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If you want to do another review..check out Australia's Ian Moss singing Georgia". Your jaw will hit the floor... or John Farnham doing...Help. Both beyond words....both classic Aussie artists.!
This version recorded in my home town (Melbourne Australia) - Mind you - I was 9 at the time - so missed it 😕 Heading down Swanston St - with the iconic Melbourne W class trams !!!
I was a young boy in town with my parents when this was filmed. Saw it with my own eyes. They did a few circuits down Swanston Street to get a few takes for the film. I remember it was very loud and actually a little frightening as a pre-teen young boy. On one of their laps, Bon actually shouted out to me something like "How you doin', young fella!". I was so shy that I hid behind my dad's legs! Good times.
Filmed in my hometown of Melbourne going down Swanston St towards the war memorial. I was about 14 and saw them so many times live with Bon. This is how I love them and I’ve never seen them without Bon, he will always be it for me!!
Weird how I can recognise an Australian city instantly from that time without knowing any Melbourne landmarks. It reminded me a lot of my earliest memories of Perth, just much bigger.
I was 13 at the time. I’m from Melbourne too and this video clip is a snapshot of the way it looked then. Looks nothing like it now unfortunately. Maggie Renee it would be great if you could react to “High Voltage” which came out around the same time.
I always have said with Bon they were a pub band sound and it was a different sound to after Brian became lead singer AC/DC will always be my favourite band listen to all the music they have done but saying that i will always favor Bon as the lead singer .
They threw Bon some bagpipes and told him to get on with it, because he used to play in a pipe band. However - Bon played drums(!), so he started learning the pipes from scratch for this song. This was essentially a long jam session that got cut and pasted into a complete song in the edit. The unpredictability of the bagpipes as a rock instrument was cited as a reason they very rarely played it live.
No he didn't the story goes they needed something extra for this song and couldn't find the sound they wanted. Bon said well I play the bag pipes a little I could fill in. He said it as a joke. So they had him grab them and play and the record producer loved it. Pretty sure I heard that from the professor of Rock and a couple other places.
No. Bon lied about playing the bagpipes. He bought this set without the band knowing and paid $400, too much for the instrument in 1976. The pipes were stolen later in the year at a gig at a Melbourne high school.
@John funny, read the comments. I'm not the only one thar said he already knew how to play them. Maybe he had to buy a set because he didn't own a set. But the story has been told in several articles thar he knew how to play them since he was a kid
To really appreciate AC/DC, you really should start with the Bon Scott songs and work your way to Brian Johnston. Gives you a true progression of their sound.
This was made without official permission. Bon's bagpipes were stolen at a gig later that year. Brian doesn't sing this song out of respect for Bon. One of the lanes off Swanston Street, where this was shot, is now named for the band.
Brian doesn't sing this song because he can't sing. He can scream but unlike Bon he can't sing. That's why some old Bon Scott era songs appeared in the set list with Axyl Rose. Brian is just not a good enough singer to cover a vast majority of Bon Scott era songs. Brian sure won the lottery when he was offered the job of coming in to record the vocals and then tour the new album. Anybody who thinks Brian came in and not only came up with lyrics & melody's to fit the Young brothers guitar riffs but also did it in only a few weeks is an idiot. And that's putting it mildly.
Who told you that Brian can’t sing? Haven’t you heard him sing in the band Geordie? He also sang in a commercial for Hoover vacuum as well. He also sang in choir in school. Brian changed his vocal approach because Robert “Mutt” Lang suggested that he should during the recording of BIB. This is all well documented.
@@al4904 Never listened with your ears of a song called You Shook Me All Night Long? Never heard Johnson rap and sing in a song called Back in Black? Never heard a song where Brian sings a song called Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution? Never heard Brian sing a song called Let Me Put My Love In To You? Never listened with your ears when Brian sings it a song called For Those About To Rock? Never opened your ears to Brian singing a song called Breaking The Rules? In fact there are numerous songs on the album For Those About To Rock where Brian is singing the lyrics to each song. As a matter of fact, I can continue and provide the evidence for Brian’s singing on every single album in which he is Ac/Dc’s lead singer. The question is, why aren’t you aware of any of this? Are your ears that deaf and inexperienced to the point of ignorance? Indeed anonymous avatar, indeed. Brian is a singer who can manipulate his voice with a graveling bite in his voice on command. This is axiomatic to anyone who has payed close attention to his SINGING. Open your ears 👂 and go back and listen carefully without your ignorance and hear for yourself already.
Bon was the man, the live in Paris show with him is one of the greatest concerts ever captured on video. Both him and Angus were at their peak in this period.
Yes. Bag pipes. Bon learned them as a kid. The only hard rock song I’ve heard with them. They kinda just made the song. Great reaction! and if you look close they’d got amps on the truck so they are really playing, just not hearing them live.
listen to Gary Moore's original video of "Over the Hills and Far Away"....it's not the Led Zeppelin song of the same title...also, the band Slade would use pipes occasionally.....plus, don't forget Troy Donockley of Nightwish using Uillean pipes, which are the Irish form of the bagpipe
Remember Bon Scott, and the Young brothers were born in Scotland. Bon in Forfar and brought up in Kirriemuir (where ther is a statue erected to their most famous son) and the Young brothers were originally from Glasgow.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Bon Scott did grow up playing in a pipe band, but the funny thing is is that he didn’t play the bagpipes. He played drums. Story goes that Bon just went out of the recording studio, went down the street to a music store, and bought a set of bagpipes.
If you want to hear yet another vibe from AC/DC you should do the slow bluesy "Ride On" with Bon Scott. Its kind of unique among their songs and the one that Brian doesn't really have a fitting voice for. Seriously good and often forgotten.
Yes, "Ride On" is a classic by any standard. It's one of their songs always played at friend get-togethers but it's probably a hardcore fan thing, and very few outside the fan circles know about it, I guess. My friends and I are primarily blues fans but we naturally love the genres spawned by the blues too, and "Ride On" is just that perfect blend of all the rootsy elements we love in music.
An early AC/DC classic…. One of their very best….. it’s a real shame that they don’t play this LIVE…. The would blow the roof off the stadium’s if they did.
it took you so long to realize there were dudes in full scottish bagpipe outfits on there with them and then even longer to realize bon scott was playing the pipes too. that was truly amazing.
Bon Scott, Angus, and Malcolm were Scottish by birth though they grew up in Australia. Bagpipes are heritage to them. Also, they took their name and logo when Margaret Young, Angus and Malcolm's sister, saw the initials "AC/DC" on the AC adapter of a sewing machine
This is iconic, this was what turned me on to ACDC when i was young, i love that it took you damn near the whole video to see it was him playing the bag pipes...lol
Bon Scott, as well as Angus and Malcolm Young, were born in Scotland, but raised in Australia.....also, the original version of "Highway to Hell" was sung by Bon.....Brian Johnson sings an octave or so above his natural range in order for the songs in the band's style to be convincing
For me personally the best ACDC song and a perfect example how Malcolm is driving the song with his rhythm guitar style. When you listen carefully, you can hear how his alternating rhythm changes the vibe of the song (especially during the bagpipe solo and at the end). Genius.
Maggie, I recently found your channel, I love your energy! Angus was only 21 here. Losing his hat was not an accident, he often throws it down very early in a video or on stage as a kind of "now I'm ready to rock!" statement. He also does a striptease during concerts where he ends up doing the last half of the concert in only his shorts and guitar. Also, now that you have seen the very early version of AC/DC, as well the more recent version, check out something from either their live performance at Donnington in 1990, or maybe the official video for Who Made Who from 1986. Your hair still has Angus beat. But not by much
Maggie, look how young they were back then! This song is from their first album High Voltage in 1976. Sadly, Bon Scott died only 4 years later in 1980.
The bemused looking bloke on the footpath at 5.04 into the clip is me and yes, they were playing live on the back of a truck and the bagpipes were loud! Great reaction, thanks.
Touch Too Much with Bon Scott. His facial expressions and voice on the innuendo songs was legendary! The 1st 2 times I saw AC/DC live were with Bon Scott.
Something that I think you’d find fascinating is a back to back reaction to Highway to Hell. First the studio version with Bon singing then find a version of Brian singing. It’s amazing how different they sound yet how both versions of the song are completely kick ass.
Hi Maggie, This was original singer Bon Scott on vocals and playing the bagpipes, it was released in 1975 and filmed in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 Bon Scott was born Ronald Belford Scott on the 9th July 1946 in Forfar, Scotland, he moved to Freemantle, Australia 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 when he was young, started off in a group called The Valentines, then in 1970 formed his own band called The Fraternity, then in 1974 became lead singer with AC/DC and the rest is history!! 😀 😀 Bon sadly passed away on February 19th 1980 aged 33 after a night out with friends, got back to his friends house to sleep it off in the back seat of his friends car, he choked on his own vomit while sleeping, his friend found him dead in the car next morning 🙏🙏 RIP Bon Scott, 1946 - 1980 🙏 🙏
The official explanation was he choked on vomit. It was actually - it was actually someone else’s vomit…you know there’s no real… Well they can’t prove whose vomit it was…they don’t have the ability…there’s no way of… You can’t really dust for vomit…
When I was a young man I followed AC/DC from pub to pub when they first started, Bon Scott was great although drank black Daniels on stage, for me Angus in his school uniform on his back playing guitar was amazing. I would love to go back to those days.
This was just a taste of the goodness that was to come from AC/DC. "Riff Raff", "If You Want Blood", "Dirty Deeds", and many more from the original lineup featuring Bon is worth a listen.
This was my brother Jeff’s favorite band! We played this song athe end of his funeral service 1 1/2 years ago. Makes me smile and cry at the same time! Miss you brother! Dave, 1-23
So many Oz bands made their name on the pub circuit playing live. That's why it's easy for them to do live concerts with professional sound systems. May I suggest you look at Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil and The Angels. If you want to hear the most remarkable cover ever made look for Kasey Chambers doing Lose Yourself (the Eminem song) live at Newcastle Civic Centre July 2022. Eminem heard it and gave her the rights to put it on streaming platforms.
You have to remember that this was when they were very young. You have to listen to their Highway to Hell album - that is a great album! Bon just shined with Angus!! I love Brian Johnson alot but Bon was the Man!
Bon Scott the frontman of Rock n Roll 🎸🤙. Before joining ACDC , Bon Scott was in 2 other bands " Fraternity " & " The Valentine's " where he played wind instruments .
Hi Maggie great reaction. A little info on Bon Scott for you as he had quite an interesting musical background. As a kid he learned to play bagpipes and side drum in a Highland style marching band. His first band was The Spektors where he played drums and occasionally sung. Next he was a bubblegum pop boy band called The Valentines who were relatively successful in Australia. He later sung for a band called Fraternity who were more of a hippie band. But Bon was always a rock n roll guy at heart which is why he was a perfect fit for AC/DC. He joined them in 1974 to replace their original lead singer Dave Evans. Sadly Bon passed away in 1980. I love both Bon and Brian as singer's for this band.
"Can I Sit Next to You Girl " this is a masterpiece of first album "High Voltage", the joy that the rhythm of this piece transmits to you is contagious, awesome Rock'N'Roll. "Ride On" is wonderful blues voice of Bon Scott. They wrote so many beautiful songs that it's difficult to choose and recommend listening to them
I'm glad you did this song, bagpipes yes. The first, and only time I heard them in this genre, and they pulled it off well. Good you heard Bon as well, he did this band plenty justice.
This song reminds me of the movie School of Rock starring jack black. He does a rendition of it in that movie. You should do a reaction to that version
I've been up and down Swanston Street, Melbourne thousands of times and I never gave it a thought that AC/DC made that clip there. Interesting to re-visit the 70s again. Looks so different yet very familiar.
I'm in love with your love of AC/DC, Maggie! Bon Scott has this snarky blues sound that fit AC/DC's early songs so well. Brian Johnson really took them to rock heaven, but I love their early blues sound as well. Bon Scott was a big part of that. He could rock, too, though. He was the original singer of Highway To Hell. You should listen to their song Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap). Bon sounds so sleazy good.
The call and answer of guitar and bagpipes in this song is amazing. Despite the fact that Bon didn't play the pipes during this shoot. He just performed for the video.
I live in England, the first thing I did when I visited Australia was to visit his final resting place and his statue overlooking Fremantle Harbour, as his music and songs were such a part of my formative years. He was as warrior poet and an enormous irreplaceable loss to rock music.
So many great songs in a short span with Bon. Saw them in July of '79 and he passed away in February of 1980. So sad but so great! Gotta react to The Jack & Big Balls.
Emma!! Ive been enjoying your reactions for a while. Would love to hear you react to John Farnham signing his version of The Beatles HELP live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. You will love John's voice, an amazing tenor with great range!
That was filmed in Swanson St Melbourne, Victoria. Bon Scott was the vocalist until he paused away in 1979. Prior to his death he had seen Brian Johnson performing with 'Geordie'. He commented to the Young brothers, "Well he's a guy that knows what rock and roll is all about".
I'm a big fan of their version of baby please don't go. The call and response between bon and angus, is awesome. But I have always thought jailbreak was Bon's best song.
@Xaran - I guess they took their version of Baby Please Don't Go (written by Big Joe Williams) from Amboy Dukes, who had taken it from Van Morrison's Them...
They were really playing the song on the back of that truck, it's not what you hear in the recording, but for awhile that's how AC/DC started off their tours.
You need to see AC/DC live in Scotland with Bon Scott and the recordings for the “If you want blood, you’ve got it” live album. Songs like bad boy boogie, let there be Rock, whole lotta Rosie. You have to see Bon Scott and AC/DC in their prime.
All the props to Brian he has done great things with ac/ dc, those of us who first listened to ac/dc with Bon Scott Will always default to the early stuff, Bon was fantastic
Indeed. Brian Johnson is probably among the very few on the planet who could help the band to keep plying their rock 'n roll trade, and every fan is surely grateful to him for that, but Scott had the vocals and the chemistry with the band that produced a very special magic that can never be replicated. Such a short but wonderful chapter in the story of contemporary music.
It was the Bon Scott led AC/DC that I am a fan of and this is my favourite AC/DC song. A great road trip song with the volume set as loud as the car speakers can handle. I still like AC/DC with Brian Johnson, but Bon Scott was a hard act to follow. John Farnham does fantastic live versions of this with his version with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1989 a standout. I love this film clip of Swanston Street, Melbourne in the mid 1970s with the Shrine of Remembrance as a backdrop.
I had the same reaction when I first heard bagpipes in a rock song. Those are bagpipes! I amazed. (Yes, that is a verb.....) BTW, you have a great voice.
That song is actually, and weirdly, performed as is, live. There is no overlay, the only thing that was done was removal of SOME sounds of traffic but if you listen closely you can hear some of them still. AC/DC played out the biggest arenas as late as 2010 and while we all missed Bon Scott (who died of alcohol poisoning) we loved them still. They are done now but all of their music (and it is a LOT of music) lives on. I can kind of sing like Bon Scott if I get drunk enough so I'll do that even if no one asked.
Some of them were Scottish born who spent their formative years in Australia. Angas Young was eight years of age and his brother Malcolm was ten when their parents migrated to Australia. Their older brother George was a member of the "Easybeats" which was the premier Australian band during the mid 1960's.
ACDC basically began as a band of brothers and school friends. The family emigrated from Scotland to Australia, so bag pipes are part of their heritage.
Ok, are you ready for this? I have some songs for you for AC/DC they're mixed up between both singers. But they're all great songs. Let there be Rock ,Black and Black, She's got the Jack. Shoot to thrill ,If you want blood. Hells Bells? By the way, the bell is made by AC/DC. It's not a church bell. Highway to hell, it's a long way to the top if you wantna rock and roll TNT my fave, Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, High voltage rock and roll ,Big balls. She's got Big balls, you shook me all night long ,Baby Please don't go, Problem Child, Hell Aint a bad place to be, Whole lot of Rosie. Can I sit next to you, girl? Jailbreak You should always play them live. They're the best !!!! ❤ A lot of thank you for your show🥰 Sending love back to you. Metal goddess whiping her hair. You go, girl. 🤘🫶✌️
Thank you for validating my decision to learn guitar 40 years ago...because I was exposed to this music and after years of trying to break free, I realize this music is in my DNA. Love your reactions. ♥️
My favorites right now, I just can’t get out of my head …. Girls Got Rhythm, and Touch Too Much!! They are both Bon Scott, but they almost sound like later AC/DC !
With Johnson AC/DC are the finest pure Rock band in the world. With Scott they were much more , their forays into blues , Rock'n'roll and the level of humour gave them so much more colour...
'What's that blue thing he's holding? Is that his jacket?' And then you're face when you realize that it's a set of bagpipes. OMG, you are so adorable!!!
This was their first hit in Australia. Angus and the late Malcolm Young (lead and rhythm guitar respectively) were from an established Aussie musical family including George Young who had a hit in the 60's with the Easybeats entitled "Friday On My Mind."
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You must, Must, MUST react to Dan Vasc (heavy metal singer) singing Amazing Grace, his rendition is profoundly gorgeous -almost even ethereal!
Focus Hocus Pocus, 1973!
Oh yes. My number song. You are going to love this. Oh those pipes.
@@spikebeans9563 Focus, yodels
"you can't have bagpipes in a rock song"
Bon Scott
"Hold my beer"
Old, but gold.
@@censorshipsucks9493 hold my scotch
Show ya
If you want to do another review..check out Australia's Ian Moss singing Georgia". Your jaw will hit the
floor... or John Farnham doing...Help. Both beyond words....both classic Aussie artists.!
This version recorded in my home town (Melbourne Australia) - Mind you - I was 9 at the time - so missed it 😕
Heading down Swanston St - with the iconic Melbourne W class trams !!!
I was a young boy in town with my parents when this was filmed. Saw it with my own eyes. They did a few circuits down Swanston Street to get a few takes for the film. I remember it was very loud and actually a little frightening as a pre-teen young boy. On one of their laps, Bon actually shouted out to me something like "How you doin', young fella!". I was so shy that I hid behind my dad's legs! Good times.
What a wonderful anecdote. Love it!
Legend
What a great memory
The original studio version for "TNT" and "Dirty Deeds" need to happen asap
I definitely see it that way too
Jailbreak too
and Mr. Scott's Highway to Hell
I second this....or fifth this depending on the number of posts that beat me to seconding...
I was thinking of a boxed set of the original Australian releases.
Classic AC/DC. This is their DNA. Bon Scott will forever be the man for me.
Yep
Filmed in my hometown of Melbourne going down Swanston St towards the war memorial. I was about 14 and saw them so many times live with Bon. This is how I love them and I’ve never seen them without Bon, he will always be it for me!!
Weird how I can recognise an Australian city instantly from that time without knowing any Melbourne landmarks. It reminded me a lot of my earliest memories of Perth, just much bigger.
You really should give brian johnson a chance. He was the one bon scott wanted to carry the torch.
I was 13 at the time. I’m from Melbourne too and this video clip is a snapshot of the way it looked then. Looks nothing like it now unfortunately. Maggie Renee it would be great if you could react to “High Voltage” which came out around the same time.
I always have said with Bon they were a pub band sound and it was a different sound to after Brian became lead singer AC/DC will always be my favourite band listen to all the music they have done but saying that i will always favor Bon as the lead singer .
This is ac/dc best song ever. Never gets old. Just fun rock and roll song. The bagpipes makes this song immortal
They threw Bon some bagpipes and told him to get on with it, because he used to play in a pipe band. However - Bon played drums(!), so he started learning the pipes from scratch for this song. This was essentially a long jam session that got cut and pasted into a complete song in the edit. The unpredictability of the bagpipes as a rock instrument was cited as a reason they very rarely played it live.
No he didn't the story goes they needed something extra for this song and couldn't find the sound they wanted. Bon said well I play the bag pipes a little I could fill in. He said it as a joke. So they had him grab them and play and the record producer loved it. Pretty sure I heard that from the professor of Rock and a couple other places.
No. Bon lied about playing the bagpipes. He bought this set without the band knowing and paid $400, too much for the instrument in 1976. The pipes were stolen later in the year at a gig at a Melbourne high school.
