Wolf a bien le droit de changer la photo d'acueuil de son site.

Il a grandi Udo, ou il est debout sur un ampli

Wolf Hoffmann, guitarist for the reunited metal veterans ACCEPT, has issued the following statement:

"ACCEPT feel honored to be able to relive 'the good old days' for their fans this summer at several festivals. But please understand that we will stick to the plan to reunite only this one time. We will go our separate ways after the last show — as friends.

"As for all the rumours floating around: We will not be touring after the summer — not even with JUDAS PRIEST, who we always admired very much."

Rah, mais ils font chier, qu'ils passent en France bordel, je veux les voir moi

Ils font le graspop, ça permettra de les voir,

Tiens Accept pourrait continuer sans UDO, ça ne dérange pas ce dernier :

Marko Syrjälä of Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with ACCEPT/U.D.O. frontman Udo Dirkschneider. An excerpt from the chat follows:

Metal-Rules.com: How about the ACCEPT tour? How it went overall in your opinion?

Udo: "ACCEPT, I mean this is a thing. I was on a way to Helsinki to Stockholm on a ferry when I got a phone call saying, 'We heard that you are not doing anything with U.D.O. on next year. Maybe there is a change to do some festivals as ACCEPT?' I said 'Maybe.' I wasn't too happy about that idea in the first place and I didn't want them to believe that I was screaming to do that. So I had to talk with record company, I had to talk to the U.D.O. and the guys in the band who were really nervous in the beginning because they think that I was going to leave U.D.O. and stuff like that. I think that most important thing for us to do after successful 'Thunderball' tour was to record a new U.D.O. album. So I talked to record company and the guys and said that we can use the whole ACCEPT thing for promoting next U.D.O. album. Personally it was difficult decision for me to do that whole ACCEPT thing and reason I said yes for the whole thing was that I wanted to find out if there was anything left. But I think, for me, I can just say it by me not by Wolf or Peter, but for me I can say that there is nothing left. It was lot of fun and I think it was also fun for the people to see ACCEPT again because we did very good shows. But there is no future and I'm not talking about personal level because now we are talking each other more than we did before."

Metal-Rules.com: Did you have any discussions about possible new recordings with ACCEPT while you were on tour?

Udo: "No, no at all. [laughs] Of course we had some drinks together and we were talking about the business and stuff but Wolf maybe find out, I think he find out that if I say we should do it again he would say yes but in the beginning he said, 'No, I don't wanna do it.' But I think that after doing all these shows he was really thinking about doing something more with ACCEPT. The thing is that if he really wanted do something like that, why he never came up during all the shows and say, 'Hey, Udo, I got some new songs, do you wanna hear them?' or something like that. There was nothing. Music-wise he was maybe thinking something and I was like, this is very hard to explain but I felt inside of me, 'Don't do it, don't do it!!' I think that this was a perfect way finish ACCEPT."

Metal-Rules.com: So you are saying that this was definitely the last time we saw ACCEPT on stage?

Udo: "Maybe not the last time because there might be a live DVD coming from that tour. [Laughs.] It will include the whole reunion thing and stuff but then that's it!"

Metal-Rules.com: Have you heard some of those statements what Wolf said about you during the tour?

Udo: "I don't know. I think he did lot of very boring interviews about the things we just discussed. When I read them I was wondering what was coming up from his mind. I mean when he started doing interviews he said, 'I have no problem to do ACCEPT but Udo doesn't want to do it. There will be no real reunion because of Udo.' Still it wasn't too long time ago when he said 'No, ACCEPT I don't wanna do it because I hate that business. I don't wanna be in music business anymore.'"

Metal-Rules.com: And now he's even did show with SEBASTIAN BACH and he has plans to tour in his own in next year?

Udo: "Yeah, I know about that. I think this is some kind fear of him, you know. I mean, he knew that I was working with U.D.O. and we had a new album coming out and he know what I was thinking all the time. From my side there wasn't any reunion at any point and he knew that right from the beginning and now he's changing the story."

