From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: old alt.r-n-r.acdc articles collection
Organization: University of Ulm, FRG
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 09:31:15 GMT
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          This is the very first FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) 
                       for alt.rock-n-roll.acdc

        This is version 0.0010666 from Wednesday, 8th of April 1992

It is just a collection of interesting postings. If anyone wants anything to
add, please post to the newsgroup or reply to me.

-------here-we-go------

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: Welcome to alt.highway.to.hell

Let There Be Rock!

Things we can discuss here:

  * recordings of The Fraternity and The Valentines (early Bon Scott)
  * recordings of Geordie (early Brian Johnson)
  * will AC/DC raise Hell ? Are they evil?
  * Live experiences
  * exchanging Bootleg-(information)-s
  * discussing rare tracks like australian versions of the songs or 
    flipsides of Maxi-Singles (e.g. "Snake Eye")
  * existens of ALL records released worldwide (e.g. the german Let There
    Be Rock has a different track-listing as the spanish/american one.
  * which style was better, the old or the new one.
  * discussing some lyrics (e.g. does Brian Johnson sing "Scheisse!" in
    Deep In The Hole?)
  * and many more

POST TO THIS NEWSGROUP!

By the way, I (Felix Buebl) am searching for some stuff:
  - I would like to buy (maxi-)singles. Any offers?
  - I would like to have a Fly On The Wall live recording

+---+ appended article #2 ---

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: Records listings 

The track-listings of each record differ from country to country.
I is a well known fact that the australian Bon God pressings have
special songs nowhere else available.
But even the german and the american pressings differ.
I want to find out WHAT DIFFERENT VERSIONS of AC/DC records exist worldwide.
So here is my german listing (missing some new stuff).
Please add you comments if your record is different. 

'74 Jailbreak (Released in 1984 in USA)

From: <BKC100@psuvm.psu.edu>

Jailbreak
You Ain't Got A Hold On Me
Soul Stripper
Show Business
Baby, Please Don't Go


HIGH VOLTAGE ['76]
 It's A Long Way To The Top If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll
 Rock'n'Roll Singer
 The Jack
 Live Wire
 T.N.T.
 Can I Sit Next To You Girl
 Little Lover
 She's Got Balls
 High Voltage

DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP ['76]
 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
 Love At First Feel
 Big Balls
 Rocker
 Problem Child
 There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'
 Ain't No Fun Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire
 Ride On
 Squealer

LET THERE BE ROCK  ['77]
 Go Down
 Dog Eat Dog
 Let There Be Rock
 Bad Boy Boogie
 Overdose
 Crabsody In Blue
 Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be
 Whole Lotta Rosie
 
POWERAGE  ['78]
 Rock'n'Roll Damnation
 Gimme A Bullet
 Down Payment Blues
 Gone Shootin'
 Riff Raff
 Sin City
 Up To My Neck Into You
 What's Next To The Moon
 Cold Hearted Man
 Kicked In The Teeth
 
HIGHWAY TO HELL ['79]
 Highway To Hell
 Girls Got Rythm
 Walk All Over You
 Touch Too Much
 Beating Around The Bush
 Shot Down In Flames
 Get It Hot
 If You Want Blood
 Love Hungry Man
 Night Prowler

BACK IN BLACK ['80]
"I thenk Bock An Block is ey vary gooood Album" [Brian Johnson]
 Hells Bells
 Shoot To Thrill
 What Do You Do For Money Honey
 Giving The Dog A Bone
 Let Me Put My Love Into You
 Back In Black
 You Shook Me All Night Long
 Have A Drink On Me
 Shake A Leg
 Rock'n'Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK ['81]
 For Those About To Rock
 Put The Finger On You
 Let's Get It Up
 Inject The Venom
 Snowballed
 Evil Walks
 C.O.D
 Breaking The Rules
 Night Of The Long Knives
 Spellbound


FLICK OF THE SWITCH ['83]
 Rising Power
 This House Is On Fire
 Flick Of The Switch
 Nervous Shakedown
 Landslide
 Guns For Hire
 Deep In The Hole
 Bedlam In Belgium
 Badlands
 Brain Shake
 
FLY ON THE WALL ['85]
 Fly On The Wall
 Shake Your Foundations
 First Blood
 Danger
 Sink The Pink
 Playing With Girls
 Stand Up
 Hell Or High Water
 Back In Business
 Send For The Man



--
Felix Buebl                       |  O O  |    --++**## Ministry Of ##**++--
buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de   | \___/ |    --++**## Silly Talks ##**++--

+---+ appended article #69 ---

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: Australian Records List (Re: Love Song?)

