{"id":919129,"date":"2026-10-03T13:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919129\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T13:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:56:17","slug":"how-bon-scott-impacted-the-life-of-mastodons-brent-hinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919129\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bon Scott impacted the life of Mastodon’s Brent Hinds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Beyond The Thunderdome<\/a> podcast launched in 2021 with a mission to discuss all things AC\/DC. Those who’ve appeared on the show include Airbourne, Simon Wright, Chris Slade, Chris Jericho, Scott Ian, Slash, Dweezil Zappa and Dee Snider, and in March 2021, late Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds was interviewed. Below, podcast co-creator Kurt Squires remembers the encounter.<\/p>\n

When we spoke to Brent Hinds<\/a>, he was exactly who you\u2019d expect Brent Hinds to be. Before the day was over, he\u2019d invited us onto Mastodon<\/a>\u2019s tour bus, shown off a freshly inked AC\/DC<\/a> tattoo, and asked which song we\u2019d like him to play on his Gibson SG while we filmed the band that night. We chose The Czar. He grinned and obliged.<\/p>\n

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None of it was surprising. By then, AC\/DC \u2013 and especially Bon Scott<\/a> \u2013 had been woven into Hind\u2019s life for decades. In fact, his Bon Scott story began beside a swimming pool in Florida. The first AC\/DC music Hinds ever owned was a Highway To Hell<\/a> cassette.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was about eleven years old,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI rode my bike off, bought it with my allowance money, took it down by the pool and listened to the whole thing over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the experience was unforgettable. \u201cIt was electrifying,\u201d he said. So electrifying that Hinds became so absorbed in the music, and he forgot he was lying under the Florida sun. By the time he got back to his family\u2019s cottage, he was badly sunburned everywhere except for one perfect white rectangle where his Panasonic portable cassette player had rested on his chest. His first encounter with AC\/DC had literally left a mark.<\/p>\n

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Like many musicians of his generation, Hinds discovered that Bon Scott wasn\u2019t just a singer. He was a character, a lifestyle, a cautionary tale, a hero and more, all rolled into one.<\/p>\n

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Bon Scott onstage in 1976 (Image credit: Dick Barnatt\/Redferns)<\/p>\n

Even decades later, Hinds measured his own excesses against Bon\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I\u2019ve ever overdone it partying and woke up feeling like death, my body\u2019s been like: \u2018Brent, you\u2019re gonna die like Bon Scott right now. Get up and go puke.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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The line is funny because Brent tells it like he\u2019s telling a joke. For all the mythology surrounding Bon Scott \u2013 and there has been plenty of it over the decades \u2013 Hinds understood that there was a cost attached to the party. Yet the admiration never faded.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this day, What\u2019s Next To The Moon on Powerage<\/a> is probably my favourite AC\/DC song.\u201d<\/p>\n

That choice says a lot. Hinds gravitated toward one of Bon\u2019s most colourful and overlooked stories \u2013 a reminder that beneath the riffs and swagger was a gifted storyteller.<\/p>\n

\u201cBon wrote timeless songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Bon, Hinds left us too soon. He passed away in 2025 at the age of 51, leaving behind his own devoted following of fans, musicians and friends. Yet the mark Bon left on him was still there for everyone to see, tattooed on his skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Beyond The Thunderdome podcast launched in 2021 with a mission to discuss all things AC\/DC. Those who’ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-919129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}