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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 18:49:19 GMT
Hi All, Just read the article below courtesy of:-teamrock.com/classic-rock....
AC/DC biographer Murray Engleheart insists that Axl Rose will tour and record with Angus Young an co in the future. The Guns N’ Roses frontman was brought into the fold after vocalist Brian Johnson was forced to bow out of the band in March 2016 or face “total hearing loss.”
Rose went on to tour with AC/DC on their Rock Or Bust tour. Now, author Engleheart, who wrote 2012 book AC/DC Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story Of The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band, insists that Rose will stick with the band going forward. He says in a Facebook post: "Speculate all you want but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: AC/DC will continue with Axl on vocals – new album, touring, the whole nine yards.", "What was a massive gamble by Angus turned out to be an equally enormous triumph that has set the scene for the future."
Johnson made his return to the stage in May last year, when he sang with Robert Plant and Paul Rodgers in Oxford. He also made a guest appearance with Muse at the August 2017 Reading Festival. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Never heard Axle live but I assume this will not be a favourable outcome for many fans what do you think ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 19:52:35 GMT
I was very sceptical when I heard Axl was on vocals, especially with his reputation for awkwardness and being a diva on tour with GnR but I went to see them and was absolutely blown away, the band were playing great (as you'd expect) but Axl had really upped his game and gave the songs a whole new lease of life, better than when I saw him play with the reformed "classic lineup" GnR. No doubt a new album will still sound just like AC/DC always has but maybe some lyrical input may lift things a bit but I look forward to seeing them live again whenever. It was a really pleasant surprise.
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Post by vivfromcov on Feb 5, 2018 20:20:49 GMT
I was very sceptical when I heard Axl was on vocals, especially with his reputation for awkwardness and being a diva on tour with GnR but I went to see them and was absolutely blown away, the band were playing great (as you'd expect) but Axl had really upped his game and gave the songs a whole new lease of life, better than when I saw him play with the reformed "classic lineup" GnR. No doubt a new album will still sound just like AC/DC always has but maybe some lyrical input may lift things a bit but I look forward to seeing them live again whenever. It was a really pleasant surprise. Agree on every single point. I cancelled the tickets... myself and sons were not happy at all that Axl was going to be on vocals. But then at the last minute I bought a ticket and was completely won over by his performance and also his attitude. He was not arrogant or a diva at all. I would happily go and see Angus again with Axl. I am sorry for Brian but he cannot risk his hearing to tour again...
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Post by rockonquo on Feb 6, 2018 9:26:34 GMT
I never have been a big fan of Axel Rose & I wasn't too impressed with him with AC DC by watching some clips. But will wait & see how the album will turn out before I pass anymore judgement on the idea. I hope it works out well, but without Malcolm, it won't be the same AC DC sound on record anymore without his ideas writing & playing on it.
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Post by Gaz on Feb 6, 2018 10:00:20 GMT
I was very sceptical when I heard Axl was on vocals, especially with his reputation for awkwardness and being a diva on tour with GnR but I went to see them and was absolutely blown away, the band were playing great (as you'd expect) but Axl had really upped his game and gave the songs a whole new lease of life, better than when I saw him play with the reformed "classic lineup" GnR. No doubt a new album will still sound just like AC/DC always has but maybe some lyrical input may lift things a bit but I look forward to seeing them live again whenever. It was a really pleasant surprise. Absolutey agree. I’m accadacca to the core and saw Bon with them before they took on the world and never took to Brian Johnson’s screeching vocal. With Bon you could hear every word and he lived the lyrics to each song. Axl Rose has some mystery about him plus his vocals have a certain Bon about them... if that makes sense. BUT and it’s a very big but, there’s no Malcolm Young....as in Quo with no Rick.... BUT AC/DC may get away with it as there fan base is massive.... globally.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 19:11:51 GMT
Hi All, So that's an overall thumbs up and for myself I am in the camp of wait and see what an album sounds like, it's sad that Brian will not be lead again but then again I suppose a lot of ACDC fans felt the same after Bon's passing when Brian took over to me he slotted in perfectly. I was a bit dubious when I heard Axle was replacing Brian but only because of his vocals and the controversy that always surrounds him.
So I like Daren will reserve judgement until I hear some recorded material..... Having said this I do wonder how this will be done as allegedly he will be back in the studio with 'Guns'n'Roses' recording new material according to this article below courtesy of:-teamrock.com/classic-rock (Rumour/Gossip ?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who are the "permanent A list rock group" working with "one of the top five most famous producers of all time" ?On January 18th, a seemingly innocuous blind item appeared on Los Angeles-based gossip site www.crazydaysandnights.net/
"This permanent A list rock group has apparently agreed to do something they said they'd never, ever do. Make another record with (most of) the original lineup. They just signed a deal with one of the top five most famous producers of all time to take the helm of the project. Among his stipulations was that every member of the band cede control to the producer, and if any single one member of the band departs or screws up? It is over. According to one member, no more half-hearted collaborative efforts for that band. At this point, why would they even try? Aside from the expense of paying off past lawsuits and alimony, they want the money. Apparently all that recent concert money they've recently earned has reminded them they were once that good. This should be interesting."
