Well that...didn't go where I thought

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**H.B.M.C.**

Ahtman wrote:
Relapse wrote:
Charges dropped:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/06/world/asia/acdc-phil-rudd-charge-dropped/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

So he can Rock in Peace now?

Nah. Next time he'll just use a Big(ger) Gun.

**Rainbow Dash**

Graphite wrote:
And he's been cut loose from the noose.

Money Talks

**jasper76**

Maybe it wasn't an attempted murder, but just a Shot of Love.

In any case, Ride On, Mr. Rudd, and Have a Drink On Me!

**Easy E**

jasper76 wrote:
Maybe it wasn't an attempted murder, but just a Shot of Love.

In any case, Ride On, Mr. Rudd, and Have a Drink On Me!

Insert Slow Clap GIF.

**jasper76**

Easy E wrote:
jasper76 wrote:
Maybe it wasn't an attempted murder, but just a Shot of Love.

In any case, Ride On, Mr. Rudd, and Have a Drink On Me!

Insert Slow Clap GIF.

Let me make a wild guess: you own, or at some point have considered buying, a "Cool Story, Bro" t-shirt.

**chromedog**

Paradigm wrote:
Hmm, I'm pretty sure Brian Johnson is still with them. At least, he was as of an interview I read a couple of weeks ago about the new album.

Marcus Young left the band recently due to having severe dementia (again, a real shame and loss to the music world), and I think they brought a relative of his in on bass, so you might be thinking of that.

I'm sure you mean MALCOLM Young, there is no Marcus.

**Paradigm**

chromedog wrote:
Paradigm wrote:
Hmm, I'm pretty sure Brian Johnson is still with them. At least, he was as of an interview I read a couple of weeks ago about the new album.

Marcus Young left the band recently due to having severe dementia (again, a real shame and loss to the music world), and I think they brought a relative of his in on bass, so you might be thinking of that.

I'm sure you mean MALCOLM Young, there is no Marcus.

Yeah, sorry, my brain muddled Angus and Malcom and came out with Marcus

**jasper76**

Phil Rudd was sentenced today.

Ex-AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd sentenced over death threat, drugs
by Jethro Mullen, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/asia/new-zealand-acdc-phil-rudd-sentenced/index.html

(CNN)Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was sentenced to eight months of home detention in New Zealand on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a former employee and to possessing drugs.

Prosecutors said the 61-year-old Australian rocker phoned a former employee last year and said, "I'm going to come over and kill you."

Police found methamphetamine and cannabis during a search of Rudd's New Zealand home in November.

Rudd, who played with AC/DC for a total of 30 years, initially denied the allegations against him, but made a surprise guilty plea in April.

Under his sentence, he will be electronically monitored for eight months and will also have to complete a rehabilitation program, CNN affiliate TVNZ reported.

Judge Thomas Ingram told Rudd that there "was nowhere to hide" and that he would face jail if he was found to have any traces of drugs or alcohol in his system, according to the broadcaster. The maximum sentence in New Zealand for threatening to kill is seven years in prison.

Ingram said Rudd had clearly been unable to deal with a long-running meth addiction, according to TVNZ. The judge was unmoved by the drummer's argument that the convictions would hurt his chances of playing with AC/DC again.

"Queen replaced Freddie Mercury, and your band is touring without you now," Ingram said.

Rudd's lawyer, Craig Tuck, told CNN that he had filed an appeal against the sentence Thursday and was still seeking to have his client discharged without conviction.

According to a court summary from April, Rudd fired several of his employees last year because his solo album, "Head Job," had flopped in the charts after its release in August.

Prosecutors say he called an associate in September and said he wanted his former personal assistant "taken out." Rudd later phoned the former personal assistant and made the threat to kill him.

Tuck has described the matter as "essentially just an angry phone call."

Rudd is not currently a member of AC/DC, whose world tour this year will include shows in New Zealand in December.

When charges were first filed against Rudd in November, interest in his case reportedly prompted a bump in sales for "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," the band's classic song about a hit man vaunting his services.

An earlier police charge against Rudd of attempting to procure murder was dropped in November after prosecutors decided there wasn't enough evidence.

**Sinful Hero**

"'Queen replaced Freddie Mercury, and your band is touring without you now,' Ingram said."

Wow, that judge was cold.

**Paradigm**

Sinful Hero wrote:
"'Queen replaced Freddie Mercury, and your band is touring without you now,' Ingram said."

Wow, that judge was cold.

And clearly not a music fan. Queen without Freddie ain't Queen, simple as that!

**Desubot**

Sinful Hero wrote:
"'Queen replaced Freddie Mercury, and your band is touring without you now,' Ingram said."

Wow, that judge was cold.

Lol wow.

