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More AC/DC: backstage after their recent Hammersmith concert — all of The Damned and all of Eddie And The Hot Rods.
Eddie And The Hot Rods were wearing virtually matching black leather jackets — is this the band's new BCR-type costume now that teen stardom has hit them? And when vocalist Barry Masters was introduced to the Aussie rockers, fisticuffs (see Sounds Hot Rods interview a short while back) surprisingly did not ensue — everything was remarkably amicable with handshakes, polite conversation, etc.
And why were AC/DC ten minutes late coming onstage? Vocalist Bon Scott's fault actually. When questioned as to his tardy arrival, Scott admitted, "Well, I got on the wrong tube train, didn't I?" Obviously superstar material ...
After the AC/DC concert the Stiff Records assemblage removed themselves to a Fulham Road eaterie to feast on hamburgers and spaghetti. People present included Nick Lowe, Larry Wallis and Sandy of the Pink Fairies, Stiff supremo Jake Riviera, new label signing Dec Costello and even Stiff super secretary Susie.
Surprisingly enough, the evening's most dramatic moment occurred when a waiter dropped an entire plate of relish across the lap of one Giovanni Dadomo. The two exited through a side door and the Manuel-style menial proceeded to clean GD's trousers. Seconds later they re-emerged, however — the waiter, strangely, covered in tomato sauce which Giovanni (what a nice young Italian boy) then proceeded to spread around, circus style, on his chest. They then all had coffee.
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