AC/DC Bon Scott era - Live! video

Australian tour poster, December 1977.

Introduction

The following is a listing of Bon Scott (1946-1980) AC/DC era videos, mostly freely available on YouTube or VEVO, though also on DVD or Blu-ray. It is arranged chronologically from earliest (1975) to youngest (1980). A list of 27 songs contained therein is included after the video section. This list does not include live recordings without a video component, of which there are many available online, from audience bootlegs to soundboard recordings.

The usefulness of the videos - apart from the sheer enjoyment contained from viewing the performances of the band and the crowd - is, for musicians such as guitarists, in observing how Angus and Malcolm played, and for everyone how the rest of the band performed, especially front man Bon Scott. The videos reveal the extreme energy level of the band during its live performances during this period.

The present writer saw AC/DC live at Wollongong Town Hall on Friday, 10 December 1977 following their return from a UK tour. It was part of the December 1977 - January 1978 A Giant Dose of Rock & Roll Australian tour and the Wollongong show was very much a live presentation of the Let There Be Rock LP. The concert was awesome in the view of the writer, who was 21 at the time, and despite being told by the security that we had to stay seated. Nevertheless, this was the height of the headbanging era, and we participated accordingly.

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1. Videos

1975

* April: Baby Please Don't Go, Countdown, Australia. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube. 

* 16 June: Show Business. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube.

* 16 June: High Voltage, promo clip. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube. 

* October: High Voltage, King of Pop, Australia. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007; YouTube, duration: 4.02 minutes. Bon singing live to a backing track.

1976

* ?January: T.N.T. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube. 

* 23 February: It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll, Countdown, Australia. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* 3 March: School Days / T.N.T., St. Alban's High School, Victoria, Australia. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* March: Jailbreak, promo clip. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube. 

* 13 July: Live Wire / Can I Sit Next to You, Super Pop, London. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* 29 September: Baby Please Don't Go, Szene 77, Circus Krone, Munich, Germany. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* 5 December: Baby Please Don't Go / Problem Child, Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* 5 December: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap [promo film], Melbourne. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007; Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube.

1977

* 3 April: Dog Eat Dog, Countdown. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube. 

* July: Let There Be Rock, promo clip. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube.

* 27 October: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be / Rocker, BBC, Sight & Sound in Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, London. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007; ditto, YouTube, duration: 40.05 minutes. Track list: Let There Be Rock / Problem Child / Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be / Whole Lotta Rosie / Bad Boy Boogie / Rocker / T.N.T.

1978

* 30 April: Rock 'n' Roll Damnation / Dog Eat Dog / Let There be Rock, Apollo Theatre, Glasgow. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007; VEVO; complete concert, YouTube, duration: 36.38 minutes. Track list: 00:00 | Riff Raff 05:22 | Rock 'n' Roll Damnation 09:03 | Dog Eat Dog 13:30 | Bad Boy Boogie 21:11 | Let There Be Rock 29:35 | Highland Fling Thing 30:50 | Rocker. ('Gimme A Bullet' has never been played from the concert, but played at the sound verification).

* 8 June: Rock 'n' Roll Damnation, Top of the Pops, London, England. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* 23 July: Bill Graham Day on the Green, Oakland Coliseum, California, YouTube, Duration: 51.15 minutes. Combined with performances from 2 September 1978 and 21 July 1979. Track list: Live Wire, Problem Child, Sin City, Highway to Hell, Bad Boy Boogie, The Jack, Rocker, and Dog Eat Dog.

* 11 August: Dog Eat Dog, Australian Music to the World, Atlanta, Georgia. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* 28 October: Problem Child / Sin City / Bad Boy Boogie, Rock Goes to College, Colchester, England. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007. YouTube, duration: 8.58 minutes; complete  concert, YouTube, duration: 42.37 minutes. Track list: 01 - Live Wire 00:00:00 02 - Problem Child 00:04:00 03 - Sin City 00:08:40 04 - Bad Boy Boogie 00:14:00 05 - Whole Lotta Rosie 00:23:00 06 - Rocker 00:28:15 07 - Let There Be Rock 00:34:50.

