Bon Scott DIDN'T Write Anything On Back In Black Part One
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- čas přidán 25. 09. 2023
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I dive even deeper into the “Bon Scott wrote Back In Black” conspiracy theory with a three-part video in which I review Jesse Fink’s updated edition of his book Bon The Last Highway. I also discuss Fink and I exchanging words after the last video, my new conclusion about how much Bon contributed to Back In Black, and I break down all of the “oral testimony” that’s been documented in support of the conspiracy theory. If you’re interested in the opinion of a guy who has loved AC/DC since grade school - and is a fan of both the Bon and Brian eras - then watch this video and decide for yourself who wrote this legnardary album…!!!!
And here's the video that started all this madness: • Bon Scott wrote "a lit...
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The longer everyone tries to claim that Jonno wrote that record with the Youngs, the more I'm convinced they didn't just use Bon's lyrics...but those are Bon's melodies and he helped arrange it, and only someone engaging in the suspension of disbelief or who is stone cold deaf would think otherwise
@drivingwheel9101 Remember, Brian wrote YSMANL in 15 minutes and _all_ of the lyrics to BIB (even Mal didn’t have a say in the lyrics!) It’s just that by the end of the 1980s Brian was creatively dried up…err, he was going through a divorce…one of those two stories!…err, or both! Yeah! Both excuses are why he stopped writing lyrics!
Besides, _every_ great writer runs out of ideas, they don’t _improve_ at their craft! It’s common knowledge they get creatively _worse_ as time goes on, dummy! 🤪
@@beyondthehorizon75 that makes PERFECT sense, especially since Brian was so inspired by American thighs even though he'd never been to America at that point.
It also makes sense on another level, because songwriting also appears fully realized while under pressure - it's just inspiration, not practicing a craft, double especially with people who have no real history of songwriting before.
It's a real convergence of serendipity, divine providence and plain old hard work that makes for the fantastic folk tale of a working class band whose lead singer AND MAIN SONGWRITER died in February to have a timeline of : auditions in March, hiring Brian in April, flying to the Bahamas in May to record, mix and master in June, and then having the album out in July - oh, and it's the 2nd best selling record of all time. Amazing that Phil Carson and Atlantic Records had so much blind faith in Brian Johnson from Geordie to write those lyrics and melodies that they okayed paying for the studio and paying for Mutt Lange and all the band's crew and equipment to fly to the Bahamas without hearing a single demo with lyrics and melodies.
Unbelievable, honestly. Honestly, I'll bet Ol' Jonno didn't have much more than 15 minutes to do a bump, take a dump, and crank out the lyrics while he was on the john.
@@beyondthehorizon75 good on the Youngs and Albert Productions to cut the Scott family in on the royalties for Back In Black, they've always been so generous.
Two Writers Myself and Bon Scott and NO OTHERS !!
BON STATES " THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY " REFERENCE TO THE WRITING CREDITS AS THE MAIN GUY WAS ME AT 14 WITHOUT PARENTS CONSENT IN UCLA PICU MAY 22-23 1979.
@captaincrunch5878 would make more sense for someone who has been in America to write about a girl with American thighs than a guy whose only experience with America at that point was via the fucking TV set so I believe your story almost as much as Brian and Ang's 😆
😂 if you can’t tell Bon wrote those songs then you have never listened pre-Johnson. 😂😂😂
Yeah because Geordie is so much less like AC/DC than Fraternity and the Valentines.
2/2 Just like you choose to ignore everyone else. Is that your advice, wise one? We should ignore all these people who actually knew Bon when he was alive and saw him before he died and forget all these scattered pieces of information that are painting a clear picture and go with the conventional story?
Did you actually read the exchange I had with Mark Evans in The Youngs regarding the issue of the lyrics? Why would Evans, who was in AC/DC with Bon, read the entire book and tell me it was the ‘best book I’ve ever read about AC/DC’ (his words, printed on the cover of subsequent editions with his blessing) if I was making it up and indulging in conspiratorial fantasy? Some people have the ability to read between the lines. It seems you don’t.
What about the DJ ‘Wild Bill’ Scott? You must have missed that part in Bon: The Last Highway while you were doing your ‘deep’ analysis. A friend of Bon and Angus, he said in March 1980 that the lyrics were written before the album was recorded. You don’t mention Valerie Shearman, the widow of Moxy singer Buzz Shearman, saying the same thing when Buzz was asked to audition for Back in Black.
Even one of the posters on the AC/DC Fans forum, in response to your plea for support, has said Back in Black engineer Mark Dearnley told him a story about the lyrics that wouldn’t make Brian’s fans happy. It’s very clear what this person is saying; like many people he has his reasons to keep quiet. Do you know now how to read between the lines? I’ve encountered many people who won’t talk about AC/DC and I respect their reasons for not doing so.
