To say that AC/DC has a lot going on would be a massive understatement. They are just a couple of weeks away from releasing Power Up. They have been doing a ton of interviews. You probably think they would say much more than we have heard before, but Brian Johnson casually mentions that he and the late Malcolm Young once went hunting for the Loch Ness monster. You might not be entirely shocked to learn that alcohol had been taken in advance of this mission.
Apparantly they took a trip to Scotland with their wives and decided to monster hunt. Because, why not?
“Malcolm loved his fireworks and he’d taken a big box with him,” Johnson remembers. “One night, we were four sheets to the wind and staying at this hotel right on the side of the loch. Mal just said, ‘C’mon, let’s go and find the Loch Ness monster! I’ve got fireworks and it might attract it!’”
“There we were, going straight into the water in our shoes, up to our knees, and it was freezing! Mal had a drink in one hand, a box of fireworks in the other, and was trying to set fire to the loch. We were just howling. By the time we got back to our wives we had straw in our hair and were covered in mud. What a night!”
Needless to say, they didn’t catch the monster. I do wish they had video of the attempt though!
On the subject of video, here is the band’s official video for Shot In The Dark.
