Jeez, Phil...

I dont think Slade would come in..cause he vacated the throne when Phil decided to rejoin after Razors Edge.......i prefer they should go back to the roots.. Tony Currenti...here you go....
 

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I was really sad to hear this. The band released a statement stating that this was not going to affect the upcoming album release and tour.

I read that.

Which, along with him NOT being in their recent band photo, makes me think they had already planned on doing the tour without him.


Funny, this many posts in a thread, and no one's mentioned Simon Wright?
 
...into Meth too?? Why start that at 60?

Are you kidding? Sixty is a great time to start your meth habit and get on a self destruct roller coaster. You should have had time to build life's sand castles. Now, time to tear it down and fly the plane into the mountain.
LOL
 
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Bummer about Phil. Fingers crossed that things work out better in the future for him.

I dont think Slade would come in..cause he vacated the throne when Phil decided to rejoin after Razors Edge.......i prefer they should go back to the roots.. Tony Currenti...here you go....

Col Burgess would be another theoretical possibility. I hear that he is still a Rock of Gibraltar kind of player like Phil is. Whether he'd be mad enough to go on tour in his 60s is another matter :)
 
Glad to see that everyone's not rushing to judgement on this one.

I mean, what do we really know about the intended targets? They could be serious assholes.

And who amongst us hasn't tried to procure a murder or two in their day? Be honest.
 
And who amongst us hasn't tried to procure a murder or two in their day? Be honest.

Well if not that, latest news is that if not murders-for-hire, Phil sure was procuring a lot of hi-class escorts ....and not paying for any of them. That will get some of the mob angry.
 
So, suddenly the qualifications for landing an AC/DC tribute band gig have changed tremendously.

"Your playing sounds great but we're really going for authenticity here. Are you sure you've never taken out a hit on anyone?"
 
It seems like AC/DC has been preparing to move on without Phil even before his arrest:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/acdc-malcolm-young-phil-rudd/

As for Rudd, Young added that the drummer had been showing some erratic behavior lately, like showing up 10 days late for the new album’s recording sessions.

“One minute he was coming, then he wasn’t, then he was,” Young said. “We’re not a band that likes to wait around.” He eventually played on the album, but Young noted that he’s ”seen him in better shape. It was not the Phil we had known, after we had finished the last tour. He’d let himself go.”

The band plans to continue on without Rudd for now. Young told Billboard that they will “go forward” without their longtime drummer. It seems like they were even prepared for this move. “Our problems had begun even before the situation he’s in now,” Young said. “And our thing was we were going forward.”


http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...-difficult-pre-arrest-say-bandmates/18967191/

While the musicians were in the studio "it was tough to get (Rudd) there in the first place," says Williams.

"It put us in a difficult situation," says Young. And he says this continued through subsequent video and photo shoots. "It put us in a spot where we couldn't move forward. Does the guy show up? Is he reliable to do his job in good shape? We've always been a solid, reliable unit."

AC/DC has indeed resolved to move forward; it's planning to tour next year. Whether Rudd will join his bandmates remains in question.

"Phil created his own situation," says Young. "It's a hard thing to say about the guy. He's a great drummer, and he's done a lot of stuff for us. But he seems to have let himself go. He's not the Phil we've known from the past."
 
The minute someone falters and they can't do the job like before anymore, it doesn't matter how reliable you were in the past, how much you did for the band, you're not cutting it lately so out you go.

One one hand, as a business, I can understand that. On the other hand it doesn't seem like his mates want to help him, they seem like they are leaving it all up to Phil. I sort of understand, no one is their brothers keeper, but still it seems something is missing. Loyalty maybe. When you laugh the world laughs with you but when you have problems and aren't performing up to par, tough crap. NEXT!
 
The minute someone falters and they can't do the job like before anymore, it doesn't matter how reliable you were in the past, how much you did for the band, you're not cutting it lately so out you go.

One one hand, as a business, I can understand that. On the other hand it doesn't seem like his mates want to help him, they seem like they are leaving it all up to Phil. I sort of understand, no one is their brothers keeper, but still it seems something is missing. Loyalty maybe. When you laugh the world laughs with you but when you have problems and aren't performing up to par, tough crap. NEXT!

Larry, Exactly. I was in OZ in the early days of accadacca playing the dives of Melbourne and Sydney. These guys go back a long way.
 
The minute someone falters and they can't do the job like before anymore, it doesn't matter how reliable you were in the past, how much you did for the band, you're not cutting it lately so out you go.

One one hand, as a business, I can understand that. On the other hand it doesn't seem like his mates want to help him, they seem like they are leaving it all up to Phil. I sort of understand, no one is their brothers keeper, but still it seems something is missing. Loyalty maybe. When you laugh the world laughs with you but when you have problems and aren't performing up to par, tough crap. NEXT!

From a short interview perspective it does seem like they're somewhat distancing themselves from him but we'll see what happens in the upcoming months.

This kind of behavior within a major band is a cancer and to stick it through and hope for the best can be bad. One example - if KISS stuck with Peter Criss and his late 70's BS or Ace and his trainwreck behavior they wouldn't have been as successful, period. In addition to other members that caused issues, they moved on and maintained significant relevance.
 
It's a rock 'n' roll damnation... Ma's own whippin' boy!
 

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