I never used Doubletime as ‘big evidence’. What book were you reading? Actual quote: ‘Doubletime, Holly’s horse from circa 1973/74 to 1979, was sold because she didn’t have enough time to devote to it. Scrapbooks from her childhood contain drawings and jottings about horses; I’ve seen them for myself. She was obsessed with horses. How did Doubletime get the name? She was working with a horse trainer who was giving horses names containing the word “time”: Overtime, Halftime, Time and Again. Coincidence? An amazing one, if that’s all it is.’
I guess you also missed the part where Pattee Bishop was talking about clean vaginas and how the line ‘she kept her motor clean’ might be better explained in the context of ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’. No, let’s go with the clean motor-vehicle explanation in a song full of double entendres. After all, Brian loved cars!
I guess you also missed the part where Michael Fazzolare, who you disgracefully and unnecessarily denigrated, actually rehearsed alongside and played onstage with Bon during the writing of Highway to Hell, along with his bandmates in Critical Mass, who were signed to MCA Records. One thing I won’t stand for is friends of mine being spoken of in that way. It was Mick (and his friend, DJ Neal Mirsky, who interviewed Bon in Orlando that year) who opened up the door to that whole part of the Miami story that had never been told and it’s all corroborated.
I guess you also missed the part where Holly X was photographed with Bon in New York in 1977. Why don’t you mention that? Instead you make out Holly is a fabricated invention and I couldn’t provide a photo of her. The photo of the two of them is literally mentioned on page 48: ‘Meanwhile, a seemingly innocuous photo opportunity at The Palladium with two promo girls that evening would be anything but for Bon. Holly X, a full-figured 17-year-old blonde, and her friend Gigi Fredy, both from Miami, turned up in T-shirts with “AC” on one (Holly in black) and “DC” on the other (Gigi in white). Angus and Bon posed with them for photographer Chuck Pulin. In the very first photograph taken of the future couple, Bon was smitten with Holly, goofing off.’
Do you have any idea how Bon wrote songs? Gee, Bon couldn’t re-use a line he first used in a letter in 1976 in a lyric he might have written in 1980! Impossible! Have you any goddamn clue about his writing process? How lyrics were worked and reworked, sometimes over years, before they appeared in songs? No? Go to footnote 1 in Chapter 40. Listen to the Bonfire album if you’re still having trouble.
I actually spoke to Phil Rudd and this is mentioned at the beginning in the book. But apparently, according to you, I ‘forgot’ him. Call him up. See how you go. When have I ever said any member of AC/DC was involved in a ‘cover-up? I have not once called Tony Platt a liar. Point me to it.
So, in summary: Silver Smith is not reliable. Holly X is not reliable. Wild Bill Scott is not reliable. Valerie Shearman is not reliable. Michael Fazzolare and the guys in Critical Mass are not reliable. Ian Jeffery is not reliable. David Krebs is not reliable. Mark Evans is not reliable. Doug Thaler is not reliable. Isa Scott is not reliable. Vince Lovegrove is not reliable. Mark Gable is not reliable. Malcolm Dome is not reliable. Pete Way is not reliable. Paul Chapman is not reliable. Pattee Bishop is not reliable. But Angus Young is reliable, even though he contradicts himself about the lyrics issue, just like Brian Johnson has multiple times.
This is the same Angus who said in 2005: ‘A lot of ideas, choruses, song titles and lyrical snippets were already in place before Brian arrived.’
Oh, and let’s not forget Bon’s friends Mary Renshaw and John D’arcy who also let slip in a TV interview that Bon wrote lyrics for Back in Black. Don’t look it up, deep researcher. It might ruin your hypothesis. Also ignore the recent telling statements from Robert Ellis and Simon Wright.
The reason why fans’ beliefs around this issue are changing lately is because all the information points to a reasonable conclusion: Bon had input into Back in Black that hasn’t been acknowledged. The title of your video was debunked even before you made it.
This is how real journalists actually do their jobs.
Well said Jesse. Keep up the good work getting the truth out there.
Jesse, even with this shaping up to be a three part video, I obviously can't cover everything that's in your book (however I do discuss Paul Chapman and Valerie Shearman's oral testimony in the next video). You didn't call Tony Platt a liar, but you're saying what he told you is a lie. Obviously the implication in your book -- and the one you're making in CZcams comments -- is he's misrepresenting the truth when he says Brian wrote the majority of the lyrics (based on his firsthand account of the songwriting and recording of the album). And yeah, I believe people like Tony Platt and Cliff Williams over the various people you've chosen to believe. Like I said in the video, I think you're a good investigative journalist and you really sold me on a lot of things -- including your theory about Bon's death -- but you just didn't sell me on the lyric conspiracy. And since I see this theory spreading among the AC/DC fan community, I decided to weigh-in with my opinion. You should be thrilled: there's far more "Bon Scott Wrote Back In Black" content on CZcams than videos like mine. You definitely tapped into a good market. 👍🏼
@@EddyCannistraci No time to cover everything? Right. No, I did not say that what he told me was a lie. Where did I say that? I interviewed Tony and got his account. I reported it. I asked him point blank: "So you came up with ‘working double time on the seduction line’ completely from scratch, or AC/DC were already playing"around with the words ‘double time’?" He replied, "
‘I’m afraid I can’t really remember." When have I ever called anyone liars or thieves, which you said I did? Point me to it. That you have the gall to say "you should be thrilled" when you've basically misrepresented my work is beyond the pale.
