AC/DC To Work With Brendan O’Brien, Angus To Sound Like A DeLeo Brother
AC/DC is currently recording their first album in eight years with Brendan O’Brien. You may know O’Brien as the man behind some the finest albums by Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, and Matthew Sweet, and some of the lamest by by Bruce Springsteen, Train, Papa Roach, and Incubus. Barf. “Rage Against The Machine in the ’90s, Audioslave today” sums up his career pretty well. So who was the bearer of such blase tidings? Why, Eddie Spaghetti! The once and future Supersucker spilled the beans on his band’s Web site.
I’m sure you’re all wondering, “where the hell is that new ‘suckers record?”, well rest assured it IS coming. It’s just taking a little longer than we expected to get done. Our current snag is that the producer of the new record wants to make some last minute tweaks and, well, he can’t right now. He’s been detained by a little Australian band called, uh, AC/DC. That’s right our man Billy Bowers, who did such a stellar job on our “Paid” E.P., is an engineer for Brendan O’Brian who is producing the new AC/DC record and so he’s been taken away from our project temporarily.
Now I’ve been pretty excited about AC/DC’s long promised double disc bonanza, but I can’t see the point in such an endeavor (if they’re even still aiming for it), if they’re going to hire some 90s sludge aficionado to guide them. “Hey, I used these mics with Jack Irons’ kit, it should work for you guys.” Rick Rubin, their last high-concept choice of producer, was a washout on Ballbreaker, but I’d rather see them go for some au courant insanity (Brian Johnson on line one, Danja!) than settle for somebody whose moment passed ten years ago and was a pretty sluggish one in the first place.
“Get It Together” status report [Supersuckers est. 1988 via Billboard]
