Angus Young: Lead Guitar

Angus Young was born on March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland. At school,
Angus was an unenthusiastic student. His only real academic interest was
art wich allowed him some freedom of expression. He gave up school at 15
and went to work for a soft porn magazine called Ribald as a printer. 

But his ambitions laid elsewhere anyway, and for a year prior to leaving
school Angus had been practising guitar almost constantly, jamming around
with friends and playing at school dances. In the beginning, Angus messed
around with Malcolm's guitars for years before his mother finally bought
him his own, a cheap little acoustic. By the time he was eleven Angus had
flirted with a tutorial course, but he prefered to learn by himself and most
of his musical education was pure trial and error. 

While his older brother Malcolm was hatching plans for his new band, Angus
was well on his way toward establishing a distinctive stage persona. His
spasmodic, seemingly out-of-control onstage body language has always
come naturally. Such trademark Angus moves as his patented duckwalk
and his on-the-floor body spasms could be handy attention-getting devices
when playing for drunken, rowdy barroom crowds. Many of these gestures
grew out of accidents. 

One night Tantrum, the pre-AC/DC band Angus was playing with, was going
down really badly. Angus walked across the stage and tripped over the
guitar lead, so he felt a right dick and he kept running across the floor. He
made it look like a death scene, screaming all hell from the guitar. It was
the only clap they got that night. Angus told his brother about it. Malcolm
asked him to join the band he was putting together.