@@JesseFinkBooks Of course Tony's quote "I'm afraid I can't really remember" was just in regard to whether the word "double time" was thrown out when they were spitballing the YSMANL lyrics. His recollection sounded pretty spot-on for everything else you asked him about. You're obviously implying Tony is lying because he stated that Brian wrote "the bulk of the lyrics" and you don't believe this. You think that Brian writing the bulk of the lyrics is a false narrative. Therefore if a person with a firsthand account of the writing process says otherwise, they're contributing to the false narrative. Unless you think Tony is mistaken. Is that it? Do you just think he's mistaken? And Cliff Williams? is he likewise mistaken? And you know everyone discussing and debating your book is good for sales. Anyway, good chat as always. PS - You should create your own IPA and call it Beyond The Pale. 🍻
I was told that "Brian and the Youngs story IS the proof that they wrote Back In Black, not Bon..." when the reality is, all the evidence does show that Bon is the primary lyricist, melodicist, and arranger for the songs on the Back In Black album...the only "proof" otherwise are the stories of the people with the most to gain financially and career-wise by claiming Bon had nothing to do with it.
Great video Eddy! It's wild how people don't want to believe the simplest explanation for things
Yeah, tell me about it! Like the people who are credited for writing an album and everyone directly involved said wrote an album... wrote the album! 😂
@@EddyCannistraci I would think that saying shit like "We used some of Bon's lyrics" would be part of the marketing and stuff -- like they would probably be proud of that IMHO
@@CVGuitar Yeah, like they did with the last albums re: Malcolm's songwriting contributions. I discuss how the motive behind the conspiracy doesn't make any sense in Part Two.
@@EddyCannistraci Can't wait! Great stuff dude!!
Brian couldn't write those lyrics for back in black,no chance,the album has bon written all over it.
Amazing counterargument. Watch Part Two and Part Three in which I breakdown how a majority of the songs are written in Brian's style and not Bon's style and I dive further into the importance of the Young Brothers and Mutt Lange in the songwriting.
Thanks for another great video on the topic! I just happen to watch a documentary on the making of Highway to Hell last night (it had a couple of the guys in your video). No doubt you have seen it. I was struck by how much Bon really wanted to make it big and that he worked his ass off (like the rest of the band) for 5 years or so to get to that launching pad before they went to mega stardom with BIB and beyond. The tragedy being that he died right before that actually happened. I think so much of Bon's mystique is that all we remember (or can watch on YT) of him is him being that charismatic frontman when the band was making its way to the top. So much bad ass, so much swagger, so much talent and so much fun energy. We never got to see him become an old-man rock star living in his country manor with his eccentric hobbies like so many of his contemporaries. Because of that Bon will always stay "authentic" in our minds as the ultimate rock-in-roll guy. Also, while Bon was the perfect guy for AC DC on their climb to success, I think Brian was probably the perfect guy to be at there at that pinnacle and carry on that success over the course of the following decades. So, there is profound tragedy in the way things unfolded combined with fortunate fate for the band and its fans. Just my two cents.
Thanks for watching and for weighing in. I agree 110% with everything you said. It's not unlike Lennon with the Beatles or any rock artist who tragically dies before their time: they're forever young and pure and rock 'n' roll. That's one of the reasons I've been going to bat for Brian: he'll never be "the cool one" because he grew old and was always just a professional entertainer who fronted a steady and successful ship. But there's value in this as well IMO. I touch upon this point in the next video, but you expressed it perfectly.
@Jeff. Bon actually was hard at work for far more than 5 years. Those were no doubt his busiest, but in total Bon had been going nonstop for about 15 years. Just wanted to mention that.
Good point. Thanks!@@beyondthehorizon75
Glorious!! And from the looks of things there's some people who haven't commented on anything since Prindle's Ballbreaker review showing up!
Ha! Oh, that brings back memories! That was the first time Prindle and me interacted and ironically I was a triggered Ballbreaker fan! 😆
That's hilarious! In honor of it being such a small world I will put this immortal piece of musical critique here-
"Hi Stupids ! I'm a hungarian AC/DC fun man, but I hate the AC/DC music, because I'm a electricial. FUCK OFF!!!" I think he might he one of Jesse's friends haha
@@richtalksrecords HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Started the video not knowing what to expect.. the fact you’re wearing a Powerage shirt reassured me, this can only be good! It’s my favorite album ever. 🤟🏻
Man, after watching the whole video, I can only agree with everything you’ve said. A lot of it I knew already, like Bon wanting to quit the band in the near future and the possible involvement of « other substances » playing a role in his death. Now I’m absolutely convinced none of his lyrics were used for BiB (except for that one title). Would love to get my hands on his notebook tho, as I’m sure he was writing first drafts or whatever came to mind in late ‘79- early ‘80.. it must be out there somewhere!
