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Topic: RIP Bon

Has it been 30 years?

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Re: RIP Bon

I always liked Bon better than Brian (although I do like Brian).
His voice and style had such a unique quality that fit that early music so well. I'm not sure how to describe that voice...raw, sleazy, funny, powerful, and soulful. A perfect rock and roll frontman if you ask me!

Can't believe it's been 30 years...died just prior to the best selling album by any band (45 million copies) in rock and roll history. Surpassed only by Thriller.

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Re: RIP Bon

He was such a likeable person.
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Re: RIP Bon

still remember the day I heard, - myself and 2 other mates who had seen them live a couple of times just mooched around on our skateboards feeling that something great that we had just discovered had been taken away from us. We assumed that it was the end of the band.

Never could get my head around the Bon V Brian thing, - as soon as the curtain went up and the bell appeared with Brian striking it it was another band with the same name and same great guitarist.

Ian

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Re: RIP Bon

I was lucky enough to see Bon and the boys at the Marquee Club, London in the 70's
Bon was only 33 when he died....... and now 30 yrs on....
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Re: RIP Bon

Yes RIP Bon. He was perfect for the band and really set down the foundation for their later success. His vocals gave them far greater diversity than they had later as he was equally at home with the slow blues tunes like Down Payment Blues or Night Prowler as he was with the stompers.

Ride On Bon

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Re: RIP Bon

Gotta chime in here even though I'm a day late. (I did realize the anniversary of Bons death was yesterday, yesterday and as usual cranked Highway To Hell and Powerage repeatedly......Powerage what a GREAT album)

AC/DC- The firsrt band I really latched onto and come to think of it the first band I ever saw live w/ Bon back in July of '78. Oakland Ca. Day On The Green (I can't beleive my parents let me go, I was only 14). They were the opening act and they (myself included) never looked back.

I'll never forget the concert was a month after my brothers birthday. I was going the the show with him and friends and for his birthday I bought him Aerosmith (the headliner at the Day On The Green) Live Bootleg and AC/DC If You Want Blood......Of course this was for MY listening pleasure.