Get Your Jumbo Jet Out of My Airport: Random Notes for AC/DC Obsessives

by Howard Johnson

Drawing on hours of new interviews - from record company executives and producers to obsessive bootleg collectors-- Get Your Jumbo ... collects the best anecdotes and tall tales of the most enduring hard rock behemoth, AC/DC, showing exactly why the band has remained so special and influential. Features a wealth of previously unseen photos.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1902799011
• ISBN13: 9781902799018
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Black Book Company
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great gift for serious AC/DC fans!

Like another reviewer said, this book is for fans who already know most of the history of the band. This book is pretty much a collection of people talking about their AC/DC experiences. But there are also rarely seen pics, bio pieces on the band members, sections about the videos, and other interesting bits. Even a 1991 interview with Phil Rudd, where he talks about what he's been doing away from the band. AC/DC has been my favorite band for 24 years, and this book was perfect for someone like me. It offered something new and made me think about my interest in the band in different ways due to the writers describing their meetings, concerts, etc. This book is worth it!

A New Twist on AC/DC books

Let's face it, if you've read one AC/DC book, you've pretty much read them all. Then only difference is what year they were published. This one IS different, though.First off, let's make it clear--this is not really a book focusing on AC/DC. This book assumes that the buyer already knows about the band, the history, the music. It doesn't mess around too much in the bio department, opting only for little sidebars about present and past members of the band.This book is really more about the fans for the fans. Random notes, as the title says. The book goes over various fans' experiences, from internet site webmasters to people who knew the band when they were fresh faced and living in London in the '70s. The book has testimonials from fans not only about meeting the band, but about excursions made to places important in AC/DC history, like Bon's final resting place in Freemantle or old haunts in various areas of London.All of these essays and notes are intertwined with the author's own experience listening to the band throughout the years. It's clear the author is not a manic fan of the band, but it is apparent that, even though he feels the band's best days are behind them, he still has a great respect for them and finds them entertaining still. Some people may find the author's views out of place in the book, but I think it provides a good contrast to some of the notes in the book about the more fanatical followers. It illustrates that there are many different kinds of AC/DC fans, and they're all welcome to rock along together.Over all, this is a refreshing book. Instead of beating the same old AC/DC anecdotes into the ground, the author went out on a limb and created a book aimed at and about people who love the best band in the world. I think it works!