AC/DC’s Angus Young: The Complete 1983 Guitar Player Interview (Audio)

The Man With the Million-Dollar Vibrato Reveals All in a San Francisco Hotel Room

This never-before-released interview took place in a San Francisco hotel room on October 22, 1983, during AC/DC’s Flick of the Switch tour. Lead guitarist Angus Young, the man with the million-dollar vibrato, begins with a heartfelt discussion of his brother Malcolm, whom he insists is a far better guitarist. He talks about their older brother George, who found worldwide success with the Easybeats and went on to produce the early AC/DC albums. As our conversation progresses, Angus details how AC/DC creates and records songs, his strategy for soloing, his love of SG guitars and Marshall amps, his favorite AC/DC songs, his thoughts on other players, and much more.

As soon as Angus and I wrapped it up, I interviewed his brother Malcolm. You can hear this conversation here:

Edited versions of my interviews with Angus and Malcolm Young were published as Guitar Player magazine’s February 1984 cover story. I hope you enjoy this unique recording. If you’re an unpaid subscriber and would like to help us continue producing Talking Guitar podcasts of historic interviews such as these, please become a paid subscriber or make a one-time donation by clicking the Donate button below. Every bit helps, so thank you!

Kudos to engineer/producer Nik Hunt for enhancing the sound of the decades-old master tapes of both of these interviews.

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