AC/DC mainman Malcolm Young discovered he’s less famous than his folk musician relative when he took his family to explore their roots on a remote Scottish Island. He discussed his trip to Scotland and AC/DC’s future with Classic Rock’s Eric Mackinnon.
He confirmed they’re working on a potential follow-up to 2008′s Black Ice. But he warned fans are in for a longer wait than expected, after singer Brian Johnson suggested there would be new material next year.
“You know what Brian’s like. He just says things and then walks away. It’ll be a little while – a year or two anyway,” Young explained. “I’ve been doing some jamming on some song ideas but I do that all the time, as do the rest of the band. We are still working. But we had a long rest between Stiff Upper Lip and Black Ice, so I think we need a couple of years to recuperate and work on it a bit more.”
He added it’s unlikely any world tour in support of a future release will grow to the scale of the AC/DC Black Ice trek, which lasted almost two years and sold nearly five million tickets.
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According to an interview with ABC NEWS Radio, Scott Weiland has confirmed that he has reunited with his VELVET REVOLVER bandmates (Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, David Kushner) and is back making new music with the band. “We’ve all grown a lot,” explains Weiland. “We’re able to put egos and differences and old… conflicts aside and so that’s really cool.”
He added, “They gave me a couple of [new] songs and myself and [guitarist] Dave [Kushner] and [bassist] Duff [McKagan] are gonna be getting together for a songwriting session next week.”
According to Weiland, VELVET REVOLVER will hit the road for a short tour before the end of the year. “[VELVET REVOLVER guitarist] Slash’s solo album gets released [on May 22] and so he’s gonna do some touring on that and then we’re gonna go and do some [VELVET REVOLVER] shows in the later part of summer into early fall,” the singer said.
During an appearance on this morning’s (Monday, May 14) edition of the “Half-Assed Morning Show” on the Minneapolis, Minnesota radio station 93X, Slash shot down Weiland’s reunion comments, explaining, “I have absolutely no intention of going back to that. . . I’m on tour all year. I’ll call Duff, but I seriously doubt [there is any truth to Weiland's comments]. We have no intention of going backwards.”
May 12, 2012 – QUEENSRŸCHE (Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Eddie Jackson, Scott Rockenfield, Parker Lundgren) performed at the M3 Rock Festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The band’s set list included:
01. Get Started
02. Damaged
03. I Don’t Believe In Love
04. Hit The Black
05. I’m American
06. NM 156
07. Screaming In Digital
08. The Lady Wore Black
09. Walk In The Shadows
10. Silent Lucidity
11. Jet City Woman
12. Empire
13. Eyes Of A Stranger
