More bad news for AC/DC

[gweimer]

Proving that Neil Young was right....it IS better to burn out than fade away.

[nofi]

 

[66Atlas]

10 Things I would rather do than see AC/DC with Axl Rose:

Have a root canal performed without novocaine.
Sit through a weekend long tv marathon involving Kardashians.
Colonoscopy.
Take a trip on the unsinkable Titanic.
Take a job as the website administrator of "Goop"
Trade all Gibsons for Fenders.
Join a Poison tribute band.
Visit a nude beach populated with only members of the US congress.
Go vegan.
Clean out the inside of a sewage pumping truck.

[Basvarken]

I'll make it easy for you 

[66Atlas]

Thank you Rob for for giving me a reason to pour bleach in my eyes 

[westen44]

That was painful to listen to.  I couldn't get through all of it. 

[Highlander]

Nothing to see... move along...

[uwe]

The AC/DC concert goers shall decide.

I don't think Axl needed the money, was it a childhood dream come true for him? A lot of those lyrics he will probably find pretty naff singing. Actually, going out to do this when you are in the beginnings of a GnR reunion and aren't pressed financially, takes some guts. Either Axl is a brave man or blind with conceit. Probably both.

Having seen ACnRoses twice with Bon Scott and once with Brian Johnson, I might be tempted to go now just for the curiosity factor.

[Lightyear]

I've seen AC/DC twice - the first time was Bon's last tour and the second was the Back in Black tour.  No comparison.  Bon's show was in the Houston Music hall where the symphony and such performed - small place, excellent acoustics, loud as all hell and damn near life changing    The BnB show as very good but, seriously, no one can touch Bon.

[Dave W]

The AC/DC concert goers shall decide.

Yes. If it's really terrible, word will travel quickly.

The BnB show as very good but, seriously, no one can touch Bon.

Absolutely agree about Bon. I could never have sat through a Brian Johnson gig. But Axl? I just can't see it.

[wellREDman]

Uwe i think your childhood dream theory is probably on the money, legend has it that Whole Lotta Rosie and Mama Kin were the two songs G'n'R  jammed out when they first got together.

Axl is a dick, and can sound like a strangled cat when he doesn't get his particular screaming schitck hooked up properly, but when he's on form he does have an impressive range and power, someone on another forum suggested that he may make a better fist of the Bon Scott songs that Mr Johnson did. controversial, but we'll wait to see what the jury(audience) decides

[uwe]

Any band with an ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band/Uriah Heep/Gary Moore/Asia-drummer, an ex-Home/Al Stewart-bassist, the singer of GnR and two Australian guitarists with an ill dress sense that really haven't done anything noteworthy in other bands outside of AX/DC is bound to be interesting at least. You couldn't have made it up. I wonder if Angus is now practicing the Sweet Child of Mine-intro?

I predicted Chris Slade, I did not predict Axl. 

If he poaches Chris Slade for GnR, some good might come out of all this! 

It's not any more incongruous than Ian Gillan joining Sabbath (and that spawned at least one album that is among both my favourite Sab- and Gillan-outside-of-DP-albums) or Todd Rundgren trying to be Ric Ocasek with the Cars (that spawned nothing noteworthy).

The more I think about it, the more I really have to tip my hat to Axl - he stands a lot to lose with this and very little to gain (except money he doesn't really need). The man is used to either being (at least) the front man of vintage GnR or (even) the solo star of modern day GnR (pre-reunion), he's done nothing else for the last 30 years. And now goes out with a band with two millstones round his neck (Bon Scott's nostaligia-bathed eternal status and Brian Johnson's workmanlike, but reliable 35 years of belting it out in stadiums worldwide for the Young brothers). Any singer with AC/DC is the sideman of the Young brothers, i.e. today of Angus, that's gonna be some change for the kid from Indiana. Daunting.

[Basvarken]

"Some nights, for fun, we're going to switch the bands. AC/DC will play Guns N' Roses songs and Guns N' Roses will play AC/DC songs. Of course, I will still be on stage both sets so the fans don't miss out on seeing the greatest singer, musician, and visionary of all time!" Axl said during the special interview.

[uwe]

You shouldn't be too offended, Robby, lest it was in jest!

[Basvarken]

since when does Axl have humor?