I saw aclip where he played aflute with a band waaaay before he was with the Youngs.
@John funny, read the comments. I'm not the only one thar said he already knew how to play them. Maybe he had to buy a set because he didn't own a set. But the story has been told in several articles thar he knew how to play them since he was a kid
To really appreciate AC/DC, you really should start with the Bon Scott songs and work your way to Brian Johnston. Gives you a true progression of their sound.
This was made without official permission. Bon's bagpipes were stolen at a gig later that year. Brian doesn't sing this song out of respect for Bon. One of the lanes off Swanston Street, where this was shot, is now named for the band.
Brian doesn't sing this song because he can't sing. He can scream but unlike Bon he can't sing. That's why some old Bon Scott era songs appeared in the set list with Axyl Rose. Brian is just not a good enough singer to cover a vast majority of Bon Scott era songs. Brian sure won the lottery when he was offered the job of coming in to record the vocals and then tour the new album. Anybody who thinks Brian came in and not only came up with lyrics & melody's to fit the Young brothers guitar riffs but also did it in only a few weeks is an idiot. And that's putting it mildly.
@@al4904 Well there’s always a cunt in every comment section, looks like you take the cake on this one. 😝
Who told you that Brian can’t sing?
Haven’t you heard him sing in the band Geordie?
He also sang in a commercial for Hoover vacuum as well.
He also sang in choir in school.
Brian changed his vocal approach because Robert “Mutt” Lang suggested that he should during the recording of BIB.
This is all well documented.
@@timothya.olmeda7299 Brian is a screamer not a singer. How do I know? My ears told me.
@@al4904
Never listened with your ears of a song called You Shook Me All Night Long?
Never heard Johnson rap and sing in a song called Back in Black?
Never heard a song where Brian sings a song called Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution?
Never heard Brian sing a song called Let Me Put My Love In To You?
Never listened with your ears when Brian sings it a song called For Those About To Rock?
Never opened your ears to Brian singing a song called Breaking The Rules?
In fact there are numerous songs on the album For Those About To Rock where Brian is singing the lyrics to each song.
As a matter of fact, I can continue and provide the evidence for Brian’s singing on every single album in which he is Ac/Dc’s lead singer.
The question is, why aren’t you aware of any of this?
Are your ears that deaf and inexperienced to the point of ignorance? Indeed anonymous avatar, indeed.
Brian is a singer who can manipulate his voice with a graveling bite in his voice on command. This is axiomatic to anyone who has payed close attention to his SINGING.
Open your ears 👂 and go back and listen carefully without your ignorance and hear for yourself already.
All with Bon, "If you want blood", "Touch too much ", Night Prowler", and all the rest of them!
Yes, If you Want Blood
Bon was the best ✌️
And "Ride on" guys !!!
A touch to much is my favourite
And Walk All Over You too
Bon was the man, the live in Paris show with him is one of the greatest concerts ever captured on video. Both him and Angus were at their peak in this period.
I am so happy watching your reactions as you slowly discover the world of AC/DC. It is a big world and there is a lot of good in it.
Everytime I watch AC/DC, I find myself footpumping and grinning ear to ear 😊
Yes. Bag pipes. Bon learned them as a kid. The only hard rock song I’ve heard with them. They kinda just made the song. Great reaction! and if you look close they’d got amps on the truck so they are really playing, just not hearing them live.
"Sabra Cadabra" Black Sabbath from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Tony Iommi plays bagpipes, noy heard as prominently as here though.👍👍
listen to Gary Moore's original video of "Over the Hills and Far Away"....it's not the Led Zeppelin song of the same title...also, the band Slade would use pipes occasionally.....plus, don't forget Troy Donockley of Nightwish using Uillean pipes, which are the Irish form of the bagpipe
Remember Bon Scott, and the Young brothers were born in Scotland. Bon in Forfar and brought up in Kirriemuir (where ther is a statue erected to their most famous son) and the Young brothers were originally from Glasgow.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Bon Scott did grow up playing in a pipe band, but the funny thing is is that he didn’t play the bagpipes. He played drums. Story goes that Bon just went out of the recording studio, went down the street to a music store, and bought a set of bagpipes.
I believe that Saxon has used bagpipes
Bonn Scott saw Brian Johnson perform at a small venue and told his band members: If you ever need to replace me - he's your man (Brian Johnson). 🥲
So bittersweet
If you want to hear yet another vibe from AC/DC you should do the slow bluesy "Ride On" with Bon Scott. Its kind of unique among their songs and the one that Brian doesn't really have a fitting voice for. Seriously good and often forgotten.
💯
Yes, "Ride On" is a classic by any standard. It's one of their songs always played at friend get-togethers but it's probably a hardcore fan thing, and very few outside the fan circles know about it, I guess. My friends and I are primarily blues fans but we naturally love the genres spawned by the blues too, and "Ride On" is just that perfect blend of all the rootsy elements we love in music.
Yes, and those solos...
Ride One is one of my all time favorites
Down Payment Blues best song ever
This lady listens to the track and comments once or twice and make intelligent thoughts. That's what I like.
you cant count. she runs her mouth the whole time.
Hey that is what you call rock and roll it's to bad we don't have more bands like them rock on Ivan at 70
The call and response between the bag pipes and guitar is awesome.