* 24 November: Sin City, The Midnight Special, ABC TV, US, YouTube, duration: 5.04 minutes.

1979

* July: Promo clips: Shot Down in Flames, Walk All Over You, Touch Too Much and If You Want Blood, You've Got It. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube.

* 13 July: Live on Countdown, Arnhem, Netherlands, YouTube, duration: 26.53. Track list: 00:00:00 - Pre Show 00:00:45 - Intro 00:01:26 - Highway To Hell 00:05:00 - Bad Boy Boogie 00:10:12 - The Jack 00:15:11 - Rocker/Jam 00:21:21 - Whole Lotta Rosie; * ditto: Highway to Hell / The Jack / Whole Lotta Rosie, Countdown, Arnhem, Netherlands. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007.

* 21 July: Anaheim Stadium, California, YouTube, duration: 51.15 minutes. Track list: 0:00:00 - Live Wire 0:05:57 - Problem Child 0:10:36 - Sin City 0:15:58 - Highway To Hell 0:19:43 - Bad Boy Boogie 0:27:47 - The Jack 0:33:36 - Rocker (Incomplete) 0:44:50 - Dog Eat Dog.

* 25 November: Girl's Got Rhythm, TopPop, YouTube, duration: 3.22 minutes. 

* 14 December: Live, Theatre de Verdue, Nice, France. Source: Plug Me In DVD 2007. Bootleg.

* ?December: Shot Down in Flames, Paris, YouTube, duration: 3.31 minutes.

1980

9 February: Girl's Got Rhythm and Highway to Hell, TVE1, Aplauso. Source: Family Jewels, DVD, 2005, YouTube. 

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2. Song list

The following 27 songs feature in the videos listed above. It can be seen from them that at various stages the band adhered to a standard set list whilst touring and, as a result, many songs from the six Australian studio LPs involving Bon Scott (1975-80) do not feature. These albums include: High Voltage (17 February 1975), T.N.T. (1 December 1975), Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (20 September 1976), Let There Be Rock (21 March 1977), Powerage (5 May 1978) and Highway to Hell (27 July 1979).

• Baby Please Don't Go
  
• Bad boy Boogie 
• Can I Sit Next to You 
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 
• Dog Eat Dog 
• Girl's Got Rhythm 
• Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be 
• High Voltage
• Highland Fling Thing 
• Highway to Hell 
• If You Want Blood, You've Got It 
• It's a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll
• Jailbreak 
• Let There Be Rock 
• Live Wire 
• Problem Child 
• Riff Raff 
• Rocker 
• School Days
• Show Business 
• Shot Down in Flames 
• Sin City
• The Jack 
• T.N.T. 
• Touch Too Much 
• Walk All Over You 
• Whole Lotta Rosie 

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3. References

AC/DC, Family Jewels, Albert - Epic, 3 x DVD, 2005. Track list: 0:00:00 - Baby, Please Don't Go 0:04:02 - Show Business 0:08:37 - High Voltage 0:12:48 - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N' Roll) 0:18:07 - T.N.T. 0:21:39 - Jailbreak 0:25:54 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 0:30:01 - Dog Eat Dog 0:33:23 - Let There Be Rock 0:39:34 - Rock N' Roll Damnation 0:42:43 - Sin City 0:47:36 - Riff Raff 0:53:07 - Highland Fling Thing / Rocker 1:00:17 - Whole Lotta Rosie 1:05:40 - Shot Down In Flames 1:09:11 - Walk All Over You 1:14:28 - Touch Too Much 1:19:02 - If You Want Blood (You've Got It) 1:23:35 - Girls Got Rhythm 1:27:00 - Highway to Hell.

-----, Plug Me In, Albert - Epic, Sydney, 2 x DVD, 2007, duration: 5+ hours. DVD 1 - The Bon Scott Era.

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Last updated: 4 November 2025

Michael Organ, Australia