Wednesday 29th August 2001
AC/DC, Steve Reich and George Clinton are among the stars being celebrated in a new Channel 4 (UK Television) series.
The show titled "Pioneers" will air from January on Channel 4.
Source www.ananova.com
Monday 27th August 2001
Bon Scott fans may be interested to read the article on the making of Blackfeather's "At the mountain of Madness" album on the web site of
guitarist John Robinson. click here
 Powerage v Geordie II
The concert of UK tribute band Powerage in Newcastle clashes with the Geordie gig. Unknown to the Brian Johnson/Geordie management the forthcoming Newcastle Geordie gig falls on the same night as a concert by a local AC/DC tribute band. It will be a case of a tribute band contesting against their hero for a crowd on the 28th September. (For more details click here)
Online record store Amazon (UK) have listed an AC/DC Interview CD titled "Monsters of Rock" , this release is scheduled for a
October 9th release date, from Rockview records. click here for more details
There is also details at Amazon USA
Friday 24th August 2001
The double CD soundtrack to the Australian Television documentary on Australian music has been released. Despite AC/DC being featured
on the fourth episode of the ABC documentary , they don't appear on the track listing for the album. However there is a few tracks that may be of interest to AC/DC fans namely
Fraternity's "Seasons of change" , and the Easybeats "Good times".
The full track listing is
CD 1: Johnny O’Keefe - Wild One , Schneider Sisters - Washboard Rock ‘n’ Roll , Slim Dusty - Losin’ My Blues Tonight , Jimmy Little - Sweet Mama ,
Col Joye - Oh Yeah, Uh-Huh , Betty McQuade - Midnight Bus , Del Juliana - I Was A Fool For Leaving ,
Atlantics - Bombora , Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs - Mashed Potato , Dinah Lee - Don’t You Know Yockomo ,
Seekers - Sinner Man , The Easybeats -Good Times , Masters Apprentices - Undecided ,
Steve And the Board - The Giggle Eyed Goo , The Loved Ones - Ever Lovin’ Man , The Purple Hearts - Early in the Morning ,
Normie Rowe - It’s Not Easy , Ronnie Burns - Smiley , Russell Morris - Real Thing , The New Dream - Groupie ,
Helen Reddy - I Am Woman , Bee Gees - Marley Purt Drive , Fraternity - Seasons Of Change , Max Merritt & The Meteors - I’ve Been Away Too Long ,
G Wayne Thomas - Open Up Your Heart , Tully - Paradise of Perfect Silence (Silent track: It's A Long Way To The Top)
CD 2:
Healing Force - Golden Miles , Chain - 32/20 Blues , Wendy Saddington - Looking Through a Window ,
Wild Cherries - GOD (Guitar Overdose) , Trevor Lucas - Girls On The Avenue , Sherbet - You’ve Got The Gun ,
John Paul Young - Standing In The Rain , Renee Geyer - Heading In The Right Direction , The Saints - Know Your Product ,
The Divinyls - Boys In Town , Rose Tattoo - Rock’n’Roll Outlaw , Excerpt: Player One - Space Invaders ,
Reels - Quasimodo’s Dream , The Triffids - Beautiful Waste , INXS - What You Need ,
Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls - Bicentennial , Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me , Sunrize Band - Lembana Mani Mani ,
The Cruel Sea - This Is Not The Way Home , silverchair - Freak (Remix for US rejects) , Itch-E & Scratch-E - Sweetness & Light (Radio Edit)
More details available at the ABC shop
The Twisted Sister tribute album "Twisted Forever" has now been released, the album features Twisted Sister doing a cover version of AC/DC's "Sin City"
The album is available at Amazon UK
Shania Twain the wife of former AC/DC producer Mutt Lange gave birth to a baby boy
Eja (pronounced Asia) on August 12.
It appears that AC/DC's Brian Johnson is a bit of a fan of the artist Marsha Hammel as he is listed as a collector
of her work in her biography. For more details Click here
Friday 17th August 2001
Systematic have recorded a version of AC/DC's 'Overdose, with Metallica's Lars Ulrich on drums.
There are no plans to release this version, but it's bound to
surface sooner or later.
