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Post by calh on Feb 19, 2008 21:26:10 GMT -5
Not sure how reliable this is. Australian hard rock icons AC/DC are getting closer to ending an eight-year drought of new music. "God, I'm ready," bassist Cliff Williams, who was in L.A. to participate at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, tells Spinner. To that end, the group will hit the studio March 1.
Almost as long as the wait for new music is the band's absence from the stage. Tour plans, however, aren't as firm. "If we go out again or when we go out again," Williams said. "You just never know. We've been around a long time, so we're going to get together and get in the studio and I fully expect we will [tour.]. I don't mean to be so negative about that. [When] the last tour ended in early '01, you'd see kids on their dads' shoulders. And these kids were like 10, 12 years old. It will be tremendous to see that again. And it's very cool -- younger kids getting into older music."
Williams admits that he doesn't listen to his own stuff very often, but on hand at the Rock Camp, the bassist did get a new perspective on some of the band's classics. And what's standing out for him lately? "'Down Payment Blues,' 'Live Wire' -- I dig a lot of the old stuff," he says. "It's amazing. We look back on old albums -- look at tracks -- and I don't remember the tracks from the title. But those two songs I would love to play."www.spinner.com/2008/02/19/ac-dc-ready-to-rock-again-with-new-album/
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Post by rhece6 on Feb 20, 2008 2:51:24 GMT -5
Sounds cool. Any news is good news.
btw, dude it's been a while.
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Post by calh on Mar 4, 2008 20:54:26 GMT -5
AC/DC To Record In Vancouver This Week? posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 06:37:27 PM by Diamond Oz. (thanks BW&BK)
According to a BW&BK source, Aussie hard rock legends AC/DC landed in Vancouver, BC last night (March 1st) to commence work on their anxiously-awaited new album. The band's last album, 2000's Stiff Upper Lip, was recorded at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC with George Young (Angus and Malcolm Young's older brother) and engineered/mixed by Mike Fraser (METALLICA, AEROSMITH, VAN HALEN) - perhaps the team set to work on the band's new material? From www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=34488&comments=1Also: AC/DC said to be recording in Vancouver First new album in nearly a decade John Mackie, Vancouver Sun Published: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Australian hard rockers AC/DC are reportedly in Vancouver to record their first new album in nearly a decade.
The website metalunderground.com is reporting the band is recording at the Warehouse Studios in Gastown. No official sources have confirmed it: The Warehouse has a policy of not saying who is recording there, and no one at AC/DC management in New York was available for comment Monday afternoon. But a blogger named Kathleen on metalunderground.com wrote that she "just saw them dining at Yew Restaurant in the Four Seasons on W. Georgia!"
This wouldn't be the first time AC/DC recorded in Vancouver. They came to town in 1990 to record The Razor's Edge at Little Mountain Sound with the late Bruce Fairbairn, mixed a live album from their 1990-91 world at the same studio, then recorded their Stiff Upper Lip album at the Warehouse in 2000.
AC/DC recorded The Razor's Edge in Vancouver in 1990. Larry Wong, Canwest News Service
According to Wikipedia, AC/DC has sold 150 million records worldwide. Their biggest seller is Back in Black, which is more than 42 million internationally and over 22 million in the United States.
There is no word on how long the band will be in Vancouver, or if and when the band will be touring.
The Warehouse hasn't seen too many international acts lately, although local punk legends DOA recently recorded there with producer Bob Rock.
But a who's who of rock acts have used The Warehouse in the past, including Metallica, Avril Lavigne, Bon Jovi, Nickelback, Michael Buble, R.E.M., Motley Crue, Chris Isaak, Shakira, Alanis Morissette, the Barenaked Ladies, Elton John, Elvis Costello, the Cranberries and Sarah McLachlan, among others. Bryan Adams has recorded there as well -- after all, he owns it.From www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=c59ec7da-e851-4748-bc8a-829046e0b0a9
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Post by travishayes89 on Mar 5, 2008 9:34:53 GMT -5
Sounds good.
I had actually heard that AC/DC were possibly wanting to go back there again.
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