AC/DC fans will get a unique insight into one of the band’s most legendary figures at The Loft in Warrnambool on Friday night.
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Dave Stevens, the son of former lead singer, the late Bon Scott, is bringing his band to town.
The show will feature AC/DC songs from the Bon Scott era with Stevens on lead vocals.
But Stevens has promised more than your average tribute show.
“There will be a bit of a narrative between the music,” Stevens said.
“I will be talking about Bon, what it has been like since I found out he was my birth father.
“Hopefully it will give fans of Bon another bit of insight.”
Stevens was born in 1967 and was soon after put up for adoption. He was raised in Geelong and had a keen interest in music.
“My parents weren’t into music at all so I thought maybe my birth mother or father must have been into music,” Stevens said.
“I started playing drums but mum and dad weren’t too keen on that so I took up bass which I still play today. I loved The Beatles and that 60’s pop/rock stuff. I didn’t mind AC/DC but I actually had an album of The Vallentines which Bon was lead singer of before AC/DC.”
When he was 22, nine years after Scott’s death, Stevens went looking for his biological parents. He found his mother and she was able to tell him his father was one of the country’s greatest ever performers.
“It was a bit of a bombshell for sure,” Stevens said.
“It has been good to talk to people about him and I have met some of his other family and friends. I have become close to Mark Evans who used to play bass in AC/DC during Bon’s time.
“It’s been great to find out about Bon but I am careful to call him my father and not my dad. My mum and dad, Max and Heather, have been amazing, I am so thankful for all they have done for me, we are a close family.
“They live in Geelong but dad was actually born in Warrnambool and grew up in Port Fairy.
“Dad was a good footballer apparently. He was good at footy and I am good at music so we are about square.”