@@GaelDT Thanks for watching and commenting. Powerage is also my favorite album of all time (not simply my favorite AC/DC album). And it's good to see I can convince people... even before I upload Part Two. Definitely subscribe if you haven't, so you know when that comes out. I'm starting to think that maybe the only newly penned lyrics were on that single note Malcolm was quoted about: with the few lyrics he thought weren't up to "Bon's reputation." And any other notebooks Bon had at his place contained lyrics he had already penned for past albums and it simply went to his family.
@@GaelDT he’s not worthy of a Powerage Tshirt , he’s an embarrassment to anything Bon .
Look, two people wrote that song and neither one was Brian Pinocchio Johnson.
truth
Captain crunch is more delusional than the clown who made this video .
i think tha fact that the powers that be dont let brian write lyrics for the band anymore speaks volumes
Watch my last video: I addressed that issue in detail and gave a theory.
I don't think Brian ever DID really write anything for the band - he didn't write in Geordie, but joins AC/DC, writes a stone cold classic in less than a month, but then the best he's got is the dreck found on Fly On The Wall? Yeah right...
@@drivingwheel9101 Brian cowrote half the songs on the second Geordie album (more than Bon ever wrote in the Fraternity). This gets explored in Part Two. And I already discussed in the last video how the band often knocked out their albums within a short timespan between tours. That's how bands did it back in the day. Maybe you should actually watch my videos and then offer your opinions.
@@EddyCannistraci how come that same band had such trouble writing songs a year later for the follow up of bands just "cranked them out" and I wouldn't waste my time watching your videos, brah. There's absolutely no new information in there, just an AC/DC fanboi hoping against hope that Santa Claus is real.
@@drivingwheel9101 Once again, if you actually watched my videos you'd know my thoughts on this. For example, I got into detail about how For Those About To Rock is my second favorite AC/DC album after Powerage and it's an extremely strong followup to Back In Black and a lot of diehard AC/DC likewise fans love it (along with Flick of the Switch). Regardless, the fact that you don't like their albums after Back In Black isn't proof of anything.
There are some funny coincidences in the event that Bon didn't at least have numerous lyric notes that went into the Back In Black album. Seriously. Also, there are rumors that the band was looking for a vocalist who simply needed to come in and sing; the album was already written. Odd.
Well, Bon did have a few lyrics written after his single rehearsal session for the album (three days before his death). It's just whether or not the band used them is the question. And rumors are just that: rumors. Obviously the album wouldn't have been written in its entirety before Mutt Lange's involvement. I dive more into these issues in the next two videos...!!
I don't really care who wrote what, but I am loving these videos!
Thanks as always, brother. Glad you're enjoying 'em.
Unrelated, but what do you think of the new stones tracks?
Being a huge Stones fan I really wanted to like it, but alas: I didn't. Way too overproduced, a static drum loop, Mick auto-tuned to hell... not the way I want to hear the Stones. I also think the song itself is nothing special. What did you think?
@@EddyCannistraci I know you’re only listening to one single from new albums now but the second one I thought was really good and had some spirit to it unlike angry which is semi unlistenable to me
@@7777jimbob "Semi unlistenable" is a perfect way to describe "Angry". I listened to the second single (since I haven't preordered this album and don't consider it breaking my rule ). And yeah: it's better than "Angry" and sounds like human beings made it. That being said, I don't think Lady Gaga's vocals are necessary and they feel like a crutch for Jagger. I'm still sampling this album before purchasing it...!! 🤔
27:29 is that Mal on the drums?
Yes it is. Doing his best Phil Rudd impression.
Actually, I'm more of a washed-up punk rocker rather than an aging one. Look, I get the "pics or it didn't happen" point of view, but I can only submit to you that I'm not lying about hanging with Bon and the boys regardless of not having any photos.
In 1979, when you're playing in bars, lugging equipment, setting up on stage, going over set lists, et al, the last thing on your mind is asking your mom if you can borrow her Kodak Hawkeye 110 Instamatic camera and a fresh roll of film along with a new pack of flash cubes. There are lots of folks who can corroborate my being there with the band. Anyway, I think I'll have some Pasta Fazool for breakfast.
Brian would have no Time for Journalists who keep saying he didn't write the Lyrics to Back in Black. There Wankers who Don,t like the Band
The part that gets me wondering is that Brian only Co-wrote six songs in Geordie over their three albums with Brian. That’s it. Then he came up with a few albums worth of (mostly good/great) lyrics with AC/DC.
I address this at length in "Bon Scott DIDN'T Write Anything On Back In Black Part Two", but I'll give you the broad strokes: Bon only wrote the lyrics to one song in his pre AC/DC band Fraternity but working with the Young Brothers (including their songwriting mentor George Young), he was able to start immediately writing good lyrics for the band and in a style he never wrote in beforehand. Brian, in addition to the Young Brothers, also had Mutt Lang helping out (who cowrote Def Leppard'd biggest songs) and he also had a blueprint to follow thanks to Bon and their prior albums.
