"He wanted to be the centre of attention, he loved being the centre of attention."ĭerek Scott puts it down to Bon's small size. "He enjoyed the cheekiness of it all," Lynn says. ( Supplied: Scott family)īon's friend Lynn Prior, who met him as a teenager, says he was very quiet one-on-one, but when other people were around, he was always a performer.
We all knew that this wasn't going to end well."Ī young Bon with his father "Chick" Scott, both wearing Scottish pipe band uniforms. "I just couldn't understand why he didn't really care about everybody who loved him. Do something about it!'" Bruce tells Australian Story.
"I said, 'You are going to f***ing kill yourself. He gave the High Voltage singer a heartfelt warning to cut back on the booze. The experience so terrified him that he swore never to get on Bon's bike again.
He'd try anything - magic mushrooms, marijuana, alcohol – and he would take risks on his motorbike."īon's top priority was always the band, always looking forward to the next show and doing everything he could to make sure it was a cracker.īut if there were gaps in the schedule, no shows for a few days or, God forbid, a few weeks, he'd get restless.Īnd the risky behaviour would rear its ugly head again.īruce remembers catching a ride on the back of Bon's motorbike after a big night in Adelaide's Lord Melbourne Hotel, zooming around corners so fast that their boots were almost scraping on the road. "He didn't give a bugger about whether he lived or died the next day. "On days when he was bored, there was no future, there was only now. "That's when he would start taking risks, doing wild things," Bruce says. ( Australian Story: Tony Hill)īruce Howe's voice catches with emotion as he remembers his old friend's biggest vulnerability: boredom. Bruce Howe played bass in the 1970s rock band Fraternity.
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