The forgotten Sydney of AC/DC

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] I see this is an icon of Sydney everything began in Sydney it was a Sydney band very definitely it wasn't a Melbourne man this is where the band started you know these ac/dc line in Melbourne in these bonds got a statue in Fremantle I really look fondly I think they're b7 recognition of the band or at least particularly the young family if ever I can get here I try again he stole the best city and well for me because I grew up in Sydney as mummy way I bounced about one of the best cities in the world do you still think of Sydney in Australia as home for me yeah you know a lot of people in Sydney would probably deny it but for me it's pretty much but what's beloved leaned on his belly beach casino you know the house had been the young home for I guess since maybe the mid sixties when the Easybeats were happening in Australia that's where the family were living I remember Angus telling me a story that he was coming home from school one day he would have anything I guess you know maybe late primary school and the road was blocked off because all these girls friend that would the beach were living and then you kind of go in he said I live in there said now you know I knew I had to go around the back street hop over the back fence to get into his own place so yeah there's some great stories [Music] it walked in Angus and Malcolm's room was on the right-hand side you walked out into an open area and the pool table out there you know a very interesting night playing poker there [Music] they couldn't wait to get there that I don't want to wanted to be back there the typical Scots household very open and definitely the place to be on a New Year's Eve the house was very welcoming I must say we just have a great time we just go there and do you know coos Teague rehearsals and then afterwards get out the back and play ping-pong and every time you were there you know Angus would be in a room and he'd be practicing because that's what he did you know if there was a guitar there Angus had it and they'd be playing this was all the time when we turn up for rehearse Libyan warming on the bit probably finish we'd get played people go back on the bed he knew his believes pentatonic very well and he just got better at [Music] [Applause] [Music] we were rehearsing and the next minute Malcolm and Angus I said hey we got a gig coming up check his nightclub which is the top night spot in Sydney you know from the 50s of Shirley Bassey and all these people used to sing was it was the top spot their New Year's Eve like wow and it was only a few weeks away it was in December didn't have a name and so okay we've got to get a name so we started tossing names about you know I come up with some really good ones but no one liked them Malcolm and Angus said look George's wife George young the older brother Sandra suggested her name ac/dc now liked it straightaway because a CDs were so easy - and also the power and it was also on the side of all the appliances free publicity forests and stuff like that so our thought was great we said okay we're gonna call ourselves ac/dc and we all agreed and shook hands and then we said well okay you can tell checkers to start advertising ac/dc is going to be playing on Year's Eve it was just right the very first show it was a brilliant [Music] I remember back first gig at Chequers somebody in the band got got the ID or what might have been one of the stage guys to build a stepping block up on top of the the PAF PAF guy gaining in those days when we started and hangars got on top and no lights that was in darkened and he's playing away and then the spotlight went on him up there and that was like there you go there's the pinnacle of where the band was going so the band had something right from the start there's no doubt about that you know and seeing Angus I mean that's good war uniform so the first gig that I thought was was Victoria Park on top of the roof of the new pool that's the first time that it would have been seen in the schoolboy uniform because I remember being in the dressing rooms and and you know looking at us all we're now strange uniforms and and having a good people and especially having a gig of it and Angus you know and thought this thought that's that's classic that's classic you know those days everyone was dressing up in you know and golden and alarm a and you know that was the vibe at that point of time David he's now a he sort of pants and big boots and he's he's lollipop we used to call it lollipop shirt red and white I think it was Malcolm was just what sort of jumpsuit Lee thing I chose to be a court jester and I had gold boots and court jester with bells and I had a top hat which was my father's top hat from his days in vaudeville and you know those ones popped out and Neil bass player chose to be a motorbike cop [Music] I used to record it often the reason for recording was for me to record the hot gig got ham and listen to it and listened him applying and listen to the the band and see if we can improve anything so yeah that'sthat's basically well that was ya know a little I would take dick you know what this little condenser mic innit [Music] [Applause] it was just a rock'n'roll band with with a few originals you know with quite expectations it was high expectations and you know I don't know whether Neil and myself sort of ready for that but there was also a vibe especially from Malcolm above this of this band going going big places when I joined it that that glam thing had been going and if you see those early pictures you've got in Malcolm inserted Knickerbocker kind of jumpsuit and and diving lyrics tights and everybody had these well those two