Posted on 02/19/2024 6:00:47 PM PST by DoodleBob
… Almost 25 years after Bon Scott’s death, there are still many unexplained events that surround it.
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Author Clinton Walker relates the following story ..: on Monday evening, February 18, 1980, Bon phoned Silver Smith to invite her along to see a band at Dingwalls in Camden, north London. Silver declined, but said she had a friend – Alistair (sometimes spelled Alasdair) Kinnear – who would be delighted to accompany him. In the end, Bon and Kinnear ended up at the Music Machine, a venue just down the road from Dingwalls at the bottom end of Camden High Street, near Mornington Crescent Tube station.
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Events begin to get rather hazy from here on in. The oft-repeated version is that Kinnear drove Bon back to the singer’s flat in Victoria, but a boozed-up Scott had passed out in the car in the meantime, and apparently could not be stirred. So Kinnear then made a diversion to East Dulwich, where he lived in a flat at number 67 Overhill Road. Kinnear parked his car – a tiny, French-built supermini – outside his home, but Bon remained unconscious. He simply couldn’t be shifted.
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Kinnear says he went to bed in the early hours of Tuesday, February 19, and that he didn’t wake until the following evening. “I went to sleep and it was later in the evening [reportedly at 7.45pm] when I went back out to the car, and I knew something was wrong immediately.”
Inside Kinnear’s car, Bon Scott lay dead. "He could not find a comfortable position in the small car," Clinton Walker recounts in his book. "His body was curled around the gearstick, his neck twisted, his dental plate dislodged. The bile rose up in his throat and blocked his asthmatic windpipe."
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>> After all these decades I still think of Brian Johnson as “the new guy”.
Funny that. Me too. I’ve seen them several times, but haven’t seen them live in over 25 years.
“A body of Venus, with arms...”
—Bon Scott
Freegards
https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=awards_by_artist#search_section
AC/DC is the 9th best selling band in America - this Australian band sold 75 million albums in the US. More than Pink Floyd, more than the Stones, more than George Strait, more than Barbara Streisand, more than Van Halen, more than Taylor Swift.
They’re massive.
The CLOSEST thing I got for that - and it’s no comparison - was I saw shredder Yngwie Malmsteen at a crappy bar in NJ in 1985. The opener was a relatively unknown band from Buffalo called Talas. Their BASSIST blew Yngwie off the stage.
That bassist, Billy Sheehan, went on to play for David Lee Roth in 1986, along with Steve Vai and Gregg Bissonette (I saw that band - they tore it up).
Yngwie went on to open for AC/DC in 1985.
Reading the replies here, I swear half the people on this forum are old enough to have voted for Calvin Coolidge.
Actually that was Dave Evans.
Millennials: ew…those conservatives are so uncool.
Us: you’re wrong, kiddos. We are probably more in touch with culture than you are.
Millennials: oh yea? who was AC/DC’s singer before Brian Johnson?
Us: HA! You pod-eating dolt… Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.
Powerage is their best album.
It was more of a vote against John W. Davis. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXbMB9R5-0
This vid kicks a$$.
AC/DC is a band I picked up liking in adulthood like Van Halen
My first two albums bought fifth grade were Bookends and Surrealistic Pillow
Bon Scott simply drank too damn much I think
It happens
I was at AC/DC’s last concert in September of ‘79. Fantastic concert and I think that I paid less than $10 to get in. The concert was after my sister’s wedding earlier that day.
his dental plate dislodged.
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Kicked in the teeth again!
That’s a good one
** Almost 25 years after Bon Scott’s death, there are still many unexplained events that surround it.**
Well, I’m blameless. He didn’t make one penny off of me. The entire music industry probably didn’t make $150 off of me. And I sure didn’t do much to help the booze industry’s bottom line. From 75 to 82, I probably didn’t spend $200 on the stuff. Didn’t do drugs at all.
My leisure money went to my cars, my share in a small plane, and dating (of which I was very selective. If they seemed to like booze too much, nomatter how pretty, I didn’t date them. Didn’t want the expense, or any responsibility for their drunken behavior).
That album, Eat em and Smile, said alot about DLRs influence on Van Halen. In my opinion, Van Hagar was definitely less metal. Eddie never played another power chord cruncher like he did in Romeo Delight.
He had a pretty good guitarist on that one, in Steve Vai.
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