Talk:Night Prowler (song)

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The article states "Angus Young and Malcolm Young both tune their guitars a half step down in this song, and the tempo is slowed down as well..."

I would like a citation for this claim, this highly doubtful. Here's why:

It's true the guitars are a half step down. However, this is because they recorded just the guitars in standard tuning and slowed the tape down a half step before recording the vocals. This was a common recording trick and gives the guitars the odd effect you hear on the recording. Simply tuning down a half step doesn't sound like that. I am a guitarist, vocalist and recording artist and I can hear the difference. One hint is the rate of decay on the sustain. I can hear this tape effect clearly on both the rhythm and lead guitar solo.

Basically they didn't "tune down" they "pitched down". There is an important difference. Not to give away all their tricks here on wikipedia.

I'm nearly 100% sure that is what is going on, but I don't have a citation. Sorry. Maybe someone can find something, but it's likely considered a trade secret and the band won't talk.

Here is something close to a source for this, it's a video pitching back to standard tuning.

http://www.solodallas.net/acdc-highway-to-hell-pitch-corrected-is-this-true-or-false/

However, this effect was so popular they have emulated it for digital recording today http://www.steinberg.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=130&t=5731 http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4474835 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.47.100.48 (talk) 04:34, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This should be deleted or improved. im fairly sure the song is about killing people. Captanpluto123 22:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC) This song is not about killing people, it has one part in it that involves death, but thats it, you should try reading the lyrics before you start acting like you know what a song is about.Tubyboulin 00:18, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think he did read the lyrics, the lyrics do clearly refer to stabbing someone in the back, but if that is the normal behaviour of a boy sneaking into his girlfriends room maybe Ramirez wasn't so deviant after all. My theory (alas wikipedia requires evidence rather than logic) is that AC/DC concocted the girlfriend story to disconnect themselves and the song from Ramirez, especially since many of the other songs AC/DC released at that time also focused on crime (including but not limited to contract killing, fighting, escaping from jail and convicts being shipped to colonial Australia). AKLR (talk) 04:10, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's clearly about murderous serial killing regardless of what the band said/says... However, the edge of those extremely ominous lyrics gets taken off quite a bit at the very end with the "Shazbat! Nanu nanu!" spout off! Those lyrics though could not have been written more ominously by Bon Scott. He certainly had a way with the language! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.97.208.86 (talk) 23:07, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]