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I was playing at a club in Sharon Ct. a few years back. In walks Brian Johnson and about 20 other people. Seems he was at a Racing school at a nearby track. Brian got up and sang Route 66, a tune from the first Stones album with us! Totally cool, humble guy. He blew the roof off the place!

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, I spent a year in a band he put together. Brian wrote all the songs, melody lines and music.

 

He did not front the band, but was at every show and co produced all the music.

 

He is the single nicest down to Earth megastar I've personally ever met. I've met a bunch of people over the years.

 

Brian has a knack for making you feel like you are one of his long lost best friends upon first meeting him.

 

Even though he didn't front the band, we would do shows with heavy radio promotion in what ever town we were in, and there would be mobs of screaming rabid fans there. One of the local stations was playing one or our songs on heavy rotation, and with the radio promotion there would be mobs of people there. We were cramming 2000 people in places that hold 500.

 

Of course everyone already knew what was going to happen at the end of the show, which was, our encores consisted of Brian himself coming out and fronting as we did AC/DC covers.

 

The dude never refused an autograph request and people would line up outside the door just to talk to him and meet him.

 

The shows were some of the wildest "concert" musical events I had ever been too. I've been to thousands of shows, either playing in them or just watching.

 

These were some of the best musical times of my life.

 

Anyway we would finish a song, wait for the screaming to die down, Brian would bull{censored} with the audience, then buy the whole place "a round for the lads"

 

screaming would commence and we would go into another song.

 

One cool note about Brian which we all dig was that he liked covering the Bon Scott stuff as much as His own stuff.

 

The Brian Johnson part of the show was almost like a whole other concert because we usually played a good 15 or so AC/DC songs with him.

 

I don't really have words to describe how nice Brian was to me and every single person I ever saw him interact with.

 

It's like he knows he is a mega star, what has he sold, a hundred mlion records or so? but he wants you to join in and co star with him, whether you are in the band, or are serving drinks, or hanging out in the front row or working the door.

 

It's like his life is a party, and everybody is invited and encouraged to share in his good time.

 

Dude told alot of jokes too.

 

I have a bunch of videos and a bunch of recorded stuff from that band.

 

One day I'm going to make a thread and post all of it.

 

Some of the songs were really quite good if you like AC/DC, which the band came close to sounding like, but with musical twists and differences you would expect a band that is not actually AC/DC to sound like.

 

I'll see if I can load some stuff up and post some clips if anyone is interested.

 

But I have the pleasure of knowing Brian pretty well, and I can verify how cool the dude is.

 

Every good thing you have ever heard about him is true.

 

And he LOVES sitting in with any bar band that will have him.

 

He lives in Sarasota FL. and just about any working bar musician that plays within a hundred mile radius of where he lives and plays rock has a story about Brian jamming with them at one of their shows. He never hogged the ball or tried to make it about him. He was always respectful of the bands and made sure the bands were having as much fun as him and the audience.

 

I've personally seen him in the Tampa Bay area jamming with at least fifteen or so different bands.

Dude just loves to be on stage, any stage, bringing the party.

 

Brian is one class act and one cool dude.

 

I was a huge fan long before I got to work with him and I will remain a big fan of his, personally for the rest of my life, not to mention, I was already a HUGE AC/DC fan well before I met him.

 

The Back in Black record came out and kicked my ass. I was 15 when that record came out and never in my wildest dreams thought I would be working with any of them.

 

They were like Gods to me when I was a kid. I found out about 15 years later, that this musical icon, was just a regular fun loving nice guy, just like any other good person.

 

Sorry about the babbling, but I LOVE to tell people how cool Brian is whenever it comes up.

 

Super nice descent person.

 

 

EDIT: I types this on my phone and I am way too lazy to go back and fix all the autocorrect type errors.

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Maybe. Caught him on "the metal show"? a few times. He is as cool, smart and down to earth as they come. Impossible to not be impressed by this guy, and AC/DC as a whole. They're mates, friends, and that's rare in a big rock act.

Whole band is cool. Brian just fit right in.

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Another cool story Dave :thu:

 

Warms my heart to hear about people that make their living entertaining others whether it be musicians, athletes or actors actually recognizing that fact and not being some kind of jerk because they think they are better that the poor slob who just paid half a weeks wages to go see them for a few hours. Seems like there are a few good ones around

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Another cool story Dave
:thu:

Warms my heart to hear about people that make their living entertaining others whether it be musicians, athletes or actors actually recognizing that fact and not being some kind of jerk because they think they are better that the poor slob who just paid half a weeks wages to go see them for a few hours. Seems like there are a few good ones around

 

I've been lucky enough, depending on how important you feel meeting "stars" is, to have met and known hundreds of major stars in my life. Big deal. I don't get star struck, or wank off to any of them, although some of the people I idolized as a kid still fascinate me.

 

I got a list a mile long.

Alot of them I've actually gotten to work with.

Lots of them are good decent people, a few exceptional great people and some serious c#ks%#king aholes..

Dude's like Kevin Costner and Kevin DuBrow come to mind as major toolbags, both of which I have known and worked with in a professional relationship and even friendship with Kevin DuBrow. That dude was hard to be around.

 

My favorite " stars" are the ones you would never know were stars had you not been aware of their history.

 

Brian is at the very top of the list of people I have met that have had major success and fame in their field and seem to have had it affect them negatively in no way whatsoever.

 

He does a {censored}load of philanthropic good deeds on a regular basis too.

 

Extremely generous person.

 

I am aware of absolutely zero negative experiences between people that have met him and if I heard one, I would have a very hard time believing it.

 

Just a super cool dude.

 

And as far as just watching him perform, even if you don't meet him, even if you don't like him as a singer, it is hard not to get caught up in his enthusiasm and charisma when he is performing.

 

As a person, he is a hard guy not to like. I don't know of anyone that has been able to do it.

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Super cool guy. He's a major dude alright, but Bon's vocals were far superior.

 

 

While that's an opinion, based on who you ask..... I think we all can agree that Bon's lyrics were far superior.

Actually, Brian hasn't wrote any AC/DC lyrics since 1988's "Blow up your video"...... but then again, I speculate that Young & Young have been writing 70-80% of the lyrics the whole time anyway. So perhaps it was the brothers who were younger & fresher during Bon's time.

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