second: isn't "AC/DC" aussie slang for bisexual?
third: it is part of their written history that their first shows were at a gay club. plus: there is some early TV footage of Bon fronting AC/DC in drag, with some strange Hidie wig, I swear to god.
fourth: the whole school-boy thing, and Angus always droppin' trou' during the drum-solo? C'mon!!!!!
& finally: in the great rock concert film "Let There Be Rock" (Paris, 1980) there is a section where the Young brothers are basically saying, "Well, Bon's a little different". Then there's a clip of Bon strolling the streets in a fancy scarf, and the omniscent narrator voice asks flat out, "Do you like men?"
You be the judge.
Now, Why it's ironic? (see: Rob Halford)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)
*I mean it should be erased
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)
didn't i see you on an episode of seinfeld once?
― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
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― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)
fuck xpost!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)
― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)
http://www.doodah.com/photos/acdc/bonscott1.jpg
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)
Tom delete ILM plz!
― J (Jay), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)
If you got a lady and you want her goneBut you ain´t got the gutsShe keeps naggin´ at you night and dayEnough to drive you nutsPick up the phone, leave her aloneIt´s time you made a standFor a fee, I´m happy to beYour back door man
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)
Well, I asked a young policeman if he'd only lock me up for the night Well, I've had pigs in the farmyard, some of them, some of them, they're alright Well, he fucked me with his truncheon and his helmet was way too tight
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)
there are boundaries?
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)
― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)
― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)
― claude balls (listerine), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)
Rock & roll music (and comics, like all great american art forms) is filled with irony and ambiguous sexuality. So the idea that Bon was gay isn't necessarily ironic >>> The irony is because of the mass AC/DC audience (at least in the U.S.) who revel in the adolescent sexual (and sometimes misoginist) themes in a lot of hardrock and metal songs, those homophobic/jock/frat/ass-kickin'/all-american boys (generalization, yes) who totally miss some of the nuances and subversive ideas of their favorite artists. Any male brought up in the states during the twentieth century has some of that unawareness bread into them (i mean 'us'). Rock critics, especially. Those who vehemently deny even the POSSIBILITY of Bon's gayness ("case closed!") might want to meditate on what they're so afraid of.
http://www.oaklandish.com/cock.jpg
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)
― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)
Um no you can't. Well Alex in NYC, but he's not representative.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)
― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)
― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)
― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)
dude I could flip the script on you and say that you're freakin HOMOPHOBIC for calling Bon Scott gay just because he liked to dress-up in women's clothing on stage from time to time. It didn't mean he was "gay". What the heck is wrong with a little cross-dressing between friends, you HOMOPHOBE?
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)
― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)
My quibble is not with being gay (read some of my other threads), my quibble is with inaccuracy. Read up on AC/DC. Watch some documentary footage. They simply weren't gay. It would've been grand and glorious and fabulous if they were ala Halford, but they just weren't. I.E. get the facts fuckin' right. And calling someone homophobic is tantamount to calling them racist, so FUCK YOU for that.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)
But who is the gay champion of Bon Scott's homophobia? Huh?
― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)
Like most Australians.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)
I like the flatness of this.
"There's no question that the Pope is catholic, that a bear excretes in forests, and that Bon Scott copulated with members of the female sex."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)
the right people do (and a few of the wrong)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)
(x-post)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)
if this is homoerotic, then like every other blues song ever is homoerotic.
hmm...
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)
Re: Alex in NYC, None of the documentaries or books about Wham! talked about George Michael's homosexuality before he came out.
I don't care one way or the other, but I do think it would make a difference to some kid in the closet.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)
I think the trick is that most of the time they're singing to women.
Howlin' Wolf: "I am a back doorman. Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand"
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)
― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)
(all puns intended)
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)
Riverbank wasn't any ordinary boys' home; it was a prison for boys. It was where the really bad boys went. Bon served nine months there.
