"Glam-Era" AC/DC - First Photo Session Tale Available
The following report is courtesy of Louise Schwartzkoff from
Smh.com.au:
The silk scarf, the crushed velvet suit, the stack heels. It must be …
AC/DC? At their first photo session in 1974, the Sydney band looked more like GARY GLITTER wannabes than the hard rockers they became.
To the photographer, Philip Morris, they were just another badly dressed, unsigned band.
"I used to photograph a lot of unknown bands who didn't have a record deal and weren't going to," Morris says. "I thought AC/DC were fun, but it was just another day at work."
He kept the negatives anyway and tonight will open AC/DC Exposed!, an exhibition of his photographs of the band.
Some of the shots have been used for album covers, but most have never been seen in public. Morris decided to exhibit them when he heard the band would release a new album this year.
He photographed AC/DC's first gigs and saw their transformation from glam to hard rock. They ditched the knee-high boots and their original frontman, Dave Evans, when Bon Scott arrived on the scene.
Morris remembers Scott as the most animated of the group. "He was a fun sort of larrikin. He used to like a drink and a smoke."
It was Scott's energy on stage that finally convinced Morris the band had a future. "When he sang, he transformed into this amazing performer," he says.
The exhibition includes photographs of AC/DC's last Australian performance before Scott's death in 1980. It was an impromptu gig at the Cremorne Strata Inn.
"There were only about a 100 people in this pub, all standing around with their beers," Morris says. "Then the band got up and just blew the crowd away."
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