Brian Johnson Gets His Nodes Scraped-AC/DC Tour Postponed

Who the fuck schedules a medical procedure when the band is on a world tour?
Brian Fucking Johnson, that’s who!
Yeah, I’m a little ticked that six dates of AC/DC’s Black Ice tour have been postponed while Johnson recuperates under doctor’s orders from some unnamed ailment. I’d wish him well if one of those six dates didn’t happen to be a date that I planned on attending.
Sure, the tickets will be honored when they get around to announcing a new date, but I chose the Des Moines date because it was a weekend and it worked out better economically. We sold our tickets to the Chicago show for this date and, wouldn’t you know it, the Chicago show went off without a hitch.
The band is also supporting what looks like a fairly worthless box set called Backtracks. Not only is the name of this compilation pretty weak, but so are the tracks. Evidently, only one disc is devoted to rarities, and some of them have already been featured on Bonfire. Then there’s two other discs of live performances-neither one a complete show-so if you’ve got a hankerin’ to hear “Hail Caesar” from the Stiff Upper Lip tour, well now’s your chance!
It also includes a 180-gram vinyl version of the aforementioned rarities disc and it comes housed in box that’s shaped like an amplifier.

You may be thinking, “Wasn’t there a box set that was shaped like an amplifier not too long ago?” and the answer is “Yes.” The Heavy Metal box set came shaped like a Marshall head with knobs you can turn. I’ve got the set and it’s pretty clever.
AC/DC decided to go a step further and make their box set that’s shaped like an amplifier actually work. That’s right, you can plug in an electric guitar directly into the packaging and a tone that vaguely resembles an electric guitar comes out. Angus Young demonstrated this in a promotional video for the box set and, in the process, managed to show us how awful he can sound when playing through a fucking toy.
The price, you ask? $200.
And not one note from the fabled Back In Black sessions with Bon Scott on vocals.