FAMILY JEWELS 2005....part 1

Malcolm....it was sort of picked up originally, they thought we'd be a good pop/rock type of band play a bit of rock, bit of pop yeah, that's how we ahh did start, you can see that in the attire in the early clips. When your kids you wanna get up, you'll do whatever it takes to get into, to get signed up and get on the road.We were really happy at that time if we could just work in clubs for the rest of our lives it was better than our day jobs and you could travel, so we thought if we could accomplish that just tourin around the world doin clubs, hey you've got a life you know so everythin else became a bonus after that. When Bon came into the picture 6 months later everythin, you know we had the key then to go straight to rock n roll because he can deliver it and he had his own style and he had, he influenced the band to go more into the rock n roll thing as well.
Interviewer.....It's A Long Way To The Top If You Wanna Rock n Roll, your on a flat bed truck, Bon is playing bagpipes and then these pipers turn up as well, now that's an incredibly modern clip when you look back at it actually, how did that all come about where did the idea come from Angus.....nobody told me we was gonna be on a truck
Malcolm.... no it was when we got there...but we were on it
Angus....i was tryin to hang on to the bloody thing
Malcolm....that was the idea to get a bit of press as well, but it was a good idea and just recently we had one, Stiff Upper Lip they stuck us in a Hummer in New York, like we've done this already all this shite you know, can you come up with somethin better you know. But um that worked,{the flat bed truck idea} it really did its one of, in fact the track went to number one in Aussie and it stayed there for ages you know and its been covered tonnes of times by other artists
Interviewer.....Let There Be Rock now that's a clip that they can show and i have to say that video is particularly amusing tell me about it, its the one with ah
Angus...in a church
Interviewer...in a church, Bon is a preacher and your there as i presume choral boys although you've got a kind of halo thing on
Malcolm....we were told it was gonna be in a church and we thought this is great but we got there and
Angus...nobody had told the vicar ...nobody told the guy that owned it they just asked if we could use his church for the day and me bein dumb probably not knowin much about the world anyway i couldn't, like from the first shows we done in America you know you had these people picketing and stuff and i used to always think what are they picketing us for we don't, hadn't hurt you we just got there
Malcolm....at the end of that video with Bon on the pulpit and then he gets up on the top and then he jumps
Angus...he broke his
Malcolm...ankle when he did that, that's the last, in a way it was good because it was at the end of the video it was the last thing he had to do and off he was tramped off to hospital and we're all see ya Bon we're goin back down the studio and poor guy hes like grrrr give me some Jack Daniels for the trip to the hospital
Interviewer.....let's move onto Sin City then, the clip is from the US TV show called Midnight Special i believe and i think you performed it in 78 you went to America, how did you view going to America was it, first off let's talk about that clip first of all you were in a television environment, you'd done TV shows a million times before that but how did you view doing Sin City in 78 on American TV, was there any trepidation or was it just another day at the office how was the whole experience of doing that ?
Angus...well they told us to turn it down the first time and can we get him to stand still, yeah him the little one, can you stand still fella
Malcolm....but i think it was like the guys from Aerosmith they grabbed us straight away to support them and they were great with us and they were doing this special, Nugent, Aerosmith, Nugent i think was the compare
Angus....it was either rock night or somethin
Malcolm....just an all rock night and they just kept pushin, get these lads on they need a break come
on, a great band...then he got us on there and the first thing we noticed when we got up there was all
the techs were women everythin all the cameras, all run by women so that gives you a little bit of
inspiration for a start, i remember when we watched that they all just standin there stunned and the
crowd is like what the hell is this but at the end they explode, they've never probably seen anythin like
that especially the slow part, Bon really delivered it you know at the quiet part Bon really delivered
with his talkin stuff, the audience were all like what's this shit is this the devil, you could see they were
stunned, these were straight 9 to 5 college kids out there but at the end they went rip, we thought we were dyin up there but at the end they really went over the top...so ah it was a good night to be honest, i think its one of Bon's best you know if you could see just one performance that one there is, if not the best it's up there for him you know his attitude, he's a little bit of an actor Bon, he could really pull it off even though he wasn't an actor you could believe it because he meant to.
Interviewer....i guess the other thing about Sin City as a track, again when Bon wrote the lyrics did he have a place in mind ?
Malcolm....well he used Vegas as a platform, he had his own take on it you know, he'd rather be
shaggin the birds at the end of the night instead of losing his dough on the table you know what i
mean ? it was more again down to the sex {laughs}
Angus....we had the title to Sin City ,with Bon it was a case of getting an angle so he came with the vaguest style angle but it was from seeing the way Bon saw Vegas which was booze, babes and boogie you know so not necessarily in that order.