The australian releases of AC/DC:

HIGH VOLTAGE  ['74]
Baby Please Don't Go
She's Got Balls
Little Lover
Stick Around
Soul Stripper
You Ain't Got A Hold On Me
Love Song
Show Business

T.N.T.   ['75]
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll)
Rock'n'Roll Singer
The Jack
Live Wire
T.N.T.
Rocker
Can I Sit Next To You Girl
High Voltage
School Days (from Chuck Berry)

DIRTY DEED DONE DIRT CHEAP    ['76]
Dirty Deads Done Dirt Cheap
Aint' No Fun
There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'
Problem Child
Squealer
Big Balls
R.I.P.  (Rock In Peace)
Ride On
Jailbreak

LET THERE BE ROCK  ['77]
Go Down
Dog Eat Dog
Let There Be Rock
Bad Boy Boogie
Overdose
Crabsody In Blue
Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be
Whole Lotta Rosie

POWERAGE   ['78]

Rock'n'Roll Damnation
Down Payment Blues
Gimme Bullet
Riff Raff
Sin City
Next To The Moon
Gone Shootin'
Up To My Neck In You
Kicked In The Teeth

HIGHWAY TO HELL   ['79]
Highway To Hell
Girls Got Rythm
Walk All Over You
Touch Too Much
Beating Around The Bush
Shot Down In Flames
Get It Hot
If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
Love Hungry Man
Night Prowler


Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de   -+*# Ministry Of Silly Talks #*+-

+---+ appended article #15 ---

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: First AC/DC singer was NOT Bon Scott

AC/DC had in their first month an other lead-singer called "Dave Evans"
(if I remember that correctly). There was one single recorded with Dave
Evans ("Rockin' in Parlour" with "Can I Sit Next To You, Girl").
But soon Bon Scott joined the band.

Felix 

+---+ appended article #66 ---

From: lacorte@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Robert Lacorte)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.acdc

BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix) writes:

>Bon Scott died  in 1980.
>He was found dead in his car.
>The music-press claimed that he died on alcohol, but the band AC/DC
>itself said in several interviews that he died on a natural cause.
>The first album after his death was "Back In Black", which included
>a song called "Have A Drink On Me". Many People thought that "Me" stood for
>"Bon Scott", but the band denied this.
>Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de   -+*# Ministry Of Silly Talks #*+-

I have read this in many book, articles and the like. He was a know alcoholic,
And the truth (as far as we'll ever know) is that he pulled a Jimmy Hendrix
(choked on his own vomit)...




                                       Rob from NCAS
                                       Rutgers, Newark


+---+ appended article #63 ---

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: Re: Date of Bon's Death

Bon Scott died on the 19th Februar of 1980 (he was born on the 9th Juli 1946).

so he got 666 years old

Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de   -+*# Ministry Of Silly Talks #*+-

+---+ appended article #41 ---


From:	NETWAY::"d0mof@dtek.chalmers.se"  5-MAR-1992 20:57:07.51
Subj:	Re: Is there any AC/DC Book? 

In alt.rock-n-roll.acdc you write:

>I have never seen a book about AC/DC - does someone know such thing?
>If you know any written source of information, please tell it to this
>newsgroup.
>Felix

	Ok, the book is called AC/DC and it's written by Malcolm Dome.
	It was given out in a rock series by Proteus books London
	and New York. Published in 1982. The address to Proteus
was like this in 1982. (Dunno if it still is the same)

	U.S

	Proteus Publishing CO.,inc.
	733 Third Avenue
	New York, N.Y 10017

	U.K

	Proteus (Publishing) Limited
	Bremar House
	Sale Place
	London, W2 1PT

	The book is easy to read and full of interesting things for
an AC/DC afficionado. Note I don't get paid to say that :) Hope
they still have some left.

