AC/DC: Classic or Dud

haha yeah i guess "after most people give a shit except for thunderstruck and money talks ac/dc"

"Play Ball" has a pretty nice main riff, prob their best single since "Big Fun"

haha i meant "Big Gun" but "Big Fun" would be a good AC/DC song title too

Anybody else find it funny that the video for "Play Ball" features footage of just about every kind of ball-centered sport except for baseball, the sport most closely identified with the phrase "play ball!"?

maybe all the sexy lady baseball footage they found was from A League Of Their Own and it was too pricey to buy the rights

i'd never really listened to Thunderstruck on headphones before

so anyway, the last time, when they go back to the whoa-ah-oh-ah-ohoh-ah-oh part, there are THREE drum machine hits on the fill before they kick the guitar in for the final "Yoooo beeen THUNDERSTRUCK"...it's so clearly a drum machine, really weird

i always noticed that those hits had a really heavy echo on them that made them stick out but i just kind of assumed it was for dramatic effect, didn't consider whether it was punched in on a drum machine. AC/DC drums are so typically devoid of flashy flourishes that it would be kind of appropriate if one of their most memorable drum fills was added by a producer with a drum machine while mixing down.

That was one of the non-Rudd albums. And the production (Bruce Fairbairn) is probably the most heavy-handed of any AC/DC album. Tons of weird shit going on in the margins.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/11/13/acdcs-rudd-difficult-pre-arrest-say-bandmates/18967191/

AC/DC has indeed resolved to move forward; it's planning to tour next year. Whether Rudd will join his bandmates remains in question.

"Phil created his own situation," says Young. "It's a hard thing to say about the guy. He's a great drummer, and he's done a lot of stuff for us. But he seems to have let himself go. He's not the Phil we've known from the past."

Meanwhile, Phil, whoring it up on booze and drugs, probably looks at his erstwhile bandmates and thinks, man, they are not the AC/DC I've known in the past.

Seriously, though, those pictures o Phil - where are the glasses? What happened to the long hair?!

That was one of the non-Rudd albums. And the production (Bruce Fairbairn) is probably the most heavy-handed of any AC/DC album. Tons of weird shit going on in the margins.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, November 13, 2014 9:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah noticed the obviously pro backup summers (clearly not anyone in ac/DC) on moneytalks

Backup SINGERS

Something is so ... off about this roll-out. Months of no news. Then rumors of Malcolm. Then, blam, Malcolm out of action, but oh, btw, we're working on a new album. Then, presto, new album is done, but Phil is suddenly out of commission. It's like they're desperate to get this thing out and tour before something else goes wrong.

new album is streaming on itunes for a week before it comes out.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ac-dc/id5040714

Jumping the Gun would be a good name for an AC/DC album.

Title track would be about sex.

I'll be buying this next week. Only a couple of skippers on the whole record.

Stern interview with Brian and Angus is worth a listen

I want a Stern interview where he and his yammering are edited out and replaced by someone else.

Stern is a good interviewer, but not perfect. Sometimes he interrupts the interviewee and totally changes the subject. Im sitting there going "Howard, i wanted to hear his/her answer to the fucking question."

I absolutely love this album, by the way. Good tunes, it sticks to the band's strengths, and at 35 minutes knows when to say when.

hmmm

would you guys consider "play ball" one of the better songs on the album? cuz i thought it was p boring

"Play Ball" is the biggest turd on the album.

good to hear

I'm really enjoying this, surely their best since Scary Monsters.

Speaking to ONE News for the first time since his arrest, the veteran musician says the charges against him are "ludicrous".

"This has just been a big ball of cheese and all the rats are gathering and having a piece, that's just life, but that's not who I am."

Rudd says he's not one to let court charges get in the way. His plans for the day?

"I'm going fishing, flying this afternoon and lots of fornicating tonight."

"I'm going back to work with AC/DC, I don't care who likes it or who doesn't.

"Everyone listens to the wrong people, they should listen to me, I'm a good guy, and I'm a pretty good drummer by the way - ask Angus he'll tell you."

"ask Angus he'll tell you" would make a great bootleg title, as would "Fishing...Flying...and Fornicating Tonight"

AC/DC - Big Ball Of Cheese (2016)

"ask Angus he'll tell you" would make a great bootleg title

The 'Listen to this Brad' of AC/DC boots

No Rudd on the Grammys last night; drummer was Chris Slade. No swing, just plod (but Slade is apparently ambidextrous, which is kind of interesting).

I saw a story somewhere on FB that Slade is probably in for the tour as well, because Rudd has to stay in New Zealand for his trial, which has been pushed back to sometime in the spring (or I guess the fall down there).

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/grammy.jpg

deal with it!!

I approve of everything in that photo

(or I guess the fall down there).

no you don't

Slade def doing the tour. No Malcolm, no. Phil, no deal. IMO.

I mean, jeez, Wrigley show here is in September, and no Phil for that?

lol at the idea that having not stopped for the mental unavailability of one of their two founding members, that they'd subsequently sit around for two or three years after album release to see if the drummer who won't talk to them clears his meth-fuelled criminal charges and decides to tour

Can't believe anyone would pay 2 bucks to see this bunch of has been leftovers.

lol yes you can

i would totally pay 2 bucks to see any version of AC/DC, especially if they came with chicken wings or tacos maybe

Thing is, Phil's playing is actually probably the reason I would go, even sans Malcolm. No Phil, no dice, not for $100.

Rudd pleads guilty, just to frustrate Josh in Chicago.

HA!

http://eveningharold.com/2015/04/21/acdc-drummer-sentenced-to-whitesnake/

Hold-outs no more: http://www.factmag.com/2015/06/30/acdc-records-available-on-streaming-services/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/70031619/former-acdc-drummer-phil-rudd-sentenced-to-home-detention

As the judge dressed Phil Rudd down, perhaps the most stinging rebuke was that the former AC/DC drummer's playing wasn't anything special.

Judge Ingram said there was no evidence he had an offer from the band and he was not convinced that Rudd's drumming was integral to the AC/DC sound.

"Queen replaced Freddie Mercury," he said.

lol

now hearing Bon Scot singing "The judge said I couldn't play rock 'n' roll / locked me in my home"

Making the rounds:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/acdc-song-end/

I could totally imagine some hip band sounding like this.

Oh also Phil Rudd got arrested again. For some reason I always thought of that dude as their respectable anchor. Maybe it was all just the glasses. Why did he take that long hiatus the first time?

I depped in an DC covers band last year for a couple of months and had to learn 24 songs in short order, 20 of which were in A and at least 5 started exactly the same, the hardest part by miles ( let's face it, the basslines weren't very taxing) was remembering what the hell song you were playing.