În cazul în care Rock Arena se mai ţine, propaganda făcută de ei pentru acest Festival NOU, aflat la prima ediţie, este fantastică.

Acum două zile se anunţa că AC/DC includ Festivalul în datele lor de turneu.

Astăzi, AC/DC anunţă oficial în site-ul lor că nu exista nici o convenţie semnată pentru o dată de turneu la Bucureşti.

Chiar dacă nu mai vine, dacă Festivalul se mai organizează, problema că lumea nu a auzit încă de acest Festival a fost eliminată!

Fanii AC/DC sunt rugaţi să viziteze ACDC.com tickets page pentru lista completă oficială de date de turneu pentru bilete la concertele lor din Europa în 2009.

Bucharest Rock Arena, ediţia 1

nu se mai organizează.

a fost probabil cea mai mare ţeapă de festival din ultima perioadă, precum Turneul Kelly Family din România în 1999 sau Michael Bolton la Braşov în 2004.

One of the cool things about the internet is discovering a taste of world knowledge while sitting on the peripheral edge.  Often when doing research for blog posts it feels like a mini-journey to me.  For every step forward, I take two to the side or three back before compiling a broad range of information.

Part of my post-election withdrawal therapy has been background research on the only Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) member (Robert G. McClure) to be convicted of four murders in the State of Oregon.  McClure was found guilty of execution-style killings in the small Seventh-day Adventist community of Gaston, Oregon and sentenced to four consecutive life prison terms.  More about this in a future post, but one of the side paths this took me on was across the Pacific to the Australian Crime Commission.  They deemed ‘biker gangs’ a significant criminal threat to their nation.   As a result, the Australian Government is moving forward to ban the wearing of “colors” nationwide (similar to actions taken last month in CA. with the Mongols MC arrests) and they’re introducing laws to take legal action which allows them to confiscate ‘motorcycle club’ assets, including the club brand (“patches”), motorcycles and property.  It’s an interesting tactic for governments to seize trademarked name/brands and property, but I’ll save the far reaching laws with broad definitions and the suspension of habeas corpus rant for another day.

Humble Pie Concert

It was during my Australian surfing I ran across this little nugget buried in a video clip.  First off, and I’m dating myself here, the musical performance is one of the greats -  Humble Pie (Steve Marriott) – and the song is called “Big Train” or maybe its “Big Train Stops at Memphis.”  The beginning of the video has a member of the HAMC (“Mother”) who shouts to the audience… “One more song and they ain’t going home at all.” Somehow you believe him!

The Australian music festival at Ponde was famous in its own right, but certainly not on the same scale as the Altamont Speedway Festival which headlined the Rolling Stones.  This video was recorded off an Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) late night TV music show called “Rock Arena” back in 1983.  The show was cancelled in 1989.  Others in the video were keyboard player Goldy McJohn, a former member of Steppenwolf, the Bass player was Jim Leverton and the drummer (unseen) was Fallon Williams.  Another one of my “favs” is Led Zeppelin’s song “Whole Lotta Love” which is said to be a direct take off of Marriott’s version of the classic song “You Need Lovin’“. Give it a listen and you’ll see what I mean…

The Ponde Music Festival ran for 23 years (1979 to 2002) in Mannum, 50 miles from Adelaide Australia, and was hosted by the HAMC.  I find it curious that over the last year there has been a dramatic increase in arrests and negative publicity coming out of Australia on issues with, in Aussie words, “bikie” gangs.  I’m intrigued how “club” attitudes have migrated from supporting a public musical festival to turf wars, firebombs, shootings and combative LE exchanges?  Internet searches reveal little about the perceptions of the festival in the past which started out as a gathering for bike enthusiasts, but expanded over the years into a full-blown top talent multi-day music festival.

Video courtesy YouTube, Newspaper photo courtesy of Advertiser Newspapers Pty. Ltd.

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Deci da, a fost o mare tzeapa…dupa cum bine previziona bobo  inca de acum cateva zile, marele eveniment este un fas care s-a desumflat intre timp…stirea aici si probabil cat de curand pe majoritatea site-urilor de profil si blogurilor din romania…felicitari celor care nu au sarit ca arsi sa isi cumpere bilete…stiu eu cativa care au ingrosat cozile inca de luni de la prima ora! fssssss