	C ya
	Marcus

+---+ appended article #51 ---

From: <BKC100@psuvm.psu.edu>

Subject: Re: HELP

In article <6MAR199210491849@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>, aclarko@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov
(Jeff M. Larko) says:

>I hpoe someone out there can help answer a couple of nagging questions
>that I have:

>1. When, and from what band, did AC/DC acquire Chris Slade ?
   Just prior to the recording of "The Razors Edge" album... Chris Slade was
   in The Firm, along with Paul Rodgers of Free/Bad Company fame, Tony Franklin
   on bass, and Jimmy Page from a popular '70s British outfit that went by the
   name "Led Zeppelin"... :)

>2. Which band members are married ?  To whom, and for how long ?
>   Which band members have children ?
    Not sure about this one.... Angus always wears a wedding band.... I am
    almost postitive Brian is married, too.... The rest---I'm not sure...

>3. What is AC/DC's current tour schedule (cities & dates) ?
    To my knowledge, they SHOULD be off tour now... They really got around
    on "THE RAZORS EDGE"... I saw them twice in Pittsburgh, PA on that tour
    alone...

>I appreciate any information that anyone can provide.  Thanks.
   Surely... Anytime...

                      Brian K. Chopp   BKC100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
                      Penn State University
                      "AC/DC---High Voltage Rock-n-Roll!!!"



+---+ appended article #65 ---

From: lacorte@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Robert Lacorte)
Subject: Re: meaning of "The Jack"

oakland@ee.tamu.edu (Mark Oakland) writes:


>Is it true that "The Jack" is Australian slang for a
>sexually transmitted disease?  The song is hilarious
>and my vote for favorite AC/DC cut.


Yes, you got it. They actually worte that song becuase they used to pass around
females, and they all caught VD...This I got from reading a book that was given
the best review in Kerrang!

                                       Rob from NCAS
                                       Rutgers, Newark

 

+---+ appended article #53 ---

Subject: Re: A AC/DC Video question
From: tr2001@mailserver.bgsu.edu

In article <1992Mar5.101841.25770@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>, BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix) writes:
> 
> I normally don't watch any music-videos, but I saw some AC/DC-video of a
> new song recently (I think it was Thunderstruck).

The name of the song was "Are You Ready," and it had nothing to do with
short hair or pop music...it was just a play on conformity...turning everyone
into AC/DC zombies...they used the same theme in "Who Made Who", with every-
body dressed like Angus and playing cardboard Gibson SG's.

Tom Root 

+---+ appended article #3 ---

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: Hitchhiker's Guide article

Hello froods!

For those of you who know "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by 
Douglas Adams:
The NEWS-readers around the world a writing their own GUIDE in the
newsgroup alt.galactic-guide - and I think there should be some entry
concerning AC/DC!

I began an article, but it I think it is very unfinished.

I ASK EVERYONE TO ADD SOME SILLY TEXT TO THIS ARTICLE!

(don't worry about the lines beginning with "%ykvsjnlysk" - just headers)


8<-----cut-----here---------------------------------------------------

%t AC/DC
%s Let There Be Rock
%a Felix Buebl
%d 19920113 
%x xrefs 
%i bon scott 
%i scott bon 
%i angus young 
%i angus 
%i malcolm young 
%i young 
%i malcolm 
%i phil rudd 
%i cliff williams 
%i brian johnson 
%i johnson brian 
%i acdc 
%i hardrock 
%i rock'n'roll 
%i rock 
%i heavy metall 
%e 
     In the beginning rock-music was created. This made a lot of people
very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Many People
think it was created by some sort of whoops-bang-boom-frood, but
the _AC/DC_ fans of Earth think that in fact it was sneezed out
by a beeing called _The great Bon Scott_. 

     Bon Scott, who already had made experience with his former bands
in the late 60ties, The Valentines and The Fraternity, was the so called
"singer" of the australian band "AC/DC". "singer" is incorrect, for 
Bon Scott had a voice which was more than dirty, a voice like a Fling Thing,
a job you better call "sneezer" than "singer".

    He was accompanied since 1974 by Phil Rudd (dr.), Cliff Williams (bs.), 
Malcolm Young (guit.) and Angus Young (lead guit.), who fell in a cauldron
filled with pangalactic gargelblaster when he was a child. Angus was
16 years old when the first record was recorded.

     The last album with _The Great Bon Scott_ was Highway To Hell in 1979,
which was the first album (in australia - their origin) with the well known

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logo. 

_The Great Bon Scott_ died 1980. 

