Axl confirmed as new singer for AC/DC tour (June 1, 2016: US dates announced)

[MrMojoRa]

AxL/DC [AC/DC+Axl Rose] @Lisboa 05 07 2016 | FULL CONCERT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS79xUdAgiE

 

This is the feed I watched the entire concert. BIG thanks to that woman, whomever she is!!

[HBK]

AxL/DC [AC/DC+Axl Rose] @Lisboa 05 07 2016 | FULL CONCERT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS79xUdAgiE

 

This is the feed I watched the entire concert. BIG thanks to that woman, whomever she is!!

https://www.facebook.com/acdc



Ac/Dc Haters

 

[HBK]

https://www.facebook.com/acdc/videos/10154137145512930/

 

[Skunk]

AC/DC review ? Axl Rose brings menace as rock legends pull off a triumph

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/acdc-review-axl-rose-lisbon-first-gig?CMP=twt_a-music_b-gdnmusic

[SkeletorSerpent]

AC/DC review ? Axl Rose brings menace as rock legends pull off a triumph

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/acdc-review-axl-rose-lisbon-first-gig?CMP=twt_a-music_b-gdnmusic

Hell, yeah! Nice.

And coming from The Guardian who have been very hard on Axl in years past.
Rock on Axl!

[Spirit]

Pro-shot clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MWMUJenwHo

[adman2374]

The MAN CRUSHED it! AC/DC should be very thankful!!!

[Wooody]

Best quality of rock or bust Ive heard : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI91KyUaFnY

[D]

Axl's voice is better than Prime 80's Early 90's. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Journeyman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OSKJ516Pv0&feature=youtu.be

This is the first one I upload. I have more, and I will post them tomorrow if you're interested.

It was an intense, magic and powerful gig. Axl pulls this through better than Johnson imo. And as Spirit predicted I think he is now officially immortal! 

[adman2374]

yes , please..

dirty deeds
thunderstruck
For those about to Rock...
TNT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OSKJ516Pv0&feature=youtu.be

This is the first one I upload. I have more, and I will post them tomorrow if you're interested.

It was an intense, magic and powerful gig. Axl pulls this through better than Johnson imo. And as Spirit predicted I think he is now officially immortal! 

[Spirit]

I think we are looking at a case where it will be hard for Angus and AC/DC to let Axl go.

Axl won't say no to continue. Maybe GNR and AC/DC needs to coordinate for years to come.

[lipeguns]

Dirty...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3LpQvGHdzA

[Journeyman]

I think we are looking at a case where it will be hard for Angus and AC/DC to let Axl go.

Axl won't say no to continue. Maybe GNR and AC/DC needs to coordinate for years to come.

I thought the same thing coming home from the gig. It may be possible that this is a "marriage" to continue in the next few years...

[Journeyman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sf5wl6mfLo&feature=youtu.be

In the meantime here it is a second video. Tomorrow there will be more.

Awesome times my friends!

[Bazfreak]

ACDC got full rasp...on GNR concerts he used rasp on some songs but not the whole show. Do you guys think that Paradise City is a tougher song for him to sing than Back in Black?? Im no singer but for me Back in Black sounds way harder...so why we have "mickey" Paradise City? Isn't he able to deliver a similar performance?? I'm starting to think that he intentionally spare his voice on GNR shows...with ACDC he must "prove" to everybody that he can nail it so he gives 100%!

[ericy210]

The Guardian-

AC/DC review ? Axl Rose brings menace as rock legends pull off a triumph
5 / 5 stars
   
The Guns N? Roses singer might have been confined to a ?throne?, but he delivered a masterly first appearance fronting AC/DC
 Whole Lotta Rosey ? Axl Rose and Angus Young onstage in Lisbon
 Whole Lotta Rosey ? Axl Rose and Angus Young onstage in Lisbon Photograph: Armando Franca/AP
Michael Hann
@michaelahann
Saturday 7 May 2016 20.52 EDT Last modified on Saturday 7 May 2016 22.08 EDT

Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+
Shares
244
Comments
25  Save for later
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.


Axl Rose determined to 'do justice' to Brian Johnson with AC/DC shows
 Read more
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, 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.

Advertisement

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.


AC/DC's Brian Johnson: hearing loss diagnosis was darkest day of my career
 Read more
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.

[Wooody]

ACDC got full rasp...on GNR concerts he used rasp on some songs but not the whole show. Do you guys think that Paradise City is a tougher song for him to sing than Back in Black?? Im no singer but for me Back in Black sounds way harder...so why we have "mickey" Paradise City? Isn't he able to deliver a similar performance?? I'm starting to think that he intentionally spare his voice on GNR shows...with ACDC he must "prove" to everybody that he can nail it so he gives 100%!

