Sometime around 1980.  It may have been 79 or 82.  I remember visiting at some of our cousins’ home.   My dad and this cousin were right at the same age and they liked to get together from time to time. I was snooping through their record collection.  Yes, as in vinyl records.  I remember seeing a record with a lightning bolt and a wicked looking caricature dressed as a school boy.  The title of the record was High Voltage.  I asked if I could play this record.  They let me and I was hooked.  That was my first introduction to the band AC/DC.

Three and a half decades later, they were still one of the biggest and best bands in the world.  Today’s kids still listen to AC/DC.  They aren’t the best musicians but what they do, they do very well.  Their beat, rhythm, guitar licks and simple lyrics made you do the white guy head bob, right in time with the beat.  But, they are pretty well done at this point.  The lead singer has lost his voice and now, Malcolm Young has died.  He was one of the two brothers that founded the band.  He was also the rhythm guitarist and he wrote a lot of their songs.

This band is a part of the livestock world.  Every clipper and fitter listens to AC/DC.  Two of the most popular bulls of all time were named after AC/DC songs–Who Made Who and Heatseeker.  And every Okie showman dreams of getting out of the limo and walking across the arena with the tune Thunderstruck rocking the arena.

And for the rest of the story.  Our cousins attend the Seventh Day Adventist church.  Yes, I was introduced to the rock band AC/DC by members of the Seventh Day Adventist church.  Just a little bit ironic.    Good music transcends religion.

For those about to rock, we salute you!