big brother archive – the ac/dc interview

Soon after the 1997 acquisition of Big Brother skateboard magazine by Larry Flynt Publications, Inc., I was contacted by this freelance writer named Chris Nieratko from New Jersey. He was interested in contributing articles to the mag, primarily band/music interviews, and he seemed to get the tone and spirit of the magazine. This interview with Angus Young of AC/DC was one of his earliest submissions—it ran in Big Brother issue #32—and I remember Jeff Tremaine questioning the validity of it when it arrived in the mail. Nieratko had only sent in the transcripts of the interview, not the original audio tapes, so we never knew exactly how the interviews went down. But a few months later we met Chris at a trade show and we never questioned his ability to be a barefaced asshole ever again.

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