His succesor, Brian Johnson from the band Geordie, happend to produce
their best album, BACK IN BLACK.
%e 
8<-----cut-----here---------------------------------------------------

Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de



+---+ appended article #101 ---

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)

This is what I found in a Autumn '87 issue of METAL ATTACK about 
Malcolm Young:

Malcolm, Angus's elder brother, has been described as the business brains
behind AC/DC. As the second guitarist, he is responsible for the broad 
sweep of AC/DC's sound and he is cowriter of much of the material.
But behind the scenes his word is said to be "law" on such matters as
organising when and where the band go on tour, when to make an album
or an film soundtrack, or wether they do their least favourite task, 
which is to meet the media. The general feeling within AC/DC is that
the press didn't help them in their early days when they could have
used some.

Malcolm was born on January 6. 1953 in Glasgow. Both he and Angus formed
seperate bands, when they were kids in Sidney, with Malcolm in various
boogie rock groups. But Malcolm taught his brother many guitar licks
and eventually they got together in 1973. He had to wait for Angus to
get out of school before they could start gigging together and their
first performance was at the Chequers Club in Sydney. Already Angus
had developed into a lead player while Malcolm played rhythm.
But it was Malcolm whose strong motivation turned AC/DC into a going
concern and Malcolm the "Riff Maker" was the man who pulled the group
in order to carry on after the tragic death of Bon Scott.

Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de --++**## Ministry Of Silly Talks ##**++--

+---+ appended article #102 ---

This is what I found in a Autumn '87 issue of METAL ATTACK about 
Angus Young:

Angus Young typifies the spirit of AC/DC on his outlook and approach to life. 
He believes in honesty and not image, if the band earned a reputation as hell
raisers in their early days, they deserved it because it was all true.
Even his famous schoolboy act is only a continuation of his juvenile deliquent
past.
Says Angus: "The only image we've ever had is what we really are." 
When Angus hurls himself into a tantrum on stage, it's the same sort of
explosive behaviour that he unleashed in his first groups. 
Angus has always been a fighter, wether blowing up his amps or smashing 
his guitar, or taking any music business people he thinks are phonies.

Angus was born on March 31. 1959 in Glasgow. His older brother Malcolm
was always getting into fights, and things didn't change much when the
family moved to australia in the early sixties. Angus was expected to
be a trouble maker too and recalls he got the cane on his first day at
school. The rest of his schooldays he describes as "Unhappy. I always 
played truant. I was a bad pupil and only liked art. The school seemed
to take pride in keeping you in the dark. I was really surprised at the
way people lived outside Australia when I left it."

Angus left school at 15. It was the staid background of life in Australia
in the sixties that made the Youngs, and Angus in particular fight against
establishment values.

Angus's stage act developed out of quite practical considerations. He wore
shors because jeans in a hot climate were too sweaty and uncomfortable to 
play in.

As a guitarist, he owes much to Chuck Berry. One of the few other players
he has ever acknowledged as an influence is Pete Townshend of The Who.
He liked the anger Pete generated on stage, which began the tradition
of destroying guitars and amplifiers.

Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de --++**## Ministry Of Silly Talks ##**++--

+---+ appended article #103 ---

This is what I found in a Autumn '87 issue of METAL ATTACK about 
Bon Scott

Bon Scott was the mad genius who gave AC/DC it's sweaty, vilent charisma
and perhaps their reason for existence. His gravely voice, and controversial
lyrics epitomised by classics like "Whole Lotta Rosie" were vital 
ingredients in the band's succes. While the Young brothers provided the
wall of sound and the spectacle, Bon Scott added depth, describing himself as
"the poet" of the band. Hard drinking Bon was originally the band's roadie,
who felt he could be their singer. It was Angus who agreed with the idea and 
said: "We knew Bon could sing better than he could drive".

Ronald Belford Scott was born on July 9. 1946 and emigrated to Australia
when he was five years old. He found Australia life very straitlaced, and 
felt empathy with those other rebellious Scots, Angus and Malcolm.
He was called "The Old Man" by the crew as he was the oldest member of the
band, but with his short temper, intimisatting tattoos and lust for wine,
woman and song, Bon wasn't the kind of guy to pick an argument with. 
In fact, he was very friendly and likeable, but he certainly got into a lot
of trouble in his youth.

