Voice Over.....AC/DC's bass player at the time was the just married Rob Bailey, his wife Di toured with the band.
Di Bailey....and Bon would come along and he would always be there watching and he quickly became good friends with the band and namely Malcolm, they became good mates and ah next i knew they wanted a new singer and so they were tossing different names around i vaguely remember John Paul Young being one of them and a couple of others.
Ted Gannon....and Vince Lovegrove at the time organised a jam session if you like with Angus and Malcolm Young from AC/DC and Bon and a few other people, interestingly enough Johnny, John Swan was playing the drums that time in that particular session and it went for 3 or 4 hours in the afternoon on a Sunday afternoon and it was mainly, we found out later on to see if Bon would click with Angus and Malcolm from AC/DC with the obvious intention of asking Bon to join the band.
Di Bailey.....and the decision was made, they wanted Bon Scott.
Bon sings High Voltage
Fifa....The very first time i saw Bon or met Bon was when he actually got up to peform with the band really for the first time.
Voice Over....Guided by one of Australia's most talented production teams in Harry Vanda and George Young, AC/DC secured a record deal with Albert Productions, Fifa Riccobonno was label manager at the time.
Fifa....This guy came out in pink satin or red satin bib and brace with a tooth missing and a sharks tooth around his neck and i just looked at him and i thought oh my god but he started to sing and he was just incredible, he didn't know the words to most of the songs so he ad libbed quiet a bit but by the end of the night there was no doubt that he very much suited the band, for the first time it really felt like there was a magic element and the band was a unit and the guys, as in typical AC/DC fashion just gave it their all and put on a great show.
Pat Pickett {roadie}....Angus and Malcolm wo
uld'nt stop playin if they broke a string and it was great cause they were so small i could stand behind them and change it while they were playin and ah a lot of people don't believe it but its true.
Voice Over....Pat Pickett met Bon Scott when the singer was with Fraternity, the two became firm friends and later shared a house , Pickett became a key member of AC/DC's Austrailian touring crew and recalls seeing the bands potential straight away.
Pat...You know the main focus was the work and the shows, i mean anyone who was involved with that band at the time who didn't think they were goin to go somewhere needed to see a phychiatrist real quick.
Phillip Morris....the main difference i noticed between Dave and Bon was that the band seemed to move,collaborate better with Bon, his voice was much stronger, his voice was very powerful and his presence was more dynamic.
Russell Morris...
..If someone had of said to me at that stage give us ah $10,000 and you can have 50% of the royalties of AC/DC for the next 10 years i probably would have reneged and said nah i dont think its gonna work , shows how much i know !
Fifa....When Bon joined the band it was a really easy situation for all of them, the guys really looked up to him because he had a lot of experience that they didnt have and they listened to a lot of things he had to say but he also loved their youth and their energy and he loved the song writing that went on between him, Malcolm and Angus.
Pat....they were'nt foolin around, they were goin somewhere and with Bon basically it was his last chance.
Fifa....Bon was really the front man but then Angus developed a little bit more and came up and became the real show man with the guitar playing and they really complimented each other in a way that yes, over the years got bigger and better.
Di.....To me now looking back, AC/DC were not really AC/DCc until Bon joined that band, he made it the raw rock band that it is today.
Johnny Young....I think Bon Scott was a fantastic entertainer and he was aware of it, he knew what to do on stage, he knew he had sex appeal.
Glenn Shorrock....Bon was a madman, when i say madman, relitively, he'd take his top off straight away, halfway through the first song he's have his shirt off showing his tatts for all the girls.
Phillip Morris...i used to be running all over the stage, it was hard work but you knew you were getting some great shots.
Fifa....he had such an ease on stage, he just had a way with the audience.
Glenn Shorrock....Bon was a good singer, he was, he had the jist of it as
i call it, he knew his way around a song he could belt it out when he wanted to but he could also sing very lyrically, you know he was a celt he was a Scotsman, that lilty voice it was natural to him.
Johnny Young...he actually gave all of himself whenever he was performing
Glenn A Baker....He'd learnt how to be a performer and went finally out to the front of this really tough band and also involved in the song writing, he was able to create this persona that was absolutly irrisitable.
Pat....The band were high to do the opening of the new Myer Miss shop and it was supposedly every lunch time for 5 days, anyway they expected 7 to 900 kids, whatever it was and all that, i dont know how many turned up i think it was 7 to 10,000, it was something ridiculous, anyway to cut a fairly long story short the band didn't even get through the intro of the first song, these kids charged us and it was sort of terrifying we had to run through the change rooms, out the back, i don't know where the other guys split off to but Bon and i ended up out on elizabeth St in the city and you can catch a tram there back to North Melbourne where we were staying, at Freeway Gardens so we've just jumped on this bread and jam and the next thing, i think we get to the corner of Russell Street and there's all these school girls and they see us and get on the tram and all paid so they cant kick em off the tram and they start tearin us to bits and it was freaky as and we're goin how are we gonna get out of this you know ?.