Newly built in the early sixties, situated at the base of the scrubby hills on the northeast edge of Perth, Riverbank was a modern brick structure which at least allowed for some light and air and decent facilities. But still, it was a dark, hard place. Kept under lock and key rather than in open dormitories, these boys didn't need too much prodding to become violent. Sexual favors were taken not given.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)
― bon scott (miccio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)
Also anal sex. don't tell me those guys didn't know what they were going on abaout.
Allusions to anal sex do not alway imply it's with a man.
― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)
(pun intended)
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)
It's PRETTY IRONIC, Scott. Dammit man can't you read a TITLE!
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)
― Gareth Keenan (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)
the 'soundtrack' to Let There Be Rock is on the Bonfire box set. i.e. just the audio of the live show
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)
Well, the first verse seems to me also about being a hit man. It's only the middle verse which spells out unequivocably the gigolo scenario. Admittedly the song overall gives "dirty deeds" a double-meaning of killing and sex, but that doesn't mean that every verse has to be read as a double-meaning. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a sewing machine is just a sewing machine.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)
so wait a girl who wants to graduate but not in her high school head's bed wants her high school bf KILLED? wouldn't it make more sense that she's calling on an experienced man like Bon to do the job?
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)
― r ramirez (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)
see for example:
http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/cheshire/newton/news/NEWTON_NEWS0.html
I interpret it as Bon is offering to bump off the high school principal who is sexually harassing the girl.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)
Let's compromise and say that the song is about a bisexual hired killer.
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)
Where's an Aussie when you need one? I guess they're all over on that "Sheepfuxor" thread. Anyone want to volunteer to go ask them?
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)
Interviewer: "so is high-school head a reference to a druggie, an oral sex partner or a school principal?"
Bon: "all of them. I am a genius. I love the triple entendre almost as much as I love putting my penis in things."
Interviewer: "what things?"
Bon: "all things."
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)
WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE. Bon Scott doesn't judge you based by size, intelligence or even gender. Merely by the intensity and frequency of the orgasms you give him.
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 24 March 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)
― I'm the Lightning, Baby (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)
― Chester B., Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)
Yowza. Freudian slip there, Amateurist?
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)
― Sigmund (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)
I agree with Amateurist (and o. nate before him), I never took that "back door" thing at anything other than face value. The anal thing just seemed like something made up by white rock critics who thought they were clever. I mean the "back door" man is ALWAYS addressing a woman in a relationship right? He is never claiming to be some single woman's "back door" man. It's always tied in to an illicit affair.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)
this strong (the ac/dc one) strikes me first of all as infantile. i don't think that's a criticism so much as a description. it sounds like a 10-year-old's fantasy of being an adult. which is consistent with the homoeroticism, really.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)
― minnie in memphis, Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)
xpost - the assumption that miccio fabricated an interview for humourous purposes, not any assumption regarding the relative similarity in taste between ass and chicken.
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)
*sobs quietly*
― Telephonething, Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)
"chicken" = lads not yet of age
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)
Gag.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)
They are called Big Balls.
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)
lapsed-Australian to thread, albeit late. Yes, they do say 'high school'. I was always under the impression that 'high school head' meant principal type dude.
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)
Why's that?
― dan. (dan.), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)
no, but a certain naïve homoeroticism (often coupled with homophobia) seems to be a staple of boys' psychology in that period before they feel it appropriate to communicate their desire for girls.
i see this continued into postadolescence sometimes; i.e. at various frathouses.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)
2. No surprise if Bon Scott was the original .au plug-in
3. You prove to me that BRIAN JOHNSON is gay, then I make the Home Alone WHATTHEFUCK face my new default -- and begin a lifelong crusade to have the definition of "ironic" changed to whatever you think it means.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)
Dude, Brain Johnson was totally gay!Now, THAT is an ugly mental image.
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 24 March 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)
― elwisty (elwisty), Thursday, 24 March 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)
so all the good ones, then!
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 March 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)
the thread title is flawed because it assumes an unnecessary and distracting binary. surely, the question is not "was bon gay?" but "how gay was bon?" (leaving aside the attendant question "why does any of us give a shit?").so then, does the irony increase in proportion to the magnitude of bon's gayness? what if he's just indiscriminately horny?fwiw, i'm of the opinion that he'd do a platypus, given the chance.
also, isn't horniness an absolute essential for a proper rocknroll star?
from little richard, who was possessed by such a raging fire of horniness that he could barely keep it under control.
elvis, a somewhat playful but nonetheless powerful horniness that rocked the nation.
robert plant, at his horniest on a level with bon, but not nearly as single-mindedly horny, tending to get distracted by hobbits and halucinations.
iggy.
prince.
at the extreme you have someone like KISS, getting by on nothing but horny.
at the other extreme, someone like CCR. fantastic songs, great sound, but nobody mistakes them for rockstars.
also, TS: bon scott vs. bono's ascot
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 24 March 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)
Alright, I was just going from the second defintion in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition - where a circumstance exists which is largely unexpected. And who was it unexpected by? Not by you ILM smart-asses, but by a huge portion of AC/DC's audience during their prime... ever see 'Heavy Metal Parking Lot'? That WAS the U.S. metal audience at it's peak, and those mossbacks wore their ignorance like a badge of honor. Narrowmindedness was a sport for them. So, yeh, it's a bit ironic that one of their heroes *was probably gay*. Look, if Rob Halford, George Micheal, or Elton John died at that age we may never have know for sure. But, we'd have clues...
http://www.oaklandish.com/bonscott.jpg
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)
"I am just as God made me, sir."
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)
― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)
http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/PlanetoftheApes/cornelius.jpg
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)
― milton burroughs jr. (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)
― seth putnam (listerine), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)
Daffy, at the very least.
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)
-- miccio
It's time to scotch this one once and for all. If only you were right, miccio, cos I really like your interpretation - but he's a hired killer, right through every verse and chorus. In Australia in the 70's a backdoor man is someone who does something illegal for you. It doesn't have the same implication then as it had in the 80's to the present when used by, say, Jim Foetus, when he offered to play the same role in Wiseblood's 'Prime Gonzola' to some lucky lady.
― theee music mole, Saturday, 26 March 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)
― theee music mole, Saturday, 26 March 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)
Finally we can put an end to this nonsense. Thank you Colin.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 26 March 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 26 March 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)
Note that the things you should hide from Bon's advances are your "daughter," "wife" and "back door."
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)
OMG howlin' wolf was a pedophile! must destroy all my blues cds now!
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)
The AC/DC fab will want to see the rock video opera ala Eighties made for "Fly On the Wall."
First, you gotta understand that this was not a particularly well-respected AC/DC record. Second, the put-together on "Family Jewels" is a great way to get back into the best of it. Third, it's totally 80's and suitably humorous. "Sink the Pink" is a high point. Sadly, this is not gay although it does portray a wispy-looking white boy being overpowered by a moxy woman in a game of 9 Ball. She pulls up short and illogically surrenders to him while the band sprays it in the background. Really, "Fly On the Wall" was a difficult, collapsed AC/DC offering and the "Family Jewels" thing refocuses on it. "Nervous Shakedown" from "Flick" is also tremendous, as it always was.
― George Smith, Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)
about this "backdoor" stuff - it can apply about women too - see lyrics for LedZeppelin's whole lotta love "i wanna be your backdoor man", Iron Maidens bring your daughter to the slaughter "unchain your backdoor invite me around" etc etc
― emmeline, Saturday, 11 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)
― emmeline, Saturday, 11 March 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Saturday, 11 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)
― limecordial, Monday, 3 April 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)
yep
― jergins (jergins), Monday, 3 April 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)
― ratty, Monday, 3 April 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)
― ratty, Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)
-- jergins (jergin...), April 3rd, 2006
or maybe....
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)