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ANGUS YOUNG IN MILKSHAKE SHOCK!
More startling Australian music images here.
UPDATE. Non-milkshake AC/DC memories!
At least he’s having a ciggie with the shake.
Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 05 25 at 07:48 PM • permalinkIt all went pear-shaped after Bon Scott passed on....
Posted by closeapproximation on 2006 05 25 at 08:52 PM • permalink``Startling’’ doesn’t begin to describe these pictures, Tim. Aside from the flashbacks triggered by the sartorial horrors, the Easybeats (the guys with the Qantas flight bags) all look about 14 years old. And Angus Wright looks like he’s about to be sick.
And thanks to Amos for ``.. the distillation of the quintessential Australian bogan essence.’’ Wasn’t sure up ‘til now exactly what `bogan’ meant; now I know.
::Lies down on couch with cold compress on forehead::
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 05 25 at 08:58 PM • permalinkSorry; Angus YOUNG. Having trouble keeping these names straight.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 05 25 at 08:58 PM • permalinkO/T - In the interests of religious harmony I should remind everybody that today is International Hug a Muslim (H.A.M) Day.
Non-Muslims are encouraged to hug all Muslim persons they encounter during H.A.M Day.(Dont forget to wish your new Islamibuddy a Happy H.A.M.Day - this is done by muttering ‘Happy H.A.M.Day’ three times while administering the hug).
Thank your for your co-operation.
Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 05 25 at 09:05 PM • permalinkI wore the devil horns at their last concert!
Speaking of devilish.....In this week’s Science article, researchers from Cameroon, England, France and the U.S. provide definitive evidence that HIV made the jump from chimpanzees to people in the forests of southeastern Cameroon.
Yes, they do rude things there.
You can call Thomas Dolby a “synth droid” all you like, Blair (especially since it’s kinda true), but Dolby’s blog is a fun read. I like his writing a lot better than I like his records.
Posted by P. Froward on 2006 05 25 at 09:57 PM • permalinkOh. Mah. Gah.
It’s a very young David Letterman.
Posted by P. Froward on 2006 05 25 at 09:58 PM • permalink#14 off-topic and wrong. AIDS got to humans from EATING chimps, not… whatever you’re suggesting.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 05 25 at 10:53 PM • permalink"You ‘shake’ me all night long!” LOL LOL
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 05 25 at 11:14 PM • permalink#7. They were rough but sublime as well and not in a raw punk way. Way tighter than any punk outfit. Keith Ricards might rightly occupy positions 1-3 in the greatest opening riffs of all time list but ACDC would have about 14 in the top 25. Brilliant rock ‘n roll band. I’m a Bon Scott era man myself but I’ve heard that’s just an age thing.
Posted by James Hamilton on 2006 05 25 at 11:22 PM • permalinkI had to Google “jon stevens INXS” before I even knew they had a lead singer between Hutchence and the reality show.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 05 25 at 11:23 PM • permalinkMan that 70s milkshake cup is bring back falshbacks from my youth.
Anyone else remember that tasteful orange and yellow pattern?
Posted by bad templar on 2006 05 25 at 11:52 PM • permalinkFalshback...as opposed to a flashback… something vastly different.
Posted by bad templar on 2006 05 25 at 11:56 PM • permalinkThey were fun and naive times for us Aussies - I remember standing in Hong Kong airport during a stopover to London being absolutely shocked to be surrounded and outnumbered by all these different looking people. Now of course they come to us :)
But some things never change, also remember stopping over in Lebanon and being surrounded and outnumbered by men with guns!
Brings back an old joke.
Q. What’s the best thing about drug flashbacks?
A. They’re free.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 05 26 at 12:49 AM • permalinkWith the possible exception of “You Shook Me.” When I saw Sheryl Crow’s “C’mon C’mon” tour at the Shoreline here in the Bay Area (don’t bother slagging me, it’ll fall on deaf ears), they did a very cool thing. When they were ready, they blacked out the amphitheater and played “You Shook Me” on the PA at TOP VOLUME. The whole place was singing along to it. When the last notes faded, they hit the opening lick to “Steve McQueen,” and then BAM! Four banks of floodlights came on in a blinding flash, and they hit it. It was tres chic.
