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Archive News June 2001
Saturday 30th June 2001
Bon Scott honoured in Kirriemuir Museum
In the town where Bon Scott was born a newly opened museum "Kirriemuir - Gateway to the Glens" has recently opened.
The museum contains information on the
town of Kirriemuir Scotland and the famous people that where born in the town.
The museum is currently looking to increase its exhibits relating to the Late Bon Scott
and would like to hear from any Bon Scott or AC/DC fan that may have relevant information on Bon's early childhood or early pictures of Bon Scott.
If anyone can help then they can either contact the museum at kirriegateway@angus.gov.uk
or you could contact myself at this web site and I will pass the information on as I stay nearby to the museum.
For further details on the museum click here.
Friday 29th June 2001
More pictures from Milton Keynes added Click here to view
Thursday 28th June 2001
Pictures of AC/DC at the Stade De France 22nd June 2001 are available to view by clicking here.
More pictures from Gothenburgh Sweden added Thanks to Swedish AC/DC fan Bjorn Hellborg you can view the pictures by
Clicking here
All female AC/DC tribute band AC/DShe have launched their new web site check it out at www.acdshe.com
For AC/DC fans from Finland a review of AC/DC in Helsinki can be found at www.nyt.fi
Wednesday 27th June 2001
GEORDIE LAND ANYONE !!
A report from a Newcastle (England) newspaper has reported that Brian Johnson is to sing with his old band Geordie on the pub circuit in the Newcastle area.
For more details see icnewcastle.ic24.com
Thanks also to www.acdc-faq.fsnet.co.uk
See also Inter Music
Music365
A picture of Angus Young in Concert at Helsinki Finland is online at Stiff upper lip World tour special
There is an online article on AC/DC in Finnish at www.ess.fi
Tuesday 26th June 2001
Some reviews (in Swedish) from the Gothenburgh concerts.
Ny seger för AC/DC
Favoriterna AC/DC ägde kvällen
AC/DC är hårdrock för folkhemmet
AC/DC rockade loss på Ullevi
AC/DC kör sitt race och gör det bra
Pictures of AC/DC in concert at Gothenburg Sweden can be viewed by Clicking here
From the archives Swedish fan Daniel Jacobsson has sent in a scanned poster from Vinberg Sweden 1976. More details
Monday 25th June 2001
AC/DC Ride on
At the recent concert at the Stade De France, Paris AC/DC returned to the stage after "For those about to Rock" and launched into a version of "Ride on" with the
band wearing the shirts of the French national soccer team.
Gibson have just launched the "Angus Young Signature humbucker pickup".
With it’s enamel-coated wire, special Alnico V magnet and matched coils, the Gibson Angus Young
Signature humbucker provides a 1-2 combination of vintage-style punch and ripping tone that will sear through almost anything.
For further details visit www.harmony-central.com
Friday 22nd June 2001
Collectors of AC/DC bootleg recordings may recall Brian and Angus doing the old blues number "Boom Boom" during
a French Fun radio program back in 1995. Well sadly the writer/singer that originally made the song famous "John Lee Hooker" has died at the age of 83.
Here is a few online reviews and newspaper articles of AC/DC concerts from European newspapers. (The reviews are not in English.)
Mal mir mal AC/DC beim Rockkonzert (German)
Der Tourneeauftakt von AC/DC auf dem Hockenheimring (German)
Rockfans stechen Rentner nieder
Fiamme per il gran finale del concerto degli AC/DC al Milton Keynes Bowl (Italian)
DOUFAM, žE ZA DESET LET BUDEME HRAT POrAD STEJNU DOBREJ ROKENROL JAKO CELOU TU DOBU, rIKA KYTARISTA SKUPINY AC/DC ANGUS YOUNG (Czech)
Strucný profil AC/DC (Czech)
Na Strahove vystoupí pred kapelami AC/DC a Rammstein Fresh Fabrik (Czech)
Strahovské vystoupení AC/DC prinese omezení v doprave (Czech)
Austrálski rockeri do Prahy (Slovakian or Czech ?)
If any European fan could translate to English any of the above articles then that would be great. Send translations to crabsodyinblue@tesco.net
Thursday 21st June 2001
More pictures of the Milton Keynes concert are now online thanks to Bjorn Hellborg from Sweden.
Click here to view the pictures
 A picture of Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and Brian Johnson's wife taken at Milton Keynes is online on the official Megadeth web site
in the diary feature. www.megadeth.com
Thanks to Chris Lantz (www.chrislantz.com) for the information.
Tuesday 19th June 2001
 Collectors of AC/DC Related records
featuring former band members may be interested in the Dave Tice web site www.davetice.com which features information relating to
Dave Tice (former Buffalo member) and former AC/DC bass player Mark Evans.
A Dallas radio station was slated and received numerous complaints after using an advert featuring
Satan administering a lethal injection to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The radio station for some
reason included a reference to "Highway to Hell AC/DC". AC/DC have no connection to either the radio station or
Timothy McVeigh.
