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Angus And Malcolm Young Early Years As Marcus Hook Roll Band Coming June

by Paul Cashmere on May 15, 2014

in New Music,News

Before AC/DC Malcolm and Angus Young were part of the Marcus Hook Roll Band with their brother George Young and Harry Vanda of The Easybeats.

Marcus Hook Roll Band released one album, ‘Tales Of Old Grand-Daddy’. Warner Music will re-issue a deluxe edition of the hard to find release in June.

The recording was made in Sydney in July and August 1973. “We had Harry, myself and my kid brothers, Malcolm and Angus,” George Young explains. “We all got rotten, except for Angus, who was too young, and we spent a month in there boozing it up every night. That was the first thing Malcolm and Angus did before AC/DC. We didn’t take it very seriously so we thought we’d include them to give them an idea of what recording was all about.”

The sessions were fuelled by Jim Beam. Richard Lush was the engineer, “The sessions were great fun, fuelled with plenty of Old Grand-Dad bourbon. Angus Young drank milk. Angus and his brother Malcolm played guitars as well as Harry,” he said.

The bourbon was so plentiful that it is now unclear who the mystery slide-guitarist on the record is. Harry Vanda thinks it was Kevin Borich but Borich says he doesn’t ever remember being in the sessions.

Warner Music will release the Marcus Hook Band – Tales of the Old Grand-Daddy’ on June 6.

Tales of the Old Grand-Daddy tracklisting

1. Can’t Stand The Heat
2. Goodbye Jane
3. Quick Reaction
4. Silver Shoes & Strawberry Wine
5. Watch Her Do it Now
6. People and the Power
7. Red Revolution
8. Shot in the Head
9. Ape Man
10. Cry For Me

11. One Of These Days (Previously Unreleased)
12. Natural Man (1972 A-Side of Regal Zonophone RZ 3061)
13. Moonshine Blues (1974 B-Side of ‘Can’t Stand The Heat’ BASF ‎– 06 19196-0)
14. Louisiana Lady (1973 A-Side of Regal Zonophone RZ 3072)
15. Ride Baby Ride (Previously Unreleased)

Marcus Hook Roll Band – Quick Reaction

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