Wonder whether there will be any prima donna antics, extended waits before shows start etc.
One the plus side the guy can sing so fascinated to hear how they sound.
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Wonder whether there will be any prima donna antics, extended waits before shows start etc.
One the plus side the guy can sing so fascinated to hear how they sound.
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ganglesprocket says
I was about to post this as well. I imagine this.
goodfella says
It will be interesting to see how it pans out and whether the old pipes are up to the job.
James Blast says
Waxyl can’t sing. This is a well established fact SWEE-IT CHILD OF MY-EEE-INNnn.
Junglejim says
Oh dear.
I don’t follow ACDC closely but I wasn’t aware there was an issue with Brian J ( thought it was more with the drums & with the sad health issues affecting Malcolm Y).
Axl is a probably as well known for his wanton bellendery as his ‘singing’, so it looks like a fiddly fit .
On the plus side, he gets the buzz of fronting a proper rick band for once & ( judging by the pic in the link) the public gets to see how his transformation into Little Richard is progressing.
Black Type says
‘A proper rick band’ – Astley, Wakeman, Parfitt, Springfield and Starkey…the boys are rarin’ to go!
And, ‘Wanton Bellendery’ TMFTL
Junglejim says
Eek!
iPad/sausage fingers/no glasses situation.
Keep getting those wucking mords fuddled!
Mike_H says
Isn’t “Wanton Bellendery” a picturesque Cotswold village with an astonishingly high rate of murder and a locally-based folksinging amateur sleuth called Donovan?
Fintinlimbim says
It’ll end in tears, you mark my words.
Fin59 says
Only if you’re a music lover.
*Smiles sweetly and saunters off*
James Blast says
Thumbs aloft.
Rob C says
A parrot in a vice and a sexagenarian schoolboy.
ewenmac says
I want this to work. Axl Rose is probably the only one who could make it work. It would be a huge shame if such a great band’s swansong was a series of p*ss-poor shows.
DrJ says
I never really liked GnR because of the songs, and Brian J’s high-straining never really appealed. However, I find a Rose-fronted AC/DC could be just the thing. Exhibit A: a few hours ago in Coachella…
http://youtu.be/tW7wwIRm-9E
Johnny Concheroo says
Can I suggest that after 43 years of ups and downs, tragedy and triumph, this announcement can be seen as the exact point where AC/DC jumped the shark?
retropath2 says
Is this not the point where rock music finally is football, with clubs/bands merely seeking the biggest signing, sod the history and fans?
Sitheref2409 says
As someone smarter than me posted:
They replaced a singer who can’t hear with one who can’t sing
davebigpicture says
How will they get him on stage on time? He’s well known for keeping audiences waiting.
DogFacedBoy says
Well he’s broken his foot atm so they could just stick him in a remote controlled wheelchair programmed to head towards stage at allotted time.
So it’s Angus, Axl, Cliff (not Richard), a Young youngster and super sub Chris Slade (great on Razor’s Edge tour). Could you ask for your money back for being not as advertised.
I suspect the secondary ticket market might be full of bargains
dai says
I believe dates were re-scheduled so how can get your money back as long as you bought from a reputable source.
dai says
So you can get your money back ….
Uncle Wheaty says
Sad end for a great band.
bobness says
I do hope it isn’t the case, but part of me wonders how anyone in the AC/DC camp can think that this is an idea that won’t end in a great name being caused awful damage.
I remain hopeful, and I sincerely hope I’m wrong, but am now very glad I went to Download in 2010, or whenever it was recently. Top gig.
“Wanton Bellendery” would make a great T-shirt. I’d buy one.
Jim Cain says
Last time they replaced their singer with someone inferior, it seemed to work rather well.
DrJ says
Ahh yes, but you can’t get away with it twice. It’s called the “Rule of Ray Wilson”
Rigid Digit says
also referred to as “The Blaze Bayley Priciple”
Rigid Digit says
(Principle)
SixDog says
World XI.
Possibly the worst heavy metal album I’ve heard.
Read a Maiden biography/hagiography by, I think, Mick Wall, where the stop point is the recruitment of Blaze and the release of World XI. You would honestly think it was the second coming of our good Lord. Heralded by Harris in quotes as the best thing to ever happen to Maiden with Bruce all but completely airbrushed out of the book.
