Tour Alert: AC/DC Rescheduling 'Rock or Bust' Dates

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson has to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss. This means the band's current tour is being rescheduled. Some dates might go on with a different singer.

AC/DC RESCHEDULING UPCOMING U.S. TOUR DATESAC/DC’s lead singer, Brian Johnson, has been advised by doctors to stop...

Posted by AC/DC on Monday, March 7, 2016

Dates to be rescheduled:

March 08 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
March 11 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - BB&T Center 
March 14 - Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum
March 17 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center
March 20 - Detroit, MI - The Palace
March 23 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
March 26 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
March 29 - Buffalo, NY - First Niagara Center
April 01 -   Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
April 04 -   New York, NY - Madison Square Garden

Comments

[Darktown]

WOW! This might be it for them I'm sad to say. Interesting to see if they bounce back yet again with a new singer or call it a day. Still a sad day.

[fletch]

a sad day indeed. I had tickets to the philly show and was going to be able to cross off a bucketlister. I wasn't able to cross off Motorhead either due to illnesses.

I am definitely not playing the "woe is me" card by writing the above. I am saying "woe for our rock-n-roll community".

[GNR]

Its not woe is me at all... its a loss of epic proportions. Obviously something that earplugs can't solve to keep singing on.

[Gary]

This blows huge chunks. Was fortunate enough to see them on both the "Back In Black" and "For Those About To Rock Tours". (Both for under $10. My God I'm old---lol) They just decimated the old Spectrum in Philly both times. Quite possibly the tightest live band I've ever listened to. They just steamrolled you for 2 solid hours. It's now down to Angus and Cliff Williams. Me thinks this is it,as they certainly have enough money for 7 lifetimes...

[Metalboy!]

I agree, Gary... I saw 'em 9 times... Once off "Powerage", Three times off "Highway to Hell", Three times off "For Those About To Rock", and Twice off "Ballbreaker".

And that's not counting when I ran into into Brian Johnson on the street at 53rd & 7th and having a 10 minute conversation with him (that's NYC, for ya!) plus meeting the classic Mark II line up at Virgin Megastore in Times Square for what has proven to be one of the very few times they made an album signing appearance.

[Metalboy!]

I thought it would be a cold day in h*ll we would ever see AC/DC throwing in the towel. God bless and God speed, Brian!

[Him]

Rock or Bust(ed Eardrum)!

Yup, age stinks. And, what with the recent Rush announcement, it will only continue as relates to our favorites. But I am a broken record on this point, so there is no need for another spin.

Long live AC/DC . . . all eras and almost all albums!!

[Him]

I feel a bit bad about being so tongue in cheek (though, given the band, I think they wouldn't mind) after I read some of the--admittedly, early in the new cycle--reports that are coming out after the one that Allyson posted:

http://sleazeroxx.com/has-brian-johnson-quit-acdc/

I hope that is just mistaken click-bait waiting to be denied. On the other hand, Johnson's health comes first. Either way, not good news. Not good news at all.

[Shawn]

When a Doctor states you better stop or you will lose your hearing. I know I would reluctantly hang it up. Age is something we just can't win the battle with. You can live clean, eat right, and exercise but its not enough to slow the clock down. Eventually even for the most fit the body starts to breakdown. Hips, knees, eyes, shoulders, and ears in Brian's case. I was lucky enough to see them twice and as a fan I always wanted to see them again. I wish him the best and hope he is able to salvage the hearing he has left and retires on a pile of money.

[Bob]

Yep, sad, but also inevitable. When I was young, I used to be flippant about older people, almost to the point of making fun of them for being old. Now that I am one of them, I of course have a whole different prospective. We all have a limited amount of time on this planet, and we have to make the most of it. If getting off the road is what Brian Johnson needs to do to preserve what is left of his hearing, it's absolutely the right thing to do, and no one should fault him for it. Not that anyone here is doing so, but somewhere right now, I bet a 20-year-old is giving him crap for it. Said 20-year-old will learn one day.

[Metalboy!]

Oh, to remember the drop jawed faces at The Grammys when they opened the show two years ago... Hahaha!!! Or when I watched 'em blow Aerosmith off the stage at Monsters of Rock, Oakland, California 1979, or when I watched the audience rip out the seats at Painter's Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, Maryland when they opened for Savoy Brown but we're only allowed to play for 45 minutes.

They OUTROCKED 'em all!

