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AC/DC - Guitarist Malcolm Young To Take A Break


Unpleasant news coming from the AC/DC camp, as the founding member and guitarist Malcolm Young is temporarily leaving the band due to health problems.

As it reads from the band's official Facebook page: "After forty years of life dedicated to AC/DC, guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is taking a break from the band due to ill health. Malcolm would like to thank the group's diehard legions of fans worldwide for their never-ending love and support. In light of this news, AC/DC asks that Malcolm and his family's privacy be respected during this time. The band will continue to make music."

We wish Malcolm a full recovery.





In a recent interview, frontman Brian Johnson has debunked rumours that the band are about to split up and revealed that AC/DC are still planning to get together and write material for a new album.

He stated: "We are definitely getting together in May in Vancouver. We're going to pick up some guitars, have a plonk, and see if anybody has got any tunes or ideas. If anything happens, we'll record it."

Source: facebook.com
Band profile: AC/DC
Posted: 16.04.2014 by R Lewis


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16.04.2014 - 21:42
csiga
Munin
Drama of the year?
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16.04.2014 - 22:11
D.T. Metal

Written by csiga on 16.04.2014 at 21:42

Drama of the year?

Drama? The man is sick and taking a break, that's all.
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16.04.2014 - 22:58
J. N.
Account deleted
Written by csiga on 16.04.2014 at 21:42
Drama of the year?

Yeah, strokes aren't a big deal, really.
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17.04.2014 - 02:56
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Csiga we will see if you can headbank at his age .... and go world wide tour .... its harder as type all day here and spamm belive me ... wanna see come whit me in 25km walk in summer in dead Norrland's forest place where even JN hasnt been ... you will see.... I hope Angus be OK asap
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17.04.2014 - 15:32
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
No disrespect intended, but what's the point of continuing to make music? They've written the same album for 40 years and they're so far past their prime I'm surprised they don't perform in wheelchairs.
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17.04.2014 - 15:47
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 15:32

No disrespect intended, but what's the point of continuing to make music? They've written the same album for 40 years and they're so far past their prime I'm surprised they don't perform in wheelchairs.


90%of MS bands cant do it , all they albums are good, better ac/dc than sucktallica aka metallica
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17.04.2014 - 16:07
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Bad English on 17.04.2014 at 15:47
90%of MS bands cant do it , all they albums are good, better ac/dc than sucktallica aka metallica

I don't understand your point.

Great Metallica joke though. Right up there with the ever-hilarious and incredibly witty Swallow the Cum.
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17.04.2014 - 16:09
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 16:07

Written by Bad English on 17.04.2014 at 15:47
90%of MS bands cant do it , all they albums are good, better ac/dc than sucktallica aka metallica

I don't understand your point.

Great Metallica joke though. Right up there with the ever-hilarious and incredibly witty Swallow the Cum.


I said, how many bands who play same music are good? metallica, katatonia, paradise lost chainges and suchs bg time
same hmmm exodus plays same and also sucks ... ac/dc plays same and each album is good, you never get bored
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17.04.2014 - 16:12
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Bad English on 17.04.2014 at 16:09
I said, how many bands who play same music are good? metallica, katatonia, paradise lost chainges and suchs bg time
same hmmm exodus plays same and also sucks ... ac/dc plays same and each album is good, you never get bored

Literally none of the bands you mentioned play the same music as AC/DC. Unless you meant bands that release the same album over and over again (like Tankard)? But that wouldn't apply because all of the bands you mentioned have gone through evolutionary changes in their sound.
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17.04.2014 - 16:16
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 16:12

Written by Bad English on 17.04.2014 at 16:09
I said, how many bands who play same music are good? metallica, katatonia, paradise lost chainges and suchs bg time
same hmmm exodus plays same and also sucks ... ac/dc plays same and each album is good, you never get bored

Literally none of the bands you mentioned play the same music as AC/DC. Unless you meant bands that release the same album over and over again (like Tankard)? But that wouldn't apply because all of the bands you mentioned have gone through evolutionary changes in their sound.


Tankard is good , but I said changes is bad as some bands did, playing same alo is bad.... so Ac/Dc i one of rare bands what's albums are great no mettter what ...
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17.04.2014 - 16:19
Troy Killjoy
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Written by Bad English on 17.04.2014 at 16:16
so Ac/Dc i one of rare bands what's albums are great no mettter what ...

Ah, a difference in tastes. You see greatness where I see banality.

In any case, I may not like the music but hopefully this guy pulls through. These kinds of things are inevitable with age.
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17.04.2014 - 16:51
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 16:19

Written by Bad English on 17.04.2014 at 16:16
so Ac/Dc i one of rare bands what's albums are great no mettter what ...

Ah, a difference in tastes. You see greatness where I see banality.

