The first time Kiss’s Gene Simmons saw AC/DC play live was on a summer night in August 1977 at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles, and he remembers it as if was yesterday. “I’d never heard of AC/DC, and I thought it might be a gay band,” Simmons recalls, noting that in America ‘AC/DC’ is a slang term for bisexuality.
What he discovered instead was the most straight-shooting of rock’n’roll bands, both in terms of the simplistic drive of the music and the overtly heterosexual content of Bon Scott’s lyrics. Among the songs that were regularly in the band’s set back then were Whole Lotta Rosie (about a generously proportioned groupie), Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be (about a woman messing with Bon’s head) and The Jack (about an STD passed around the band by a female admirer).
