover back over the pickup holes for a year or two. Around '78 he decided he didn't like the cover, so he took it off but then had feedback issues, so he stuffed the holes with socks. By the Highway to Hell era, he had figured out how to control the feedback without the cover and without stuffing it with old socks (lol) and just left the holes open... because AC/DC isn't about looks, it's about sound, so the guitar stayed that way and all of his backups were made to be nearly identical copies... and that's why the MY signature model from Gretsch has identical routing and holes drilled exactly like Mal's #1.

Excuse me but what are you trying to say exactly?

@@Thenonsocial he's jealous. never made it big time with all the 'benefits' he thinks are important (to him). He lusts after all the stereotypical rock star debauchery but he's playing in a bar band at weekends - and it's everyone else's fault

Playing aggressive rhythms,.. some hit their index finger accidentally all night long. JUSTSAYIN'.

Refuse is a bit of a strong word, alot of work goes into promoting and putting on these shows, sometimes time constraints mean the roadie has to do it, and in most cases the roadie knows more about the gear anyway.

@@efa666 Plus I don't think Angus knows much about guitars. According to Dweezil Zappa Angus doesn't even know how to tune a guitar.

Usually we do the rig rundowns because at this level the band arrives late to the venue and basically just does the show and then flies off to the next city. We do these videos in the afternoon just before or after our roadie jam/sound check for the audio guys.

@@AndreaAustoni I’d say that was false. Angus knows a lot more about guitar than most people think. He’s an amazing traditional blues player.

@@guitartech1 Not to mention Angus has a killer vibrato - one of the best in the history of Rock. He doesn't get the accolades from the cork-sniffing, toffee-nosed crowd, but Angus and Malcolm are loved by all of us AC/DC fans and Regular Joe guitar players.

opinion

It doesn't matter what it looks like, what matters is how it sounds... ...and it sounds absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

Exactly, and not everything has to be a Strat or LP man..........@@livewire2759

One of the most badass guitars ever