News of a rare AC/DC recently appeared in the AC/DC newsgroup.
In the archives of the Hamburg music publisher "SCHACHT" an AC/DC rare
piece gets dusty - MOPO tells, why ...
Bon Scotts session in Maschen
15th of September, 1976:
It smells of sweat and beer. On the stage of the "factory" Bon shouts
the soul from his body, while on his shoulders sits a stripling of just 50
kilos and treats fervently his Gibson guitar. At this moment Rudy Holzhauer
anticipates that he had made a big mistake. The chaotic troop announced
as "pop group No 1 of Australia" was AC/DC. A band which had been offered
to the music publisher "SCHACHT" a few weeks previously as a contracting
partner. But he declined. "When I saw them live, I was fret and fume."
The first Hamburg appearance of Angus and Co., nevertheless, remained
not without effect.
28th of June, 2001:
"I'm A Rebel" resounds Bon Scotts charismatic voice from the speakers of
Benjamin Schacht, the current chief of the studio. A simple structure,
strong riffs - a typical AC/DC piece. But one which nobody knows. "After
the "factory" Gig we asked the boys to record a song for us", explains
Holzhauer. "Shacht" took over the studio expenses, because the song was written by
one of his Hamburg authors: Alec Young - a brother of AC/DC who died 4 years
ago.
"During the day after the Gig the band came in at 6 o'clock (pm) to the
Maschener studio, had breakfast (a bottle of Whiskey) and recorded the
song in a few hours", reports Holzhauer. The song was never published.
However, a few years later Accept interpreted it again - and landed their first
success.
However, the original recording gets dusty since then in the "Schacht"
archives because the AC/DC record company does not seem to be interested
in a release of the rare piece.
Bon Scott is dead and that the rest of AC/DC is still alive is a miracle
for the eyewitnesses of that time: "We were happy to take part in that,
because nobody credited these musicians to survive the next year".
well they moved on down