Interviewer.....so we move on to Riff Raff, Glasgow April 1978, live has always been your natural
environment your natural habitat but live in Glasgow tell me what that meant to you at the time
because i mean its an incredible gig an incredible performance
Angus...well we played there ever since we come around this part of the world so we had gone in and
played first time you know, we played a few small place then a done like few city hall things then we
did the Apollo and any time we played at that Apollo it was kind of wild and i suppose because Malcolm, me and Bon had the Scottish immigrant kids, having that background they sort of look at us and thought are they Scottish or what ?
Interviewer....well you left them in no doubt really with the fling thing rocker combination involving
a well full Scottish football kit which your sporting in that clip
Malcolm....well I'd just gone to an England game on the Saturday and that was the angle of the tour
manager he said get these on for your encore so we all, well Angus he's got his shorts on all night so we just strip changed and run out like a bunch of monkeys you know we were ready, i thought this could go wrong and all the bottles will come up you know but they loved it.
Interviewer.....this is at the point where you've discovered the cordless option in terms of guitar gear so tell me about that, obviously you did like to go walkabout when you had a lead suddenly your presented with the option to go wherever you wanted
Angus....wherever i could go...well it was really Mal who when we first got to America he, we were playin in this gig in New York and Mal said to me some guy had come and i was doin interviews or somethin and they had gone down and checked out the sound and stuff and Mal said oh there's a guy who's got this what do you call it, transmitter thing and he's got it down there and it sounds great and him and Cliff wanted it, they walked all outside the buildin down the street and played it you know and he was tellin me and i was a bit wary and Mal said it sounds great you can even drive over driving ramps and stuff so i said OK i'll try it so i tried it that night and it was magic, normally you'd have road crew guys feedin you like a surf life saving operation, feedin the cable to you
Malcolm....but that gig at the Apollo with his cordless
Angus ...i could go anywhere
Malcolm...there was about 2 dozen of them in front of Angus who saw no cable and they wanted a refund, they thought he was miming so the crew took em up and said hereya lads you bang that guitar and you can see for yourself
Interviewer....so they thought you were miming ?....the one thing for it i suppose is being given a cordless device you could go wherever you wanted, did it ever go wrong ?
Angus...oh yeah, in that
Malcolm....Donnington it went out a couple of times
Angus....and in New York it was that same gig they wouldn't let me, when i went out the buildin and i was gonna come round and back in where the audience was and i got to the door and of coarse the bands on stage and playin away and they' re sayin these security people well this is the guy ,well he ain't comin in here
Interviewer.....so let me get this straight ,your dressed in a full school uniform with a guitar sweating
Angus...yeah but its New York mind ya, lot of looneys out there too but they weren't lettin me in and the crew guy was sayin hey he's the guitarist and their sayin no their on the stage look ! so it ended up one of the crew guys hit the guy in the side of the head and then i could run while he scuffled with him so that's how i got back on stage
Interviewer.....so you made Highway To Hell, how did you approach that record, without a shadow of a doubt it's such a defining moment in the bands career
Angus.....well we had started in Australia ,we started with a couple of tunes together i think If You Want Blood was one of them and so there was that, and a couple of other ideas we had and then they got a hold of Mutt ,Mutt Lange and Mutt said well send us a tape of what you've got already so it was a case of we'd done most of, a lot of those tracks were done over the weekend wasn't it ?
Malcolm....2 days yeah
Angus....2 days ,well some of them we had like Highway To Hell we had pretty much together and a few of the other ones and sent them off and Lange said oh sounds good i'll work with ya so he had good ears for sound and he was meticulous about sound, gettin it right you know drums and that so he would zero in, he was brilliant in that
Interviewer.....there's one thing i noticed in your Shot Down In Flames Angus, is a radical costume change for yourself, you've abandoned the schoolboy cap and your wearing a little peaked cap like a little ticket collectors cap
Angus....yeah somebody came sent a gift from Warner's Japan and they said would i wear this for, you know they wanted to put a film clip together for the Japanese to show the Japanese so i said oh well i'll try it so it was more or less filmed for a Japanese thing and that was what they wore in school i think.
Interviewer.....did your period of mourning ,so to speak though ...did that actually influence the album in any way because obviously everyone looked at the title ,the start of the album
Angus....well yeah, it was all there we knew what we were gonna call it you know cause it was our thing for Bon ,we'd call it Back In Black .We knew all that the hell the bell, we wanted the bell and we wanted it in black you know and ah you try convincin a record company with a guy that's just passed, the front guy has just passed away you try convincing them you want an album called Back In Black and you want it black and you want this big bell in it too called Hells Bells
Malcolm....and the record company sent us a picture for it, we'd sent the album back, album cover back 6 times each week and naht naht and we told em when it becomes black it'll be right all black nothin on it, we want it embossed so you don't need white lines on it we settled in the end for a slight grey line on the side but even that we were you know, the press where goin on so the whole thing we managed to get virtually what we wanted but. Yeah we toured in the states for 6 months with Back In Black and i think it was the week we left it came in at about 189 it just hung, moved up 2 moved up 3 and by the time we finished it was around 50 in the states and then when we got to Australia about 3 weeks later it was number 1 or number 2 in the charts and we were sayin ah that must be a misprint we didn't think it was us, ah they've screwed up here but it was real so we were all chuffed about that but of course the band were all over the world in different places so it's not like we could all go and have a celebration or anythin so we thought well we'll find out when the cheque comes won't we
Angus...we're still waitin.....any day now
environment your natural habitat but live in Glasgow tell me what that meant to you at the time
because i mean its an incredible gig an incredible performance
Angus...well we played there ever since we come around this part of the world so we had gone in and
played first time you know, we played a few small place then a done like few city hall things then we
did the Apollo and any time we played at that Apollo it was kind of wild and i suppose because Malcolm, me and Bon had the Scottish immigrant kids, having that background they sort of look at us and thought are they Scottish or what ?
