Bon Scott or Brian Johnson!!!

[SpaceMonkey]

Scott. A deadset legend. Johnson was a good replacement but Bon was a one-off.

 

[CC_Eagle]

Powerage is by far their best album.

I prefer Bon. His sense of humor,charisma,street poetry/songwriting and his larrikin-esque attitude made him the ultimate RnR frontman. He had it all. In a magazine I picked up earlier in the year it named Bon the #1 Frontman of all time..I can't argue at all.


But AC/DC wouldn't be where they are today without Brian, after all he has been the voice on their highest selling albums and best known songs.

 

[HevyDevy]

David Lee Roth has to be #1 frontman of all time!! The consumate showman.

 

[CliffyIsGod]

Too bad AC/DC is the most over-rated band in existence.

 

[carcharias]

David Lee Roth has to be #1 frontman of all time!! The consumate showman.

wrong.

Elvis
Freddy Mercury
Jim Morrison
Mick Jagger
Peter Garret
Bono

all better , all more memorable.

If I wanted to look at a bloke bending over with the arse cut out of his spandex pants I'd to go mardi Gra.

 

[HevyDevy]

I accept most of those as viable alternatives with the exception of Peter Garrett.

 

[carcharias]

Did you ever see them live at their peak?

If so you will agree he put more into one song than Le Roth did into an entire show.

Peter Garret was a live rock animal and a Aussie legend who put all the rest to shame.

The man invented his own dance.

Garret = Passion

 

[Rexxy]

This is supposed to be true. Somewhere at a gig in rural Victoria, the song called for bagpipes and Bon was 'playing them". But somehow just before he picked them up he somehow 'got naked" and the City Fathers rushed the stage, picked him up. Wearing nothing but that crooked smile he was carried out the door and into the night....With bagpipes still blaring.

Every time I hear that bit in Long Way to the Top I get a frisson.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

This is supposed to be true. Somewhere at a gig in rural Victoria, the song called for bagpipes and Bon was 'playing them". But somehow just before he picked them up he somehow 'got naked" and the City Fathers rushed the stage, picked him up. Wearing nothing but that crooked smile he was carried out the door and into the night....With bagpipes still blaring.

Every time I hear that bit in Long Way to the Top I get a frisson.

I like the story about how they were at some big music industry dinner and someone put a turkey on the table, so Bon filled it with champagne and started drinking champers out of the turkey's arse. Later on he gave the turkey to Darryl Braithwaite to have a drink from, but little did Darryl know that by that stage Bon had pissed in the turkey!

 

[carcharias]

Ive been pissed in Turkey

 

[Haynzy]

Peter Garrett regularly put so much into a show that he had to be put on oxygen just to be able to do an encore.!

The man is a legend.

 

[carcharias]

Peter Garrett regularly put so much into a show that he had to be put on oxygen just to be able to do an encore.!

The man is a legend.

To deny it would be un-Australian.

Beds are burning is a great book .

It mentions the Royal Antler hotel and how PG had to run back stage to press his lips up against the crack beneath the locked fire escape door to get some oxygen.

It also tells of one gig where he ( mid gig ) got outside the venue and crossed the road ran down and dived into the surf and back before the song finished .

 

[HevyDevy]

The best book I've ever read, without doubt, was Motley Crue's 'The Dirt'. It doesn't matter whether you're a Crue fan or not, you HAVE to read that book!!!

 

[carcharias]

The best book I've ever read, without doubt, was Motley Crue's 'The Dirt'. It doesn't matter whether you're a Crue fan or not, you HAVE to read that book!!!

Ya see anything wth Motley Crue involved usually makes me think of blokes with hair dryers and makeup.

If it was given to me I'd read it.
I'd be too embarressed to hand it over at the check out.

Scar tissue ..Anthony Kiedis
Long Time Gone ..David Crosby

Two great books about musicians..Scar Tissue is outstanding.

 

[Rexxy]

This Wheel's On Fire by Levon Helm (with Stephen Davis) is a rollickin ride of a bar band playing honky-tonks and dives to being Bob Dylan's most important side men, in front of tens of thousands of people. Single handedly The Band invemnted the West Coast Sound and the sort of music and harmonies people used to listen to. The book is a truly great read specially the bits about the birth of rock n roll, all fused with blues and country, in the deep south of America.

"We never played no fruit rock, no punk rock. We never wore dresses onstage or put no paint on our faces. We never blew up any bombs onstage. We didn't suck off any snakes onstage. We didn't wear tight pants or them big turquoise rings. We didn't take a piss onstage or throw any TV's out the window that I can remember. But today the music business has gotten so it's like Vietnam: a few guys making a lot of money, some guys getting cut up, and in five years ain't much of it even gonna be worth a pinch of sh*t." Levon Helm 1978

Ya see anything wth Motley Crue involved usually makes me think of blokes with hair dryers and makeup.

If it was given to me I'd read it.
I'd be too embarressed to hand it over at the check out.

Scar tissue ..Anthony Kiedis
Long Time Gone ..David Crosby

Two great books about musicians..Scar Tissue is outstanding.

 

[Jono Russell]

so is this an ac/dc thread or a thread on other front men?

anyway back on subject.
As most have stated you can not compare the two men, Both fronting one of the best band sin the world whilst both have very different sounds.

Someone earlier said something about back in black being there highest selling album but correct me if im wrong but wasnt back in black album writting before bons death???

Imagine that album if bon did it, it would be very interesting.

If i had to choose id say Bon but only by a small margin as Brian is a legend in his own rights.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

Bon Scott.

 

[Haynzy]

Ya see anything wth Motley Crue involved usually makes me think of blokes with hair dryers and makeup.

If it was given to me I'd read it.
I'd be too embarressed to hand it over at the check out.

Scar tissue ..Anthony Kiedis
Long Time Gone ..David Crosby

Two great books about musicians..Scar Tissue is outstanding.

loved beds are burning!

looking forward to scoring Scar Tissue at Chrissy.

 

[HevyDevy]

Have you read 'The Dirt'?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Ya see anything wth Motley Crue involved usually makes me think of blokes with hair dryers and makeup.

If it was given to me I'd read it.
I'd be too embarressed to hand it over at the check out.

Scar tissue ..Anthony Kiedis
Long Time Gone ..David Crosby

Two great books about musicians..Scar Tissue is outstanding.

Don't worry, anyone who knows rock bios will know that "The Dirt" is a must read so I wouldn't feel embarrased buying it. Its less about music per se than the utterly excessive and debauchedf lifestyle that went with it at the time. I'm no Crue fan but it's an awesome read. And it has perhaps the best opening paragraph of any book, ever:

Her name was Bullwinkle. We called her that because she had a face like a moose. But Tommy, even though he could get any girl he wanted on the Sunset Strip, would not break up with her. He loved her and wanted to marry her, he kept telling us, because she could spray her cum across the room.