Dave Evans

The move was prompted by the harsh Scottish winter of 1962 to 63, and so they opted for Aussie climes, just as Bon Scott's family did.

The Young Brothers would go on to form the OG ACDC group in 1973, along with lead singer Dave Evans.

Yeah, safe to say Evans would be kind of lost to history, along with the original bassist Larry VanCrete and drummer Colin Burgess.

The classic mid-70s lineup would soon form with new bassist Mark Evans, Phil Rudd on drums, and of course, Bon Scott on lead vocals.

If you've ever listened to the stand-up Jim Jefferies, you know what I'm talking about.

The band's debut single in Australia came in 1974, a tune called Can I Sit Next to You Girl.

This was recorded before Bonn had actually joined the band, and so has Dave Evans on lead vocals.

It also features a third young brother, George, playing bass guitar with Angus and Malcolm.

They put an ad in the paper for the singer.

And hey, the old Velvet Underground vocalist, Dave Evans, answers the ad and is welcome into the band.

Angus, however, is forced to audition for the band, even though nobody else had to audition for the band, which I think is just an older brother fuck you move.

Hell yeah.

Yeah.

It's one of the great success stories of naming a rock band for sure.

So we have Dave Evans, Larry Van Crete, Colin Burgess, Malcolm Young, Angus Young.

That's the ACDC that we all know and love, right? No.

I was always told it was Mount of Malicious, but quite possibly wasn't.

Just in regards to, talk about Dave Evans, who was the former singer before Bon.

I'm told that, you know, I think it might have been in the pub in, is it the Peruca Hotel? in South Australia, Bon was there and he got invited up to sing on stage.

I always think how bloody awkward that would have been for Dave Evans at the time who was fronting the band.

And

I know that wasn't so you weren't there at the time.

Anyway, I was out there in Lawrence, Kansas.

Never been to Lawrence, Kansas, and it was beautiful, and the weather was 85 degrees, and I come back here to LA and it's, like, 65 out, and I'm like, "What the fuck is going on with the world?" Anyway, Lawrence, Kansas, and, uh, want to give a shout-out to John Shezar, was, uh, featuring for me, and I had not seen this guy in years.

He used to work at the Comedy Store, and he's a comedian.

It was just a, a cool surprise.

There was one, uh, booth that had all political buttons from the past.

People would wear buttons of their campaign.

And there was this one, and it was Hillary Clinton and, uh, Bill Clinton and what was his guy's name? Was it Quayle? Dan Quayle and his wife or whatever.

I think it was.

That sounds like my kind of playlist.

Dave Evans, all that stuff.

And we would just, you know, it was just whatever, you know, it'd be.

And when CDs come out and you can do mixes, man, we'd do that.

You know, it'd be ACDC and then Dave Evans, you know what I mean? It was always a mix.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, I love old Southern rock.

A defining, defining moment.

So they actually do begin with a guy called Dave Evans, who was [laughs] actually born in Wales but grew up in Australia.

Mm.

And Dave Evans is still knocking around, and he was in other bands.

But he, they do release their first single with Dave Evans, and then he is very quickly replaced by, uh, and I think most old school AC/DC fans hark back to the time-

Mm

... of Bon Scott.