Di Bailey....and Bon would come along and he would always be there watching and he quickly became good friends with the band and namely Malcolm, they became good mates and ah next i knew they wanted a new singer and so they were tossing different names around i vaguely remember John Paul Young being one of them and a couple of others.
Ted Gannon....and Vince Lovegrove at the time organised a jam session if you like with Angus and Malcolm Young from AC/DC and Bon and a few other people, interestingly enough Johnny, John Swan was playing the drums that time in that particular session and it went for 3 or 4 hours in the afternoon on a Sunday afternoon and it was mainly, we found out later on to see if Bon would click with Angus and Malcolm from AC/DC with the obvious intention of asking Bon to join the band.
Di Bailey.....and the decision was made, they wanted Bon Scott.
Bon sings High Voltage
Fifa....The very first time i saw Bon or met Bon was when he actually got up to peform with the band really for the first time.
Voice Over....Guided by one of Australia's most talented production teams in Harry Vanda and George Young, AC/DC secured a record deal with Albert Productions, Fifa Riccobonno was label manager at the time.
Fifa....This guy came out in pink satin or red satin bib and brace with a tooth missing and a sharks tooth around his neck and i just looked at him and i thought oh my god but he started to sing and he was just incredible, he didn't know the words to most of the songs so he ad libbed quiet a bit but by the end of the night there was no doubt that he very much suited the band, for the first time it really felt like there was a magic element and the band was a unit and the guys, as in typical AC/DC fashion just gave it their all and put on a great show.
Pat Pickett {roadie}....Angus and Malcolm wo
uld'nt stop playin if they broke a string and it was great cause they were so small i could stand behind them and change it while they were playin and ah a lot of people don't believe it but its true.Voice Over....Pat Pickett met Bon Scott when the singer was with Fraternity, the two became firm friends and later shared a house , Pickett became a key member of AC/DC's Austrailian touring crew and recalls seeing the bands potential straight away.
Pat...You know the main focus was the work and the shows, i mean anyone who was involved with that band at the time who didn't think they were goin to go somewhere needed to see a phychiatrist real quick.
Phillip Morris....the main difference i noticed between Dave and Bon was that the band seemed to move,collaborate better with Bon, his voice was much stronger, his voice was very powerful and his presence was more dynamic.
Russell Morris...
..If someone had of said to me at that stage give us ah $10,000 and you can have 50% of the royalties of AC/DC for the next 10 years i probably would have reneged and said nah i dont think its gonna work , shows how much i know !Fifa....When Bon joined the band it was a really easy situation for all of them, the guys really looked up to him because he had a lot of experience that they didnt have and they listened to a lot of things he had to say but he also loved their youth and their energy and he loved the song writing that went on between him, Malcolm and Angus.
Pat....they were'nt foolin around, they were goin somewhere and with Bon basically it was his last chance.
Fifa....Bon was really the front man but then Angus developed a little bit more and came up and became the real show man with the guitar playing and they really complimented each other in a way that yes, over the years got bigger and better.
Di.....To me now looking back, AC/DC were not really AC/DCc until Bon joined that band, he made it the raw rock band that it is today.
Johnny Young....I think Bon Scott was a fantastic entertainer and he was aware of it, he knew what to do on stage, he knew he had sex appeal.
Glenn Shorrock....Bon was a madman, when i say madman, relitively, he'd take his top off straight away, halfway through the first song he's have his shirt off showing his tatts for all the girls.
Phillip Morris...i used to be running all over the stage, it was hard work but you knew you were getting some great shots.
Fifa....he had such an ease on stage, he just had a way with the audience.
Glenn Shorrock....Bon was a good singer, he was, he had the jist of it as
i call it, he knew his way around a song he could belt it out when he wanted to but he could also sing very lyrically, you know he was a celt he was a Scotsman, that lilty voice it was natural to him.Johnny Young...he actually gave all of himself whenever he was performing
Glenn A Baker....He'd learnt how to be a performer and went finally out to the front of this really tough band and also involved in the song writing, he was able to create this persona that was absolutly irrisitable.
Pat....The band were high to do the opening of the new Myer Miss shop and it was supposedly every lunch time for 5 days, anyway they expected 7 to 900 kids, whatever it was and all that, i dont know how many turned up i think it was 7 to 10,000, it was something ridiculous, anyway to cut a fairly long story short the band didn't even get through the intro of the first song, these kids charged us and it was sort of terrifying we had to run through the change rooms, out the back, i don't know where the other guys split off to but Bon and i ended up out on elizabeth St in the city and you can catch a tram there back to North Melbourne where we were staying, at Freeway Gardens so we've just jumped on this bread and jam and the next thing, i think we get to the corner of Russell Street and there's all these school girls and they see us and get on the tram and all paid so they cant kick em off the tram and they start tearin us to bits and it was freaky as and we're goin how are we gonna get out of this you know ?.
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