He knows what he wants and he knows what the band should play. It’s just this wonderful, get-up-and-go, let’s do it, nothing’s impossible, guy.
He understands the music and he brings a positivity to the whole thing. He’s a man you can respect because he can play just about any instrument. The boys would go out for a smoke on the balcony and I’d quit smoking by that time so I never got snapped.ĪC: What was it like working with producer Brendon O’Brien again? What is it about him that works so well with AC/DC?īJ: He’s just an “up” guy. And it worked really well for him.ĪC: When did this Rock or Bust lineup get back together? Because there were rumours about you guys working at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver but nobody could really confirm it except some guy who had a window overlooking the studio and said he saw you and Brian and Phil coming and going.ĬW: He didn’t see me. It was battle conditions (full PA and lights) to see how it was. We spent about three weeks rehearsing and it gave Brian an opportunity. It was all the backline and the original band and we’ll try some rehearsals. We went there to shoot a video for (the new single), Shot in the Dark. And then we moved it to the next step to see how playing live would be and that went very well.ġ:20 AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young dead at 64 AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young dead at 64 – Nov 18, 2017ĬW: In Amsterdam.
A studio is a controlled sound environment, so for Brian, it was very doable. We obviously all wanted to do that so we all went for it and went to Vancouver to do the album. But about a year after that, Angus reached out, wasn’t it, Cliff?Ĭliff Williams: We never had a conversation about, “this is it.” I was done, but then Ang reached out saying we ought to do something with Malcolm in mind. But we all felt we had a pretty good run, a pretty good journey. We pretty much knew, you know, that was it. It’s not in our language to say it’s all done. It was steadily downhill from there so that it was almost impossible to function and do my job.ĪC: With all this - your hearing problems, Malcolm’s death, everybody scattered about - did you ever sit down over a beer and say, “Okay, lads, that’s it?”īJ: We don’t speak like that. And we start gigging again in about eight days.” (Turns out) the stuff crystalized behind my eardrums and it was just eating away at it and caused considerable damage. There was a good doctor down there (in Australia) and he said, “Well, we’re gonna have to operate immediately. After about two months, they still hadn’t popped.
I caught a bad chill and we ran to the plane after the show for a two-and-a-half-hour flight to Vancouver. I think Angus already had a bit of a virus. 17īJ: It was horrible there, the weather. READ MORE: (April 2015) Aussie rockers AC/DC to play IGF in Winnipeg on Sept. 17, 2015.) It was damp and cold and wet and then you got on a plane and then something went wrong. (The date was at Investors Group Field on Sept. Honestly, I’m very lucky he came along.ĪC: I heard this all began after you played an outdoor show in Winnipeg. We worked at it so it wouldn’t lose sound quality. He came down and worked with me for a couple of years - Steven Ambrose is his name - and we worked for two years with him coming down every couple of months while trying to make this device he had miniaturized. It was an amazing man who tried to get in touch with me to tell me about what he’s been working on. What miracles did the doctors pull off?īrian Johnson: It was technology. How did they manage to turn it around? I had a chance to Zoom with singer Brian Johnson from his home in Florida and bassist Cliff Williams in North Carolina.Īlan Cross: First of all, Brian, I’m glad you can hear me. 13, with POWER UP, with their 17th album and first since Rock or Bust in 2014. Six years after the last album, AC/DC returns Friday, Nov. Had we seen the last of the Thunder from Down Under? Drummer Phil Rudd was in the wilderness dealing with some serious legal charges leading to house arrest. Rhythm guitarist, co-founder, and brother of Angus, Malcolm Young died as the result of dementia. Singer Brian Johnson’s severe hearing issues forced him off the road, resulting in Axl Rose being drafted to finish some touring commitments. Send this page to someone via email email.
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