Where's Hingehead? I want him to see this response to this question he asked me way back a bunch of pages ago.
hingehead wrote:
It's kind of funny having an NY guy posting Bon Scott. Growing up back then we had a real sense of the oz music scene being largely isolated from the rest of the world. We loved the Acker Dackers we didn't think anyone payed much attention until Back In Black, and by then they were a different band to the one we knew. Kicky were you a Bon fan back in the 70s or did you discover early AC/DC after hearing the Brian Johnston incarnation?
Definitely a fan before Brian Johnson. It was probably my first favorite rock band, actually. I remember when I was about thirteen, I was listening to the radio, and TNT came on. I was blown away, and immediately, my friends and I were off on a quest to find every record by these guys. It was probably about 1978 or so when we became nutjob AC/DC fans, to the chagrin of our parents. I had collected every album I could find by the time Bon Scott died. Although Back In early 1980. Black was still excellent, I still like the old AC/DC better. I guess when you are an impressionable child of thirteen and you hear your first taste of great rock music, it sticks.
But yeah, overall, I think AC/DC was not a big thing here in the US until Back In Black. They had some success with Highway to Hell, but they blew up bigtime when Back in Black came out.
So yeah, I dug them for a while before Brian Johnson came along.
I guess I had pretty good taste in music back then, huh?
We have another game tonight...gearing up to go now :wink: 
