set by 333 pipers in Bulgaria<\/a> in 2012. The U.K.\u2019s better known Guinness World Records, which confirmed the Bulgarian record, told The Associated Press that it hadn\u2019t been approached to assess the Melbourne record attempt.<\/p>\nMany of the enthusiastic spectators wore AC\/DC T-shirts. Asked from the stage who among them were going to the concert afterward, many hands went up.<\/p>\n
One AC\/DC fan who did not see the record set was Keegan Kohler, 23, a self-employed electrician from Columbus, Ohio. He had been waiting outside the concert stadium since 4:50 a.m. to ensure he\u2019d be first in when the gates opened at 5 p.m. The bagpipes record was set nearby at 5:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
Kohler had seen AC\/DC perform their \u201cPower Up Tour\u201d this year in Cleveland, Washington, D.C., Detroit and Pittsburgh, but expected the experience to be better in the band\u2019s home country. He was seeing two shows in Melbourne and one in the band\u2019s hometown of Sydney.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Aussie crowds are going to be way better than the U.S.,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be more eventful, more head banging, more excitement with the crowds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kohler also reacquainted himself outside the stadium with Stephen Scott, from Charlotte, North Carolina. The pair first met in a line outside an AC\/DC concert in Detroit.<\/p>\n
Scott, a 33-year-old real estate agent, has seen the current tour multiple times in Europe as well as the United States and wanted to see the band perform in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always talked about wanting to see them here. This is the first opportunity really to do it and maybe the last,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n
His fianc\u00e9e, Amber Thompson, a 31-year-old artist, said it was Scott\u2019s idea to travel 10,000 miles for the concert.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy it, but I probably wouldn\u2019t be here if I didn\u2019t know him,\u201d she said, referring to Scott, whom she described as the true fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having been declared world record holders, the massed pipers played \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d on request, followed by an impromptu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-133148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}