Ex-AC/DC admits blame for firing
Former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans discussed his firing in a new ABC interview. He also discussed Angus Young’s struggles.
“Let’s not forget, he’s the only person on the face of the earth that’s been to every AC/DC gig. He’s been there for every one of them. And there’s been some really, really tough times for him.”
“The separation was difficult. I was the right guy for the band when I started. Looking back, there’s only one reason I didn’t continue on with the band, is ’cause I didn’t take it seriously enough. It all happened so easily that I probably didn’t give it its correct weight.”
“What the band has achieved and now what Angus is carrying on, I love it to bits, man,” Mark said. “I think it’s really special. And now they have the chance to pass it on to young people.”
AC/DC cause seismic activity at concert
On Wednesday (Nov. 12th), AC/DC kicked off their first tour in their home country in 10 years, performing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. During their highly anticipated return to Australia, the band delivered a performance so powerful that it registered as seismic activity on nearby monitoring equipment.
As reported by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Adam Pascale, chief scientist at the Seismology Research Centre, said that their Richmond office detected two to five hertz vibrations at about 3.5 kilometers (2.17 miles) from the venue.
AC/DC’s concert was so loud, in fact, that several people who live 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away from the venue told ABC that they could hear it.
It wasn’t just AC/DC’s thunderous volume that triggered the vibrations, however.
“The sound waves that people were experiencing nearby and feeling something through their bodies, that’s the equivalent to what our seismographs feel. We’re picking up the ground motion, we’re not picking up the sound from the air,” Pascale explained.
“So you’ve got speakers on the ground pumping out vibrations and that gets transmitted through the ground, but also the crowd jumping up and down is feeding energy into the ground.”
“If everyone’s sort of bouncing in unison, it tends to amplify the signal so we can pick it up a little bit better,” Pascale added. “Whereas, if it’s sort of just general crowd motion, like even at the grand final at the MCG, we can still pick that up.”