In any case, I may not like the music but hopefully this guy pulls through. These kinds of things are inevitable with age.


at their age they play great music, look at deep purple and even ozzy ....
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17.04.2014 - 21:58
Antidote

Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 15:32

No disrespect intended, but what's the point of continuing to make music? They've written the same album for 40 years and they're so far past their prime I'm surprised they don't perform in wheelchairs.


Oh again someone complaining about AC/DC being AC/DC....well, here's something for you:

"...The members of AC/DC get up in the morning, they plug in their guitars, and they make rock. Finger-bleeding, face-shattering, earsplitting rock. It's not about innovation, growth, inspiration. It's about doing the damn thing. Every day. Every day. Every day they write "Big Balls." As Angus supposedly once said, "I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same." Boom. Face. The men of AC/DC do not care if you are not even dimly aware whether their latest album came out last week or the fall of 1987. They know what you think of them, and they do not care. Because AC/DC wants this shit forever, man."

Cheers
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17.04.2014 - 22:07
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Antidote on 17.04.2014 at 21:58
Cheers

Wow man, that quote completely changed my opinion of them.

Cheers.
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18.04.2014 - 16:50
Rapid Fire

Get well soon Malcolm, we'll greatly miss you!
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18.04.2014 - 23:02
Rapid Fire

Written by Antidote on 17.04.2014 at 21:58

Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 15:32

No disrespect intended, but what's the point of continuing to make music? They've written the same album for 40 years and they're so far past their prime I'm surprised they don't perform in wheelchairs.


Oh again someone complaining about AC/DC being AC/DC....well, here's something for you:

"...The members of AC/DC get up in the morning, they plug in their guitars, and they make rock. Finger-bleeding, face-shattering, earsplitting rock. It's not about innovation, growth, inspiration. It's about doing the damn thing. Every day. Every day. Every day they write "Big Balls." As Angus supposedly once said, "I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same." Boom. Face. The men of AC/DC do not care if you are not even dimly aware whether their latest album came out last week or the fall of 1987. They know what you think of them, and they do not care. Because AC/DC wants this shit forever, man."

Cheers


Impossible to explain it better. AC/DC is AC/DC, I can't imagine them doing something different, they're one of the very few cases of bands from which you expect always the same because you know anything different wouldn't work.

Also, they represent as nobody else the feeling and the spirit of rock: straight, simple, no complications, just playing what they feel and that's all.
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19.04.2014 - 04:17
alexcht777

Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 15:32

No disrespect intended, but what's the point of continuing to make music? They've written the same album for 40 years and they're so far past their prime I'm surprised they don't perform in wheelchairs.


I see people like you that complaint that a band make the same album every time but if that band change their sound you people say that they are not good anymore! bands cant please everybody!
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19.04.2014 - 05:45
Timelord

Why even bother giving stupid remarks like that any attention. All I hear when people say shit like that is 'I don't like so you shouldn't either" If you had the chance to see "Black Ice" tour you already know that AC/DC hasn't lost anything except maybe their hair. They have ALWAYS been about the music and NOTHING else. Unlike Lica( metal left in 89) who has become the very same shit band that we all hated. I am a die hard Bon Scott fan and if you listen to all those early albums they all have a different mood and sound even if their formula never strays far from home. Why? It works!! The best PURE Rock n Roll band ever!!
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19.04.2014 - 09:01
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
I feel like AC/DC fans don't like it when non-fan voice their opinion.
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19.04.2014 - 15:38
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by Troy Killjoy on 19.04.2014 at 09:01

I feel like AC/DC fans don't like it when non-fan voice their opinion.


'Clude Opeth too.
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19.04.2014 - 15:58
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by alexcht777 on 19.04.2014 at 04:17

Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.04.2014 at 15:32

No disrespect intended, but what's the point of continuing to make music? They've written the same album for 40 years and they're so far past their prime I'm surprised they don't perform in wheelchairs.


if that band change their sound you people say that they are not good anymore! bands cant please everybody!


Oh, excuse me, farcehead sir

Who say's that if band alter the sound they're not good anymore?

If they change their sound in good innovative way and sounds massive and intresting then I think chances are they won't get bash. I've seen bands going in different musical direction and that change has brought band good records, more fans and even good labels. Hell, even I've seen bands they were good but change in music dumped reputation to the worse.
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19.04.2014 - 18:57
Antidote

Ah let's just chill out everyone and wish Malcolm a speedy recovery
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20.04.2014 - 01:59
alexcht777

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 19.04.2014 at 15:58

Oh, excuse me, farcehead sir

Who say's that if band alter the sound they're not good anymore?

If they change their sound in good innovative way and sounds massive and intresting then I think chances are they won't get bash. I've seen bands going in different musical direction and that change has brought band good records, more fans and even good labels. Hell, even I've seen bands they were good but change in music dumped reputation to the worse.

