New AC/DC album sounds like ‘Bon Jovi’s middle-of-the-road pop rock’
Original AC/DC drummer Colin Burgess has come out of the woodwork to criticise the band’s new album Black Ice.
ack Ice.
Jonathan Moran of the Australian Daily Telegraph reports:
As AC/DC dominates world charts with its first album in eight years, one former member has been left out in the cold.
The band’s original drummer, Colin Burgess, who shares a nondescript Sydney flat with his nephew and uncle, admits he wonders what it would be like to get a piece of the action.
“Financially, it has been a bit of a problem, but I get by,” he says. “That’s when I wouldn’t mind being back in AC/DC. But money doesn’t make the world go round – love does.”
Burgess, sacked from the band in 1974 for being drunk on stage, compares AC/DC’s new record, Black Ice, to Bon Jovi’s middle-of-the-road pop rock.
“They’ve tried to make it a rock’n'roll album in a Bon Jovi studio and, to me, it just doesn’t work,” he says.
Burgess was a founding member of the legendary Australian band, forming the group with Malcolm Young in 1973 after he left the Masters Apprentices.
He insists he was innocent of any misbehaviour on stage, claiming his drink was spiked.
“I know people said I was drunk, but that’s not the truth.
“For all these young kids who do get their drinks spiked – and it happens a lot – I understand where they’re coming from, because it happened to me.
“Everyone looked at me as if I was the drunken guy, and I got the sack. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”
Read more here.
Well I’ve heard a bit of the new album, and while it’s OK, it’s not going to scare any parents. All AC/DC albums sound the same, that’s one of the reasons people love ‘em, so if their sound is getting a bit softer then it’s time for them to pack it in…
Colin is obviously a bitter man with grudge, however, i am afraid he is speaking the truth.
Multi millionaires in their 50`s are never going to sound as rough and aggressive as guys in their early 20`s it is a simple sad fact of life. We all get older and lose our edge.
AC/DC should get back to their blues roots. Black Ice has two palatable songs with the rest sleepworthy.
colin burgees should eat the shit and stop saying nonsense!
black ice is the best ac/dc album along with back in black!!!!
I really hope they will include more and more songs from ice in their next gigs!
Black Ice is magnificent…nuff said.
I like the new AC/DC album. I would easily place it in the top 5 they have done with Brian singing. 1) Back In Black, 2) For Those About To Rock, 3) Razors’ Edge, 4) Black Ice & 5) Flick Of The Switch.
Well up until today I’d never heard of Colin Burgess (as an AC/DC drummer, I know a plumber of the same name, so the words bitter, and twisted spring to mind…
On the topic, correct me if I’m wrong, but does the current issue of Rolling Stone represent the very first time they’ve made the cover, AC/DC being pretty much the last great rock band Rolling Stone have admitted they were wrong about? Not that they’ve got anything to prove to what has long since stopped being a relevant publication music wise. Much better at American politics the last decade or so.
Comparing AC/DC to Bon Jovi is the ultimate insult! He’s just a bitter man…
Colin and his Uncle live in a suburban house very near me, not a non-descript flat as that badly written article states. If the journalist got that fact wrong, don’t trust the rest of the article !!! Both Colin and his Uncle Billy are friends of mine and I suspect there has been some bad reporting happening. Billy is a wonderful guy and Col has been brilliant friends to many of us in the area for many years. Col made a comment about ACDC’s new album yet it has been misconstrued and contorted by the press to rediculous levels. Knowing him well as I do, I simply don’t believe his intention was to be derogatory. Yes his time in ACDC came to an end when he fell from the drums yet even in private conversation all these years later he calmly says without any malaice that his drink was spiked. For one, I believe him. Hell, even ACDC took him back for a while when their new drummer failed. They wouldn’t have done that if they had no confidence in him. Think hard about that !!
Col is not the bitter man that this website portrays him as. He perhaps looks at it as an opportunity that slipped by, yet I don’t believe Col deserves all the bad press on this site. His comments have been contorted by journalists. Sit and have a chat with him over an ale and you would understand immediately that he has been mis-quoted and the story padded out.
He’s a friend of mine. You are all judging him on a very badly written interview with him.
Wake up……….You won’t find any one of you on this site other than myself who is a personal friend of Col.
Don’t judge him by bad journalisim. Respect him for his place in Rock History and don’t always criticise through shlock articles. Makes my blood boil at some of the damning things said on this site about him. Obviously by people that can’t look beyond sensationalist journalisim to find the truth.
I have said my piece. I personally know the man as a long time friend. You are doing him an injustice based on bad journalisim.