Source : Dallas News
Second Encore !!
At the recent Munich concert AC/DC returned after about 5-8 minutes after For those about to Rock and played "Shot Down in Flames".
Friday 15th June 2001
And the Election results are as follows......
A survey, carried out by Total Guitar magazine to coincide with the general election
and published on Friday, asked music fans across the country to
select the best guitarist from their region to form the 12-seat assembly.
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame was voted Prime Minister but Scotland was claimed by Glasgow's Angus Young of AC/DC.
Source Yahoo News
The Angus Young toy doll scheduled for October release will be available via Mania Dundee.
For more details on the Angus Young doll and how to order one Click here
One of Brian Johnson's favourite bands, Florida based Neurotica
have become the first rock band to sign to Smackdown
Records, owned by the World Wrestling Organisation. The band are currently
working on a new album, which will include a song called 'I Feel (Down)'.
Despite some online reports the track 'I Feel (Down)' was not co-written by the band.
To quote singer Kelly Shaefer "the truth is that Brian did not write
this tune, or co-write it, but he did produce the original version that
appears on our 1998 album SEED.
He has been a great friend and mentor to the band and we are grateful,
that's for sure"
As well as prododucing Neurotica's 1998 album, Brian Johnson did write and sing on the track Deadly Sin from the Seed album.
Further details of the Neurotica's 1998 album 'Seed' and the track Deadly sin can be found by Clicking here
The album can also be purchased at 101 CD
Wednesday 13th June 2001
What gig was the Kerrang reporter at ?
The current issue of the Kerrang magazine includes a review of AC/DC's concert at Milton Keynes.
However the reporter a Mr Winwood seems to have been at a different concert to the rest of us.
I personally thought AC/DC were brilliant but Mr Winwood described them "as sometimes being very boring indeed."
If you were at the gig perhaps you would like
to share your concert experience with Mr Winwood of Kerrang by contacting him at kerrang@ecm.emap.com
For none UK visitors to the site the review can be read by Clicking here
Twisted Sister have recorded a version of AC/DC's Sin City, the track will appear on the Twisted Sister tribute album Twisted Forever which is due for release 14th August. Other artists to feature on the album
will be Joan Jett, Motorhead and Sebastian Bach.
UK AC/DC Tribute band AC-SEEDY have returned with a new line-up, more details are available at www.surf.to/acseedy
Tuesday 12th June 2001
Milton Keynes Pictures now online Click here to view the pictures.
A review (in German) of the Hockenheim gig can be found at Yahoo.de
A very rough translation to english can be read by Clicking here
Monday 11th June 2001
Milton Keynes Rocked !!!
Here is the set list - exclusive pictures and review coming soon.
- Stiff Upper Lip
- You Shook Me All Night Long
- PROBLEM CHILD
- Thunderstruck
- Hell Ain't A Bad PLace To Be
- Hard As A Rock
- Shoot To Thrill
- R'n'R Ain't Noise Pollution
- WHAT DO YOU DO FOR MONEY HONEY
- Bad Boy Boogie
- Hells Bells
- UP TO MY NECK IN YOU
- The Jack
- Back In Black
- Dirty Deeds
- Highway To Hell
- Whole Lotta Rosie
- Let There Be Rock (Angus solo)
Encore
- TNT
- For Those About To Rock
A brief review of the Milton Keynes gig appears at www.nme.com
Dot Music have a special feature just now on the AC/DC European Tour dates. You can visit it at
www.dotmusic.com/specials/acdc/
Wednesday 6th June 2001
Virgin Record Stores in the UK are currently running an AC/DC Promotion, with a competition to win a Gibson SG.
Click on the pics to view full size.
Brian Johnson's ex-wife Carol Johnson is to marry former Newcastle United striker Malcom Macdonald.
For further details Click here or visit IC Newcastle
The Stiff Upper Lip album has been released in France as a tour package edition. The package is the same as the Australian toutr package, and takes the form of
cd 1 - Stiff Upper Lip , CD 2 - Cyberspace , Back In Black (live, Plaza De Toros) , Hard As A Rock (live, Plaza De Toros) ,
Ballbeaker (live, Plaza De Toros) , Whole Lotta Rosie (live, Plaza De Toros) , Let There Be Rock (live, Plaza De Toros) ,
Stiff Upper Lip (video) , Safe In New York City (video) , Satellite Blues (video)
French magazine Hard Rock has just been released with an AC/DC Special. The French edition of the magazine comes with a CD
packed full of AC/DC related music including cover versions , Brian Johnson during the Stiff Upper Lip recording , Dave Evans Live and
all the adverts from French TV for the Stiff Upper Lip album. For further details of the magazine and the CD Check out the news section on the Rising Power web site.
Please note the German release of the mag does not come with the CD.
AC/DC Tribute band Dirty DC are playing Crail, Fife, Scotland on the 14th July.
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