I can not even begin to chronicle all the insane things ex-AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has done within the past two years, though some of the highlights include possession of drugs hiring a hitman because album sales were low, as well as violating parole due to drinking with prostitutes.
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Good on Rudd for trying, though we’re definitely sorry to hear about the heart attack.
He said: “If Angus [Young] wanted me to play then that’s up to him, but I don’t really want to play with Axl Rose”. I had a unusual pain in my chest.
Rudd also revealed he was in a relationship with Rotorua photographer Michelle Cutelli, who he first dated when he came to New Zealand in the 1980s.
He said: “I had a fucking heart attack, but I’m good now”.
AC/DC are a band who have certainly been through the wars in recent years.
“Geoffrey [Spencer] is a great guitarist”, Rudd added, comparing him favorably to AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young.
“Yeah, I had a f**king heart attack, but I am good now, got a stent inside”.
The former “Highway to Hell” drummer was replaced by Chris Slade after he was convicted past year for drug possession and making threats to kill a former employee. “I don’t really rate him”, he said in an interview with the Bay of Plenty Times, also revealing that he’d suffered a heart attack recently.
He says he’s “healthy and got so much colour in my cheeks”, and he’s just signed a deal to re-release solo album Head Job, and promote it on a 2017 European tour, set to include a series of festival appearances.
Phil, whose legal issues led to his replacement in AC/DC, says he’d consider playing with the band again if he’s asked by guitarist Angus Young, although he admits he’s not too keen on the band’s current singer.
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Meanwhile, The “Thunderstruck” group’s bassist, Cliff Williams, is to retire after the tour because the band has become a “changed animal” due to the loss of his old bandmates, Malcolm Young, Phil Rudd and Brian Johnson. I promise. I was doing hard personally and did some things I probably shouldn’t have done.