He had been a singer and drummer with a lots of rock bands and even played
drums with an Autralian Scottish Pipe Band until he was 16. He worked as a
painter, was put in jail on an assault charge for two years, and emerged as 
an early Aussie beatnik, walking around Melbourne with a pet boa contrictor
round his neck!

Success did not tame Bon Scott and he carried on drinking and having a
good time untils his life style caught up with him and he died at the age
of 24 in 1980 in London. He was found dead in a friend's car parked outside
a flat where he had been sleeping off a drinking session. An inquest later
pronounced he drank himseld to death. But the band denied and recalled that 
even though he could drink most people under the table, he was always on 
time for a gig, and put his life and soul into the band.
He was their mate, and is still greatly missed

Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de --++**## Ministry Of Silly Talks ##**++--

+---+ appended article #123 ---

From: zuhars@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Built For Maximum Safety Huckabay)
Subject: Re: Brian Johnson

(Kory "The Great One" Hopkins) writes:
>I heard a rumour that Bon Scott actually chose Brian Johnson
>to be his replacement in a way.  Before Scott's death AC/DC
>had gone to see Johnson play on a number of occasions and Scott
>felt that Johnson was quite good.  So when Bon died the rest
>of the band approached Johnson and asked him to sing in the band.
>
>Is this true?

Sorry, Kory, but nice as this sounds, it's not true.  AC/DC had
basically chosen Allen Fryar, of "Heaven" (another hard rock band from
Australia) to replace Bon.  Then, they got a letter and a tape from a
14-year old fan in chicago informing them of Johnson.  They contacted
Johnson, who was upholstering autos at the time, auditioned him, and
hired him on the spot.

It's a nice story put out by Atlantic Records' publicity machine about
AC/DC.  They have others, too, like Angus Young's birthday being in
1959.  It isn't.  Angus was actually born in 1954, not March 31st,
1959, as Atlantic claims.

Sorry, but there's no easter bunny, either.



-- 
*  Gary Huckabay  * "She's respected, even by the GUYS on the net?"       *
* "Healing better * "Definitely.  No one crosses her - but not because    *
* than previously *  we're afraid of her - just because she's almost      *
*    expected."   *  always right.  And she probably knows our true age." *

+---+ appended article #155 ---

From: labrie@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Dany Labrie)
Subject: Re: Steve Young On Tour?

|>On the "Blow Up Your Video" Tour of 1988, Steve Young (I believe he is one the
|>Young brothers) filled in for Malcolm on the show I saw and most of the tour,
|>I do believe...
|>
|>What was the reason for Malcolm's absence?

Malcolm stayed with his family for a while trying to get over his
alcool addiction. Whether he succeeded or not, future will tell.

       bnrmtl!labrie@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

       "Life sucks... but so does my girlfirend :-)"

+---+ appended article #157 ---

From: BUEBL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Buebl Felix)
Subject: "Down On The Borderline" from AC/DC

A frienf of mine bought a australian Maxi-single of "Moneytalks".

It has the song "Down On The Borderline" on the flipside (after
Mistress 4 Xmas).

This seems to be an Blow Up Your Video - Outtake. It sounds like BUYV, and
it's written by Young/Young/JOHNSON.

Now the Non-record-Brian-Johnson tracks I know are

 - Snake Eye
 - Borrowed Time
 - Down On The Border Line

does anyone else knoe any other rare Brian-songs?

Felix buebl@expane.medizin.uni-ulm.de --++**## Ministry Of Silly Talks ##**++--

+---+ appended article #161 ---

Felix:
  My keyboard went haywire, so the first post I sent you is incorrect.
  Please post this instead. Thanks, Peter

- that's what I did. Felix

In <92087.090950BKC100@psuvm.psu.edu> Brian K. Chopp writes:

>On the "Blow Up Your Video" Tour of 1988, Steve Young (I believe he is one the
>Young brothers) filled in for Malcolm on the show I saw and most of the tour,
>I do believe...
>What was the reason for Malcolm's absence?

At the time there were two reasons (rumours) as to the nature of Malcolm's
absence from the tour -- both may be true. The first was that he was
tending to a sick son, the second that his drinking was getting out of
hand and he needed time to regain control of himself.

