AC/DC: Classic or Dud

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.

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?

...because he was fired for being an unreasonable, drunken, violent dickhole?

Is that it? I had no idea.

Takes a lot to be fired from AC/DC for that! Like Adler getting canned from gnr.

If yr drummer is too smacked out to keep a beat, it makes sense to not employ them

(nb GnR have been 100% terrible since firing Adler)

Never heard of any other members of the Dacca assaulting Malcolm, but tbh I was too young to be aware of any gossip back then

Takes a lot to be fired from AC/DC for that! Like Adler getting canned from gnr.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:41 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bob Stinson getting axed for being too drunk for the Replacements

Lemmy getting sacked from Hawkwind for taking too much speed.

The rest of the Who wanting to kick Keith Moon out for drinking too much (in 1978, when he/they barely made it through Who Are You).

Bob Mould ousting Grant Hart because Mould cleaned up first.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/photos_of_ac_dc_live_at_cbgbs_in_1977

!!!

When the band played CBGB’s on August 27, 1977, they were a late addition to the bill that included The Dead Boys and the Talking Heads.

There's a Rolling Stone interview with AC/DC from around that time (possibly right after the show) by Ira Kaplan.

They were interviewed in PUNK as well...

http://www.punkmagazine.com/images/vault_images/punk_14/punk14acdc.gif

https://soundcloud.com/100-7-kslx/acdcend

I came here to post that exact same thing. It's obviously one of the greatest things ever made on the Internet.

The name of the link says it all but cannot do it justice. This must be heard to be believed:

http://www.lazerhorse.org/2016/01/16/the-last-second-of-every-acdc-song-ever-recorded/

Gotta get Yamatsuka Eye in on that.

One guy in my city was at that CBGB show:

http://www.thefeedbacksociety.com/music/acdc-live-at-cbgb-in-1977/

AC/DC TO RESCHEDULE UPCOMING U.S. TOUR DATES

SINGER BRIAN JOHNSON ADVISED BY DOCTORS
TO DISCONTINUE TOURING

(New York, NY; March 7, 2016) - AC/DC are forced to reschedule the 10 upcoming dates on the U.S. leg of their "Rock or Bust" World Tour. AC/DC's lead singer, Brian Johnson, has been advised by doctors to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss.

Tomorrow's show in Atlanta through Madison Square Garden in New York, NY in early April will be made up later in the year, likely with a guest vocalist. More information regarding these rescheduled shows to come. Current ticket holders can hold on to their tickets for the rescheduled dates or receive a refund at point of purchase.

Barnesy staring at the phone so hard that sweat beads on his forehead.

The AC/DC Experience featuring Angus Young has arrived.

Indeed. Has there ever been a more perfect time to knock it on the head?

Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it, isn't it? "OK, we've reached the point where our singer can't hear anymore. Bye!"

And I know it's not quite as loud onstage as in the audience, but the loudest sound I've ever been exposed to was the cannons in "For Those About To Rock." And I was wearing earplugs. I can't even imagine hearing those multiple times a week for months on end.

It's really insane, isn't it? Has there ever been another band that lost so many members in such quick, unrelated succession, and not by death, firing or quitting? Phil Rudd in legal limbo, Malcolm committed, and now Brian told to stop? It's just crazy. If I were Cliff or Angus I'd sleep with one eye open.