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AC/DC in Sin City....
That depends on if the 85 guys it takes to change the lighting setup for that simple, no-nonsense song have enough time during their 2 week break between Japan and America to get their shit together and pull off that near-impossible task.
LOL yeah I have a feeling it will be the same as every time they've played in NYC on this tour... they won't play the song referencing it.
AC/DC are basically a gimmick band now. Brian basically said as much when he told the fans to go fuck themselves. It's more about the lights and flashy things than about the music. It's easier to pawn off responsibility on some lighting guy than to say, "Well, we just don't want to play those songs," or "Stephen Wright left us and we're bitter and childish about it all, so we're never going to play any of the songs he drummed on live again," or "Brian has significant limitations on his memory and voice on a world tour, so we're keeping it to the same old same old." Just keep the money rolling in...
RnRdamnation: Ok, so if they followed that little idea about Wright leaving, they wouldn't have played alot of the songs on the Live album.
When Brian told us to fuck off, i wasn't mad at him but i kinda told to myself that this band is doing it's last kicks. It's the funniest shit to tell the people that they cannot do a song because of the light equipment. So when that blues musician died the same day at the Stade De France show, how did they manager to have this excellent moody lights and pull Ride On fucking fabulous? Really i don't need to complain anymore, because something that was very important to me, is now my average,don't really give a f#ck band. I'm just along cuz i like the site and for any info i can provide to some that they still care.I don't. Am also thinking to sell my collection but what keeps me is the really huge fukin trouble i had all the years to collect it. NP and Nate can understand i think.
"RnRdamnation: Ok, so if they followed that little idea about Wright leaving, they wouldn't have played alot of the songs on the Live album." A lot of the songs? You mean all three - Heatseeker, That's the Way I Wanna Rock and Roll and Who Made Who. I'll concede you that point - to a limit. Maybe Chris Slade had no problem playing Steven Wright songs, but how does Phil Rudd feel about it? After all, Wright was Rudd's surprise replacement when Malcolm suddenly threw Rudd out of the band. Maybe he still has some hard feelings about that. All the same, we'll never know, because someone's controlling the stage so that nothing from 83-88 is ever played. It's as if the 80s didn't happen beyond the BIB album and the single For Those About to Rock, which is coincidentally when Phil Rudd was given the boot and Stevie Wright, with his big Led Zeppelin sound and speed, came in.
simon wright people, stevie wright was singer for the easybeats and mentioned albeit briefly as a successor to Bon, too many drugs n a love of the drink killed that option however. as for slade playing any tracks, look at the mans portfolio, hes a pro and he will play whatever is required. Sin City in Vegas? most probably with a big ole light show an dancin girls as well!! Why not?, The Who pandered to the CSI generation for the Superbowl,so why cant the band follow suit? Sap, i get what yer sayin bud,it took/takes a long time and a lotta $£$£ to get the collections together,especially pre internet, yeah Bud, I can see where your coming from,but remember the Bon era,ALL GOOD! Peace Dave
D'oh! Simon Wright! I knew that...Can't tell you why I kept writing Stevie Wright, even as I knew something wasn't quite right about it... Yeah, Dave, Slade was a pro... Theoretically Phil is, too, so it would be nice to hear him drum on Shake Your Foundations or Nervous Shakedown...
I think it's either Mal or Phil that doesn't want to play Simon songs. Possibly Mal is afraid to put in a Simon song because he doesn't know how Phil would react...
Right.Well let's first play something from Mal's favorite album and then consider simon. Dave.Problem is that i have a cd collection so Bon does not appear often. Anyway i'm considering it but i think i'll keep it just for my trouble in getting it.Also i don't want my stuff to get on the hands of any dad's rich boy a$$hole that thought it would be cool to spend 300$ for a rare AC/DC cd just to show it off to his friends.
