The Beginning...

THE SPEKTORS
Perth 1965-66

John Collins (vocals/drums)
Brian Gannon (bass)
Murray Gracie (guitar, vocals)
Wyn Milson (guitar)
Bon Scott (vocals/drums)

History : 

The Spektors were one of dozens of aspiring beat groups in Perth in the mid-60s. They would probably be as obscure most others, was it not for the fact that they were the first professional band to feature the late Bon Scott. Bon was in fact co-drummer and vocalist — he shared the role with John Collins and they alternated half a set each drumming and singing.

The Spektors split in mid-'66, and Bon and Wyn Milson joined up with members of another Perth band The Winztons to form The Valentines (1966-70) after which Bon joined Fraternity(1970-73) and finally AC/DC, with whom he performed until his untimely death in 1980.

Discography

The Spektors made no commercial recordings, but four tracks that they taped in October '65 for a performance on Perth TV pop show Club 17 have survived. The songs were all covers - Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So", Them's "Gloria", Chuck Berry's "On My Mind" and The Beatles' "Yesterday" were released on CD in 1992 by English reissue label See For Miles on the CD Bon Scott: The Early Years 1967-72, together with tracks by Fraternity.

Biography Of A Legend

Ronald Belford Scott (Bon Scott) was born July 9, 1946 in Roods, Kirriemuir, Scotland from Isabella Cunningham Mitchell and Charles Scott (Isa and Chick).
Scott's family migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1952. They changed to Harvest Road, north of Fremantle in 1956. Bon follow his education in an elementary school in north of Fremantle and move to John Curtin Senior High School until 1961.


  
His first job was a farm laborer before working on a fishing boat. Then, at Avery Scales,  in a weighing factory as an apprentice mechanic.

Then he discovered Rock'n'Roll!

 A summary of the first musical career of Bon:

1956 - Bon joined joined the Caledonian Scots Pipe Band with his father Ckick Scott. Bon plays the snare drum.

1962 - Bon appears in the inaugural ceremony of the Empire Games in Perth at Perry Lakes. Bon is Champion of snare drums novice and then was champion for five years.

1965 - Quit college at 16 and worked for a time as a factor but his passion for rock and roll and alcohol ruled out him from the "right direction", and even the army told him socially inadapted . It was clear he could only be in a rock band. Between 1965 and half of 1966  bon was  drummer and occasional singer in Spektors, a group that had versions of familiar songs like "Yesterday",