Axl Rose tipped as new AC/DC frontman
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GNR4LIFE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfrj1z7q3YI
He nailed it imo. His voice was always going to be compatible with their music given how similar his voice is to Johnson's.
He nailed it imo. His voice was always going to be compatible with their music given how similar his voice is to Johnson's.
Fade_To_Black
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It just sounded like a bad cover band you would find at your local. Wouldn't be paying to go hear that.
Why was the tosser sitting down while singing for?
Why was the tosser sitting down while singing for?
GNR4LIFE
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@Fade To Black said:
Broken ankle
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKmrDtxJsI
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Wouldn't be surprised to see him make an album with them, and a proper tour, where Angus hangs up his uniform afterwards. Might have to go see AC/DC afterall.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=462uMHi0mgI
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@GNR4LIFE said:
Yeah that makes sense. Its like hanging out to see the Beatles because they have replaced Paul McCartney with Justin Bieber :master:
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@Fade To Black said:
Never cared much for AC/DC to be honest. And GnR have been my favourite band since i was 3 yrs old. Of course it makes sense.
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Good luck with that then.
GNR4LIFE
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@Fade To Black said:
You don't stand in line at Maccas craving a big mac and get outraged cos the person in front of you orders a McChicken do you? :laughing:
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Waiting to go and see an AC/DC concert just because Rose is singing is like going to a flash restaurant and ordering a sausage roll.
Let me get this right, you don't care for AC/DC music but you would go and see them anyway because they have now got a 3rd -stringer singing for them? Bit strange IMO.
Let me get this right, you don't care for AC/DC music but you would go and see them anyway because they have now got a 3rd -stringer singing for them? Bit strange IMO.
GNR4LIFE
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That's your opinion isn't it. The thing is, i know the guy is hated and i can understand why he's hated, but i don't spend hours defending him against the hate and why people are wrong. That's their business, to each their own as they say.
I'm going to see Steel Panther and The Cure in the next couple months. It would be like getting sarcastic for seeing them too if you don't like them. There are probably bands that you'd pay to see that i wouldn't see for free. People's tastes are different, there's no right or wrong. If it was we'd be Nazi's.
GNR4LIFE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS79xUdAgiE
Reading through the comments, it sounds like the new line up is a hit.
Reading through the comments, it sounds like the new line up is a hit.
GNR4LIFE
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AC/DC couldn’t really have handled the departure of their singer Brian Johnson much worse – a curt statement on their website announcing he could no longer tour owing to hearing loss, and their intention to continue with a stand-in – short of announcing a compulsory redundancy programme for all Florida-resident geordies with a penchant for caps. Their fanbase, normally unquestioningly loyal, reacted with unexpected irritation: refunds for upcoming shows were demanded (and given), and many – me included – questioned whether they should continue at all.
When they announced that Johnson’s short-term replacement would be Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose – a man for whom reliability is not a byword – eyebrows were further raised. Given AC/DC’s legendary efficiency, and Rose’s equally legendary tardiness in taking the stage, it seemed like it could be a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. And then Rose broke a metatarsal, meaning he would be chairbound on stage. AC/DC, a band who care what people think of them rather less than anyone except, perhaps, Donald Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon, evidently decided in the wake of all these disasters that they needed to win people back. And so, for this first show with Rose, writers – the Guardian included – have been flown in to Portugal as the band attempt to prove they are still a worthwhile concern, even with guitarist Angus Young and bassist Cliff Williams the only remaining core members.
Rose’s arrival makes this show the first AC/DC gig in years – certainly since Johnson replaced the late Bon Scott in 1980 – at which no one knows exactly what to expect. Its triumph is that it does do exactly what one would expect, but rather better than one had dared hope for. Rose being confined to his throne on casters – he looks for all the world like a hard rock Davros – is a rare downside to his performance.
The triumph lies in the renditions of the songs AC/DC wrote and recorded when Bon Scott was still alive. Whereas the Johnson era material tended towards boozy bonhomie, Scott was often a malevolently misanthropic writer and singer, concealing a slightly terrifying rage behind apparent good humour. Rose, who is familiar with both malevolence and misanthropy, delivers those songs perfectly, giving them fresh menace. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap loses its cartoonish aspect, and becomes the barroom chatter of a psychopath; he introduces Shot Down in Flames as “the story of my life” and convinces you it’s true. His voice, too, is brilliant: no matter how high, every note is hit, and sustained. And he keeps it up for two hours.
He seems more relaxed on the Scott songs, perhaps because of the manner of his replacing Johnson. Johnson’s songs are delivered just fine, but there’s a slight sense he’s being a little too reverent. He’s spoken of wanting to do justice to Johnson’s work, and maybe he’s concerned with not imprinting his own personality over the songs. That’s true, too, of his rapport with the crowd. Johnson was unfailingly good humoured – not much of an anecdote teller, but ready to rouse the rabble. Rose confines himself to a few softly spoken words between songs and a few all-but-inaudible thank yous afterwards. For this show, with this much at stake, you expect him to be the cheerleader for AC/DC, but he refuses to take the role.
