As we await the release of the new AC/DC album `Black Ice`, at Undercover, we thought we would throw you in the Delorean and take you back to before it all started.
AC/DC`s first hit was a song titled `Can I Sit Next To You Girl` in Australia in 1974.This was before Bon Scott and Phil Rudd had joined the band. Dave Evans was the lead singer of the band.
Undercover asked Dave to recall the origins of the song. “I remember that I had no idea of what song we were to record as it was a new one that Malcolm Young had written and I was given the lyrics and the melody when I arrived at EMI Studios in downtown Sydney on the night we recorded it,” he tells Undercover News.
“I was totally in awe being the first time in a recording studio and sitting there with George Young and Harry Vanda of the famous Easybeats as the producers and Colin Burgess on drums who had been with the Masters Apprentices. It was so amazing to be there with them that apart from my turn singing the song I don`t think I said a word during the whole recording process.”
Dave only recorded that one single with the band before he was fired and replaced by Bon Scott.
Bon then re-recorded the song for the `TNT` album, that you will find gracing the Aussie chart this week at number 20.
Here is an early clip of Dave with AC/DC and the original version of `Can I Sit Next To Your Girl`.