Metal-Rules.com: So he's the one who decided to change his mind?

Udo: "Exactly, he changed his mind. If he wants to, he can still do ACCEPT but with a different singer. [Laughs.]"

La vache, c'est du super anglais "petit nègre"... Pas tip top la transcription. En même temps, ils doivent reprendre mot pour mot ce qu'Udo a dit et comme j'avais lu quelque part que c'était une bille en anglais....

Bon, sinon, je n'attendais pas spécialement qu'Accept se reforme complètement, vu le fiasco des 2-3 derniers albums... Par contre un projet entre Wolf et Bach, ça peut le faire....

C'est clair que les 2 là, ça peut donner qq chose de sympa !

Putain oui, ça pourrait être énorme. (mais ça pourrait aussi être foireux s'ils se reposent trop sur leurs noms)
Et puis comme j'ai pas pu les voir cet été, un dvd d'Accept ça peut être cool aussi.

Je ne suis pas aussi enthousiaste que vous pour la raison suivante : les derniers Accept n'étaient pas bon niveau compo. Hors Bach n'est pas un compositeur mais seulement un interprète.
Il faudrait donc que Hoffman ait retrouvé quelque inspiration parce que ce n'est pas Bach qui va amener de la matière.

Oui mais on a envie d'y croire.

Je m'en fous je vais voir UDO à Paris en février, je prefère ça que Accept sans UDO. UDO va joué 2/3 d'accept et 1/3 ces meilleurs morceaux en solo, ça va être terrible.

Ouais mais Accept sans Wolf...
Je les ai vu au Graspop (si si ) et le frontman c'est pas Udo, c'est Wolf. Puis Head over Heels sans Peter...

UDO c'est meilleur que les derniers Accept mais en même temps c'est pas dur.

UDO sort des albums à la pelle mais il y a toujours au moins une ou deux tueries du niveau d'Accept dessus. Après c'est sur que c'est réservé au fans du canard, les autres écouteront Accept.

j'ai vu UDO 2 fois et c'etait excellent super ambiance et tout... sur les titres de accept... et le tout retombe avec les titres de UDO.

Il fait 2/3 de titres de accept il doit bien pouvoir s'appercevoir que tout le monde s'en fou de ses albums de UDO, qui sont passionants qu'en de rares opportunités. (mais ca arrive...)

Regardons les choses en face : le seul album de UDO vraiment passionnant de bout en bout est Animal House... qui a été écrit par les gars de accept...

Joc, tu dis que les 2/3 derniers accept ne sont pas bon ? Je dirais les 2 derniers (predator et death row). Car Objection Overruled est passionnant ! du pur Accept !

bref, même si je suis heureux d'avoir vu UDO, jaurais bien vu Accept quand meme moi...

Je dis les 2/3 derniers parce qu'ils sont généralement considérés comme moins bons.
Mais en fait, personellement, il n'y a que Predator que je n'aime pas du tout. Même sur Death Row y'a de bons trucs. Et Objection Overruled est un bon album d'Accept.

Pour moi Objection overruled ne vaut que pour le titre éponyme, "Amamos la vida" et "Just by my own", le meilleur instrumental du monde par le plus grand guitariste du monde.
Nuancé ? C'est quoi être nuancé ?

J'ai pas écouté animal house, mais j'ai le 2è "Mean machine". Je le trouve quasiment aussi bon qu'un album d'Accept, surtout comparé à un "balls to the walls" (pas mon préféré d'accept). Et puis l'avant dernier "thunderball" est trés sympa je trouve, quasiment tous les morceaux ont des refrains qui restent en tête.
Franchement si UDO joue ces meilleurs titres en solo, pour moi ça vaudra les compos d'Accept.

éh éh je crois que nos gouts en matiere de accept divergent : j'adore Balls to the Wall. Mean Machine, je le trouve parfois un peu FM. j'adore le FM, mais ce n'est pas ce que je veux entendre de UDO.

Ce qui me manque enormemment avce UDO ce sont les choeurs de Wolf.