ANGUS....the fact of the matter is that from day one we related to, we were a band that related to the rest of us, you know to the rest of the people.INTERVIEWER....after was it 80 million records to remain as unprententious as you have through the years and to still consisder yourselves working class, a lot of people would find that a kind of dichotomy of, you cant make that much money and sell that many records and still remain working class, or can you ?
MALCOLM...we can, yeah i mean we all went through a little faze in the beginning were we you know buy this gadget buy that gadget, but that's all they were gadgets, and we, this is just a waste of time and money , this money could be better spent
ANGUS...somewhere else
MALCOLM...in a better way, so we've never been lavish anymore, you ..we got a nice home , just get a comfortable, get a nice bed to sleep in something comfy but we still sleep on the couch .
Shake Your Foundations plays in background
BRIAN ....they classed you as heavy metal and dumb stuff like that and catagorised and stuff and then to come and see ya and say what's this ? this is rock n roll
ANGUS....yeah we've survived i, we've had every label pinned on us since the beginning you know in the beginning they were callin us a punk band then we became a new wave band and then you
become as ,he said heavy metal, heavy tin foil or somethin ....you know we always saw ourselves as just a rock n roll band that likes to make rock music.
MALCOLM....but we had to fight to get through you know we had to fight to get into gigs and fight to get out of gigs {laughs}..the press, we were never taken seriously, it was always like um, the major press i'm talkin about not the rock press, they always knew
ANGUS...it's an elitism, they want the cute and cuddly and we were
MALCOLM....the crude and snotty
INTERVIEWER....so was there any other advantages to being famous ?
BRIAN ....ah it depends how you take it and how you act, the boys in our band i've never seen any one of them act that way , fuck it's just the opposite everybodies just , it's just a way, the way you accept it you know and if you wanna be ostentatious and stick out like a sore thumb you can have the body guards, the giorgio arm and a leg shirts ...{he looks at the t-shirts their wearing and laughs}
Thunderstruck plays in background
ANGUS....somebody walks across the room and says hello i'm so glad to meet you, he's probably mistaken us for somebody else you know.
The Slash...
INTERVIEWER...you've probably met a lot of heroes AC/DC was one of them when it was with Angus
Slash...i saw AC/DC open for Aerosmith when i was like 14 years old ok that was a heavy night, they played the Santa Monica , we dont have to go back through all the details, just being here and playing with AC/DC was just such an honor
BRIAN...the biggest surprise in my life is when people like Aerosmith dont go on unless they play Back In Black.
Hells Bells play in background
INTERVIEWER....there has been a lot of references to hell over the years but you've never faced the wrath that someone like Marilyn Manson had to face when he dealt with hell and the devil
ANGUS...but they go out, he goes out for effect you know, we never, not one of us i can safely say i cant remember the last black mass i attended you know what i mean ? it never sort of came into the picture and the only thing we ever done was call an album Highway To Hell but that was us tourin.
Bon sings Highway To Hell in the background
ANGUS...we had been on the road, it was nearly 5 years of sloggin it out and err no break and somebody said well what would you call it and i said well highway to hell because that's how it seemed
INTERVIEWER...that hell word scares parents though
ANGUS ...yeah well it did, it was funny enough
MALCOLM...i mean John Wayne said it for gods sake ! {laughs}
Brian sings Highway To Hell
ANGUS...i never looked at it as a, like we were a band of athiest or sometin or heretics or whatever you know.
MALCOLM...yeah it's usually the fanatics in any area, that's all it is fanatics their the problem its not a religion, to us guys its, religion is a personnel thing you know its something if you want to keep it personnel you keep it personnel. you dont go out singin about the devil, we certainly dont.
Brian sings Cover You In Oil.
ANGUS...a lot of people say, i think now days they call it, whats the word they use, the interlectual word sexist, we call it sexy
MALCOLM...when people look for something to grab you, take you down they'll find it, there's plenty of thingsANGUS....there's plenty of things they could find in us to say, a bunch of sexist louts or something.
MALCOLM...we get the sexist thing thrown at us but we dont get our share of it {laughs}
PHIL....we just get the blame
ANGUS....and its never on the first date
Hail Caeser plays in the background
INTERVIEWER....i sit there and i watch it and i say how does that guy play guitar while he's doing this
ANGUS....with great difficulty....a lot of its mainly the guitars, thats all i do i concentrate on the guitars and then everthin else falls into place. I'm such a little guy you know other people they've got a guitar and they bend their strings, they bend it with their fingers well my body bends....aww its just somethin natural to me, im pretty rotten if i just stand there, also it'd be quiet boring ...but it is it is an escape, a guy can go and see a rock show and say well, he doesnt have to worry about work, he's there he can just let loose for awhile....its survived though you know the audience sometimes they just drown us out, listen there's a lot of gear up there and stuff, you know sometimes they'll get up there, they make it so much easier for ya, their singin those songs
MALCOLM....yeah your just backin them up
Brian sings Back In Black at Toronto concert
INTERVIEWER.....have you ever had a bad gig and what constitutes a bad gigANGUS....well i think for yourself you put a quality on it
BRIAN....yeah its, if something sounds, well the sound man will come in and say hey guys i got a balance here i've tried everything but theres a slap back or somethin and on stage ya try your best to give the audience what you've got, you never give less than 100 but when you come off and its like darlin that was hard because your kinda ,canna get the swing because of that horrible sound but you fight through that, that just comes with playin and playin
ANGUS.....yeah you ah, there's somethings you have no control over, in some cases...somethin might go wrong, all the times we had those great big cannons on set they put out many a power system ...we were in Germany we'd just played Berlin and they had all these expensive chandeliers and stuff and somebody had warned the guy and said you gotta get them down .and the guy went oh they'll be cool then boom boom the lot of them went
BRIAN....what about when it put a hole in the wall ....it just put this big hole in the wall at the back of the club where we were settin up the pyro and she went poof....see where the pyro is in the back they've got these huge like mono tubes and it just blew this fuckin hole in the back of the club ...