Crazy Days and Nights is – as gossip sites go – a pretty reliable source. It broke the story of the Harvey Weinstein scandal long before the mainstream press got hold of it, and it’s unusual in that it publishes reveals after its blind items have been proven true (and retractions when it gets it wrong). So the item above set alarm bells ringing – a famous rock group is reuniting with a top producer to record a new album, which they said they’d never do. There are only a few bands who could conceivably meet the criteria – Rainbow, Mötley Crüe, The Smashing Pumpkins – and only one that you’d really describe as “permanent A list”, with the mainstream recognition that implies: Guns N’ Roses.
There’s some compelling circumstantial evidence that it is, in fact, GN’R. The band’s been unusually silent since wrapping the last leg of its Not in this Lifetime tour, with Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan keeping a low profile. That’s odd, because they have no shortage of side projects on the go. Back in March 2017, Slash and the Conspirators lead singer Myles Kennedy was talking up the possibility of a new Slash solo album: "Yeah, there's been talk of that. I think it's just a matter of when everybody's schedules can make it so that can happen [...] it's just a matter of when that window comes."
By January, Kennedy was concentrating on his solo record and prepping a small acoustic tour for March 2018 – this despite the fact that the third Slash and the Conspirators album was “90 per cent completed” in 2015 and the guitarist has five months of downtime before GN’R hits the road again.
Duff McKagan’s side project, Walking Papers, released their sophomore album WP2 at the end of January – with Duff nowhere to be seen. "There’s some opportunities that are starting to drop in for the touring and we’ll take that as it comes,” said frontman Jeff Angell. “I don’t think Duff’s available. He’s got a cash machine over there that he’s got to tend to." Instead, the band’s playing a handful of live dates with Evan Flory-Barnes filling in for McKagan. Meanwhile, GN’R’s long-time keyboard player Dizzy Reed wrapped a short tour at the end of January, and only has one other date lined up: an album launch party at Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice in Sydney, Australia, this month. Beyond that, the band’s schedules seem to be completely open until the Not In This Lifetime tour revs up again in June this year.
Tellingly, the Guns N’ Roses Twitter account only follows 41 other accounts, one of which is Rick Rubin – unquestionably "one of the top five most famous producers of all time" (Rubin, incidentally, recorded a cameo appearance alongside McKagan in a music video released in December 2017, and was involved in the early sessions for what became Velvet Revolver’s Libertad). So there’s a lot of smoke, but no fire. If Guns N’ Roses really are going back into the studio, they have no shortage of material to work with. "I've always thought of [_Chinese Democracy_] as a double," Axl claimed in a 2008 web-forum chat with fans. According to Sebastian Bach, Rose has "like, four albums done. I've heard it" – though Axl himself says there’s "Not as much as Baz thinks he heard."
Regardless, Axl’s confirmed the existence of songs with titles like The General, Atlas Shrugged, and Elvis Presley And The Monster of Soul ("our most Black Sabbath moment" and "the meanest section of anything I've sung to date", according to Rose). Intriguingly, he’s also worked on a song titled Down By The Ocean, co-written with Izzy Stradlin – though given the acrimony between Izzy and his former bandmates over the reunion ("They didn't want to split the loot equally"), it’s anyone’s guess whether that one will be dusted off.
The rest of the band has plenty of unused material, too. Back in 2003, they recorded "10 or so" tracks with Izzy Stradlin for The Project – the band that would eventually become Velvet Revolver. Slash has called it the best Guns N’ Roses album Guns N’ Roses never made; it was largely abandoned when Scott Weiland signed on. Slash and Duff also recorded around ten songs with Corey Taylor for an abortive Velvet Revolver revival that never got off the ground – though how many of those song ideas later ended up on their solo albums is open to question.
Guns N’ Roses has also been setting down ideas for a new album while on the road, with guitarist Richard Fortus noting that, "We've been recording a lot of stuff, just ideas, sort of assembling ideas, but not going into a studio and actually tracking a new record." Asked whether the band would consider releasing a new album, Fortus said: "Yeah, I do. It's sort of too good not to happen at this point — that's how I feel about it. This band is really a force right now, and I definitely hope that we do, and I think we're all sort of counting on it, and we're also planning on it." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If the above rumour/gossip is true then Axles going to be a busy boy over the next couple of years which cannot be very good for is health I would imagine and possibly lead to another meltdown ? Whatever he decides to do it's good for either ACDC & Guns'n'Roses fans alike....
Geoff.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Feb 7, 2018 13:30:22 GMT
A lot of people who thought it wasn't going to work were pleasantly surprised, so I would not be surprised if he went on with them. It's very tough on Brian. But he's got his name and a lot of contacts, and not everyone gets to wait till 70 before they have to retire. (I'm talking about people who don't want to retire, of course.) There was nobody quite like Bon, that is a fact.
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Post by dennis on Feb 11, 2018 10:03:19 GMT
To my ears the guy has a voice for cutting glass & AC/DC have only appealed to me with regard to the Bon Scott era, but then again I am "stuck in the '70s", as Francis would say!
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Post by Victor on Feb 11, 2018 12:45:13 GMT
Never been pleasantly surprised with Axl Rose taking the singing in ac/dc, sorry. And while my favorite era is the Bon Scott era, I can listen to Brian Johnson and prefer him any time over Axl Rose.
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Post by paradiseflats on Feb 11, 2018 14:59:14 GMT
Axl has been involved in very little music in his 30 year career. One classic album. Angus has not exactly wrote a great album since the early 80s. New music will sound like well ACDC post Flick of the Switch. Live they were very good in London.
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