Nevertheless, he compensates for the sometimes erratic sound – a fierce wind blowing off the Tagus following a day of horrendous rain bashes the music hither and thither – and perhaps even inadvertently outshines Young, who sounds a tiny bit approximate in the fiddly intro to Thunderstruck. For AC/DC Kremlinologists, though, the telling moments come with the incorporation of two songs from the 1978 album Powerage that been out of live circulation for a long while, Rock’n’Roll Damnation and a thrillingly brutal Riff Raff. “I never shot nobody / Don’t even carry a gun,” Rose snarls, with complete conviction. “I ain’t done nothing wrong / Just having fun.”
Carry on like this, and those wondering whether AC/DC are still worth going to see this summer should have no worries: they, too, will be having fun.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/acdc-review-axl-rose-lisbon-first-gig
When they announced that Johnson’s short-term replacement would be Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose – a man for whom reliability is not a byword – eyebrows were further raised. Given AC/DC’s legendary efficiency, and Rose’s equally legendary tardiness in taking the stage, it seemed like it could be a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. And then Rose broke a metatarsal, meaning he would be chairbound on stage. AC/DC, a band who care what people think of them rather less than anyone except, perhaps, Donald Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon, evidently decided in the wake of all these disasters that they needed to win people back. And so, for this first show with Rose, writers – the Guardian included – have been flown in to Portugal as the band attempt to prove they are still a worthwhile concern, even with guitarist Angus Young and bassist Cliff Williams the only remaining core members.
Rose’s arrival makes this show the first AC/DC gig in years – certainly since Johnson replaced the late Bon Scott in 1980 – at which no one knows exactly what to expect. Its triumph is that it does do exactly what one would expect, but rather better than one had dared hope for. Rose being confined to his throne on casters – he looks for all the world like a hard rock Davros – is a rare downside to his performance.
The triumph lies in the renditions of the songs AC/DC wrote and recorded when Bon Scott was still alive. Whereas the Johnson era material tended towards boozy bonhomie, Scott was often a malevolently misanthropic writer and singer, concealing a slightly terrifying rage behind apparent good humour. Rose, who is familiar with both malevolence and misanthropy, delivers those songs perfectly, giving them fresh menace. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap loses its cartoonish aspect, and becomes the barroom chatter of a psychopath; he introduces Shot Down in Flames as “the story of my life” and convinces you it’s true. His voice, too, is brilliant: no matter how high, every note is hit, and sustained. And he keeps it up for two hours.
He seems more relaxed on the Scott songs, perhaps because of the manner of his replacing Johnson. Johnson’s songs are delivered just fine, but there’s a slight sense he’s being a little too reverent. He’s spoken of wanting to do justice to Johnson’s work, and maybe he’s concerned with not imprinting his own personality over the songs. That’s true, too, of his rapport with the crowd. Johnson was unfailingly good humoured – not much of an anecdote teller, but ready to rouse the rabble. Rose confines himself to a few softly spoken words between songs and a few all-but-inaudible thank yous afterwards. For this show, with this much at stake, you expect him to be the cheerleader for AC/DC, but he refuses to take the role.
Nevertheless, he compensates for the sometimes erratic sound – a fierce wind blowing off the Tagus following a day of horrendous rain bashes the music hither and thither – and perhaps even inadvertently outshines Young, who sounds a tiny bit approximate in the fiddly intro to Thunderstruck. For AC/DC Kremlinologists, though, the telling moments come with the incorporation of two songs from the 1978 album Powerage that been out of live circulation for a long while, Rock’n’Roll Damnation and a thrillingly brutal Riff Raff. “I never shot nobody / Don’t even carry a gun,” Rose snarls, with complete conviction. “I ain’t done nothing wrong / Just having fun.”
Carry on like this, and those wondering whether AC/DC are still worth going to see this summer should have no worries: they, too, will be having fun.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/acdc-review-axl-rose-lisbon-first-gig
Fade_To_Black
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So AC/DC flew writers in from over the world for an all-expenses-paid trip to attend their concert and do a review? Yep, that would be an unbiased opinion then :unamused:
Sounded pretty poor in the YouTube clip IMO. Each to their own I guess. Couldn't really imagine hardcore AC/DC fans taking a shine to Axl and his diva behaviour- no wonder they wanted refunds.
Sounded pretty poor in the YouTube clip IMO. Each to their own I guess. Couldn't really imagine hardcore AC/DC fans taking a shine to Axl and his diva behaviour- no wonder they wanted refunds.
GNR4LIFE
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@Fade To Black said:
Lol you're trying way too hard. I've read 4 or 5 positive reviews, plus the majority of comments I've read liked it. It's quite clear you pre-conditioned yourself to hate it no matter what and to be a wet blanket about it. That's your right though I guess so good luck to you.
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Sounded ordinary. If it sounded great I'd say it sounded great. The freak show factor that Axl brings to the table would probably help in selling tickets to people who are not really AC/DC fans.
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