Source Total Rock
Pajala, Sweden will be the site for an AC/DC Tribute festival in November. with tribute bands AC/DC Jam and Livewire lined up to pay
tribute to AC/DC. For more details of the event including concert times , accomodation details , etc , etc then click here
The Finnish AC/DC website No Nonsense currently features an exclusive interview with Brian Johnson.
Wednesday 15th August 2001
Some Scottish newspapers have reported that Pop band 5ive have used a sample of AC/DC's Back In Black in their
track "Lay All Your Loving On Me" which is to appear on their forthcoming new album on August 27th.
If anyone could verify the inclusion of AC/DC music in this track could you please e-mail crabsodyinblue@tesco.net
Online record store 101cd are currently offering the European Tour edition release of Stiff upper lip for £10.99 UK pounds. more details
To view their entire AC/DC Catalogue click here
UK Tribute band Dirty DC have the following gigs lined up.
Sat 15th Sept 2001 The Horn Reborn, St Albans, Fri 28th Sept 2001 The Cartoon, Croydon ,
Sat 29th Sept 2001 The Little-Un, Sth Elmsall
Sat 6th Oct 2001 The Robin, Brieley Hill , Sat 13th Oct 2001 The Gander on the Green, Bournemouth ,
Sat 20th Oct 2001 Murreys, Scarborough, Fri 26th Oct 2001 The Running Horse, Nottingham
Monday 13th August 2001
Australian television company ABC is currently running a television documentary on the history of Australian music. A dedicated web site for
the show can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/longway
Tuesday 7th August 2001
Already you can prepare for 2002 with the AC/DC 2002 Calendar
Available at 101CD.COM
Chris Slade fans may be interested to know that a recent Asia concert at Jaxx in Springfield VA, is being
re-broadcast twice on Wednesday 8th August at 2PM and 10PM Eastern time.
For more details go to www.on-the-i.com/index_lb.html and click on the schedule.
Info thanks to www.asiaworld.org/
AC/DC Collectors may be interested in viewing the following web sites for some interesting AC/DC recordings.
Balt CD and Private Store
 A review of the recently released Geordie Singles Collection is now available by
clicking here
It was with regret that AC/DC tribute band Bon's Balls had to pull out of their gig at the Doghouse bar Dundee due to a bout of chicken pox.
Friday 3rd August 2001
At the request of AC/DC's Cliff Williams the band "Hayseed Dixie" performed their unique country versions of AC/DC songs at
an end of tour wrap party at Cliff's Mountain retreat in the East Coast of USA.
Cliff later joined Hayseed Dixie on stage for a rendition of "Have a drink on me".
For more details of Cliff Williams and Hayseed Dixie jamming click here
Kirriemuir Museum update
Thanks to the efforts of Sam Horsburgh of (Albert Records) / and Crabsody in Blue , the museum is in the process of documenting and filing exciting new exhibits
relating to Bon Scott.
Pride of place is an archive photograph of Bon Scott dating back to when he attended Reform Street School, Kirriemuir , the picture was very kindly donated by Bon's mum (Mrs Isa Scott).
This picture is exclusive to the museum and can only be seen
by visiting the museum itself.
For more details of Kirriemuir museum Click here
More pictures of AC/DC's recent Italian concert are available to view by Clicking here
Pictures courtesy of Marco (acdc_rocks@inwind.it)
Australia television company ABC are currently showing a series of shows documenting the history of Australian Rock music. The working title of the show is "Long Way to the Top" with the shows name taken from the classic AC/DC anthem "It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll".
Related link www.abc.net.au
Wednesday 1st August 2001
 Due for release on the 9th August 2001 is an updated AC/DC book titled Kerrang Files. The book draws from archive articles from the Kerrang and the Sounds magazines.
The book can be pre-ordered via Amazon UK
Record label Metal Mayhem are releasing a re-mastered cd of Adam Bomb's 1985 album Fatal Attraction. The album of course features Cliff Williams guesting on the track
"I want my Heavy Metal"
A review of AC/DC's Milton Keynes concert recently appeared in the Powerplay magazine in the UK.
more details
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