MARCUS HOOK ROLL BAND LP pre AC/DC Malcom Angus George Young Vand SHARPIES
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ATTENTION: CORRECT SHIPPING COSTS ARE INDICATED BELOW ARTIST: MARCUS HOOK ROLL BAND TITLE: LABEL: CAPITOL 1979 CONDITION: NM/NM SHIPPING: ITALY 10 EURO EUROPE 1/3 VINYLS 13 EURO AMERICA, ASIA, AFRICA 1/3 VINYLS EURO 18 OCEANIA 1/3 VINYLS 24.50 EURO PAYPAL ONLY
Who is this mythological group? I can tell you that there is no such person as Marcus Hook. Nor does the 'band' originate from the borough of Marcus Hook in Pennsylvania. This 'band' only ever existed in the studio, releasing three singles and one album in the early '70s. If any of these turn up on internet auction sites today, collectors bankrupt their PayPal accounts to win them. But the scariest fact is that if the Marcus Hook Roll Band had come out of the studio, played live, travelled the world, promoted their records, and found the success they certainly deserved, then the whole AC/DC phenomenon probably would never have got off the ground. Do we have your attention now?
The Marcus Hook Roll Band is one obscure, but significant, persona of the legendary partnership of Harry Vanda & George Young. Their better known personas are the '60s beat phenomenon The Easybeats, and later the mysterious entity Flash and The Pan. Dutchman Harry Vanda and Scottish George Young first met as displaced teenagers in an immigration hostel in Sydney, Australia. Capitol Records in the USA expressed an interest in having an album from The Marcus Hook Roll Band having heard the single Natural Man.
The main recording was during July/August 1973 in Sydney. A key ingredient was the duty free supplied by producer Alan "Wally" Waller—Jim Beam Old Grand-dad bourbon whiskey — hence the album name.
George Young explained, "We had Harry, myself and my kid brothers, Malcolm and Angus. We all got rotten, except for Angus, who was too young, and we spent a month in there boozing it up every night. That was the first thing Malcolm and Angus did before AC/DC. We didn't take it very seriously so we thought we'd include them to give them an idea of what recording was all about."