IM just saying that metallica change their sound and everyone hated! amorphis change and some people hate it! kreator in the 90s change and they lose fans! cradle of filth change and they lose fans! cryptopsy change and they lose fans! even when carcass change they lose fans! but i know that some changes are good for example kreator in the new century or carcass in my opinion! my point is that bands can't please everybody! but if someone likes a band its for something and if they change that something it probably wont be the sound! you should add children of bodom to that list
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20.04.2014 - 09:57
Angelic Storm
Melodious
"my point is that bands can't please everybody!"

That really is the point, and should automatically end any argument/debate over such nonsense. No matter what a band does, (particularly very well known bands) there will inevitably be a section of metal fans who will bash them for it. Slayer stay true to thrash their whole career, and some people bash them for having songs which "all sound the same". On the other hand, Metallica stop playing thrash, and they are bashed for being "sell-outs". Band's just need to do what they want to do, because pleasing everyone simply isn't possible.
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20.04.2014 - 11:47
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by alexcht777 on 20.04.2014 at 01:59

IM just saying that metallica change their sound and everyone hated! amorphis change and some people hate it! kreator in the 90s change and they lose fans! cradle of filth change and they lose fans! cryptopsy change and they lose fans! even when carcass change they lose fans! but i know that some changes are good for example kreator in the new century or carcass in my opinion! my point is that bands can't please everybody! but if someone likes a band its for something and if they change that something it probably wont be the sound! you should add children of bodom to that list

Metallica - if they don't change the sound and produce average record, still they'll get fucked.

CoF - they didn't change the sound. They keep producing same album over and over again.

Kreator - They bought the variation and have done incredibly well. Handful of thrash bands who has done fairly well tilting musical direction.

Cryptopsy - good band but dilapidated with "TUK' and didn't enjoy with self-title album. Again, they didn't change the sound. It's rehashed by older material.

Amorphis - love this band but never saw any castigation even they changed then sound. 2013 release was very good indeed.

If you want to look for "bands CAN please everybody", check out death metal releases in 13 and 14(still some releases to come out).
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20.04.2014 - 17:48
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Angelic Storm on 20.04.2014 at 09:57
"my point is that bands can't please everybody!"

That really is the point, and should automatically end any argument/debate over such nonsense.

Ya but that ruins all the fun. How else are you supposed to rile up the fanboys?
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20.04.2014 - 17:56
Angelic Storm
Melodious
Written by Troy Killjoy on 20.04.2014 at 17:48
Ya but that ruins all the fun. How else are you supposed to rile up the fanboys?


It doesn't take much to rile fanboys up though...
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20.04.2014 - 20:32
alexcht777

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 20.04.2014 at 11:47

Written by alexcht777 on 20.04.2014 at 01:59

IM just saying that metallica change their sound and everyone hated! amorphis change and some people hate it! kreator in the 90s change and they lose fans! cradle of filth change and they lose fans! cryptopsy change and they lose fans! even when carcass change they lose fans! but i know that some changes are good for example kreator in the new century or carcass in my opinion! my point is that bands can't please everybody! but if someone likes a band its for something and if they change that something it probably wont be the sound! you should add children of bodom to that list

Metallica - if they don't change the sound and produce average record, still they'll get fucked.

CoF - they didn't change the sound. They keep producing same album over and over again.

Kreator - They bought the variation and have done incredibly well. Handful of thrash bands who has done fairly well tilting musical direction.

Cryptopsy - good band but dilapidated with "TUK' and didn't enjoy with self-title album. Again, they didn't change the sound. It's rehashed by older material.

Amorphis - love this band but never saw any castigation even they changed then sound. 2013 release was very good indeed.

If you want to look for "bands CAN please everybody", check out death metal releases in 13 and 14(still some releases to come out).

ok i understand your arguments! i'm also agree about 2013 death metal releases like surgical steel, portals to canaan, vermis, kingdom of conspiracy
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20.04.2014 - 20:33
alexcht777

Written by Angelic Storm on 20.04.2014 at 09:57

"my point is that bands can't please everybody!"

That really is the point, and should automatically end any argument/debate over such nonsense. No matter what a band does, (particularly very well known bands) there will inevitably be a section of metal fans who will bash them for it. Slayer stay true to thrash their whole career, and some people bash them for having songs which "all sound the same". On the other hand, Metallica stop playing thrash, and they are bashed for being "sell-outs". Band's just need to do what they want to do, because pleasing everyone simply isn't possible.

thanks! that was my intention
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21.04.2014 - 11:06
Dr. Strawberry

Good to hear that !
That should have been done very very long time ago.
Probably after Back in Black.
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