{"id":13762,"date":"2024-07-01T19:32:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T23:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/?p=13762"},"modified":"2024-07-01T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T23:39:13","slug":"former-ac-dc-drummer-has-new-double-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bordercityrocktalk.ca\/2024\/07\/01\/former-ac-dc-drummer-has-new-double-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AC\/DC Drummer Chris Rudd New Album Timescape"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A highly respected drummer who is still enjoying an amazing 60+ year career as a professional drummer at the highest levels in the music industry, Chris and his band \u2013\u00a0The Chris Slade Timeline<\/b>\u00a0– will be releasing their new album,\u00a0Timescape,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>July 19<\/b>\u00a0on\u00a0BraveWords Records.<\/b> \u00a0The double album will be available on digital platforms, CD and possibly as a double vinyl album.<\/span><\/div>
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As mentioned, Timescape\u00a0<\/i><\/b>is\u00a0<\/i><\/b>a double album that includes one album\/CD of original new music that, except for one track, is written or co-written by Slade (besides his signature drum thunder, Chris also adds background vocals to most of the new tracks and sings lead vocal on one of the new tracks,\u00a0Time Flies<\/i><\/b>), along with a second album\/CD of the band\u2019s versions of songs that Chris has played previously with some of the many bands to which he\u2019s lent his considerable talents including ASIA, Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann\u2019s Earth Band and, of course\u00a0AC\/DC.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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Chris Slade\u2019s music career reads like a Who\u2019s Who list of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s truly amazing how many iconic bands and artists he has performed with over the decades.<\/span><\/div>
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His musical journey can be traced back to 1963.\u00a0\u00a0Chris came from the same village in Wales as fellow Welshman Tom Jones and, as a 17-year-old lad, was hired by Jones to play drums in the singer\u2019s backing band, The Squires, for seven years. It was the beginning of an incredible career that is still going strong today.<\/span><\/div>
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His first real success came in 1965 when Jones and the band recorded and released the single\u00a0It\u2019s Not Unusual<\/i><\/b>, which became a huge worldwide hit for Jones and the band. Chris subsequently performed on all of Jones\u2019s \u201860s hits and toured with Jones all over the world before quitting in 1969 to join a group called \u201cToomorrow\u201d whose vocal attraction was an Australian blonde named Olivia Newton-John.<\/span><\/div>
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He became a founding member of Manfred Mann\u2019s Earth Band in January of 1971. He spent seven years with the band, recording eight albums, all but one charting on the Billboard Top 200 chart, and helping the band achieve three UK Top Ten singles in the process: Joybringer (which charted at #9, October 1973), Blinded By The Light (originally written by Bruce Springsteen and which charted at #6, September 1976 and was also a multi-million selling #1 single in the US) and Davy\u2019s On The Road Again (No.6, June 1978).<\/span><\/div>
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After the Earth Band era, Chris recorded two albums in 1979, first with Frankie Miller, and next with Kai Olsson, before joining Uriah Heep in time to play on their\u00a0Conquest\u00a0<\/i><\/b>album in 1980 plus two years touring with the band.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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Next up,\u00a0Slade teamed up with Gary Numan to help record the\u00a0I Assassin<\/i><\/b>\u00a0album along with touring.\u00a0\u00a0The album was driven by Slade\u2019s and bassist Pino Palladino\u2019s powerful rhythms, which Numan called \u201cone of the best albums I\u2019ve ever made.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs included Slade in The Mick Ralphs Band \u2013 that same line-up also toured as the band for Pink Floyd guitarist\u00a0David Gilmour<\/b>\u00a0on his About Face Tour all throughout 1984. After the close of that tour, Slade teamed up with Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers and bassist Tony Franklin to form\u00a0The Firm<\/b>\u00a0at the end of 1984. The Firm recorded two excellent albums for Atlantic Records in 1985 and 1986 that gave them chart success with radio hits including\u00a0Radioactive\u00a0<\/i><\/b>and\u00a0Satisfaction Guaranteed<\/i><\/b>.<\/span><\/div>
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According to bassist Tony Franklin, \u201cThe all-important drum seat was filled by Chris Slade of Manfred Mann\u2019s Earth band and Tom Jones\u2019 fame. But Jimmy (Page) had to wait until Chris came off the road from the Dave Gilmour tour. Jimmy didn\u2019t mind, Chris was a monster drummer and well worth the wait.\u201d<\/span><\/div>
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After The Firm disbanded, Chris joined up with Irish blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore on a temporary basis, taking over from Cozy Powell just four days before the start of the 1989 After the War tour. It was at one of Moore\u2019s gigs in\u00a0the UK\u00a0that\u00a0AC\/DC\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0Malcolm Young saw Chris play and came away extremely impressed with Slade\u2019s talent. After the Moore tour ended, it was Chris\u2019s intention to put together a band with ex-Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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But the call from AC\/DC to join the band put an end to those plans as he was destined to tour and record with them over the course of the next five years, playing on their acclaimed\u00a0Razors Edge<\/i><\/b>\u00a0album, and giving a killer performance on their concert DVD Live from Donington<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0He also performed on two live albums the band released in 1992 and \u201993.<\/span><\/div>