Here's how the conversation between Malcolm and Phil should go: Mal: Hey Phil, good show. D'ya have a minute to chat? Phil: Sure. Mal: Remember, back around 82-83 when we went through that rough patch together? Phil: Yeah, harsh times man, harsh times. Mal: Well, you know, I was pretty high on myself at the time and thought I could do no wrong. I might have come across as a bit of a dick. Phil: Yep yep, no denying that. Mal: But it didn't help that you were snorting all that blow and fucking my girlfriend at the time. Phil: Yeah, I can see that. Mal: So we were both being kind of dickish. Phil: I guess so. Gee, that really puts it in perspective now, doesn't it? Mal: That's sort of what I'm getting at. So sorry about being a dick almost 30 years ago. Phil: Well, that apology's a two-way street mate. I guess it was inevitable that one of us would have had to leave. Mal: Considering who we were at the time, yeah. Mal: But here's the thing. We brought in another drummer and we've said it again and again in interviews for almost 15 years now, he may have been good, but you had that AC/DC feel. Phil: Right, right. Mal: But in that time, we also wrote some pretty good songs and the fans kind of like 'em. Phil: Yeah, but they were recorded with that fucker Simon. Mal: Sure sure, but you know how Thunderstruck sounds that much more awesome with you, even when placed against Chris Slade's incredible technical skills? Phil: No doubt. The fans love it. Mal: Well, can you imagine Guns for Hire or Shake Your Foundations or Meanstreak with that Phil Rudd touch? Phil: Yeah, I guess I could. I mean, it's all 4/4 time right? I think I could pull that off. Mal: Great! Well, listen. I'm gonna call the band together to rehearse on our day off and we're going to try about about 10-12 songs from the 83-88 era, see how they play with us as we are now. Phil: What about Brian? Can he pull it off? You know his memory's a bit off and his voice can't take as much punishment as it used to since he beat that round of cancer. Mal: Don't worry about Brian. I'll take care of him. He's always saying he feels lucky playing with the greatest band in the world and I don't think that feeling's going to go away soon. Phil: But his memory? It would be embarassing if he stumbled over lyrics. Mal: Good point, but listen, we're all adults here and the fans understand we're old men. If we start pulling out the obscure classics from never-or-rarely-played eras, I don't think they'd take offense if Brian has to occasionally sing from a teleprompter. It might look a bit goofy, but no more goofy than us playing the exact same set for 30 years and then blaming it on the lighting guys when our fans politely ask us to explore our back catalog a bit more. Phil: Good call mate. Right then, I'm off to check out this bevy of groupies for the night. See you at rehearsal tomorrow. Mal: Great. Sink the pink, man, sink the pink! See - if they approach it both as adults, no problem!
BTW RnRDamnation: You seem to be ignoring the fact that phil played the drums on the flick of the switch album.
Kinda sorta mkalic. There's plenty of story behind the making of that album and it has never been precisely identified when exactly Rudd was thrown out. Yes, he got credit for the album, but it seems there may have been a few session musicians thrown into the mix, too.
On the other hand, they did tour with him in 83, didn't they? So is it just that they think that all of FotS is crap? Because it's not. And as for avoiding everything from FotW to BUYV, is that a matter of Phil's reluctance to play Simon Wright tracks, or do they think that stuff is crap, too? Because it's not...
I don't know, but I've heard on several occasions in interviews that they really had a studio drummer, i think that the drummer from procol harum was also considered, but at the end the band decided they didn't like the other drummers and they used phils tracks. But believe me, on FOTS it's phil playing the drums, a few years ago i started playing drums, just because of him and his technique and believe me I'm 101% sure it's him, you can hear it. Oh, no they didn't tour with phil in 1983, his last concert was in 1982. I don't like wright or slade very much, not saying that they are bad drummers or anything, but they just don't fit in just as good as phil does. Heck, I don't even like watching donington that much, i rather watch no bull, that's how much i missed phil. Although don't get me wrong, i love the Fly and Razor album, they are one of their best albums if you ask me, especially Fly on the wall, love it. I hate the fact that they don't play anything from 1983 to 1988. There are tons of incredible tracks there... but yeah...sad, very sad, that much good stuff and in all the years they managed to play Who made who.... ONCE, ONCE freakin ONCE. I don't think this has to do anything with phil and mal, the whole band just gave in to the critics that said Fly on the wall and all the 80's stuff sucked, so they decided not to play anthing from that time.
They played Who Made Who in one of the first shows of the Ballbreaker tour, with Phil, the audio exists , it's on youtube. There you can see why they didn't play it anymore! The guitar licks are freakin hard for angus (1996, he was...mm..45-50?) And for the FOTS and FOTW tracks, it would be nice if they play one of them , but they just would be too bad compared to Shoot To Thrill, Let There Be Rock, etc But Heatseeker....Nick Of Time.... ah well what can I do!
They will play it, and then Play Have A Drink On Me in Milwaukee.
Sure, and they're going to cut Let There Be Rock down to just the song because Angus came to the sudden realization that there's nothing spontaneous or surprising left in the solo and that it's nothing more than an ego-stroke at this point and they're going to stretch out and jam on High Voltage instead, immediately followed by Jailbreak and Down Payment Blues.
matirocker are you seriously saying Nick Of Time is better than FOTW and FOTS? its good, but really?!?!
LOL at RNRDamnation's conversation. I have a feeling not a single line from that dialogue would ever be said by either one of them, especially the part about Phil doing blow because he didn't.
god damn damnation, your practically trolling. It's almost in a humans nature to become a dick when their older. Not to mention it surely takes a toll on them. And you know what? Good. Cut out the damn let there be rock solo. Who cares. We have no influence. As long as they play I am good. And also your memory will always go bad.\ Oh, and phil rudd DID play the drums on FOTS.