21 June 2009

BON SCOTT DOCUMENTRY....part 2


Ted Gannon....We were one of the very first bands who ever left Perth and went to the Eastern states to try and make a go of it.
Maria....and then of coarse they started doing all the gigs around and ended up winning the Battle Of The Bands there and started to grow and grow and grow and got very big as the Valentines over there.
Glenn Shorrock....That's why i was very impressed with this, these guys have got 2 lead singers like we have and their dressed as girls.
Brian Cadd....On they came on stage and they were wearing this absolutely brilliant yellow band uniform they looked like fluffy ducks, they were fantastic.
Russell Morris.....I first met Bon because we were usually on the same shows and ah they, all these guys turned up in very bright clothes with sort of see thru sleeves on their shirts and they were a great bunch of guys and i happened to notice Bon's arms where he had all these tattoos, he had make up on his arms to hide the tatts because he did'nt want to frighten the young girls.
Glenn Shorrock....Bon was the guy, if you wanted a good time you called Bon.
Brian Cadd....He was'nt a guy who was anything other than ultra social so all the times we ever spent with him we spent out drinkin and hangin out and rocking you know.
Ted Gannon.....We reached not the very top of Australian music but we got fairly close, did some major tours and we recorded some music and i thought we did pretty well at the time but then we all went our own ways and Bon ended up joining Levi Smith Clash who eventually became Fraternity.
Maria....Bon and i split up when we were in Melbourne, we split up a number of times and one of the occassions was around Christmas time and on Christmas eve i went out somewhere to make sure i was occupied because the dreaded day was coming and when i got home from wherever i had been and let myself into my flat i realised some one had been in there and under the Xmas tree there was this fantastic picture of this girl with long blonde hair and big eyes which was supposed to be me, and Bon had broken into the flat and left me a Xmas present and then just disappeared......he wanted to be somebody/something so whether it was a Lawyer or Accountant or whatever, his talent was in music and the top of that tree is to be a pop star, so he was working his way through life gaining whatever he needed to get to that status.
Voice Over....Shortly after the Valentines split up in August 1970 Bon Scott's career dramatically changed direction when he joined Fraternity, a folk band with a distinctly hippy flavour.
Glenn A Baker.....He started out his career being this gossamered, pastel shaded pop idol and you turned around and suddenly he's in the Adelaide Hills with brown rice and sandals, long hair, playing a recorder { Bon sing's Season's Of Change}
Glenn Shorrock.....Adelaide had spawned this band called Fraternity which was a mixture of folk rock and you know they were mountain men basically, they were very much a hill billy type band and Bon was singing with them which suited him more than anything, i liked his vocal work in that band much more than i did with AC/DC.
Voice Over....From the early 1970's on rock photographer Phillip Morris shot some unforgettable images of Bon Scott in full flight.
Phillip Morris.....I first met Bon when he was with Fraternity, Go Set were doing an article, A Day In The Life Of Fraternity so i went to their house where they were living at the time in Sydney, in Woolahra and Bon suggested why don't we go to Centennial Park and kick the football around.
Glenn A Baker.....Fraternity were destined to never sell a lot of records, they were destined to never really have hit singles or be a pop band, i mean you only had to take one look at them, they were not going to be on any girls bedroom wall, this was not a pin up band.
Phillip Morris....Bon was more serious and quiet in Fraternity, they were more a musicians band so they, when they were playing live even Bon would just stand there on the recorder.
Brian Cadd.....He found probably the closest he was gonna find to the true music that i think he really truly loved.
Glenn A Baker....There was great players in the band, there was wonderful integrity in the band, i mean these guys took what they did very seriously and i dont think they actually cared a lot as to whether they became a sensation or sold lots and lots of records.
Voice Over.....While critically acclaimed Fraternity's recording's didn't sell and after an unsuccessful tour of the UK the band folded in late 1973. Meantime in Sydney a new band was rehearsing. led by singer Dave Evans and featuring brothers Malcolm and Angus Young on dualing guitars, the very shiny AC/DC looked like they were about to launch head long into glam rock.
Phillip Morris.....Dave Evan was the singer and he had some crazy clothes on, the knee high boots and he'd be jumping around but the guitarist's Angus and Malcolm were really really good, really tight guitarist and i thought ah this band is good.

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