Hilarious. One can only assume that Harris was heavily sedated in the style of David St. Hub bins when he gave that quote.
Hawkfall says
Worst heavy metal album you’ve heard?
I think that’s a great idea for a thread. Speaking as someone who has heard albums by Witchfinder General, Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts and King Diamond I reckon I’d be competitive.
bobness says
That’s some boast, fair play to you. Have you ever heard any Battleaxe?
Hawkfall says
Oh and Bobness has raised the stakes! Impressive, let me just look at my hand here.
Hmm, I’ll see your Battleaxe and raise you a Splitbeaver.
Rigid Digit says
This may be a “check” rather than a “raise”, but Smashed Gladys is my offering
bobness says
Anyone remember the wonderfully named Ample Cleavage? Probably best if I don’t check their vinyl output on the internet while at work…
I saw Battleaxe once, supporting Saxon. That was enough.
Junior Wells says
I have more interest in hearing Acca Dacca with Axl out front than BJ.
Johnny Concheroo says
AC/DC just turned the Titanic into the Hindenburg
Junior Wells says
Well it is just to finish the tour isn’t it ?
Johnny Concheroo says
Yebbut, the rot set in with the departure of Malcolm. He was the engine room of the band.
Brian is still deeply resented by most cultural cringe Aussies simply because he’s NOT BON. But he did a fine job for 35 years and helped turn AC/DC into one of the biggest bands in the world.
Bon was only in the band for 6 years. Let it go.
Junior Wells says
well they managed to chop and change drummer and by all accounts the recent shows with the nephew instead of Malcolm were pretty good too , if you like that sort of thing.
My point re Axl is that he has been enlisted to finish the tour commitments as I gather ACDC don’t like parting with dollars . Of course if it goes on beyond that we may be entering shark territory.
Let it go is a curious comment. I don’t like BJs screech of a voice- never have and never will. Plus I thought Bon added some personality to the performances and some wit to their lyrics. They lost that with his departure.
Would “let it go” apply to your affection for Peter Green Mac v subsequent iterations?
Johnny Concheroo says
It’s not really comparable. The Peter Green blues line-up of Mac morphed into a soft rock AOR FM Radio friendly outfit. A different band making different music.
Following Bon’s death AC/DC continued almost exactly as before. A heavy rock band with a similar, but different, singer.
I’m not saying this applies to you, but it’s true that many Aussies make it a point of national pride to never accept the Pom Brian Johnson and insist that the only good AC/DC line-up was the one with Bon Scott, simply because he was (sort of) Australian. My “let it go” comment was in relation to that pointless show of blind patriotism.
I like both line-ups by the way
Junior Wells says
Fair enough except for the “sort of ” comment. He moved to Australia when he was 5.
Australia is a land of immigrants.
Johnny Concheroo says
Point taken. It was a cheap shot.
Junior Wells says
bloody annoying actually – not your comment , the heritage thing
Easybeats – met in immigration centre outside Sydney
Bee Gees – English immigrants who went back
Barnesy – Glasgow
Johnny Concheroo says
Strange to think that the Bee Gees arrived in Australia in 1958 and were gone by late 1966.
Just eight years in Oz, but they are forever considered an Aussie band.
Although they were very productive years. The brothers wrote dozens of songs which were recorded by Aussie artists while they were here.
Junior Wells says
yes, a very different life here to the others. Playing at country festivals, rodeos etc. Queensland in the early sixties would have been a very rough and ready place.
Junior Wells says
shirking some work I did some research . Not as commonplace as I thought but here are a few with some international profile
Frank Ifield born Warwickshire – Oz when 9
Billy Thorpe Manchester Oz when 9
Jim Keays ( Masters Apprentices) Glasgow Oz when 5
Glen Shorrock ,Little River Band Chatham Oz when 10
Graham Russell Air Supply Nottingham Oz when 15
And don’t get @Mousey started on the Kiwis
Johnny Concheroo says
Don’t forget ONJ, born in Cambridge
Johnny Concheroo says
All of the Easybeats. 2 Scots, Leeds, Liverpool and Holland
Johnny Concheroo says
John Farnham, from Dagenham in East London.
Cane to Melbourne in 1959, at age 10.
He recorded the biggest selling album in Australian history.
He was named Australian of the Year in 1987 but embarrassingly he hadn’t yet taken out Aussie citizenship.