Stevie Young is a cousin of Malcolm and Angus (and George, and Alex, etc.)
who played rhythm guitar in a band of his own called Starfighters back
in the early to mid 80's. I think they were based in England, and had a
style and sound very much like AC/DC. which explains why Stevie fit in so
naturally on the tour.  By the way, the Starfighters albums (there were 2
I know of) are pretty interesting. Same approach as AC/DC - I heartily
recommend the first (self titled), while the second (In Flight Movie)
is ok, but not as good as the first.

In <1992Mar27.085819.8004@hemlock.cray.com> jeffy@cray.com (Jeff Neau)
writes:

>nephews.  The funny thing is, he looked like Malcolm from a distance and
>played the same Epiphone guitar...  Strange.

Malcolm has played a Gretsch Rock Jet stripped of all controls but the
volume for a number of years. He used to have a larger bodied Gretsch
as well, but says that after someone "fixed" it, it lost the sound he
liked it for and he got rid of it. In the "Are You Ready" video, he is
playing an orange Gibson, supposedly he was working with them on a
new guitar, not for endorsement, but for himself since he only has one
that he likes. Is Epiphone related to Gretsch?
                                   Peter

+---+ appended article #172 ---

From: stever@hpcvts.cv.hp.com (Steve Rhoads)
Subject: AC/DC Books (Yep, there are a few!)

A request was posted a while back regarding books about AC/DC. Here a few that
I am aware of:

1) The AC/DC Story - Paul Ezra
2) Hell Aint No Bad Place To Be - Richard Bunton 
3) AC/DC HM Photo Book  - Omnibus Press

I have #1 and #3, but have not been able to locate #2.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve A. Rhoads                                stever@hpcvts.cv.hp.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------

+---+ appended article #173 ---

From: stever@hpcvts.cv.hp.com (Steve Rhoads)
Subject: Bon Scott (Pre-AC/DC)

I posted this to the net last year, but think a few of you will find it
interesting. Liner notes from an record (yuck!) album that my wife found
for me in Vancouver B.C.

enjoy, excuse the typo's some were in the liner notes, some are the slip
of the fingers.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bon Scott Seasons Of Change 1968-1972 

Raven Records
P.O. Box 92
Camberwell 3124
Australia

Liner notes by Glenn A. Baker

I  encountered  Bon  Scott a number  of times  during  the 70's and each
meeting served to increase my incredulity that performer's  public image
could be so at odds with his real  personality.  Bon  really was a sweet
man.  He was warm,  friendly and  uncommonly  funny.  He did not breathe
fire,  pluck  wings  off flies or eat  children  whole.  And  while  his
daunting stage persona of lacivious  leers and blood  curdling howls was
by no means fraudulent, it was most certainly a professional  cloak that
could be worn at convenient moments.

When Bon had replaced  Dave Evans as leader of AC/DC at the end of 1974,
he was already a bona-fide Oz Rock veteran, with two stints in prominent
hit bands under his belt.  In one he had been a fluffy,  gossamered  pop
idol, in the other a cosmic, hirsute, heavily philosophical  hippie.  By
the time he climbed into working class denim he must have been suffering
no  small  identity   crisis.  Yet  he  was  never  anything  less  than
convincing in any of his musical roles.

A  rough'n'tumble  Scotsman,  Bon first came to  prominence  in  Perth's
hottest 60's pop sensations, The Valentines.  Like Adelaide's Twilights,
the band  fronted  two lead  singers  - Bon and Vince  Lovegrove  (later
manager of the Divinyls)- and was adept in the manipulation of screaming
teenies.  After some rudimentary recordings for Perth's Clarion label in
1967-68, The Valentines  moved base to Melbourne  where they joinged the
Zoot and New Dream as frontrunners in a bubblegum pop boom.

Yet, although there was an undeniable chirping  commerciality  about the
Valentines  Melbourne  recordings,  there was also a solid, rocking base
which rendered them appealing and more than  credible.  The band cut six
tracks  for Ron  Tudor's  June  Productions,  which  were  leased to the
Philips  label.  Two of those  six  (which  constitute  side one of this
record) - Harry  Vanda & George  Young's "My Old Man's A Groovy Old Man"
and the original  Juliette-  became moderate  national hits.  The latter
was an early example of Bon's strong, expressive voice.

