I just got an invitation to watch a video on YouTube from an old friend, Larry Larstead, which I am posting here.

Larry is one of the great short film makers I know. He directed some of the best Coke commercials in the 1970's in Australia, which is when I met him. And then I got him to direct the first video I made with AC/DC, which was what got the band really noticed by Phil Carson at Atlantic Records in the UK, who ended up signing the band….

And that in itself is a great story. Because the video of “High Voltage” was shot at a live concert in Melbourne, with a 5 camera shoot. But we used a monitor mix of the track for the video, which had a very 'live' feel. Trouble was that there was no audience sound on the track, so we needed to add that afterwards to create the semblance of reality. Larry ended up mixing audience applause and noise from the “Concert For Bangla Desh” album that George Harrison made to get a credible live feel for the audio. Also we shot the close ups of Bon Scott afterwards and Larry made Bon sing his arse off on the pick up shots so as to capture the muscles in his neck while he was singing….

As I said, Larry was – and still is – a great film maker!

He now runs a film making collective in Byron Bay. And this is his latest piece:

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