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Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
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The Music Network reports that legendary hard rockers AC/DC earned AUD 131.4 million (approximately USD $127 million) in 2009-10 (up from AUD $105 million [approximately USD $102 million] last year) to land at the second place on a list of Australia's richest entertainers, according to Business Review Weekly magazine. AC/DC couldn't hold on to last year's top spot, knocked off by Global Creatures. The animatronic special-effects company earned AUD $140 million (approximately USD $135 million) due to the rampaging success of "Walking With The Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular".
AC/DC was honored in the "Top Boxscore" category at the Billboard Touring Awards, which were handed out at a special reception in New York on November 4. The awards are primarily based on global box office numbers reported to Billboard Boxscore from October 1, 2009, through September 30, 2010.
The "Top Boxscore" award recognizes the highest-grossing single engagement for the time period. Two of the Boxscore finalists were from AC/DC: a three-night, sold-out stand at ANZ Stadium in Sydney and three more sellouts at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne; both were in February. The third finalist for Top Boxscore was the Download festival in the U.K.
Pollstar magazine, which tracks the concert business, recently revealed that AC/DC's "Black Ice" trek was the No. 1 tour for the first nine months of 2010, with ticket sales of 1,820,962. 
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Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
Yeah...it's a shit load of green their making but they deserve every cent of it IMO. Saw the black ice show 3 times earlier this year and they've still got it. Was magic. One of the all time great bands I think.
Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
Agreed. I know people bust on them, "they made the same album 23 times"...
Yep they sure did. Their first was so perfect they didn't feel they need to change perfection one tiny bit in their formula.
And they're still legends, and they still go multi-plat worldwide.
Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
^^^ the book im reading proposes a what if GnR had followed this.
I m a fan of AC/DC start to mabe money talks. I have lost interest in alot of bands.
Its hard to say if i would still be interested in GnR if they were in acdc type shoes.
Karma to AC?DC for keeping it goin and to there fans for being able to enjoy a full life work from this band.
Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
The difference there is AC/DC "grew". They got bigger and bigger and bigger, with eventually the pinnacle being the Highway To Hell to For Those About To Rock era being the pinnacle of their success.
GN'R hit instant fame... well if you consider a couple years instant (I do). Then it was downhill from there.
Honestly I think had Slash, Izzy, Duff, Steven/Matt & Dizzy had their way, that would've been exactly the road GN'R would've originally traveled, obviously with more ability to write great ballads.
Axl is the hold up. He claims it's artistic integrity, but it's never been. It's work ethic. He just never had the work ethic to keep going like that.
- monkeychow
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Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
^ that' a way harsh call. We don't actually know his work ethic at all. Sure he doesn't release albums often. But to be fair to him he was doing the impossible - like replacing slash - then replacing bucket. I mean come on - how do you build GNR from the ground up!
And the rest of GNR has it's similar issues. I mean izzy seems to bail from anything before it gets too monsterous. And Slash has had snakepit 1, 2, the solo and VR all get to a certain point then re-boot in some form or other.
Interestingly Ac/Dc have some of that too I guess. They survived the death of Bon and found the perfect frontman. They took 7 years off earlier this decade and no one minded.
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Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
The difference there is AC/DC "grew". They got bigger and bigger and bigger, with eventually the pinnacle being the Highway To Hell to For Those About To Rock era being the pinnacle of their success.
GN'R hit instant fame... well if you consider a couple years instant (I do). Then it was downhill from there.
Honestly I think had Slash, Izzy, Duff, Steven/Matt & Dizzy had their way, that would've been exactly the road GN'R would've originally traveled, obviously with more ability to write great ballads.
Axl is the hold up. He claims it's artistic integrity, but it's never been. It's work ethic. He just never had the work ethic to keep going like that.