Brian never wrote a full sentence for AC/DC he is a complete fraud when it comes to lyrics.
@@Peter_Dixon Wow. That’s an amazing argument: you’ve totally proved me wrong. 👍🏼
@@Peter_Dixon So, who wrote the very clever lyrics for their excellent songs such as 'Spellbound' or 'Nervous Shakedown' ?
@@EddyCannistraci or, maybe Mutt wrote all the lyrics on HTH and BIB. Popular music is showbiz. Selling the illusion that the creation is all done in-house is usually part of it. Rock bands are product, and lots of them have more in common with actors than they do with actual musicians, like jazz or classical. We'll never know and it doesn't truly matter, but it's interesting to me.
I bet it's one of those things where somewhere in the middle is the truth. They probably cherry picked a line or two from Bon's notebooks or something he suggested at a rehearsal or said in passing.
That was pretty much my opinion in the last video and although I don't entirely rule it out, it's with deeper digging I switched to this harder line (which will become a little more apparent why in the second part).
Bullshit, those melodies and arrangments are Bon's too - you can hear it.
Eddy, Eddy, Eddy, of course Bon contributed to the lyrics on BIB. Angus has admitted it in several interviews over the years, `yeah, bits and pieces`. Ian Jeffrey, their road manager said the same thing and also said that Plug the roadie who was in the studio when BIB was recorded said Mutt Lange also helped out. Wouldn`t surprise me if Mutt linked everything together, Bit of Bon, bit of Brian, bit of Angus and Malcolm, bit of George and Harry and his own efforts to achieve the most incredible result. And no one can take Brian`s vocal performance away it was phenomenal. Cheers.
Well, you're definitely one of the more congenial believers of the "Bon wrote BIB" narrative and I appreciate that. I can only find one interview in which Angus cited any kind of contribution from Bon on BIB (and I discuss that quote in further detail in the third video). Most of the time, Angus has said Bon didn't contribute ANY lyrics. But he definitely doesn't win points for consistency. I love Angus, but he might struggle a bit with the english language. 😜 Ian Jeffery was never able to produce any proof of his claims and the band fired him in 1983, so he might've had an axe to grind with them. I definitely think Mutt Lange had a hand in helping the band with the lyrics on BIB (as well as HTH and FTATR) and I think his contributions are the real X factor that the Young Brothers wanted to play down. This is something else I get into in the third video. That all being said, thanks for watching and for commenting. Cheers. 🍻
Great video
Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.
Every time I see this subject, I have to make the same comment, same point.
With the laws on intellectual property that exist, ac/dc can say whatever they want.
The thing is ac/dc we're at a cross roads. Keeping the bon era fans and building up new fans.
Why wouldn't they build some mysticism around the best selling rock album of all time.
Clever business plan really....
If there's any conspiracy in this... if
That's a big if.
Wow. An actual original thought on this subject! Thanks for weighing in. I don't think you're wrong to suggest the album sales benefit from the ongoing debate (which might be why Angus doesn't do as much to discredit the rumors as he should). That being said, I also think a large part is Angus wanting to downplay how much of a bender Bon was on in his final days (which I get into in the third video).
I can remember what was reported in Australia about bib when it was released, how no one thought it could be pulled off.. not only finding a replacement for bon Scott but finding a powerful voiced singer and a rock solid album.
My original thoughts were Malcolm and Angus knew what they had done, making bib so adding that mysticism or not denying that bon wasn't involved and spirituality being there just added to the whole release and how it was accepted
"Bon was with us through the entire process" and I could feel h8s presence on stage might help keep the die hard bon fans interested and entertained while building up Brian's fan base. Win win if it could be achieved for ac/dc.
For a lot of reasons I find Jesse finks book humorous because the imprint of bon should be on the album dedicated to bon. But in writing maybe there's some ideas that started with bon were developed by the band when they and Brian wrote bib but that's about it.
By the way blow up your video is second to powerage in my favourites.
@@micaelmcdonald9980 Agree with most of your points and thanks again for weighing-in. Another thing showing the importance in the role of producers with AC/DC is the two albums the band produced themselves -- Flick of the Switch and Fly on the Wall -- contained far simpler songs both lyrically and musically. However, as soon as Vanda and Young get involved again you have "Who Made Who" and Blow Up Your Video in which the lyrics and music suddenly get smarter and less rudimentary. Obviously if either Mutt Lange or Vanda and Young were producing Flick and Fly, the songs would've been more developed lyrically and musically (but of course the band was going for a more stripped-back approach with those albums so that never happened).
If Jesse Fink was just making shit up, then Jonno and Angus would sue the bejezus out of him...but they can't, because then they'd have to actually have proof that Bon didn't write the lyrics and melodies - and arrange - the entire album. Which they don't...in fact, all the circumstantial evidence shows that the entire album was written and demoed before they left for the Bahamas (Phil Carson and Atlantic wouldn't have spent all that money on Mutt Lange + flying the band, crew, and gear to the Bahamas + Compass Point Studios if they didn't KNOW that they were READY - fact) - and that's just without all the Fink stuff and using logic. And your ears lol
You completely sold me. Fink Army For Life, bro. ✊
No, Truth is, none of them wrote it, two writers me & Bon Scott only,
No others.