So loud, they blew Brian's ears out... Just goes to show ya, if ya gotta go out, go out in one of the most Rock & Roll way possible, though I do hope he can regain some of his hearing.

[Him]

Well, just to be precise-ish, Metalboy!: forgetting to put in his earplugs while racing seems to be the culprit (or, at least, the last in a list of contributing factors). But racing is kinda' sorta' metal by way of Kid Rock and Halford's "The Mower" (anyone remember that song?).

And so true, Bob and Shawn. I caught myself doing that "tilting my head back while moving the thing I was reading in the opposite direction" thing the other day. And I stopped. Geesh. All I needed was a pair of old-timey glasses and a sweater! No matter how wonderfully constructed or well-kept, very few things on this pebble are built to truly last. Savor them while we can.

When it comes to prestige acts, the time is now.

[Metalboy!]

"Precise-ish", indeed, HIM... Let's not kid ourselves... Sure, racing without earplugs would be a contributing factor, but I'm willing to bet Johnson didn't even wear earplugs on stage for years, especially during his years in Geordie.

Also, if he forgot to wear the things racing, sure as h*ll, he probably forgot to wear 'em many times while racing back and forth on stage during his decades with AC/DC. In the early years, it wasn't all arenas and sound engineering but the club stages of Australia and the British Punk Circuit where protecting the eardrums of the performers was never even a consideration.

Just ask Pete Townsend why he's deaf.

"Got my damn machine, got my electronic dream. Sonic Reducer, ain't no loser..." - Stiv Bators, The Dead Boys

[Him]

Lovely reference to Geordie, Metalboy! "She's a Teaser" is a great track.

And I like that tone, Metalboy! Reminds me of your jabs and thrusts of a few years ago. Edgy.

I would only add that taking your helmet off and having blood spill out suggests the level of contribution that event had to his overall hearing loss. But your point is well taken, as well.

I would ask Townsend. But he is behind a partition and, like you said, he can't hear so well these days anyhow. At least Ulrich's hearing loss hasn't hurt his drumming . . . oh, well, scratch that.

[Bob]

Something tragic that is related to this thread happened yesterday. One of the most brilliant rock musicians of all time, Keith Emerson, used a gun to take his own life because a worsening medical condition was slowly robbing him of his ability to play the keyboards. Apparently, he was down to being able to use only eight of his fingers to play. Mind you, Keith Emerson with eight fingers could still easily blow away 90% of the keyboard players out there with all ten of their fingers, but for him, this sent him into such a depression that he killed himself. Last night, I was talking about Keith Emerson with my wife. I said to her, "For god sakes, he was 71. I think people would forgive him for not being as good as he was 40 years ago." My wife then said, "but you know how things are now. We live in a cruel society. Anybody can go on the Internet and criticize anyone, and it spreads like wildfire. He probably didn't want to deal with all of that." This brings me back to the hypothetical 20-year-old I talked about in my Brian Johnson comment. That 20-year-old has a world-wide podium from which to spew his ignorance. As much as I love my wife, I sincerely hope that she is wrong in this case -- that the potential for uninformed criticism to spread like wildfire is what ultimately drove Keith Emerson to pull the trigger. Sadly though, I fear that she may be at least partly correct. Look at Brad delp and Ronnie Montrose -- also brilliant musicians who took their own lives.

[Metalboy!]

Indeed, Bob! I can't figure out for the life of me why so many of our heroes check out, unless the pain of what ails them is just too much to bear.

Montrose, Delp, Emerson, Lane, et al... Though it's true, we don't know their demons or their exact ailments, you still can't help but wonder if they really needed to take their own lives. If it's not physical pain, what is it that makes those so brilliantly gifted feel the need to leave life as we know it?

Look at Delp... As I said at his passing as reported on this site, why couldn't he realize that, hey, he was at the big rodeo with Boston. How many an aspiring lead singer would give their left n*t (Sorry, ladies!) to be able to look in the mirror and realize, "Hey, I'm THE voice on those millions of Boston albums which also gets played on radio for all eternity!" They just don't get that it doesn't matter if they aren't scaling the heights any more.

And then I think of Oscar Peterson, the legendary jazz pianist, who suffered a stroke that disabled his left hand. Did it stop him from playing?

Lane should have stayed at it, having bounced back from deep alcoholism, regaining his voice and kickin' a*s. He should have known not to ever touch the stuff again.

p.s. Really, HIM? Most edgy in years? Hey, sh*t in, sh*t out! Gimme an exciting topic and you'll get an exciting comment!