AC\DC announce new album

[cadaverdog]

Did you not see quote marks there? Rolling Stone said that. April Wine was HUGE across Canada. The US market was tough to break into.

I thought you were quoting yourself. Not really. I must have missed them.
April Wine was pretty big in So Cal but I'm not sure about the rest of the country. I saw them live at the L A Coliseum in 79. VH was there too. They started getting a bit of airplay on local FM radio after that but by the mid 80s they just disappeared from the airwaves.

Here was the lineup of stars to perform at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the 1979 California World Music Festival:


April 7:
Cheap Trick
Toto
REO Speedwagon
Journey
Outlaws
Ted Nugent
Head East
April Wine
Mahogany Rush
Fabulous Poodles


April 8:
Aerosmith
Van Halen
UFO
Toto
Mother's Finest
Eddie Money
April Wine
Boomtown Rats
Brownsville Station

Cheech and Chong performed both days too.

[Angel]

April Wine is another band I consider a 70's band...and another walk down memory lane, lol. They started in 69.

[cadaverdog]

April Wine is another band I consider a 70's band...and another walk down memory lane, lol. They started in 69.

Never heard of them until I saw that show. Kind of forgot about them until I heard them again in 82 after Nature Of The Beast. This is the first song I remember from April Wine.

[Nitro Express]

April Wine is another band I consider a 70's band...and another walk down memory lane, lol. They started in 69.

One of the first bands I saw. I saw them with Loverboy probably around 1979. Old school general admission. Pot and booze being passed around. No real security to be found. None of the shit of security going up and down isles shining a flashlight on you.

[Nitro Express]

Very sad for Malcolm...



>>>It may be that dementia is claiming another giant, this time a musical one.

AC/DC co-founder, guitarist and songwriter Malcolm Young, whose retirement from the band was announced on Wednesday, has been moved into full-time care in a nursing home facility in Sydney's eastern suburbs specialising in dementia, sources connected to the Young family have said.


AC/DC band members, from left, Brian Johnson, Phil Rudd, Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Cliff Williams in 2000. Photo: Getty Images

The home is understood to be Lulworth House in Elizabeth Bay, the same facility that is home to Gough Whitlam and, until his recent death, Neville Wran, who was afflicted with dementia in his last years.

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The Young family connection said: "If you were in the room with [Malcolm Young] and walked out, then came back in one minute later, he wouldn't remember who you are. He has a complete loss of short-term memory. His wife, Linda, has put him in full-time care."

Both AC/DC's record company, Sony, and their label, publisher and home for more than 40 years, Albert Music, were approached for comment.


Malcolm Young, right, with his brother Angus, pictured here in 2000. Photo: Paul White

While the announcement of Young's retirement from AC/DC, the band he formed and helped turn into the biggest Australian rock act of all time, has been inevitable for some months, it hasn't lessened the disappointment. Nor the sense of an era ending.

AC/DC have sold more than 200 million albums, feature at or near the top of highest grossing tour lists whenever they play live and were the standard bearers for Australian music years before the likes of INXS, Kylie Minogue or 5 Seconds of Summer.

The sound of pub rock, the defining mainstream sound of Australian music in the 1970s and '80s, could be said to have emerged from the stages and the studios AC/DC inhabited.


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AC/DC over the years

Early days: AC/DC in 1975.










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Young, the 61-year-old rhythm guitarist and solid centre of the songs behind his flamboyant, lead guitarist younger brother, Angus, officially resigned his position in AC/DC months after returning to Australia from Europe where he had been living.

The first official word on what was assumed to be a serious and debilitating, but still undisclosed, illness, was in April when it was confirmed that Young would not be participating in the recording of the next AC/DC album, which will be called Rock Or Bust and is due out in late November.

In his place during the recording sessions in a Vancouver studio has been his nephew, Steve.


AC/DC, with Malcolm Young at lower left. Photo: Guido Karp

In an announcement from the band's management this week, it was revealed that Steve will join Angus Young, frontman Brian Johnson and drummer Phil Rudd on stage when the band embarks on another massive world tour in 2015.


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I wonder if he had a stroke. Sometimes that causes early demensia. All I can say is I've seen spouses deal with it and it just eventually burns them out. You have to end up putting them in a home. It's all you can do.

[cadaverdog]

I wonder if he had a stroke. Sometimes that causes early demensia. All I can say is I've seen spouses deal with it and it just eventually burns them out. You have to end up putting them in a home. It's all you can do.

Here's your answer. Paragraph #4

Sydney (AFP) - Malcolm Young, one of the founding members of veteran Australian rockers AC/DC, has dementia and is being treated in an aged care facility in Sydney, reports said on Friday.

The high-voltage group, one of the biggest grossing bands of all time, announced on Thursday that the rhythm guitarist had retired after 41 years due to unspecified health issues.