R/Steve Schweinfurth Ghostwriter of ACDC and Joan Jett.
@EddyCannistraci gotta grow up sometime *shrugs* pro wrestling isn't real, and neither is the Easter Bunny.
How's all this make you feel? It's a lot for one day, but it will serve you best in the long run 😂
@@EddyCannistraci czcams.com/video/9vL3FvWoP5s/video.htmlsi=g9KZIl6y-ugJ8cLy
@@drivingwheel9101 It makes me feel that people who resort to juvenile insults aren't good at debating.
Jesse Fink I've read his book .And I think he never even met Bon Scott like a lot of the so called music Journalist they no Fuck all
I read them, too. Yet I don't recall Fink claiming he met Bon. I recall he was tracing his footsteps in essence. Interviewing people who did know him.
En español.....Por supuesto que Bon escribió algunas letras del álbum....no creo que todo pero, sólo debes leer la letra de you shook me all night long y verás que es una canción típica de Bon. Bon ha sido mucho más creativo que Brian y en adición AC/DC tiene y ha mantenido toda la identidad de Bon.
Thanks for watching and for commenting. I think a lot of the lyrics Bon wrote that were Bon-esque were actually a team effort with the Young Brothers (including older brother and mentor George Young), so that alone could account for YSMANL being in Bon's lyrical style (whether it included some of his lyrics or not). I do get a little more into this in the subsequent videos in the series.
Highway to hell had fantastic lyrics.
I think it has great lyrics too, but not on par with the prior albums: Powerage, Let There Be Rock and Dirty Deeds. To me those three albums are the pinnacle of Bon's lyric writing and imagination. The HTH lyrics are streamlined and less personal (and intentionally so because the band wanted a bigger audience). However, I do think HTH has Bon's strongest vocal delivery. He definitely went out on a high note.
One of the first songs I learned on drums after joining a band only three months after getting my first set in 1982 was Walk All Over You by AC/DC. I believe Bon helped write Back in Black and I believe John Bonham played at least some of the drums on early Bad Company recordings using a different drum mic setup. I could tell it was Chris Layton playing on Kenny Wayne Sheppard albums. Drums are like a language and certain drummers have a distinct voice, of course. Like this: Neil Peart with JR Flood - 1970 ( pre - Rush )
Well, Angus and Phil Rudd think Bon's drumming on the "Have A Drink On Me" and "Let Me Put My Love Into You" demos helped shape the songs musically (which is why Angus once said Bon wrote a "a little stuff" on the album), but I don't think that's quite the same thing as John Bonham's contribution to Zeppelin (with all due respect to Bon Scott and his genius as a lyric writer).
@@EddyCannistracinope. Angus now says it was Have A Drink On Me and Hells Bells. He’s changed the story.
Plus, Simon Wright, who has _no_ axe to grind with AC/DC said he was at Angus’s house in the 1980s and Angus played him a demo of the title track (BIB). Angus told Simon that it was Bon playing drums.
@@beyondthehorizon75 I'm curious how well your memory would be about an event that happened over 40 years ago. Anyway, Angus has always thrown out the same handful of songs. You're grasping at straws. Bon didn't write BIB. Deal with it and enjoy Powerage and Highway To Hell.
Bon's flat wascransacked immediately after his death and his notebook stolen. Bav In Black was released only a few months later. To think none of Bon's lyrics ended up on the album (You Shook Me) is very naive.
Watch all three of my videos and then tell me how naive it is to think the band didn't use his lyrics. Bon's place was ransacked because a bunch of junkies and possibly AC/DC's management were trying to cover up possible heroin use from Bon (one theory in Jesse's book which has a little bit more substance to it). The alleged "notebook" has only been documented via hearsay from a handful of second hand sources. I believe Malcolm's claim they were only given a few scribblings of lyrics (which lines up with Bon's limited time frame to pen lyrics, which I discuss in the third video) and he passed them onto Bon's parents and they didn't use them. The band always knocked out albums in a couple months during that time period and were a well-oiled machine by that point. And they had far more time with Brian to work on the songs than they had with Bon (only three days after the sole rehearsal for the album he attended and before his death). Once again, watch Part II and III and then weigh-in.
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That's 40 minutes i never gonna get back🙈
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And thanks for watching it all the way through. 😉
It’s a train wreck of lies , how much did Brian pay you to come up with this nonsense?
This is Great!
Right on! Thanks!
This is a joke from a talentless clown pretending to be an AC/DC fan .
When Brian sings a Bon song it is good, But it is not Bon! When i listen 2 Back in Black it is Brian 100%.
Yes he did!
Thanks for your comment. After watching all my videos on the subject tell me if you still believe that, okay?
You mean that they traveled to Bahamas to record with no lyrics at all?
