Being in one of the biggest and greatest bands in the world doesn’t keep you at arm’s length from the law. That’s what AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd found out this week when a New Zealand Magistrate convicted him of possessing a bit of whacky baccy. Robyn Paterson, clearly unimpressed with him taking a path down the highway to hell, said “It was not just an accident,” in her address to the court.”You were blindly ignoring the law. You have been playing Russian roulette.”
Apparently cops found 25 grams on the dock near his boat in Tauringa, New Zealand, as well as two further grams on the boat itself. Rudd’s lawyer argued that his role in AC/DC contributed much to the community, but it could spell trouble for Rudd, who has been exiled from the band before. It will make it difficult for him to enter the US where he will have to declare that he is a convicted drug offender, and the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, who effectively run AC/DC, have shown they can be ruthless with band members who don’t benefit them in the past.
