ROSE TATTOO Frontman Wary About BON SCOTT Statue Plans
February 22, 2007ROSE TATTOO singer Angry Anderson has told The West Australian that he is "quietly amused" that West Australian fans want to erect a statue of his old mate and AC/DC legend Bon Scott in Fremantle.
"Are they serious about the statue?" he said. "It's a bit like knighting Mick Jagger.
"I would hope my friends and family would fight tooth and nail anybody who suggested they put up a statue of me anywhere."
Anderson laughed as he recalled George Young — the former Easybeat, one half of the legendary Vanda/Young production team and older brother of AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm — assuming that the TATTS would sign with Albert. "Word had got around that no one was going to touch us," he said. "We couldn’t get a deal if our lives depended on it, but he said, 'You're perfect for us.'"
Once in the fold, Anderson became good mates with Scott, spending plenty of quality time leaning on bars and discussing rock 'n' roll. Bon turned Angry on to Scottish rock singer Alex Harvey and encouraged the TATTS' singer to consider himself as a "rock poet."
"Even though people didn't see us that way, we considered that we were folk writers," Anderson said. "We were writing about a passing age, as folk singers do, chronicling a period of time like Bob Dylan or Woody Guthrie. We just looked at the world around us and wrote songs that were inspired by very ordinary people and very ordinary things."
Read the entire article at The West Australian.
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