He said that Bon Scott had been gone for about 3 months when they did this. Brian said they put him on a wage for 6 months and paid him a salary.
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Howard asked if they had a contract drawn up saying who gets what percentage. He said the guys told him he can’t leave. Brian said he thanked them for the chance and he said he had to go home. Howard asked if they hired him on the spot or did they tell him to go home. He said they were wondering what was happening there. Howard said he can’t drink because he’s so neurotic about the voice.īrian said he started to sign with the guys and they all got goose bumps. Howard asked if the drinking affects his voice. He said that he drank with the guys and then started to sing with the band. Brian said he went across the street and saw four guys sitting there waiting for him. Howard said he can see Brian having trouble figuring out that deal. Howard said he remembers that they weren’t that exciting back then but they weren’t the band they became yet. Brian said he could have headed back to his parents house but he had AC/DC waiting for him. Brian said he did the jingle the same day he got in on the AC/DC thing. He said he was going to do that and have the meeting with the band on the same day. Howard said they didn’t really blow up until ”Back in Black” though.īrian said he was asked to sing on a commercial jingle and he was told it would be $350. He said that the boys had a cult following and they were loved by everyone. Brian said that he thought he was too old to be a rock star in AC/DC but he went and did the audition anyway.
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Howard asked if he knows who the fan is that suggested him. She eventually told him it was AC/DC and she said she had said too much when she did that. He said she was asking him to come in for an audition but she wouldn’t tell him who the band was. He said he got a call from a woman who had a German accent. Brian said he talks about that in the book. He said that Bon let him play in the band and he was all for him getting into the band. Brian said it was a fan from Cleveland who called Mutt Lange. Howard asked who it was that suggested him for the band. Howard asked if people still recognized him from being in the Geordies. He said that he had to do what he had to do to feed the kids. He said that the Geordies had some top 10 hits but they got ripped off by the record companies so they weren’t making money.īrian said that he went out working on broken windshields and stuff like that and hid himself with the hat. He said he did start wearing a hat to hide who he really was. Howard said his dad must have been humiliated. Brian said that his parents did tell him that his singing stuff wasn’t going to work. Howard asked Brian if he was a disappointment to his parents. He said he did that because he was so desperate for money. He said they were putting vinyl roofs and racing stripes on cars. Brian was still living at home in his 30s and he ended up opening up his own auto shop where they customized cars. Howard said Brian was in the band The Geordies when Bon Scott was in AC/DC. He said he remembers girls based on the cars he was driving at the time.īrian said that he would hear stories from his friends and he wouldn’t remember anything about it until they mentioned the car he was driving at the time. Howard gave Brian a plug for his book ”Rockers and Rollers: A Full-Throttle Memoir” and talked to him about how he had trouble remembering a lot of things.
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Howard said that they were just talking about him earlier and talking about how he got AC/DC to be even more popular than when Bon Scott was in the band. Howard came right back after break and had Brian Johnson come in.