Interviewer....well you left them in no doubt really with the fling thing rocker combination involving
a well full Scottish football kit which your sporting in that clip
Malcolm....well I'd just gone to an England game on the Saturday and that was the angle of the tour
manager he said get these on for your encore so we all, well Angus he's got his shorts on all night so we just strip changed and run out like a bunch of monkeys you know we were ready, i thought this could go wrong and all the bottles will come up you know but they loved it.
Interviewer.....this is at the point where you've discovered the cordless option in terms of guitar gear so tell me about that, obviously you did like to go walkabout when you had a lead suddenly your presented with the option to go wherever you wanted
Angus....wherever i could go...well it was really Mal who when we first got to America he, we were playin in this gig in New York and Mal said to me some guy had come and i was doin interviews or somethin and they had gone down and checked out the sound and stuff and Mal said oh there's a guy who's got this what do you call it, transmitter thing and he's got it down there and it sounds great and him and Cliff wanted it, they walked all outside the buildin down the street and played it you know and he was tellin me and i was a bit wary and Mal said it sounds great you can even drive over driving ramps and stuff so i said OK i'll try it so i tried it that night and it was magic, normally you'd have road crew guys feedin you like a surf life saving operation, feedin the cable to you
Malcolm....but that gig at the Apollo with his cordlessAngus ...i could go anywhere
Malcolm...there was about 2 dozen of them in front of Angus who saw no cable and they wanted a refund, they thought he was miming so the crew took em up and said hereya lads you bang that guitar and you can see for yourself
Interviewer....so they thought you were miming ?....the one thing for it i suppose is being given a cordless device you could go wherever you wanted, did it ever go wrong ?
Angus...oh yeah, in that
Malcolm....Donnington it went out a couple of times
Angus....and in New York it was that same gig they wouldn't let me, when i went out the buildin and i was gonna come round and back in where the audience was and i got to the door and of coarse the bands on stage and playin away and they' re sayin these security people well this is the guy ,well he ain't comin in here
Interviewer.....so let me get this straight ,your dressed in a full school uniform with a guitar sweating
Angus...yeah but its New York mind ya, lot of looneys out there too but they weren't lettin me in and the crew guy was sayin hey he's the guitarist and their sayin no their on the stage look ! so it ended up one of the crew guys hit the guy in the side of the head and then i could run while he scuffled with him so that's how i got back on stage
Interviewer.....so you made Highway To Hell, how did you approach that record, without a shadow of a doubt it's such a defining moment in the bands career
Angus.....well we had started in Australia ,we started with a couple of tunes together i think If You Want Blood was one of them and so there was that, and a couple of other ideas we had and then they got a hold of Mutt ,Mutt Lange and Mutt said well send us a tape of what you've got already so it was a case of we'd done most of, a lot of those tracks were done over the weekend wasn't it ?
Malcolm....2 days yeah
Angus....2 days ,well some of them we had like Highway To Hell we had pretty much together and a few of the other ones and sent them off and Lange said oh sounds good i'll work with ya so he had good ears for sound and he was meticulous about sound, gettin it right you know drums and that so he would zero in, he was brilliant in that
Interviewer.....there's one thing i noticed in your Shot Down In Flames Angus, is a radical costume change for yourself, you've abandoned the schoolboy cap and your wearing a little peaked cap like a little ticket collectors cap
Angus....yeah somebody came sent a gift from Warner's Japan and they said would i wear this for, you know they wanted to put a film clip together for the Japanese to show the Japanese so i said oh well i'll try it so it was more or less filmed for a Japanese thing and that was what they wore in school i think.
Interviewer.....did your period of mourning ,so to speak though ...did that actually influence the album in any way because obviously everyone looked at the title ,the start of the album
Angus....well yeah, it was all there we knew what we were gonna call it you know cause it was our thing for Bon ,we'd call it Back In Black .We knew all that the hell the bell, we wanted the bell and we wanted it in black you know and ah you try convincin a record company with a guy that's just passed, the front guy has just passed away you try convincing them you want an album called Back In Black and you want it black and you want this big bell in it too called Hells Bells
Malcolm....and the record company sent us a picture for it, we'd sent the album back, album cover back 6 times each week and naht naht and we told em when it becomes black it'll be right all black nothin on it, we want it embossed so you don't need white lines on it we settled in the end for a slight grey line on the side but even that we were you know, the press where goin on so the whole thing we managed to get virtually what we wanted but. Yeah we toured in the states for 6 months with Back In Black and i think it was the week we left it came in at about 189 it just hung, moved up 2 moved up 3 and by the time we finished it was around 50 in the states and then when we got to Australia about 3 weeks later it was number 1 or number 2 in the charts and we were sayin ah that must be a misprint we didn't think it was us, ah they've screwed up here but it was real so we were all chuffed about that but of course the band were all over the world in different places so it's not like we could all go and have a celebration or anythin so we thought well we'll find out when the cheque comes won't we
Angus...we're still waitin.....any day now
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