The AC/DC-Angels Intersection, with John Brewster

Australian rock rhythm guitar master John Brewster improvises a piece, in the below video, after being asked to explain where his band The Angels and their Alberts label mates (and friends) AC/DC crossed paths in sound/style in the mid-1970s. 

Rhythm guitarists John Brewster and Malcolm Young jammed together in motel rooms on the TNT Australian tour, with Young being so impressed by 'The Keystone Angels' he and his brother Angus recommended them to Alberts and their producers Vanda & Young.

When AC/DC left Australia in April 1976, The Angels bought the amps and some of the guitars AC/DC played on the TNT, Dirty Deeds and High Voltage albums, which The Angels then used them to record their chart-rocking, pub-packing Face To Face and No Exit albums.

Considering the global musical impact of AC/DC and the direct influence of The Angels (Angel CIty) on 1980s L.A. hard rock and Seattle's grunge, I sometimes think that two year period when AC/DC and The Angels intersected was ultimately more influential on 1990s-2010s rock and metal music than the punk era that was beginning to unfold at the same time in the U.K. and the U.S.

And it all began in some of the cheapest, grittiest motel rooms in South Australia in 1975, with both bands fighting to find The Sound that would electrify brutally drunk and unforgiving Australian pub rock crowds and make them cheer instead of throwing glass ashtrays and full beer cans.

Both bands found their sound. And their own levels of success and fame.