Proud Aussie who loves people who discover Bon Scott. Some consider him one of the best Frontman there ever was.
Ah, The blues, rock and even funk, sprinkled with humor and self irony. We love Brian Johnson, many of us love Bon Scott even more.
An early AC/DC classic…. One of their very best….. it’s a real shame that they don’t play this LIVE…. The would blow the roof off the stadium’s if they did.
I believe they shelved it live after Bon passed. Could be wrong, but it was a comment I read on the John Farnham cover
@@jeffwilson7100 You are correct. I believe it was Brian's call, out of respect for Bon Scott.
The official video of Let There Be Rock with Bon is another great one.
This was not pre recorded. It was a live performance on the back of a truck in the streets of Melbourne Australia during the 1970s
TNT and Dirty deeds done dirty cheap are great examples of Bon Scott's awesomeness. Studio versions!
Like JoJo.
I would love to see a new album, Disc 1, Scott - Disc 2 Jones. Singing the same songs
it took you so long to realize there were dudes in full scottish bagpipe outfits on there with them and then even longer to realize bon scott was playing the pipes too. that was truly amazing.
your reactions to AC/DC are becoming legend
Bon is an absolute legend. Very much loved and very much missed. ♥️ from 🇦🇺🐨🦘
Bon Scott, Angus, and Malcolm were Scottish by birth though they grew up in Australia. Bagpipes are heritage to them. Also, they took their name and logo when Margaret Young, Angus and Malcolm's sister, saw the initials "AC/DC" on the AC adapter of a sewing machine
Jimmy Barnes from cold chisel was also Scottish, real name James Dixon Swan.
My father saw ACDC when they first toured Australia with Bon Scott and they wernt as well known. He said it was the best concert he has been to.
Bon Scott was holding the bagpipes on his shoulder as he started singing the song. Yes that is Bon Scott playing the bagpipes
This is iconic, this was what turned me on to ACDC when i was young, i love that it took you damn near the whole video to see it was him playing the bag pipes...lol
Bon Scott, as well as Angus and Malcolm Young, were born in Scotland, but raised in Australia.....also, the original version of "Highway to Hell" was sung by Bon.....Brian Johnson sings an octave or so above his natural range in order for the songs in the band's style to be convincing
For me personally the best ACDC song and a perfect example how Malcolm is driving the song with his rhythm guitar style. When you listen carefully, you can hear how his alternating rhythm changes the vibe of the song (especially during the bagpipe solo and at the end). Genius.
Absolutly
Malcolm was one of the best Rythmn Guitarists in Rock. His playing was so consistant, along with the drums it would drive the song along.
Maggie, I recently found your channel, I love your energy! Angus was only 21 here. Losing his hat was not an accident, he often throws it down very early in a video or on stage as a kind of "now I'm ready to rock!" statement. He also does a striptease during concerts where he ends up doing the last half of the concert in only his shorts and guitar. Also, now that you have seen the very early version of AC/DC, as well the more recent version, check out something from either their live performance at Donnington in 1990, or maybe the official video for Who Made Who from 1986. Your hair still has Angus beat. But not by much
This is an absolute classic. If you do not know that this is AC/DC, then you will most likely know it from "School of Rock" 🙂
Maggie, look how young they were back then! This song is from their first album High Voltage in 1976. Sadly, Bon Scott died only 4 years later in 1980.
RIP ye mighty Bon
The bemused looking bloke on the footpath at 5.04 into the clip is me and yes, they were playing live on the back of a truck and the bagpipes were loud! Great reaction, thanks.
Touch Too Much with Bon Scott. His facial expressions and voice on the innuendo songs was legendary! The 1st 2 times I saw AC/DC live were with Bon Scott.
And me! 👊
Beatin around the bush!!
Something that I think you’d find fascinating is a back to back reaction to Highway to Hell. First the studio version with Bon singing then find a version of Brian singing. It’s amazing how different they sound yet how both versions of the song are completely kick ass.
Hi Maggie, This was original singer Bon Scott on vocals and playing the bagpipes, it was released in 1975 and filmed in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 Bon Scott was born Ronald Belford Scott on the 9th July 1946 in Forfar, Scotland, he moved to Freemantle, Australia 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 when he was young, started off in a group called The Valentines, then in 1970 formed his own band called The Fraternity, then in 1974 became lead singer with AC/DC and the rest is history!! 😀 😀
Bon sadly passed away on February 19th 1980 aged 33 after a night out with friends, got back to his friends house to sleep it off in the back seat of his friends car, he choked on his own vomit while sleeping, his friend found him dead in the car next morning 🙏🙏
RIP Bon Scott, 1946 - 1980 🙏 🙏
Dave Evens was first singer.
The official explanation was he choked on vomit. It was actually - it was actually someone else’s vomit…you know there’s no real… Well they can’t prove whose vomit it was…they don’t have the ability…there’s no way of… You can’t really dust for vomit…
Bon Scott was not the original singer
When I was a young man I followed AC/DC from pub to pub when they first started, Bon Scott was great although drank black Daniels on stage, for me Angus in his school uniform on his back playing guitar was amazing. I would love to go back to those days.
