Bret Harding
Hello gentle reader. This week in the news there has been much rumour regarding the future of AC/DC. Sadly, as can happen with rumours, there is an element of truth in the telling.
What started out as an anonymous tip to Perth radio station grew legs and became something for which the band’s reps were being asked to offer a clarifying statement.
In recent days there has been rumour around Mal Young’s health and his decision to relocate with his family back to Sydney. If it is true the let us wish Mal and family well and leave them in peace.
My first live concert was in early 1976 at the Hurstville Civic Centre in suburban Sydney and was headlined by an AC/DC line-up from the ‘TNT’ period. I forget the support acts (there were a couple) but will never forget the impact Bon, Ang, Mal, Mark and Phil had in that first explosion of noise. I had been buying records by that stage but this was something altogether different. I was hooked.
In an effort to make this week’s thank you note to my heroes for all their good work more ‘Mal-centric’ I chose to share not an AC/DC track but one by another of the broader Easybeats’ family, Stevie Wright.
Whilst many of us know and love ‘Evie 1, 2 & 3’, not everyone knows that it is Mal playing lead guitar on the original studio version.
Thanks mate for everything. Good luck with everything else.
Gentle readers please take the time to enjoy all 11:07 of the studio version of this, perhaps our country’s greatest song.
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