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Name: Angus Young Band: ACDC Position Guitar Date Of Birth March 31, 1955 Place Of Birth Glasgow, Scotland Sex Male Official Site: ACDC Fan Site: ACDC Net Fan Site: Elektra Fan Site: ACDC Rocks Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"In those days girls were only interested in...well, not us"


-"I'm not going bald, my head's just getting higher"


-"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show"


-"I've experimented with different makes of amp but came to the conclusion that the Marshall 100 watt stack was the best rock amp."


-"We saw more of Bon than his family did, especially us three. It was always me, Bon & Malcolm. We hung out together. Go to clubs together, get thrown out of clubs together"


-"We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird"


-"Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse"


-"Bon joined us pretty late in his life, but that guy had more youth in him than people half his age. That was how he thought, and I learned from him. Go out there and be a big kid"


-"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same"


-"I saw all the women and I figured that looked good. I was horney. I got a guitar off my brother and started playing anything"


-"One second he was there, you could see him in the booth then the next second he was down! The guys doing the recording kept asking Bon to do the line one more time, and every time he kept givin' his all, but in between takes you could hear him drinkin' down whiskey, it was like with a bullet in his back. Guzzle, guzzle, guzzle. With a bullet in his back. Guzzle guzzle guzzle. And finally on the last one he just gave it everything he had and passed out, we all kinda went around and just seen him there on the floor"


-"Often he would trail off with fans that came back stage after a show and go off with them to a party or something. He judged people as they were and if they invited him and he was in the right mood to go, he went. We used to call him 'Bon The Likeable'"


-"I've seen Bon drink three bottles of Bourbon straight off even though he did like to drink and have a crazy time, he was always there when you needed him to do his job"


-"I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up front of a crowd and rip it up"


-"We never care about labels such as punk, psyedellic or whatever else."


-"We could be somewhere where you would never expect anyone to know him and someone would walk up and say 'Bon Scott!' and always have a beer for him"


-"I just go where the guitar takes me."


-"I think we do what we do well, whatever it is that we do. do."


-"I think after Bon I felt horribly grown up in a way, when you're young you always think you're immortal and that time really spun me around"


-"Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing."


-"I'd always wanted an SG, I think the cutaway horns reminded me a bit of myself."


-"Style, I didn't think we had any! I just plug in and hit the thing really hard. That's my style...or lack of one!"


-"His first words when he got out of the car were, "Im Bon." Then he looked down and went, 'ah, I've put on my wifes underwear.' And that was his first introduction with the band."


-"We aren't the prettest things in the world. With AC/DC its not like we're out to steal your wife and your girlfriend and your daughter. We may borrow them"


-"The Headmaster used to call me up every second day or so and say, 'well Young what have you been up to this time?' "


-"We never thought of ourselves as a 'heavy metal band' we've always regarded ourselves as a rock band. The big differance we've always thought we had a lot more feel for rock, we always went out for songs, not riffs or heavy, heavy sounds. But every now and again it does come on like a sledge hammer."


-"We're not black magic satanists. I don't drink blood. I may wear black underpants now and again, but that's it."


-"Malcolm would always tell me: don't tickel it, hit the bugger!"


-"The only image we've ever had is what we really are. We never cover up anything"


-"We use to think of ourselves as an Austrailan band, but we're beginning to doubt that now the fuckers won't even let us play here!"


-"Most bands have ups and downs. With us things just stay the same."


-"We can't sit on our arses and say the world owes us a living because we've paid our dues. Me; I think if I fluff a note I'm robbing the kids. You're gonna pour it all on until you drop, so even if they hate you they can still say' At least they tried'."


-"When we started, we didn't care about gettin on the radio and we didn't care what people said about us...We just went out and played rock music"


          -Angus Young, ACDC, Guitar, March 31, 1955