This was just a taste of the goodness that was to come from AC/DC. "Riff Raff", "If You Want Blood", "Dirty Deeds", and many more from the original lineup featuring Bon is worth a listen.
TBH my favourite song of Bon's would be jailbreak
oh yeah. Riff Raff
my favourite band ever. rock on. love your reactions to the best band ever, real rock n roll. over 50 years of ther best rock music ever
🇦🇺 “Jailbreak,” and “Who Made Who,” you’ll love ‘em.
The call and response between lead guitar and bagpipes is freakin' wonderful.
Another AC/DC favorite!! You are getting into the real fun of these guys now Maggie. Love watching you react to these classic songs! So much fun!!!
This was my brother Jeff’s favorite band! We played this song athe end of his funeral service 1 1/2 years ago. Makes me smile and cry at the same time! Miss you brother! Dave, 1-23
AC DC was never the same after Bon Scott died.
May Bon Scott rest in peace. Gone but not forgotten
TNT is a must
So many Oz bands made their name on the pub circuit playing live. That's why it's easy for them to do live concerts with professional sound systems. May I suggest you look at Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil and The Angels. If you want to hear the most remarkable cover ever made look for Kasey Chambers doing Lose Yourself (the Eminem song) live at Newcastle Civic Centre July 2022. Eminem heard it and gave her the rights to put it on streaming platforms.
You have to remember that this was when they were very young. You have to listen to their Highway to Hell album - that is a great album! Bon just shined with Angus!! I love Brian Johnson alot but Bon was the Man!
Down Under we sing " Its a long way to the shop if you want a Sausage Roll "
Bon Scott the frontman of Rock n Roll 🎸🤙. Before joining ACDC , Bon Scott was in 2 other bands " Fraternity " & " The Valentine's " where he played wind instruments .
I just turned 72, it's fun watching someone get into a rock band with your background. Makes me smile!
Hi Maggie great reaction. A little info on Bon Scott for you as he had quite an interesting musical background. As a kid he learned to play bagpipes and side drum in a Highland style marching band.
His first band was The Spektors where he played drums and occasionally sung. Next he was a bubblegum pop boy band called The Valentines who were relatively successful in Australia.
He later sung for a band called Fraternity who were more of a hippie band.
But Bon was always a rock n roll guy at heart which is why he was a perfect fit for AC/DC. He joined them in 1974 to replace their original lead singer Dave Evans.
Sadly Bon passed away in 1980. I love both Bon and Brian as singer's for this band.
"Can I Sit Next to You Girl " this is a masterpiece of first album "High Voltage", the joy that the rhythm of this piece transmits to you is contagious, awesome Rock'N'Roll. "Ride On" is wonderful blues voice of Bon Scott. They wrote so many beautiful songs that it's difficult to choose and recommend listening to them
I'm glad you did this song, bagpipes yes. The first, and only time I heard them in this genre, and they pulled it off well. Good you heard Bon as well, he did this band plenty justice.
This song reminds me of the movie School of Rock starring jack black. He does a rendition of it in that movie. You should do a reaction to that version
I've been up and down Swanston Street, Melbourne thousands of times and I never gave it a thought that AC/DC made that clip there. Interesting to re-visit the 70s again. Looks so different yet very familiar.
I would recommend any of the tunes on the Live From Paris album. Lots of video for that one as well. AC/DC does not lip sync!
I'm in love with your love of AC/DC, Maggie! Bon Scott has this snarky blues sound that fit AC/DC's early songs so well. Brian Johnson really took them to rock heaven, but I love their early blues sound as well. Bon Scott was a big part of that. He could rock, too, though. He was the original singer of Highway To Hell. You should listen to their song Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap). Bon sounds so sleazy good.
Bon Scott AC/DC is iconic and "true" rock n roll. The best!
You should check out live performances from AC/DC featuring Bon Scott. Particularly from the Apollo Theatre in 1978, which are available on UA-cam
The call and answer of guitar and bagpipes in this song is amazing. Despite the fact that Bon didn't play the pipes during this shoot. He just performed for the video.
Love your ac⚡️dc reactions ❤️🎶🎸⚡️
So glad! Thank you! ❤️🎶🎸⚡️
I NEVER thought that bag pipes would ever be on a hit record!
Finally Bon!!! Love his sound! 🤘
I live in England, the first thing I did when I visited Australia was to visit his final resting place and his statue overlooking Fremantle Harbour, as his music and songs were such a part of my formative years. He was as warrior poet and an enormous irreplaceable loss to rock music.
Bon Scott was the best! There is an aweome version done by John Farham that is worth a look at.
So many great songs in a short span with Bon. Saw them in July of '79 and he passed away in February of 1980. So sad but so great! Gotta react to The Jack & Big Balls.
Emma!! Ive been enjoying your reactions for a while. Would love to hear you react to John Farnham signing his version of The Beatles HELP live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. You will love John's voice, an amazing tenor with great range!
And “You’re the Voice”
Absolutely.
45 years ago, Swanston Street,Melbourne, Australia.
There isn't a bad album or song from the Bon Scott era. Check out Riff Raff, Whole Lotta Rosie, and Ride On. All have amazing guitar solos.
