OK… i don’t know if you listen to AC-DC enough to have developed a certain affinity for the band or not but i have…. i will say right now and up front that i prefer the original front man Bon Scott… To me Brian Johnson is an (at best) clone of a clone replacement for Bon… i appreciate the fact that the band itself found a replacement singer with the same theory on vocal prowess, but in a nut shell Bon Scott had a certain geneseQua to his approach to singing. a mind-full swagger in his throat as he belted out his version of teen angst and a lusty tone to boot…
in such songs as ”Dirty deeds” and “Big Balls” even the well know and often overplayed ”highway to hell” you can feel the satisfactory sarcasm in which Bon presented what he had to say to us all…. the bands sound was raw, unadulterated raunch at its grandest…
since replacing Bon Scott, lead vocalist Brain Johnson has led the band (in my opinion) to mediocrity in success… his vocals are no where near the )dare i say it) quality of Bon Scott. he has to his credit kept the band from slippin into has-been status and has even garnered a couple of AC-DC quality hits.. such as the gritty “Hells Bells” and the Anthemous “thunder Struck” “You Shook Me All Night Long” is one of the bands most commercially successful songs (notice i said that word that for some fans of the band would mean sellout) but i wonder (he says rubbing his chin muttering hmmmmmmm) i just wonder what those songs would have sounded like with the uniqueness of Bon Scotts vocals behind them and where the band would be at this point in they’re career… after they’re induction into the Rock & Roll hall of Fame in 2003 what else does AC-DC need to prove to anyone? i say nothing. when they hit the music scene they were a breath of fresh air. now they are and will always be a case in study on how to just set an industry on notice that “we’re here and we ain’t going anywhere, so deal with it” cause I’m T N T I’m dynamite………………
till we meet again my friends….
Loyd DeFreese Said:
on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 4:55 am
I held an event at The Bottletree in Birmingham, Alabama on 7/5/08. I was hoping to find a guitar player for my own band, instead these two kids showed up that BLEW ME AWAY!!! They were both only 23, and they have been wanted to do a Bon tribute since they wee dressing as Bon & Angus for Halloween!! They completly screwed up my plans for my band, but you can’t deny that they are dead ringers for the original front men of AC/DC. There are pictures & a review on “Soundboard de Cheevo”, and comments on the Bon Scott Blog! We held a free concert in
Alabama, and they are talking about it in Australia!! How cool is that!!