Considering his age Darryl Braithwaite can still hold a bit of a note in Howzat. Poor Jon English has gravelled up further than ever but for his day he did have a few good songs.
I think Doug Parkinson is still doing the rounds. Richard Clapton’s “Girls on the Avenue” gets plenty of air play even now. Carpenters Apprentices...remember them?
It’s a long way to the shop, if you want a sausage roll (apologies to Acca Dacca)
Where’s Thorpie and the Aztecs? I’ve got that ABC documentary “Long Way to the Top”. I always get a laugh when they show the shots of the clean cut rocker before he discovered acid, pigtails, and the joys of playing a screaming Les Paul through a ten foot wall of Marshall amps.
The Radio Birdmen are also one of the great Oz bands worthy of a mention.
I recall being taken on a date to see Hush at some venue in the Miranda area in the early 70s. They were pretty good. My ears were ringing all the way home.
The date drove an old Holden, with a spotlight on the back. Driving up the hill on the other side of the river from Jannalli/Como some bloke on a bike was right up his tail so he shone the light at him. He was a bikie. He had mates. They boxed the car in and asked him to get out of the car. They told me it was OK, I’d be OK, but my friend needed to be taught a lesson. They punched him in the mouth. Then they left.
Never saw that date again. Prolly a good thing, his feet were rank.
In high school at Bankstown (mid 70s), Kush played at the school. A couple of the girls were too soppy to approach the lead singer, Geoff Duff (?), but wanted to give him a gift. I said I’d do it and what was their problem? I presented the gift, which was appreciated, we all (me and the girls with the gift), got a peck on the cheek. He seemed OK.
I saw John English on “where are they now” or something recently. He is one of those unfortunate people who hasn’t aged very well.
AC/DC were, are and always will be my favorite Rock and Roll band.
Back in the 80s (I’m a geezer, obviously) I went around in a home-made black tee that read “In Rudd We Trust.” One hippie-chick asked me excitedly if I meant Mark Rudd from the Weather Underground movement. I told her politely that I meant Phil Rudd, the bloody fucking genius on the AC/DC drums.
Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 05 26 at 10:11 AM • permalinkTim ... doesn’t look like a Tooth KB can that Bon Scott is holding, they were gold in colour in the late 70s ... KB or “Kid’s Beer” as I called it was the biggest seller of canned beer back then, more popular than Tooheys New, the next best seller. Fosters and VB wasn’t sold in NSW back then. Hotels were tied to the brewery that supplied them, but that changed in the 80s. Victoria Bitter (VB) is probably the biggest seller now ... I haven’t found VB here though, I’m now having a Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer at home. It’s cheap, after having several Coronas at a nearby Bar with my work team.
I met Angus and the boys at Albert Production Studios in 1977 after a meeting with George Young and Harry Vanda who were, [and I think still are], running the company].
Absolute gentlemen the lot of them and very aware of their commercial responsibilities. They went to great pains to assure me that when they performed it was a tightly regulated act. After costumes and make up were removed they became what they really were, quite normal, if extremely wealthy, family men.
Probably the reason they still sell out venues around the world 30 years on.
Back in the seventies I was living (in a fashion) on Bondi Beach with a bunch of local mates. Yet we were too cool and too stoned to get off our arses to go see AC/DC or INXS at the Bondi Lifesaver.
We reckoned AC/DC were a bunch of headbanging westies and INXS were North Shore wankers. Especially that singing poofter imitating Mick Jagger.
Guess who had the last laugh ?
The year was 1975. I was 14. I’d brought my radio along to the school Cadet camp. (Being a cadet was compulsory.)
On the bus there, during the week-long camp, on the bus home, all you heard was…
I said high -
I said high -
Posted by David Morgan on 2006 05 27 at 01:10 AM • permalink
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It looks as if Angus can’t quite believe it himself!