At the dawn of the 70's rock music was becoming  inexorably  'heavy' and
the days of bands like the Valentines were obviously numbered.  Not even
a  heavily-publicised  drug bust could rescue the band's limp image.  By
the  middle  of  1970 it was  all  over  and Bon was in  Sydney  putting
together a new band with remnants of Levi Smith's Clefs.  Fraternity was
a  quantum  leap for the  adaptable  singer,  who grew a  beard,  donned
leather sandals and no doubt developed a taste for brown rice.

Offered  management and financial  support by  businessman  Hamis Henry,
Fraternity  moved to South Australia where, as Vince Lovegrove  reported
in Go-Set  magazine  in June  1971,  the  lived  "like no other  band in
Australia,  in a  house  in the  hills  17  miles  from  Adelaide.  It's
surrounded  by seven acres of  bushland.  They're  from  everything  but
nature.  What a buzz!  Once a week  they  come  into the  city to have a
meeting with their  management  and collect  their pay.  They only leave
their pad to play gigs.

"Bon Scott,  vocalist,  recorder and timbala  player, is constantly in a
dream world of his own but he's having a ball.  He says:  'The point is,
the dollar sign is not the ultimate.  We want to try and help each other
develop  and  live.  So that  the  thing  inside  of us,  whether  it be
creative or not, is  satisfied.  Something  makes us tick and it's up to
people to  satisfy  that  something.  We are  satisfying  ourselves  and
others by creating an environment."

Fraternity took their  environment back to Sydney at regular  intervals.
Although  well received  live, their cosmic  recordings  on the Adelaide
independent  label Sweet Peach (notably the album Livestock) made little
impact.  Guitarist  John Robinson  wrote the brooding  Seasons of Change
for them but it was the  version  by his own band,  Blackfeather,  which
cracked the charts.

Even their unexpected win of the all-important Hoadley's National Battle
Of  The  Sounds  in  1971  failed  to  assist   their  chart   fortunes.
"Fraternity came on and nearly rocked  themselves off stage and half the
audience nearly rocked themselves onto the stage" reported Go-Set of the
Grand Final.  "Superb harmonica and superb vocals by that guy out of the
old Valentines.  What's his name again?...oh you know him."

Fraternity  left  Sweet  Peach  late in 1971, cut some  singles  for the
independent  Raven label (no relationship to this fine imprint) and then
put  down a  second  album.  The  powerful  Flaming  Galah  was a  whole
different kettle of fish.  The metaphysical meanderings had largely been
replaced by solid,  thumping  rock and Bon Scott was able to give a hint
of the sort of  tempest  he would  command  in AC/DC a couple  of  years
later.

During  1972,  Fraternity  took  advantage of their Battle of the Sounds
prize and  travelled  to London.  From there they worked in Britain  and
Europe,  although  little is known  about this time.  Shortly  after the
band's  return to Adelaide in 1973, Bon  suffered  severe  injuries in a
motorcycle  accident.  Fraternity continued on with a new formation that
happened to include John 'Swanee' Swan and his brother Jimmy Barnes, but
that's another story.

By 1974,  Bon was  healed  and  healthy,  and  working  in  Sydney as an
occasional roadie for AC/DC, an interesting new band formed by Angus and
Malcolm Young, junior siblings of Easybeat George Young, the man who had
penned three tracks  recorded by The  Valentines  in the 60's.  When the
band's vocalist went off to form Rabbit, widely  experienced  Bon seemed
the logical replacement.

From the first day that Bon trod the boards  with  AC/DC,  there was not
the  slightest  cloud of  suspicion  that the outfit  would not turn the
world  upside  down  with  their  rib-crushing,  blood  curdling,  brain
damaging, skin blistering, no bullshit rock'n'roll.  Throughout the next
five  years.  AC/DC's  vision  of rock to  fight,  fuck  and  drink  by,
survived   unscathed.  Single   handedly   they  led  an   international
renaissance of power rock, though none of their copyists ever aspired to
even a hint of the awesome global  popularity that Acca Dacca  commanded
(indeed still do) among working class kids.

Bon failed to survive his own  indulgent  life-style.  He was found dead
in a parked car, after a bout of  drinking,  on February  20, 1980.  His
seeming  indestructability was, like much of the rock lifestyle, a myth.
Nobody who ever knew him will easily forget him.

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Steve A. Rhoads                                stever@hpcvts.cv.hp.com
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