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I love me weekly dose of Rockwiz but there is one thing that pisses me off every week. And that is how Rockwiz’ resident master of the Telecaster, James Black, plays the Back in Black riff at the start of Million Dollar Riff section. Grab yer guitar. Angus and Malcom play open E, open D, open A. Check this page where you can see the tab and here the riff. One of the secrets to the AC/DC sound is the use of open chords. Sure they do use power chords but the big fat riffs revolve around open chords. Now James plays it using power chords. E at the 7th fret, D at the 5th and then an A with the third in the bass starting 4th fret 5th string. Musically it is correct. It is still E, D and A. But it sounds so wrong. The riff loses it mojo when played that way and I just can’t stand it. AC/DC actually do use that chord shape with the third in the bass (Hell Bells and For Those About to Rock for example). But not on BiB. That is my only complaint about Rockwiz. Other than that, a fine show. Oh, FXH does tells me it could do with more time devoted to Julia.