Original AC/DC vocalist, Dave Evans opened up about former band’s vocalist, Bon Scott, and the struggles he faced during his life.
In a conversation with Brazil’s ‘Guarda Volume’ podcast, Evans said:
“Poor Bon Scott. Bon Scott joined the band, and he went through a lot of crap too. And he ended up dead. He was working, working, working, working, working, working. And he was depressed, sad. He looked happy ’cause he was drunk all the time.
”Bon Scott drank all the time. Alcoholic. You see photographs of Bon Scott; he’s always got a bottle or a drink all the time. Sad. Sad. But it killed him in the end. But he was going through a lot of hell, too, with the band.”
Reports suggested that Bon Scott died in 1980 after a night of heavy drinking, citing ‘acute alcohol poisoning’ as the cause of his death. Sharing his thoughts on the vocalist’s passing, Evans commented:
“I spoke to Bon Scott after he joined [AC/DC]. We had a private conversation about things which will remain private. And so when I found out what happened to Bon Scott, when I read about it, and I spoke to his wife about it too — I saw his wife who told me what happened and stuff — I wasn’t surprised. I was not surprised.”
Scott’s alcohol and drug abuse raised controversy throughout his career, especially when it caused him to get hospitalized due to an overdose in 1975.