Coach Alastair Clarkson - NMFC Senior Coach - Coaching & Football Discussion

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And isn't it wonderous that we all have our own opinions on who we rate and why we rate them, whether that be highly or middling or not at all.

I was born in 68 so my admiration for the great Scott was formed years later not in the day. Bon died in 1980 I'd have been 12. We didn't have the access to music that we do now, we're very lucky. Stick ya Netflix's, Stan and whatever else.

Spotify/youtube I may wear out.

AC/DC were raw and ballsy and I feel looking back that Bon was the quintessential frontman of the day. I saw this movie a few years back and it's ******* gloriously mental.


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Whole lot of Rosie makes me laugh, brilliant song and written from Bon's personal experiences. Some lass in Tasmania I do believe, or so the story goes.

He wrote some wonderful songs, and his dancing was superb. I still lol when I watch it. Totally cool and charismatic was Bon, actually ran into his son a few months back. Didn't know it was him, until someone said that it was him.

Got a little giddy I must say.


"Wanna tell you story
About woman I know
When it comes to lovin'
She steals the show
She ain't exactly pretty
Ain't exactly small
Fourt'two thirt'ninefiftysix
You could say she's got it all"


^^ masterful. The lady in question was apparently Rosemaree Garcia.
I remember the day he died, I was 10 or 11 but right into them.

Allegedly Rosie was a mexican lady who beat Bon at pool in some dive in mexico. They disappeared for a few days and he came back and wrote the song.
 
You blokes suck me in everytime……Bon Scott clearly the best AC/DC frontman. Everything about that guy oozed rock n roll. You can’t possibly slag off Appetite for Destruction, brilliant from start to finish- not many albums can do that and Use your Illusion 2 was way better than 1 but the Gunners catalogue isn’t very deep I agree. What else??? Oh yeah, Ride the Lightening the best Metallica album, just over Master of Puppets. Oh and the older I get the greater my appreciation for Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel- couldn’t stand them as a young bloke.
Cold Chisel are an absolute genius band.

Add them to any of those "who I'd love to have seen in their prime" lists.

I've got a mate who grew up in London in the late 60s and early 70s. Their local music scene was shit hot.

His list of "have seen bands" is pretty good. Has seen Led Zep live about 20 times (or so he says) and a whole bunch of other UK bands from that era. It'd have been like East coast Australia in the late 70s - Cold Chisel, AC/DC, Angels, Rose Tattoo, Radio Birdman, Saints (to a lesser degree). Heaps of other good music scenes around the place over the years.
 
In The Angels biography, one of the Brewsters ( I think Rick) talks about sitting in a bar with Angus one day talking about whether they'd make it.
Apparently Angus said "you guys will be fine because you've got Doc, and we'll be fine because we've got Bon" and Rick was like "mate, you'll be fine because you've got... you!".
 
Brian would be the AC. Bon the DC.

Bon would be up there with Mick & Freddy. And l'm not a huge Queen fan.

Aus.has had some great frontmen;
. Scott
. Hutchence
. Early Barnes
. Bailey
. Thorpe
. St.John
. Neeson
A small selection who'd not be embarrassed on a world stage and take it over.


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I’d put Tex Perkins on that list too.
 

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Was very sad to see how Doc ended up.

He was a shell of himself post car accident.
I met him a couple of times in the early 2000s through a mutual friend and it was heartbreaking to see how much pain he was in.
 
Was very sad to see how Doc ended up.

He was a shell of himself post car accident.
I met him a couple of times in the early 2000s through a mutual friend and it was heartbreaking to see how much pain he was in.
Saw him playing as "Doc Neeson's Angels" in East Brunswick towards the end. Pretty sad show.
 
Was very sad to see how Doc ended up.

He was a shell of himself post car accident.
I met him a couple of times in the early 2000s through a mutual friend and it was heartbreaking to see how much pain he was in.
Not sure if you've seen this on ABC Iview yet mate but it's brilliant. Days like these with Diesel.

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The line up at that festival was insane, Doc & the boys blew the stadium away..
 
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