Bands not to Have Open for You:- AC/DC - Bon Scott era

Let me say this now, AC/DC are the Best Rock n Roll Band in the World!

If you don't think so?, you are most probably wrong! ( how is that for being polite?)

This, the 3rd and probably Final in this series, I will have to make this in 2 Parts.

I was playing at the Nash in Vereeniging with the Band Thor , when I first heard the Song above on the Radio! ( yes they used to play decent music on the radio then) This would have been 1978, they had earlier albums , but they were probably not released in SA until they were better known out here.

We were probably the first Band out here covering AC/DC songs.

I could not believe how catchy their songs were , you just had to get up and dance when you heard them!

This 2nd Video is from the Bands Live Concert in Paris and was available on VHS ( never put to DVD) and is probably one of the Best Live Concerts ever. You can find it online.

Two Months after this Concert Bon Scott , who was a Great Front Man and the Best Writer of Gutter Lyrics ever, was found Dead in his Car.

What a loss for Mankind!

But ,I am too far into their future now.

When they first left Australia to go to The UK, they arrived in London on the 1st of April 1976 to go on Tour with Backstreet Crawler ( whose Guitarist, Ex the band , Free, Paul Kossoff, 26 years old ,died on a plane of a Heart Attack) at this time putting a spanner in the works , so, they looked for a Pub to play at:-

In the words of their booking agent Richard Griffiths

— interviewed for Clinton Walker’s must-read tome, Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of Bon Scott — it was “probably the greatest show I’ve seen in my life. [AC/DC] were doing two sets, and to start with there were probably ten people in the pub. [The band] did the whole number, Angus [Young] on Bon’s shoulders, everything, I’d never seen anything like it. Then the place emptied. About half an hour later, [AC/DC] came out to do the second set and the place was packed. Everyone had run off and [told their friends] ‘You have got to see this band.’”

Before Cell Phones, remember!

Grant the Guitarist from Sandbox ( see my " So you want to be a Rockstar " Series) Came back from Australia with a book on AC/DC , I avidly read it , not sure if he ever did.

Once they hit America, the word rapidly spread do not let these Guys open for you!

I know Good Bands like Journey and a number of other Top Bands did not want to tour with them.

I hope you enjoy this, they have so many excellent classic songs!

All these Video's are courtesy of YouTube.