The pint-sized Australian sounds off on the schoolboy thing, mooning, and teaching Arnold how to dance.

Have you always sported the schoolboy uniform, or was there a time you'd go on stage wearing cowboy duds or a tutu?

In the beginning I'd wear whatever I thought was appropriate, but the schoolboy suit was the one that stuck. Once I wore a Zorro and a couple of times I went out dressed as Superman. I even wore a guerilla suit around 1974 or '75, and they brought me out in a cage. Being in that suit, I thought I was going to perspire to death. And I couldn't see where I was going - I wandered straight into the audience.

Did those early crowds seem to embrace the schoolboy motif?

They thought I was a bit of a clown. I remember at a theater at Long Island, a guy kept throwing drinks at me. I warned him a couple of times, and then he hit me on the side of the head with his metal container. So I jumped in the crowd and let him have it.

No offense, but your not exactly the biggest guy in the world.

No, and as soon as I jumped off stage and saw the height of this guy, I thought to myself, "You fool." Luckily, one of our crew guys got me out of it, because this guy was big. But I figured if all else failed I could bite him in the kneecap.

Your last album, Stiff Upper Lip, was recorded in Bryan Adams's Vancouver studio. Isn't it odd for a hard-rocking band like AC/DC to book a studio owned by the guy who whined "Everything I Do, I do For You"?

It was kind of strange, yeah. I didn't know it was his until we were recording, and one day, in walks Bryan Adams. Apparently, he's a nonsmoking vegetarian, and here's our lead singer cooking all this meat and making bacon sandwiches. With this bacon smell floating around everywhere, he walks into the studio and it's full of cigarette smoke. So that was his introduction to us.

Arnold Schwarzenegger claims to be a big AC/DC fan. Ever party with Arnie?

Well, I showed him a dance step for a video. I remember when I met him, he picked me up with hand, lifted me to eye level and said, "Hullo Ang-goose." We had done a track for his movie, Last Action Hero, and the film studio wanted him to be part of the video. I said to him, "It'd be cool if you were in the school suit like me." So they had a big school suit made for him. And the director said, "Arnold, see that little runaround Angus does? It'd be good if you could copy it." So I showed him how to do it.

When did the whole mooning thing start?

We were playing an open-air festival in Britain in '76, and located between the audience and the stage was a big press pit. At one point this photographer girl stood up - she had long blond hair and big boobs sticking out. All the males in the audience, their eyes just followed this girl as she strutted from one side of the stage to the other. I thought, "Well, all the attention's going that way. I've got to do something to compete with this." So I dropped my shorts.
(Scott Gramling)
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