AC/DC To Start Recording New Record March 1

Almost as long as the wait for new music is the band's absence from the stage. Tour plans, however, aren't as firm. "If we go out again or when we go out again," Williams said. "You just never know. We've been around a long time, so we're going to get together and get in the studio and I fully expect we will [tour.]. I don't mean to be so negative about that. [When] the last tour ended in early '01, you'd see kids on their dads' shoulders. And these kids were like 10, 12 years old. It will be tremendous to see that again. And it's very cool -- younger kids getting into older music."

Williams admits that he doesn't listen to his own stuff very often, but on hand at the Rock Camp, the bassist did get a new perspective on some of the band's classics. And what's standing out for him lately?

"'Down Payment Blues,' 'Live Wire' -- I dig a lot of the old stuff," he says. "It's amazing. We look back on old albums -- look at tracks -- and I don't remember the tracks from the title. But those two songs I would love to play."

Record Company Representative: AC/DC Not Recording Yet

Albert Records' Danny Keenan has dampened the hopes of AC/DC fans hoping for a new album release in April.

Keenan told Australia's Undercover music reporter Tim Cashmere: "If you ask me if they're in the studio today, I can tell you they're not. If you ask me if they were in the studio last week, I can tell you they're not. If you ask me if they're in the studio next week, I can tell you they're not.

"We're pretty hopeful, but unfortunately there is no word of an album at this stage."

See below for the initial rumor.

AC/DC Ready To Return Despite Angus Injury

Editor's note: Some of the wording is a little confusing - probably due to the translation

Spanish website RafaBasa.com has published the following exclusive report about the possible return of AC/DC:

According to the site, the name of the new record will be Strap It On, and it will be released via Atlantic Records on April 23rd 2008... "at least at the time of this press release".

"There is not so many things to tell, but even with the secret everything is kept under, we have some interesting news about AC/DC.

"There is no official announcement at this moment, but our sources in New York told us that the band is ready to return.

"The main problem that has forced AC/DC to be on hold without releasing any albums or playing live, is an injury on Angus Young's knee, something that we can say that it's fine considering the information we [have.]

"We know that the album is on the last stage of the mixing process, and the band have worked with famous producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange (DEF LEPPARD).

"They are going to make several secret "showcases" for very small audiences (maybe 500 people venues) in Europe at the end of January."

Almost eight years has passed since AC/DC released their last studio album, Stiff Upper Lip.