had the these high stacked boots that a boot maker in I suppose darlinghurst it must have been who also did stuff for Elton John we'd recorded the single Bernie cannon had this TV show called GDK which was about five to ten minutes of music or youth culture it had been arranged to actually do it underneath the proscenium you know on the stage at what was called the the last picture show the old Cronulla picture theater [Music] and it was all pretty colorful I never wear those sorts of clothes [Music] you know I found out later that you okay well so Dave's gone and and and and then it was well who are we going to get we did this Gigot once again at Victoria Park on that on the roof of the swimming pool there and that was from my memory that was that was the first time we played out with bond somewhere around October we went in and recorded the high voltage album we'd done a week at Chequers and we'd be playing up until probably two o'clock or something in the morning at checkers grab it our equipment and then race down to the to the studio and record until dawn and that happened like every night it was hard you know we we just done this you know a pretty energetic show and because it none of our shows were less than energetic I can assure you I know that Peter was tiring probably more than any of us and George brought in Tony currenty to do the sessions [Music] I spend enough passion in pizza biking that I had when I was flying grounds to me if you're gonna do something or you do it well or you don't do it at all [Music] I don't look like a musician I look like a pizza Marika's - I used to play drums for ICDC and Jared I sort of get shot yeah [Music] [Applause] my father bought me a piano Korean when I was five but I never got to learn it because I was hitting my mother's chair [Laughter] Bry called the kitchen chase coming to Australia my fest my Festina bought was a Sarah drums and there was it [Applause] we started in pubs then we got residences up the cross we were playing seven nights a week in 73 George and Harry heard the bang and the liked and I actually wrote a couple of songs for us we recorded them that way our producers and then I CDC came along J twisting and flight was recording at Albert's we finished their session at 11 o'clock George come up to me and said if you could any man that is younger brothers were coming after midnight at the studio Thea would like to record a couple of songs with him the first member that walked into the studio was boss Scott which argued for many years I was quite happy to see him and yeah it was a great night I did four nights after midnight rockers lots of coffee and teas and recall so sleep is a great song stick around love song Wow you know they got some interesting original material the garage to join us said now because my band just finished recording a single I was at the wrong time for me to make another choice go dust again and I thought about it and the only the only problem I had with that I had an Italian passport and I couldn't go overseas with him because that's what I was gonna do finish the album and travel overseas and I couldn't gather a sister doctor back twice [Music] I saw them play mustard our songs on can them and look I was very pleased for them I had mixed feelings yeah the back of my mind I thought there I could have been in there but was my choice and I'm happy with my choice I don't have any regrets at all and now I was actually proud to have been part of it and seeing as colliding every year to become what they are today [Music] [Applause] 1:39 King Street people walk past a little bird when he realized what they were walking over buildings gone of course but up in the fifth floor there it was that's where it was [Music] the groundwork was sitting this this city he it's a very odd thing on my side you know there should be some sort of something apart from Billa Malcolm resting pacesetter having his funeral he you know which how big that was [Music] the attendance and and the the a notoriety that had brought about that damn that was as soon as it may be that the pinnacle of of I so do they see in Sydney [Music] it's really moving and it was nice to be able to have a chance to pay respects [Music] Sydnee music centers is very much on the wine it's it's yeah it's not good at all and what can be done about it I don't know but you know I see these thing is a perfect example of Sydney not grasping what what should be grasped musically or or even the lot of things in the arts ah suppose you could say it's a bit sad the way things have gone you know I just see that it's said that there aren't enough places for upcoming bands to play the originality of the bends of the the were in the 70s and 80s it's pretty much gone somewhat something's gone sadly miss was sitting in a live music situation the sister if you endure rock and roll and all that don't bother you know go straight them over some of the laws have their putting that some of the draconians things of like closing down Kings Cross on the one who just preposterous you know that the guys from ac/dc when they started at Hampton Court in the course they wouldn't recognize it now you've kind of that spaces for live music you weren't have an ac/dc pure and simple so you know we're stepping on the next ac/dc maybe so [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 17min 59sec (1079 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020

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[u/JeanneHusse]

A must-watch for every fan.

[u/strugen]

It was interesting to finally hear from and see Tony Currenti he did a great job drumming on that first album, the closest to Phil imo and of course Dave Evans as always trying to pretend he is important