11 June 2009

THE AC/DC STORY IN THEIR WORDS ...part 1

You Shook Me All Night Long.... plays in the background
ANGUS.....we started as a rock n roll band and we just continued with that, we have'nt deviated from
it, you know we just stuck to playing rock music.
Back In Black plays in the background.

BRIAN....they classed you as heavy metal and dumb stuff like that and categorised and stuff and then to come and see ya and say what's this ? this is rock n roll
ANGUS....when the Stones asked us to do some European shows, then they asked us on the last show in Germany ,they said oh will you come to Toronto with us for this benefit ? so you know i suppose for the people of Toronto you can thank the Stones ,they put it all together and they got us .
INTERVIEWER.....it seemed like there were still a lot of people that were surprised, not the followers the big followers, ac/dc rocks man
ANGUS ....yeah i guess there's still a lot of people out there who've never seen ya before ,so for us its always a ...its a good, its a good thing because we get a big kick out of it to because we go out and he'll tell ya { points to Brian} you know we go out there and sometimes your playing and you can tell, you can tell the people you have just seen you for the first time and have said wow what's this and they're kinda shocked , where have they been for thirty years ?
ANGUS ...i heard a lot of blues stuff when i was younger so it probably was the blues thing that i heard first and i always wanted to play my version of it you know ? i did'nt think i was quiet that talented but thats what i wanted to do
MALCOLM....we both grew up with the same music and ahh i guess the bouncing off of each other , its mainly rhythm and blues rock n roll
ANGUS. ...Malcolm he was putting together a band and he wanted a rock n roll thing and ah and i was just sitting around and i was gonna go and play with a couple of guys just 2 friends and he said why dont you come and play in this band...all i know is that when i first came out of school the options of what was going to be your career in life was very limited so i just...when Malcolm said do you wanna come and do this i just said hey ..i was off like greased lightening...but he said come and have a go with us and i said what if the other guys dont like me and he said well we get guys in who do ..and i thought that's brothers for ya.
Bon sings Jailbreak

ANGUS....we were in Sydney Australia and we started from there , we were sort of a bit of a ..not a retaliation but at the time there was not much rock music anywhere so you only got...rarely saw anything so that's why we started. Well in the beginning when you start as a band the idea was you want to be as recognisable as the Stones or you know any other band out there, you wanna do... flying your style of music, how you played so when my brother Malcolm formed the band in the beginning i said to him well what are we gonna play and he says hey just good old rock and roll.
INTERVIEWER....you did a cover of the Stones at the very first live gig of AC/DC
ANGUS. ...in bars and clubs we played anythin really ,if somebody said play that man, if somebody , some of those places we played at if they yelled out play Running Bear hey ...i dont know it but i'll just busk it ..i remember Malcolm turning around one night and going into Zorba the Greek for someone
BRIAN....it's like the old joke, hey you ? you with the broken nose sing Runnin Bear ...i havent got a broken nose {punch} oh Runnin Bear and little white dove
ANGUS..... we said hey pretty faces come and go , you gotta have substance, you gotta have substance behind what you do you know even though i've got a school suit on i get on there to play guitar
Bon sings in background ..take a chance while you've still got a choice

INTERVIEWER.....when did you first put on the school uniform ?
ANGUS......i had the suit on from get go you know ,yeah because it was a case of Mal said that would be great and my sister heard it and they were trying to convince me i would be rich you know....they were tellin me wild stories
BRIAN....anything to get that suit on
ANGUS.....that's right they were sayin your gonna make a lot of money wearin your uniform, and i'd come from school and be practicin in me room and i used to just throw down me stuff , grab me guitar and err be playin away or some days i'd come home and get with a couple of guys from school run in grab me guitar and out the door and when Malcolm put togehter the band he said it would be great if we had somethin flash in there and my sister said why dont you let him keep his school suit on and it'll be somethin different somthin for people to look at you know rather than just a guitarist just standin there playin....my brother George, he produced the other albums, he would say we'll bill you as the 9 year old wonder boy and i'm goin but i'm not 9 ..he goes you just shut up..and then they just had to talk me into wearin it.
Bon sings in background

ANGUS....you know when i first wore the school suit and we're playin in bars and clubs some of them were wild and woolly you know and i was you know well you've got this school suit on so you better keep movin cause otherwise you know you get a missile or 2 ....the head master used to call me up every second day or so and say well Young what have you been up to now, i've had reports of you smoking in the train on the way home from school , i was forever in deep water because of that school uniform but i thought it was good that i could actually reak revenge on them for all these years
Bon sings Rock and Roll Damnation

INTERVIEWER....how did you hook up with Bon Scott ?
ANGUS....Bon was drivin in adelaide, he worked for an agent that bought us to town, Bon was drivin he was the chauffer and me and Mal knew he was a better singer than a driver and we said why dont you come along and have a chance at playin with us and he said oh well err i'll think about it....i think he was married then but he said i'm in transition...but when he joined us he said you know ah, his wife said to him, well it's either me or the band Bon and he said ahh sorry honey it's the band, i like em better.......he really wanted to play drums with us and when he first came around he kept always hoppin on the drum kit and i said well i hope you can sing better than you can drum...from the
moment he first performed with us on stage , i mean it was like a magic spark.
Bon sings Sin City in the background

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