Scottish - Musician | March 31, 1959 -
Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.
Angus Young
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Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.
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With seven boys and one sister, there was always a lot of music in the house. A few of my brothers were playing instruments, so it was from hearing that, coupled with discovering early rock, which triggered me to pick up a guitar and try to pick out the notes.
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When you sign on and say, 'I'm gonna do this and that,' it's always good to say at the end of it, 'I've done all I said I would do.'
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You have to put a market value on what you do.
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The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.
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We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.
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When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.
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For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.
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The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.
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I always liked the double cutaway. It looked like two horns. It's like a red devil. So I went to the guitar shop, saw an SG that was sitting there looking rather lonely, and said, 'Hey, that's for me.'
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The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.
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