Larry Van Kriedt

Larry Van Kriedt
Van Kriedt around 2006
Background information
Born (1954-07-04) 4 July 1954 San Francisco, California, United States
Genres Jazz, rock
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter
Instruments Saxophone, bass guitar, guitar, vocals[1]
Years active 1963—present
Associated acts AC/DC
Def FX
The Eighty Eights
Non Stop Dancers
Afram
The LPs
The Larry Van Kriedt Quartet
Website

Larry Van Kriedt (born July 4, 1954) is a Jazz musician. He is best known for being the original bassist for the rock band AC/DC around November 1973, joining Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar), Angus Young (lead guitar), Dave Evans (lead vocals) and Colin Burgess (drums). He was fired In February 1974. Van Kriedt also plays saxophone, guitar and vocals.

Early life

Van Kriedt was born to a multi-instrumental family in San Francisco on July 4, 1954. His father was the renowned jazz musician David van Kriedt who composed, arranged played and recorded with such artists as Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Stan Kenton and many more. All of Larry’s life has been centered on music, particularly jazz. He began playing the double bass at age 9, guitar at 12, and added saxophone and vocals to the list at 15. He studied jazz, harmony, composition and musical arrangement with his father.

In 1969, at age 15, his family moved to Sydney, Australia where he met Angus Young shortly after arrival. He started hanging out with Angus and his brother, Malcolm Young. Larry is described as being an accomplished jazz-influenced guitarist during this period. One of his first studio sessions was as the bassist in the original line-up of AC/DC in 1973.

AC/DC

In November 1973 he was asked to join the brand new band AC/DC by Malcolm Young shortly after, lead signer Dave Evans and drummer Colin Burgess joined as Angus Young joined shortly thereafter[2]. On December 31, 1973 the band would perform their first ever live show[3]. Four months later the band would record the single Can I Sit Next to You, Girl where he recorded his bass lines, shortly after he was fired and his bass lines were re-record by George Young [4] [5](one of the older brothers of Malcolm and Angus). After this, he was replaced by Neil Smith. AC/DC employed a succession of bass players over the following few months.

In January 1975 after Rob Bailey was fired, Paul Matters joined the group as bassist for live shows but his tenure was short-lived, being replaced by Mark Evans in March 1975[6]. Until Axl Rose joined as a guest vocalist in 2016, Van Kriedt had been the only member in the group's history to be born in the US.

Other Bands

Van Kriedt would create his own band called Non Stop Dancers with Kevin Jones (guitar, vocals), Jane Stewart (keyboards), Karen Steains (bass), Brett Van Kriedt (drums). They released one full length album, Surprise Surprise, in 1984.[7]

Personal Life

From 1997 to 1999, he lived in Morocco, working there as a musician with his band Afram doing radio, television and concerts such as the first Gnawa Festival in Essaouira in 1998, and raising money for the charity, B.A.Y.T.I. After leaving Morocco he travelled the world busking, that is, playing jazz on the street from London to Provence to Sydney. This was when he started making backing tracks of jazz standards.

In 2002, Van Kriedt pioneered the first online downloadable jazz playalong backing track e-business, Jazzbacks.com.

In 2007, he worked with Paul Agbakoba in The LPs[8].

References

  1. ↑ Square, Leopold. "Larry Van Kriedt makes debut at Leopold Square". leopoldsquare.com. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  2. ↑ Svendsen, Roy Hilmar. "– AC/DC are ignoring their history". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  3. ↑ "42 Years Ago Today - AC/DC Perform First Ever Live Show (Watch "Can I Sit Next To You Girl") - Glide Magazine". Glide Magazine. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  4. ↑ "AC/DC ac-dc.net Latest AC/DC News, AC/DC Tour, AC/DC Discography, AC/DC Story". 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  5. ↑ Engleheart, Murray; Durieux, Arnaud (2006). AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll. Harper Collins. pp. 46, 54, & 60.
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Non Stop Dancers'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  8. ↑ "Jazz Musicians group Sheffield Latin Funk Soul Jazz". The LPs. Retrieved 2011-08-20.

Further reading

  • "AC/DC Maximum Rock & Roll", Murray Englehart with Arnaud Durieux, 2007
  • "Two Sides To Every Glory", Paul Stenning, 2005
  • "Metal Hammer & Classic Rock present AC/DC", Metal Hammer magazine special, 2005
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