@@jonashallberg2832 The Young Brothers had already most of the titles and choruses and they did some preliminary rehearsals with Brian (starting at his second audition in late March) and they had a full week of prep at E-Zee Hire Studios in London before flying to the Bahamas, so they had some lyrics when they went down there (but not all of them yet). I discuss this stuff in my videos (and I get specifically into the studio timeline and sessions in the next one).
Noting that Finks book is the biggest selling Bon biography to date and the fact that I've read the comments first, I'll give this one a miss. Seems I'd be better off listening to crazy frog or baby shark on repeat for 40 minutes.
A book sold well = I don't want to hear any counter arguments. 👍
@EddyCannistraci there's a saying in the Bronx: "Bullshit has it's own smell". People know the truth when they hear it hence Fink's book is the top seller of all the Bon books. Reason and logic doesn't equal "l don't want to hear counter arguments".
@@jasonsmart5331 Yeah, that's why his book sold well. It couldn't simply be that controversey and sensationalism sells. Nah. Couldn't be that.
@@EddyCannistraci can you counter with any of what Fink wrote with the actual fax he went and talk to people who were there what have you done? I mean aside from acting like a whiny eunuch who is craving attention. I mean who have you gone to talk to? Who have you interviewed? Let’s see you counter the fax with facts and not some lame ass opinion you call Fink sensationalistic, but I honestly think you are projecting so much you could display it on the screen at the drive-in theater
@EddyCannistraci give it up mate.
Perhaps you should find "The Big Interview" with Dan Rather, where Brian Johnson himself stated that Malcolm didn't ask him if he could even write lyrics until they were in the Bahamas for 2 days. Anyone who is under the impression that the "business" that is AC/DC would book a studio, hotels, and Mutt Lang before flying 7000km to record the most important album of their career, in hopes that they could rely on a guy with next to no writing credits to pull the proverbial rabbit out of his hat, are fools.
Show me a link of that interview and/or the quote, okay? In the Lives of Brian, Johnson says there was some initial lyric writing on "Back In Black" at his second audition (in late March) and there was a week of rehearsals and putting the rough songs together between Brian and the boys at E-Zee Hire studios before they went down to the Bahamas (I get into this in Part Two). And as I stated several times in the first two videos, the Young Brothers had come up with most of the tiles and choruses before recording. Finally, maybe Brian was just making a joke that Malcolm didn't even ask him if he could write lyrics until AFTER they had already begun collaborating on lyrics? But I can't give an educated opinion on the quote without knowing exactly what he said.
1st section at the -36 min mark
Google "AxsTV Brian Johnson" full interview at the top. (it won't let me share a link here)
@@LBlack11 Thanks for pointing me to the video. I watched the section a couple times and I don't think it contradicts his more detailed account in his autobiography. First, he brings up going to the Bahamas but then Dan Rather asks him if he was worried about filling Bon's shoes and this possibly got Brian's mind backtracking: "I think the second day". He didn't specifically say "the second day at Compass Point" (in his autobiography he said something similar happened during his second audition in London). He IS making the whole process sound a little quicker and easier than it was: as if he did one audition and flew right down to the Bahamas. That's because it's a TV interview -- not an autobiography -- and he's been asked about this stuff repeatedly for 39 years (at the point of the interview). Public figures often streamline biographical info for mass market interviews. There's nothing neccessarily suspicious about it: he's just there to plug the new album and tour and answer a few softball questions and he's answering them in a softball manner. That's my takeaway anyway.
😂 You literally just watched the words come out of his mouth and still believe that a guy that needed help writing a goddamn shopping list before joining the band wrote the highest selling rock album in history while in the Bahamas?! This is like playing handball against a curtain. The only thing that you managed to accomplish is selling me this Fink guys book! I'm not sure who his, but I'll bet he's exhausted dragging you around on his coattails.
Eddy, Eddy, Eddy, Eddy!!!
Right on, brother! Thanks for your support!
this jesse fink guy seems like a bit of a melt
Little bit. 😉
Read his books you’ll find he’s got his shit together.
@@jamescaron6465 I agree: except for when he's pushing the "Bon wrote BIB" narrative.
@@EddyCannistraciyou go interview people who were actually there or around the band. Quit misrepresenting what Jesse Fink has said. He even told _you._ *He does not believe Bon wrote the **_entire_** BIB album.* Is your BJ cap too tight???
@@beyondthehorizon75 Yeah, insiders like Holly X and the widow of a guy who DIDN'T end up auditioning for the band. Meanwhile Tony Platt gets a footnote. And I know Jesse thinks Bon only wrote the hits (possibly because they're the only songs he knows). 😜
That Fink guy is a hater. Period. He even tried to put down Susan Masino’s book. Anyhow, love your videos, Eddy. It’s like expecting new music from acca dacca. Shazbot, nanu nanu. ⚡️
Thanks so much, Roy! I appreciate your support and you watching my videos. 👍
if Jesse Fink wasn't telling the truth, then Angus and Jonno would sue the bejezus out of him. But they can't...because they would open themselves up to a cross-examination. And lose.