That was filmed in Swanson St Melbourne, Victoria.
Bon Scott was the vocalist until he paused away in 1979.
Prior to his death he had seen Brian Johnson performing with 'Geordie'. He commented to the Young brothers, "Well he's a guy that knows what rock and roll is all about".
I'm a big fan of their version of baby please don't go. The call and response between bon and angus, is awesome. But I have always thought jailbreak was Bon's best song.
@Xaran - I guess they took their version of Baby Please Don't Go (written by Big Joe Williams) from Amboy Dukes, who had taken it from Van Morrison's Them...
They were really playing the song on the back of that truck, it's not what you hear in the recording, but for awhile that's how AC/DC started off their tours.
BIG BALLS! AC/DC BEST SONG!
They were so young!
I love all of these reviews. I was listening to this in high school 45 years ago. The new generations have a lot to learn about good music.
Yes, yes! React to everything suggested. Do it all. All great. Best band, in concert, I've seen. 🙂
You need to see AC/DC live in Scotland with Bon Scott and the recordings for the “If you want blood, you’ve got it” live album. Songs like bad boy boogie, let there be Rock, whole lotta Rosie. You have to see Bon Scott and AC/DC in their prime.
All the props to Brian he has done great things with ac/ dc, those of us who first listened to ac/dc with Bon Scott Will always default to the early stuff, Bon was fantastic
Indeed. Brian Johnson is probably among the very few on the planet who could help the band to keep plying their rock 'n roll trade, and every fan is surely grateful to him for that, but Scott had the vocals and the chemistry with the band that produced a very special magic that can never be replicated. Such a short but wonderful chapter in the story of contemporary music.
It was the Bon Scott led AC/DC that I am a fan of and this is my favourite AC/DC song. A great road trip song with the volume set as loud as the car speakers can handle. I still like AC/DC with Brian Johnson, but Bon Scott was a hard act to follow. John Farnham does fantastic live versions of this with his version with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1989 a standout. I love this film clip of Swanston Street, Melbourne in the mid 1970s with the Shrine of Remembrance as a backdrop.
I had the same reaction when I first heard bagpipes in a rock song. Those are bagpipes! I amazed. (Yes, that is a verb.....)
BTW, you have a great voice.
Thank you! 🎶🌺
That song is actually, and weirdly, performed as is, live.
There is no overlay, the only thing that was done was removal of SOME sounds of traffic but if you listen closely you can hear some of them still.
AC/DC played out the biggest arenas as late as 2010 and while we all missed Bon Scott (who died of alcohol poisoning) we loved them still. They are done now but all of their music (and it is a LOT of music) lives on.
I can kind of sing like Bon Scott if I get drunk enough so I'll do that even if no one asked.
Bon Scott and the Young brothers were all born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia as children.
Some of them were Scottish born who spent their formative years in Australia. Angas Young was eight years of age and his brother Malcolm was ten when their parents migrated to Australia. Their older brother George was a member of the "Easybeats" which was the premier Australian band during the mid 1960's.
ACDC basically began as a band of brothers and school friends. The family emigrated from Scotland to Australia, so bag pipes are part of their heritage.
Ok, are you ready for this? I have some songs for you for AC/DC
they're mixed up between both singers. But they're all great songs. Let there be Rock ,Black and Black, She's got the Jack. Shoot to thrill ,If you want blood. Hells Bells? By the way, the bell is made by AC/DC. It's not a church bell. Highway to hell, it's a long way to the top if you wantna rock and roll TNT my fave, Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, High voltage rock
and roll ,Big balls. She's got Big balls, you shook me all night long ,Baby Please don't go, Problem Child, Hell Aint a bad place to be, Whole lot of Rosie. Can I sit next to you, girl? Jailbreak You should always play them live. They're the best !!!! ❤ A lot of thank you for your show🥰 Sending love back to you. Metal goddess whiping her hair. You go, girl. 🤘🫶✌️
Thank you for validating my decision to learn guitar 40 years ago...because I was exposed to this music and after years of trying to break free, I realize this music is in my DNA. Love your reactions. ♥️
My favorites right now, I just can’t get out of my head ….
Girls Got Rhythm, and Touch Too Much!!
They are both Bon Scott, but they almost sound like later AC/DC !
Yup, he played them. He wanted to write a song using them. 7:16
Bon Scott was always my fave AC/DC singer.
In young years Bon Scott was a member of a backpipe group!!!!! This video is from 1976!!!!!!
With Johnson AC/DC are the finest pure Rock band in the world. With Scott they were much more , their forays into blues , Rock'n'roll and the level of humour gave them so much more colour...
'What's that blue thing he's holding? Is that his jacket?' And then you're face when you realize that it's a set of bagpipes. OMG, you are so adorable!!!
This was their first hit in Australia. Angus and the late Malcolm Young (lead and rhythm guitar respectively) were from an established Aussie musical family including George Young who had a hit in the 60's with the Easybeats entitled "Friday On My Mind."
And, as most here in the comment section will know, George (along with Harry Vanda) produced AC/DC's early albums
Best Rock N Roll band to ever come out of Australia 🙌🏼
I love watching Angus Young hopping all over! ❤