But man 8 months stuck at home? How awful

**Paradigm**

Desubot wrote:
Sinful Hero wrote:
"'Queen replaced Freddie Mercury, and your band is touring without you now,' Ingram said."

Wow, that judge was cold.

Lol wow.

But man 8 months stuck at home? How awful

To be fair, when the alternative is touring with one of the biggest rock bands in the world, I can see how house arrest could get annoying!

**loki old fart**

Paradigm wrote:
Sinful Hero wrote:
"'Queen replaced Freddie Mercury, and your band is touring without you now,' Ingram said."

Wow, that judge was cold.

And clearly not a music fan. Queen without Freddie ain't Queen, simple as that!

That's the understatement of the year.

**Jihadin**

Think she needs to just judge only on law related matters.
Its Freddy Freaking Mercury FFS. She must have grew up on Wham

**SlaveToDorkness**

Keep aStiff Upper Lip, Phil, and Rock Away the Blues!

**Orlanth**

What a slacker, real heavy metal vengeance would be to trash a hotel to warm up, steal a taxi blind drunk, drive to the victims house and heat them over the head with a sharpened guitar until the body stops twitching and you are left holding the guitar stave with a blossom of loose blood soaked guitar wires.

No wonder he was sacked in the 80's.

**Jihadin**

Orlanth wrote:
What a slacker, real heavy metal vengeance would be to trash a hotel to warm up, steal a taxi blind drunk, drive to the victims house and heat them over the head with a sharpened guitar until the body stops twitching and you are left holding the guitar stave with a blossom of loose blood soaked guitar wires.

No wonder he was sacked in the 80's.

"the 60 year-old drummer"

All that booze, drugs, and whatever else he got into.....
I give him trashing the hotel room with gusto and after that a emergency trip to ER due to cardiac arrest

Edit

Also he's the drummer. He would impale the sticks into the vic

**sebster**

On my drive home from work each day I get stuck at this one traffic light, and on my right is a really big cemetery, and the gate there is labeled 'Bon Scott'. There are always new flowers left at the gate. The original lead singer of AC/DC, he's still worshipped to this day. It's kind of crazy, really.

AC/DC isn't just a band. They're a core part of Australian bogan culture. It's why it doesn't matter that their songs are pretty crappy after the first minute, because by then people have stopped headbanging and gone back to drinking their jim beam and coke.

It's why I've been kind of surprised that they've done so well outside of Australia, because without that bogan culture then they're just basically another garage rock band. Ah well, whatever, good luck to the guys in the band, they seem to be having fun.

Except the drummer, of course, sounds like that dude has some serious issues to work through.

**Pete Melvin**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:
jasper76 wrote:
I have fallen in and out of love with many bands in my life, but AC/DC has been there through it all.

For me it's Slayer, Amon Amarth, and, since I discovered they were a metal band, Soul Fly/Max Cavalera (seriously, growing up, when I saw their album covers, I thought they were a rap group, like Wu Tang Clan or something)

I came at it the other way, always a massive fan of anything Cavalera did but Slayer came to me later. Primitive and Reign in Blood are pretty much on a non-stop loop in my car.

**kronk**

"Slayer, Amon Amarth, Soul Fly/Max Cavalera" I don't know who any of those bands are or what they sing/sang. Not hip, I guess.

As to AC/DC, I liked Dirty Deeds, You Shook Me All Night Long, and the first minute or so of Thunderstruck. However, I can't listen to that man's voice for more than the length of a song before I have to change the channel. But at least I can listen to him, unlike the singers for Rush and Supertramp, but I digress.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Neil Diamond never killed anyone and is a great singer.

**jasper76**

kronk wrote:
"Slayer, Amon Amarth, Soul Fly/Max Cavalera" I don't know who any of those bands are or what they sing/sang. Not hip, I guess.

As to AC/DC, I liked Dirty Deeds, You Shook Me All Night Long, and the first minute or so of Thunderstruck. However, I can't listen to that man's voice for more than the length of a song before I have to change the channel.

Which one? I always preferred Bon Scott's singing (but I'm not bothered by Brian Johnson).

I hear you on Rush. I've always wanted to like them because of their fancy musicianship, but I just can't take that voice. Acquired taste, I suppose.

Bruce Springsteen and Huey Lewis were great singers too. Not Tom Araya great, but great.

**kronk**

I can't tell you the singer's name, sorry.

I do appreciate the music of Rush, but I just can't get past the singer.

**Insurgency Walker**

kronk wrote:
I can't tell you the singer's name, sorry.

I do appreciate the music of Rush, but I just can't get past the singer.

Rush does not have a singer, they have a bassist.

**Spetulhu**

I'll happily listen to some AC/DC while drinking beer with the boys, but there's others. Stuff from Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep up to modern brutality like Nile and Triptykon.

The problem with music is there's so many bands that one might like but never encounters.