Susan’s book might as well have been written by the record company PR department. Utter garbage .
@@Peter_Dixon Yeah unlike the book based primarily on hearsay from ex junkies, ex groupies and butthurt fired managers.
Wow.... terrific video and pretty ironclad. Personally, the whole "conpsiracy theory" world we live in these days has become pretty weak and tiresome.
Thanks for watching and for commenting. Nice to know you think my view on the topic is ironclad before I even upload Part Two...!!
@JosephKissSr. There is actually a lot more proof a lot of Bon’s lyrics ended up on the album than you think. I’m not saying the Youngs did it out of malice. They had an album to make. It was a business and unfortunately that’s the way it goes. The Youngs had to do what they had to do.
@@beyondthehorizon75 Can you please not harass other commentators. Keep it in your own thread, buddy...!!
@@beyondthehorizon75 I am in my mid-40's and I have been an AC/DC fan for most of that time. The Bon Scott era is my favorite era of the band and I have never seen any credible evidence nor any confirmation from any reputable person to say that Bon Scott wrote any song on Back in Black. I don't buy it.
Jesse Fink is not who he claims to be, please ignore.
After Part Two is uploaded, I shall ignore and move on. 👍
@EddyCannistraci
Part Two, 100% based on what ACDC put out and it's a pack of lies,
So what's part two ? More speculation based on fabricated information.....
You like Jessie , have an opportunity to get the truth, do you pause to listen or like Jessie Fink not listen claim fraud an move back into the fog ???....
Knock Knock
Who made Who ?...
I'm loving this!
Glad to hear this, brother. Thanks as always!
It is becoming obvious that you are in this for clicks and trying to get a rise out of Jesse Fink.
Now you believe no Bon lyrics are on BB even though Angus said a few of Bon's lyrics found their ways on to it.
Brian Johnson was never in the USA. But he wrote about American thighs? Have a drink on me? Sounds a little like Bon's lifestyle? No?
ANd the leader of the Canadian band (who was from my old neighborhood) was offered the Ac/dc gig and told all the songs and lyrics were complete! This seems to be strong evidence. Along with all of the people who were close to Bon saying he wrote Back in black. I believe his friends that were closest to him. The fact that he kept notes for his songs in a notebook was common knowledge. Where is the notebook?
I always knew Bon wrote all those songs. The arc of ac/dc albums fits perfectly. The fact that the album came out so quickly fits perfectly.
Enjoy getting a rise out of Jesse Fink and others who know Bon wrote Back in Black
I hope you get lots of followers!
I address all of your points in the other videos (including the timeline question you raised). Obviously you didn't look over the content on my channel and the prior four AC/DC videos I made before ever discussing this topic. I'm a real music fan (unlike Jesse Fink) and specifically a AC/DC fan (unlike Jesse Fink). I make my videos because I'm passionate about music and obviously I'm passionate about this band and topic (and I did the research to prove it). If you disagree with my conclusion that's fine, but actually watch all of the videos in the series before you make your conclusion.
@@EddyCannistraci The thing is Eddy, your opinion holds very little weight. Saying you don't believe the large number of people who told Jesse they know Bon wrote those lyrics is not doing research. I saw the video of Angus saying Bon's lyrics ended up on back in Black. I know you changed your opinion to be more controversial which gets you more attention. Back in Black was completed before Bon died. Bon's girlfriends knew it, the singer from Moxie knew it and I think you know it too.
@@Moses44476ers Oh, you know these things, do you? Man, you don't have a clue who I am. I've never said a single word to be controversial (believe me, if I did, my channel would be much bigger). Also saying that the officially credited songwriters of an album are the actual songwriters is far from controversial. I was honest about my thoughts regarding Angus's quote in Kerrang: people do sometimes change their mind. And that's exactly what I did upon further research and re-reading the quote in its full context and re-reading Jesse's book. I'm not bothering to type out stuff I took the time to record and edit for my video: if you've watched the other videos you know what I think about Fink's rogue gallery and why I don't believe their claims. The fact that you cite Valerie Shearman (the weakest of all the claims) is proof that you're not serious about debating this subject: you're just on Team Fink and want to insult me and promote this myth. Just like Valerie Shearman likes to promote herself (with her SG Gibson)...!!
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@@EddyCannistraci Maybe you should track down the video of Angus telling the world that Bon's lyrics made it onto B in B instead of posting videos that prove absolutely nothing. And I knew Bon wrote those lyrics 24 years ago, I didn't need a book to tell me. But all the witnesses that all claim the same thing sure confirm what I already knew
@@Moses44476ers There is no such video of Angus "telling the world" anything. It's a quote from a magazine interview that I discussed in detail in two videos. And to be a "witness" you'd have to actually witness something. For example, Tony Platt, the engineer of BIB, witnessed the writing and recording of songs on the album and Jesse interviewed him, but Tony contradicted the narrative Jesse was creating, so Tony's quotes got tucked away as a footnote. But none of this matters because you just knew Bon wrote the lyrics back in 1980, right? Case closed. 👍🏼