But they said the group would continue, with an upcoming new album, "Rock or Bust", due out in December and world tour planned for next year.

The Australian newspaper said Young, 61, suffered a stroke last year while the Sydney Morning Herald reported that he has dementia and was now a full-time patient at an exclusive Sydney care home.

"If you were in the room with (Young) and walked out then came back in one minute later he wouldn't remember who you are," the Herald's veteran music writer Bernard Zuel cited a Young "family connection" as saying.

"He has a complete loss of short-term memory. His wife Linda has put him in full-time care."

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Young and his brother Angus founded the band in Sydney in 1973, and it has gone on to sell more than 200 million albums.

In announcing a new record on Thursday, AC/DC said Malcolm Young would not be returning to the lineup after he took a break earlier this year, with his nephew Stevie Young taking his place.

"Unfortunately, due to the nature of Malcolm's condition, he will not be returning to the band," they said on their website.

"AC/DC will undertake a world tour in support of 'Rock or Bust' in 2015. Stevie Young, nephew of founding members Angus and Malcolm Young, plays rhythm guitar on 'Rock or Bust' and will accompany the band on tour."

News of Young's illness in April sparked rumours that the band could fold, but drummer Phil Rudd said last month: "It'll never happen. Angus will never retire and as long as Angus never retires I won't retire either."

[Jérôme Frenchise]

I heard about Malcolm's dementia this morning on France Inter radio. The silly speaker evoked 1979 and then she played "Highway to Hell" live with Johnson on vocals... Stupid.

Poor Malcolm... Maybe the aftermath of long-time heavy boozing...

I wasn't surprized nor disappointed with the lack of interest of "Black Ice", as they had already released "Fly on the wall" and "Who made who" in particular, and even "Ball breaker" and "Stiff upper lip" were also full of boring gap fillers.

[Angel]

One of the first bands I saw. I saw them with Loverboy probably around 1979. Old school general admission. Pot and booze being passed around. No real security to be found. None of the shit of security going up and down isles shining a flashlight on you.

One of the first I ever saw too. With Rush I think, somewhere around 76...

[Von Halen]

Does the Australian Government pay all his medical bills?

What if this ever happens to Ozzy. Will the Limey Government pay all of his hospital bills?

They should have Malcolm review the album. He will have a totally unbiased opinion.

[Nitro Express]

Rush are probably bigger now in terms of live attendance than they have ever been in their 40 year career.

I saw them on The Signals Tour and the venue was packed. I saw them a few years ago and the venue was packed. I don't know if the current attendance is larger. I think the venues now hold more people now but Rush is still filling the seats. They are always writing news songs. Some good some so so but they are always creating. Then they play their old songs very well live still. Niel was joking about YYZ and Tom Sawyer asking why they wrote such hard songs to play. Niel said they are still a real challenge to play well.

I think the bottom line is Rush still gives a damn. They aren't sloppy. They work hard to make sure they still play well. Geddy can't wail like he used to and they have gotten quite goofy in their old age but they still play well live and they are rock legends. People still want to see them.

[Nitro Express]

Does the Australian Government pay all his medical bills?

What if this ever happens to Ozzy. Will the Limey Government pay all of his hospital bills?

They should have Malcolm review the album. He will have a totally unbiased opinion.

Who knows. I do like the way Australia does it's social security. Instead of having your pay garnished by the government and nothing there to collect when you finally reach age 65 because the politicians stole it, you invest in private funds of your choice. Under Australian law you have to put so much away but they give you a choice on where you are going to invest it.

Right now in the US they are probably going to have to bump the collection age of Social Security to age 75 or even older to keep the system solvent. It still really boils down to the government in reality. What keeps the private financial companies halfway honest is government regulation. Once you have the regulators bought off the private financial firms will steal your money. Unless you want to barge in and start blowing heads off yourself yelling "I want my damn money!" without the regulatory arm of the government you are screwed.

I blame the citizens. Too many are stupid and don't pay attention. The politicians have really mastered the game of pacifying the public. It's why they want more unskilled immigrants. More captive voters. People on welfare do not fight the hand that feeds them.

[Seshmeister]

I wonder if he had a stroke. Sometimes that causes early demensia. All I can say is I've seen spouses deal with it and it just eventually burns them out. You have to end up putting them in a home. It's all you can do.

How many spouses have you went through?

[Seshmeister]

What if this ever happens to Ozzy.

How would we diagnose that?

[Nitro Express]

How many spouses have you went through?

I still have the first one. I have a cousin who's husband had a stroke and he had to go into a nursing home. They can't do anything on their own. Some go into panic attacks if you go anywhere. Their minds are gone. Someone has to be there all the time and with normal people having to make a living, they have no option but to put them in a home.

[Seshmeister]

Way to miss a joke...