I disagree. There is a big difference in Axl's musical taste vs. Slash/Duff/Izzy's. Axl loves Elton John and Queen style epics whereas the others want to make hard rock. There's nothing wrong with either perspective, but it is a huge difference in artistic preference. There was no way in hell they were going to keep pumping out rehashes of Appetite for Destruction with Axl as their lead singer and one of their primary songwriters. If they wanted to keep rehashing AFD, they should have fired him instead of handing over the rights to the name. After firing him, then bring in a singer-for-hire like that movie "Rock Star" with Wahlberg.
Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
The problem is, even Axl doesn't know what he wants from any given moment. He's claimed time and again that he wanted to bury AFD with UYI, because he was sick of it. Yet, turned around and claimed that he wanted to do another AFD and bring GN'R back to it's roots, but it was Slash that held him back. Yet CD was nothing but UYI III in alot of ways, and certaintly not AFD II.
The thing that puzzles me the most, is that if Axl wanted to make this kind of music, why didn't he just join Queen instead of Paul Rodgers? Think about it, he gets to sit there cutting piano ballads (which was kind of the guy Queen lost), and every guitar Axl has used since Slash has lifted Brian May's style of playing.
The only thing I can assume is he didn't want to play second fiddle to Brian or Roger during shows.
Instead he just redid GN'R to do the exact same thing. 
Axlin08 wrote:The difference there is AC/DC "grew". They got bigger and bigger and bigger, with eventually the pinnacle being the Highway To Hell to For Those About To Rock era being the pinnacle of their success.
GN'R hit instant fame... well if you consider a couple years instant (I do). Then it was downhill from there.
Honestly I think had Slash, Izzy, Duff, Steven/Matt & Dizzy had their way, that would've been exactly the road GN'R would've originally traveled, obviously with more ability to write great ballads.
Axl is the hold up. He claims it's artistic integrity, but it's never been. It's work ethic. He just never had the work ethic to keep going like that.
If they wanted to keep rehashing AFD, they should have fired him instead of handing over the rights to the name. After firing him, then bring in a singer-for-hire like that movie "Rock Star" with Wahlberg.
Problem with that is... who could replace Axl? Slash & Duff have always had shitastic taste in frontmen.
An Eric Dover-fronted GN'R would've made me puke, and would've destroyed the legacy FAR more than an Axl-led band with DJ & Ron.
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Re: AC/DC Among Australia's Richest Entertainers - Dec. 1, 2010
The problem is, even Axl doesn't know what he wants from any given moment. He's claimed time and again that he wanted to bury AFD with UYI, because he was sick of it. Yet, turned around and claimed that he wanted to do another AFD and bring GN'R back to it's roots, but it was Slash that held him back. Yet CD was nothing but UYI III in alot of ways, and certaintly not AFD II.
The thing that puzzles me the most, is that if Axl wanted to make this kind of music, why didn't he just join Queen instead of Paul Rodgers? Think about it, he gets to sit there cutting piano ballads (which was kind of the guy Queen lost), and every guitar Axl has used since Slash has lifted Brian May's style of playing.
The only thing I can assume is he didn't want to play second fiddle to Brian or Roger during shows.
Instead he just redid GN'R to do the exact same thing.
Say what you will about how crazy Axl is, but I don't think he would want to piss on Freddie's legacy. No offense to Rodgers but that's exactly how I view his tenure with Queen. Ironically, of course, this thread is about AC/DC and Brian Johnson was an admirable replacement for Bon Scott -- one of the few times it has worked out with that kind of circumstance.
Problem with that is... who could replace Axl? Slash & Duff have always had shitastic taste in frontmen.
An Eric Dover-fronted GN'R would've made me puke, and would've destroyed the legacy FAR more than an Axl-led band with DJ & Ron.
I consider Chinese Democracy to be an Axl Rose solo album, so I don't think a singer-for-hire would ruin the legacy any more than what Axl has done with it. Either way it's not GN'R. You can't replace Axl unless you find a tribute singer that can actually do a really great impression. There are very few on the planet, less than a handful.
