Scott formed his first band, The Spectors, in 1964 and became the band's drummer and occasional lead vocalist. He performed in several other bands including The Valentines and Fraternity before replacing Dave Evans as the lead singer of AC/DC in 1974.
Now to be fair straight from the top, I never saw or heard Bon in The Valentines, so I wont yank your chain and tell you how great they are, if you want to find them, go right ahead..I'll have a dig around and see what I can find myself...SO ...I'm just gonna tell you about the Bon I remember........
It is Australian musical law that Bon replaced Dave Evans as the lead singer of AC/DC in 1974, when it became obvious the band and Evans were heading in different directions, with Evans having personal clashes with band members and management, I like Daves voice personally, his work with Rabbit is great...anyway....I trying to think what year it was, probably '75 i'm guessing...I went to Burwood Town Hall in the suburbs of Sydney to a gig that had AKKA DAKKA on the bill ( Sherbert was there too )
it was loud, it was sweaty, it was full of school girls yelling at Daryl, me and my mates were in pig heaven and it was there, at that gig, that ACDC found a permanent home in my music collection
With Angus and Malcolm as lead and rhythm guitarists, session drummer Tony Currenti and George Young as a temporary bassist, AC/DC released High Voltage, their first LP in Australia in 1974 . Within a few months Currenti was replaced by Phil Rudd and Mark Evans was hired to play bass and AC/DC began recording their second album T.N.T., which was released in Australia in December 1975. The first AC/DC album to gain international distribution however was a compilation of tracks from the first two albums, also entitled High Voltage, which was released in May 1976. Another studio album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was released in the same year.
One favorite Bon Story is when ACDC appeared at Sunbury the same year as Deep Purple, alledgedly Deep Purple were getting on the locals nerves with their ridiculos demands, a fight breaks out between ACDC road crew and Purples Road crew...without hesitation Bon grabs hold of the biggest pommie roadie he can find and gets stuck in....thats Bon for you
The boys did the usual run of TV shows, Countdown, Sounds with Donnie Sutherland and they made a few promo clips, Jail Break and Long way to the top are arguably the two best known, apparently Bon thought up the flatbed truck going down the Flinders Street (?) in Melbourne and it gave the local constbulary fits when the people on the footpath started following the truck on the road
In the following years, AC/DC gained further success with their albums Let There Be Rock and Powerage. The 1978 release of Powerage marked the debut of bassist Cliff Williams (who had replaced Mark Evans), and with its harder riffs, followed the blueprint set by Let There Be Rock. The album was the last produced by Harry Vanda and George Young with Bon Scott on vocals and is, I reckon, a very underrated album. Only one single was released for Powerage – "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation" – and gave AC/DC their highest chart position at the time, reaching #24. An appearance at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow during the Powerage tour was recorded and released as If You Want Blood You've Got It.
The band's sixth album, Highway To Hell, was produced by Robert "Mutt" Lange and was released in 1979. It became AC/DC's first LP to break the U.S. top 100, eventually reaching #17
On 19 February 1980, Bon, after a big night on the beer and bourbon died in the back seat of a mates car.
I was walking down the steps of Punchbowl station when a mate came running up and told me Bon had died...I sat on the steps for, I dunno, twenty minutes, then went and raised a glass or two to the great man
In the July 2004 issue of Classic Rock, Scott was rated as number one in a list of the "100 Greatest Frontmen Of All Time" ahead of Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant...COULDNT AGREE MORE !!
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