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AC/DC, Humble Pie: Capital Centre, Landover MD

Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 4 August 1980

AC/DC, WHO played to 16,000 at the Capital Centre last night, are rock's current shock troops. One doesn't enjoy an AC/DC performance as much as survive it. And the band gave fair warning. The performance started with a dozen well-spaced but resounding bangs on a huge bell that descended onto the stage. In the course of the evening, they never really stopped ringing the audience's bell.

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