(Image borrowed from here…) The campaign to find me a travellin’ companion for my trip across the nullabor is in full swing. Yesterday I spoke on radio 2SER’s drivetime show…Next Tuesday there’ll be an ad in the Drum Media, and there are several other tentacles out there, octopussing across the city. Someone will step forward… Continue reading BON OR BUST!!
Month: January 2008
Driving with Bon
(Thanks to this fella for the above image) Since the best stereo available to me is in a borrowed Toyota Yaris, that’s where I’ve been doing a lot of my listening. I can turn up the volume real loud and in that little bubble, really feel the music. It’s not the same coming out the… Continue reading Driving with Bon
Meeting Clinton Walker
(Clinton Walker looking over the Bon Scott timeline he constructed while writing his book…) It just so happens that one of Bon Scott’s biggest fans lives in Dulwich Hill, only fifteen minutes walk from my house. Last Thursday Katie and I popped around for a cup of tea with him. He took us out to… Continue reading Meeting Clinton Walker
Being a “Fan”…
[Sampdoria Fans in the “Gradinata Sud” – photo pinched from lucadea…] The Bon Scott Blog spluttered to life late last week. It’s a weird project for me. On the one hand I am relishing my relative ignorance of the subject, so that I can be the student in an enormous worldwide classroom in which my… Continue reading Being a “Fan”…
A few Bon Scott rumours…
Apparently there’s this guy in Emu Plains who is a master on the didj. “He can play any AC/DC song on it”. This is told to me in the pub by my friend Geoff, who lives in Vancouver. He’s visiting Sydney briefly, and this local knowledge tidbit was told to him by Bill, a busdriver… Continue reading A few Bon Scott rumours…
Bon and Me
Everyone has a Bon Scott story. I just got back from overseas, and my friends ask “so what are you up to now that you’re back?” When I reply, “I’m working on a project about Bon Scott, you know, that guy from AC/DC”, there is generally a pause, and either a look of incredulity, or… Continue reading Bon and Me
hero ick, icon ick
The following email, entitled “hero ick, icon ick” came through from my friend Anne today: hows this. not a word for months and then a deluge. no, but it’s interesting, this next blog you’ll be doing. half an hour ago i was googling heath ledger who’s apparently just overdosed in his manhattan digs. can’t say… Continue reading hero ick, icon ick
Integrity versus Popularity
…some rough Bon Scott notes. Have spent last few days reading the biography by Clinton Walker. Only up to page 105, ie the whole period before Bon joins AC/DC. After no luck in local bookshops, finally found the biography at the Newtown Public Library. Immediately adjacent to the music biography section is the magazine section.… Continue reading Integrity versus Popularity
Beginning the Bon Scott Blog
I’m starting a new project. It’s all about Bon Scott, the singer from AC/DC. He died in 1980. During the first half of this year there will be a Bon Scott Project in Fremantle, Western Australia. That’s where he spent much of his childhood, and that’s where he’s buried. Apparently his is the most visited… Continue reading Beginning the Bon Scott Blog
Guest Book
Feel free to leave your messages, tributes, criticism, suggestions, links etc here below. (If you would like to post images, movies or sound files, just email them to me at this address: lucas[at]bonscottblog[dot]com and I’ll upload them for you! Cheers, Lucas