ANGUS....well i lifted, my legs lifted 4 feet off the ground.
BRIAN....i think the funniest thing that happened on the last tour, well it wasnt funny it was quiet scary, we were playin in a place called Basilden in Switzerland and on the stage we were halfway through the set and i'll never forget it, i was looking at the sky and it was almost like a movie, this big black cloud just turned up, this big black cloud was just coming and the storm cloud, but the wind that came with it first..fuck it threw Mal off his feet , Mal was at the side hangin on to this fuckin railing and then it started rainin cats and dogs and i'm lookin at the kids just gettin soaked, so Ang and i we run onto the runway and so we thought well we'll get fuckin soaked and it was great, that kind of thing brings everyone togetherANGUS....if you've ever been in front of some of the audiences we've been in front of ,you know i mean they love ya, they love ya but if your bein slack with em they gonna ,they'll let you know that to.
INTERVIEWER....does it feel like work when your on the stageMALCOLM....nah its more like sex {laughs} up there you know, well others like the ballad world , but with us guys its lust...lusting it keeps our old men pretty happy sometimes you know ...some of the sights we get, we're very privilged on that stage, some of the things you get to see
ANGUS....i dont get to see anythin, i miss it
MALCOLM.....no he misses it
ANGUS.....i've never seen one you know they always say hey did you see this and i always go what
INTERVIEWER....your heads always movin you gotta keep it still for a second
ANGUS....yeah so its all gone.....i think its a bit jekyll, probably jekyll and hyde , i get the suit and i look at it and go ..then i put it on sometimes and i've said to him even yesterday, i think that suit just walked on its own so you put that on and you, i put the hat down and then i can, you can feel it already........for us the highlights playing live
MALCOLM......yeah i think also we still attract new young, young audiences and i think it makes the band feel young on stage, you know gives you a bit of youth again
ANGUS.....a lot of it is from that time when your young and you look and you would go hey ..if i paid those kind of bucks i'd wanna see the reserection you know ? so i like to keep it basic, when i'm off the road go home nice quiet, not the big car not the big house not the big pool you know only big trouble ! { cut to angus sitting on this huge ball }
ANGUS.....what people will do for art !.....yeah kinda scary considering i'm not a...heights and things i'm not a , not that brave you know and they dont pay me any extra for it either you know ..i might be braver then..
INTERVIEWER....Brian said this is a 350,000 cigarette record ? {stiff upper lip}
MALCOLM....yeah he sort of compared it to the second world war , the biggest comodity was cigarettes, he said thats to give you some indication what it was like making this album, he smoked 150 odd thousand
INTERVIEWER....it makes it sound like you went through hell then
MALCOLM....we were in ectasy with that much nicotine, we went through hell after we were finished with the withdrawls of nicotine....no we all smokers every one of us
INTERVIEWERS....theres not a lot of vices for this band
MALCOLM....not a lot, you know we been through them all and you know we've come through the other side and we've realised our biggest vice is music and rock n roll is really what makes us happy, it makes us feel young still so thats our biggest drug now
INTERVIEWER.....does Brians voice still amaze you after all these years ?
ANGUS....i think he's singing better than what he ever did, this last album he was enjoyin it he didnt want to go home you know he
MALCOLM....he wanted to make another one right after
ANGUS.....he just wanted to do another one, he just didnt want to go
INTERVIEWER....it was the cigarette budget though
MALCOLM....we were runnin dry we were !.....he's got amazing strength within his body cause what amazes us is his screamin, the guy will finish a take and you can see its drained him but he wont give up, he's like Angus he gives he's all
ANGUS....he's ah Malcolm and myself's older brother { George Young who produced Stiff Upper Lip} and he gets to hey, hey shorty move ! so he can still, he can still...well i suppose he's got enough experience and stuff gained over the years...he was with us in the beginning, he really showed us everythin in the studio and ah plus a lot of live stuff cause he come, he was in a band in the 60's called the Easybeats and had a few hits you know, he knew his rock n roll
INTERVIEWER....i'm surprised at this point that you need producers thoughANGUS...ah it's good you need someone i think for us you know i think, and we're 2 brothers and with George there you got a referee, he's older
MALCOLM....no it helps it helps it gives
ANGUS .....it allows us to be what we are and we do best
MALCOLM....everyone in the band admires what he says
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