Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd is making a video in Tauranga to coincide with the re-release of his solo album, Head Job, reports Annemarie Quill from Bay Of Plenty Times. A newly released rehearsal clip can be seen below.

Joining Rudd on Head Job are Kiwi musicians Allan Badger of Rotorua and Geoffrey Martin of Auckland. The pair will spend the next few weeks with Rudd, who has already dined them in his waterfront restaurant Phil's Place, taken them for a spin in the Ferrari and flown them for an aerial tour of the Bay in his own helicopter.

Rudd's Rotorua-based girlfriend, fashion and wedding photographer, Michelle Cutelli is accompanying them and is playing a key role in the record promotion and video. Further details can be found at this location.

Late last month, former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was continuing to recover from a recent heart attack and doctors had advised him not to embark on the promo trail for the re-release of his debut album Head Job quite yet. According to a press release, he is making a really good recovery and in his words he feels "twenty years younger and 100% better.”

Head Job saw a re-release on September 30th via Wave 365 Media.

Described by Malcolm Young, co-founder of AC/DC, as "the real deal", Phil Rudd the band's long term drummer, played in several Melbourne bands such as Buster Brown and The Coloured Balls before joining up with the rock giants in 1975.

Rudd powered the band to superstardom with his dogged consistency and unshakeable backbeat on classics like “It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock ’N’ Roll)”, “TNT” and “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”, becoming an indelible part of AC/DC history.

Rudd has appeared on all but three of AC/DC’s 18 studio albums, which have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. When the blockbusting album Highway To Hell went multi-platinum worldwide, Rudd said he ‘‘went straight down the road to buy my first Ferrari’’ sparking a lifelong love of luxury cars. Rudd showcased eleven of his luxury cars in Christchurch, New Zealand as part of an earthquake appeal fundraiser, his current collection includes a rare 1991 Ferrari F40, a brand new Ferrari 599, two Lamborghinis, a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost, 2011 Bentley Mulsanne and Bentley super sport, Audi R8 V10, a 2011 Aston Martin DBS and 2010 Mercedes SLS AMG. The cars have a combined worth of approximately $3m. Rudd’s airport hangar is also home to his MD 520N helicopter.

With the lavish rock star lifestyle firmly in place, Phil Rudd recorded and released his first debut album, Head Job, with Kiwi musicians Allan Badger and Geoffrey Martin in 2014. The album was released via Universal Music Group in Australia and New Zealand but further promotional plans were scuppered by well publicised legal problems in New Zealand.

Rudd served an eight month home detention sentence which thwarted the 2014 release of Head Job but 2016 sees him determined to leave his problems in the past. He has embraced a more positive lifestyle and says his "hell raising days are over... I see a psychiatrist once a week and I'm closer than ever to my children. I still have all my flash cars but now I want to grow chillies".

Head Job tracklisting:

"Head Job"
"Sun Goes Down"
"Lonely Child"
"Lost In America"
"Crazy"
"Bad Move"
"No Right"
"The Other Side"
"Forty Days"
"Repo Man"
"When I Get My Hands On You"

"Repo Man" lyric video: