Dave Evans & Thunder Down Under
Ecstasy Records 1999

Tracks
Somebody Better - Evans , Franceshini
Nobody but you - James , Shelly , Boddiker ( Landry Jefferey James Music)
Baby blues eyes - Evans , Green
It's Alright - Evans , Green , Franceshini
Another Day - Evans , Green , Franceshini
Get ready - Evans , Green
Hot Nights - Evans , Green , Franceshini
Forever - Evans , Green , Franceshini
Nice Guys - Evans , Franceshini
Waltzing Matilda - Banjo Patterson (Castle Music)

Line Up

Dave Evans - Lead Vocals
John Dallimore - Guitars
Same See - Guitar , Piano
Joe Creighton - Bass
Danny Simic - Drums
Robyn Payne - Keyboards
Alex Pertout - Percussion
Joe Camilleri - Saxophone
Alan Harding - Trombone
John Felding - Trumpet
Backing Vocals - Penny Dyer , Wendy Stapleton , Lindsay Field , Joe Creighton , John Dallimore

Produced and Engineered by Meke Dearnley at Powerplant Studios , Melbourne

Sleeve Notes

Dave Evans was born in Carmarthen Wales. The family emigrated to Australia when Dave was five years old settling in North Queensland. After a row with his father, at the age of sixteen, Dave headed for Sydney, Living in Kings Cross, until returning to Queensland a year later. It was at Charters Towers in Queensland that Dave formed his first band "In Session". Realising that to pursue a serious singing career he needed to be in Sydney , Dave returned there to sing with a number of local musicians. It was at this time he met up with Malcolm Young , Colin Burgess and Larry Van Knedt and agreed to form a band , yet unnamed. Malcolm's younger brother Angus joined the band a week later.

It was Malcolm and Angus's older sister Margaret who came up with the name of AC/DC which signified power and energy and so marked the birth of one of the greatest rock n roll bands ever.

AC/DC played their first gig at Chequers nightclub in Sydney on the 31st of December 1973.

AC/DC went on to gain a strong following i Sydneyt over the next few Months before recording their first single "Can I sit next to you girl (B/W Rocking in the parlour)"

At this point Angus donned the now famous schoolboy uniform , and with the single racing up the charts nationally, AC/DC started on a National tour beginning at the Sydney Opera House. Before the end of the gruelling tour, playing to packed houses all around the country, frictions and egos took their toll and after a punch up between Evans and the manager life on the road became unbearable and a split between Evans and AC/DC became inevitable.

Bon Scott who had been a friend of Malcolm and Angus's older brother George Young of EasyBeats fame had seen the band perform in Adelaide. Scott joined AC/DC which by this stage was well and truly established as a leading rock band in Australia. AC/DC went on to become one of the World's greatest bands.

Dave Evans moved to join the exciting up and coming band "Rabbit" which established itself as the leading rock band in Newcastle and Surrounding areas and a few months later signed with CBS Records releasing their first album , Self titled "Rabbit". Their second album "Too much rock and roll" was released internationally in Japan , Germany , Luxemboug , Holland , France and Scandinavia wher it met with consideable sucess. Rabbit estavlished itself as a wild almost frenzied rock act described by one rock journbalist as savagely hetrosexual.

The band finally split in 1979 with Evans moving to Melbourne , forming "The Lineup" and "Hot Cockerel". Hot Cockerel featured in the Erotic comedy feature film "Coming of Age" with Dave Evans in the lead role.

Dave Evans finally formed his own band "Dave Evans and Thunder Down Under" and recorded the self titled album which had a limited release with independant record label "Reaction Records"

With the demise of Reaction Records and because of legal sqabbling this album had until now sat in limbo.

Listen to the voice which launched AC/DC and the music which is "Dave Evans and Thunder Down Under"

Bon Scott memorial concert