AC/DC has a chance to give the PowerTrip heavy metal music festival audience something special.
The Aussie legends are slated to play the Saturday night (October 8) spot after Ozzy at the Polo Fields in Coachella and they could do something they haven’t done in 32 years: play their highest charted hit single, 1990’s “Moneytalks.”
At the end of the ’80s, the masses weren’t really buying new music from Angus, Malcom, Brian and the boys. After delivering one of the most popular albums in history with Back in Black in 1980, and the decent follow up, For Those About To Rock in ’81, the rest of the ’80s were more misses than hits for the hard rockers. Even their greatest hits/soundtrack album, 1986’s Who Made Who seemed half baked.
So it was quite a pleasant surprise when The Razor’s Edge delivered not one but two huge hits: the arena rock favorite “Thunderstruck,” and the catchy anthem “Moneytalks.” It gave the band the first #2 album of their career, leapfrogging Back in Black which peaked at #4.
As the Professor of Rock noted a few weeks ago using Setlist.fm as his proof, AC/DC played “Moneytalks” in 1990 and ’91 during The Razors Edge Tour and then never again. To quote the professor, “how could the highest charting song of this band’s career become their most underrated hit?”
Only Angus and Brian can tell us why the tune has been buried since before Grunge broke. But whatever the reason, if they whipped it out at PowerTrip, it would easily be one of the major highlights of the three day festival.
read more at: Setlist.fm
