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Live album by AC/DC
Released 13 October 1978
Recorded 30 April 1978
Venues The Apollo, Glasgow
Genres
Hard rockblues rock
Length 52:42
Labels
AlbertAtlantic
Producers
Harry VandaGeorge Young
AC/DC chronology
Powerage
(1978) If You Want Blood You`ve Got It
(1978) Highway to Hell
(1979)
If You Want Blood You`ve Got It (written as just If You Want Blood) is the first live album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, and their only live album released during Bon Scott`s lifetime. It was originally released in the UK and Europe on 13 October 1978, in the US on 21 November 1978, and in Australia on 27 November 1978. The album was re-released in 1994 on Atco Records and in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.[2]

Background
The album was released six months after the band`s previous studio album Powerage. A `best-of` package called 12 of the Best had been in the works, but the project was scrapped in favour of a live album. It was recorded during the 1978 Powerage tour and contains songs from T.N.T., Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock, and Powerage. It is the last Bon Scott-era AC/DC album produced by Harry Vanda and George Young, who also produced the band`s first five studio releases.[3]

In his 1994 Bon Scott memoir Highway to Hell, author Clinton Walker observes, `Live albums, which tended to be double or triple sets in which songs short in their studio versions were stretched out into extended tedium, were for some reason popular in the seventies. If You Want Blood reversed this tradition... it boasted a blunt ten tracks and, allowing nothing extraneous, got straight to the point, that being raging AC/DC rock and roll.`[4]

A concert at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland on 30 April 1978 was used for the live tracks. The concert is also remembered for the encore, when AC/DC came back on stage dressed in the Scottish football strip, paying homage to Scott`s and the Young brothers` homeland.[5]

`This gig summed up what made AC/DC so special live: the energy, the rapport with the crowd and the way those simple yet classic songs took on another life. You hear all of this on If You Want Blood. It`s a great reminder of how remarkable the band and their fans were that night.` – Tom Russell, DJ[6]

`Dog Eat Dog`, performed on the night, was removed from the album release, while the encore – `Fling Thing/Rocker` – was edited, removing `Fling Thing` and cutting out Angus`s extended solo, as he did a walk around the audience (with an early version of a wireless guitar lead). This part of the band`s concert theatrics later accompanied `Let There Be Rock`; `Rocker` has been performed only a few times since Bon Scott`s passing in 1980. The live `Dog Eat Dog` was released as the b-side of the single `Whole Lotta Rosie` in November 1978, but only in Australia. It was rereleased worldwide in 2009 on the two (standard) and three (collectors) CD boxed set compilation Backtracks, featuring Australian-only songs not released internationally at the time, and live b-Sides from 7` and 12` singles. The encores `Fling Thing` and `Rocker` (with a complete guitar solo) appeared only on footage of the concert by a Dutch TV station played at the time, but were eventually released on the Family Jewels DVD.[citation needed]

According to the 2006 book AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, the album title was an extension of Scott`s response – at the Day on the Green festival in July 1978 – when a journalist asked what they could expect from the band. The singer replied, `Blood.`[citation needed] The cover art is from a shoot with Atlantic Records` staff photographer Jim Houghton after the show at Boston`s Paradise Theater on 21st August 1978, the idea for which came from Atlantic`s art director Bob Defrin.[citation needed] The front cover depicts Angus Young being impaled on stage with a guitar during a performance, while the back depicts a bloodied Young lying facedown on the same stage, though deserted.

A song titled `If You Want Blood (You`ve Got It)` appeared on the next album: the band`s US chart breakthrough, Highway to Hell.
All tracks are written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott.

Side one
No. Title Origin album Length
1. `Riff Raff` Powerage 5:59
2. `Hell Ain`t a Bad Place to Be` Let There Be Rock 4:10
3. `Bad Boy Boogie` Let There Be Rock 7:29
4. `The Jack` T.N.T. 5:48
5. `Problem Child` Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 4:40
Side two
No. Title Origin album Length
6. `Whole Lotta Rosie` Let There Be Rock 4:05
7. `Rock `n` Roll Damnation` Powerage 3:41
8. `High Voltage` T.N.T. 5:05
9. `Let There Be Rock` Let There Be Rock 8:33
10. `Rocker` T.N.T. 3:24
Total length: 52:44
Notes

The song `Gimme a Bullet` was played during sound-check, according to the Official Apollo Theatre website setlist for the show.[18]
`Fling Thing` is the b-side to the original Australian only single of `Jailbreak`, but is actually the traditional Scottish folk song `The Bonnie Banks o` Loch Lomond`. The band played it live in Australia and Scotland as a staple part of the encores in the early years, and is replayed on the 1991 album AC/DC Live 2 CD Collectors edition from the Glasgow concert on the Razors Edge World Tour (though this time it is just called `Bonny`) and it was re-released in its original form, for the first time since 1976, on the Backtracks boxed set.
This version of `Fling Thing / Rocker (reprise)` - as it was the encore for the concert - is on the Family Jewels DVD, with some of the other songs from this concert, but the entire show has never been seen in its entirety since an original broadcast by a Dutch TV station around the same era.[19][20]
Personnel
Bon Scott – lead vocals
Angus Young – lead guitar
Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Cliff Williams – bass guitar, backing vocals
Phil Rudd – drums
Production

Producers: Harry Vanda, George Young
Sound: Mike Scarfe (MHA AUDIO)