It was fast-tracked, needless to say.
dai says
Maybe the Bee Gees are considered Australian down under, but in the UK they are considered British (or from the British isles),
They didn’t have Australian accents, AC/DC do, apart from Brian and Axl naturally …
Johnny Concheroo says
I can never work out what accent Angus has. It’s neither Scottish or Aussie, but a strange mix of the two
Junior Wells says
I dont think Bee gees are really claimed as Aussie now, more having got their start here.
ACDC though defs. They were playing pubs and school dances for years before hitting it big and heading overseas.
Easybeats too .
retropath2 says
Which leaves Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu and Rolf harris by my reckoning.
Johnny Concheroo says
Rolf is persona non grata these days, even in his home town. As you can see, his star on the Perth Walk Of Fame (a very short walk indeed) has been clumsily erased with an angle grinder or something similar.
That only leaves Dennis Lillee and Heath Ledger now.
http://i.imgur.com/5cK1Hti.jpg
Sewer Robot says
@Johnny, It’s not really a “walk” of fame if Jake The Peg can cover all the stars just by standing still..
Mike_H says
Never liked Guns n Roses.
Saw AC/DC live once and was quite impressed by the grandeur of their show but never by their music.
If I never heard a note from either ever again I would not shed even a solitary tear.
bricameron says
Can’t stand the bloke but it does make sense to me. I suspect that most people who attend an ACDC show these days don’t really care who is up on stage just as long as the face with the schoolboy outfit is there.
Junior Wells says
more importantly the fingers in the schoolboy outfit are there
Harold Holt says
No.
No no no no no no no.
Non
Nein
Nooooooooooooooo.
It was great while it lasted though.
SixDog says
This is the Tufnel leaving Tap moment. Jazz odyssey incoming
fortuneight says
The video suggests this might be quite an inspired choice. Good luck to all of them. I can’t imagine many of those with tickets for the shows Axl will do being as po faced as this thread.
Black Celebration says
Tell you who’s Po-faced:
http://i.imgur.com/GNz4OSu.jpg
fortuneight says
See also
ernietothecentreoftheearth says
I like to think that this move was prompted by the recent Afterword ‘Odd leaves the room’ thread where one band member at a time was replaced.
In this instance, I think the aim will be to switch all existing band members for a trouser dodging newcomer. Angus is OK,of course, as he wears shorts. Axl will have to revert to the kilt he used to wear. I predict the next move will see Cliff the Bass replaced by Flea in full nowt but a sock ensemble. And after that, who knows……
Rigid Digit says
If only Keith was still with us:
Gatz says
Courtesy of http://www.myrockradio.com , exclusive photos from those Axl and Angus rehearsals.
http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/rr107/Gatz_photos/image_11.jpeg
Fintinlimbim says
Strikes me that BJ is more interested in hearing the glorious sound of his Italian exotic car collection than galumphing round the stage at some arena gig. And who can blame him.
DougieJ says
When ver DC first came to my attention as a callow youth it was with BJ as vocalist. Only much later did I learn about Bon Scott.
But Axl Rose as lead singer? Can’t really see it. Worked with BJ but different times, different circs. A singer in a mega-selling band jumping ship to another mega-selling band? Nah.
Either way, it won’t ‘damage the band’s legacy’ to any great extent. See Paul Rodgers and Queen…
Junior Wells says
Junior Wells says
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ac-dcs-brian-johnson-personally-crushed-to-stop-performing-20160419
Johnny Concheroo says
Angus and the boys approach Johnny Depp and Amber Heard levels of sincerity in this latest interview.
I’ve seldom seen a band more relaxed and comfortable with who they are and what they’re doing. I only wish I could be in “Pordigle” this Saturday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__pwh9mR0U8
Junior Wells says
A very un AC DC interview
Johnny Concheroo says
Note the way Cliff and Axl take up the whole of their chairs, while Angus is so tiny he barely occupies half of his.
Junior Wells says
Well they did their first show on the weekend with Axl in a chair on account of his busted ankle. It’s the first show, interrupted rehearsals and he has to sing from a chair. Sounds more like Bon to me then Brian.
Kid Dynamite says
Fraser Lewry, late of a neighbouring parish, reckoned it was pretty good
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-05-08/ac-dc-axl-rose-lisbon-first-live-review