I think paradise city is higher pitch though..

[EmilyGNR]

Review from Team Rock-


Tonight in Lisbon, Axl Rose played his first show with AC/DC, and Classic Rock were there to make sense of it all. Was the choice of rock's most controversial frontman a schoolboy error?

Axl Rose is sitting. It's not the Grohl throne borrowed for Coachella, more an La-Z-Boy Recliner with an elevated platform for his injured foot and a side table for drinks. Were it not for the lightning bolt adorning the underside of his medical boot you might think he was about to binge on House Of Cards rather than spend two hours fronting the world's greatest rock'n'roll band, and it doesn't look right. But that's not all. He's on time.

Then again, AC/DC are a band who've never pissed about. Back in 1980, after Bon Scott was pronounced dead on arrival at a South London hospital, the Young brothers briefly considered calling it quits before hiring his replacement, and just seven weeks later Brian Johnson was in the Bahamas recording Back In Black and working on his tan. The AC/DC machine did what the AC/DC does: it rolled on.

You wonder what modern social media would have made of a transition that, from this distance, seems to have been made with almost indecent haste. Accusations of greed and lack of respect would certainly have flown.

The very public apoplexy that's greeted the arrival of Brian Johnson's stand-in does offer some clues, although the situations are clearly different. Johnson is very much with us ? although his departure has been handled undoubtedly badly ? and the new guy isn't a loveable geezer in a flat cap only familiar to those who saw Geordie play Electric Lady on Top Of The Pops in 1973, but Axl Rose. Axl fucking Rose.

It's the guy with the bandana, shrieked the Twittersphere. The guy in the kilt. The guy with the corn-rows. The guy who turns up late and throws tantrums. The guy with the whiney voice. The guy who ruined Guns N' Roses. That guy.

Then came the video. Angus, Axl and Cliff. Reluctantly, uncomfortably facing the camera, clearly operating in damage limitation mode, inviting fans to Lisbon. It's excruciating viewing, but it's the moment it all becomes real. One of the biggest bands this world has ever known are about to hit the stage fronted by the singer from one of the biggest bands this world has ever known. In an industry that thrives on hyperbole it's genuinely historic, and no-one has any idea what to expect. It might be wretched. It might be electrifying. And 50,000 fans in Portugal are the first to find out.

"It's turned into a beautiful sunny day suddenly," says Axl Rose, the singer in AC/DC. "Nice to meet you!"

As introductions go it's hardly Welcome To The Jungle, but he does have a point. For most of the day the wind has howled and the rain fallen sideways, and the back half of the Passeio Mar?timo de Alg?s venue ? a grass and concrete lot on the banks of the Tagus River, just west of Lisbon ? has been turned into slurry. But the sun pokes through as a well-received set from Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown warms up the crowd, and by the time AC/DC hit the stage the audience has stopped huddling together for warmth like penguins at the Pole and is very apparently Ready To Rock.

And Axl? To use the parlance of TV talent shows, he nails the songs. From the opening Rock Or Bust it's obvious he can "do" Beano. He follows it up with a searing Shoot To Thrill, before a swaggering, confident romp through Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be shows he can "do" Bon too. By the end of High Voltage his good foot is pumping up and down like a jackhammer as he flips the mic from one hand to another, and as Hells Bells climaxes he's screaming so hard your fear his throat might explode through the top of his leather-hatted head. He even ad-libs, dropping "Portuguese thighs" into You Shook Me All Night Long. It's an astonishing, tour-de-force performance, and he looks like he's genuinely having fun.

AC/DC are sounding just like AC/DC. As they should. Cliff and Chris and Stevie provide the engine, Angus spins and pirouettes and duckwalks and does that curious shuffle and gurns like a man with a mouth full of rancid treacle, and everything comes together as it should. The only odd thing is how chatty Axl is. He introduces Back In Black with "You ready to turn it up? Here we go now!" and ends it with an insouciant "Woohoo! That was a fun one!" Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is "a little ditty about how to take care of business." Let There Be Rock? "We're gonna get a little bit biblical on you."

Axl's also clearly spent recent weeks pummelling Angus for trivia with fanboy enthusiasm. He tells us that AC/DC are the world's biggest exporter of devils horns. He reveals that early in their career, the band's American record company hired a plane to fly past one of their outdoor shows trailing a banner reading, "Play Rock 'N' Roll Damnation," because it was doing well at radio but wasn't in their set. It's at these moments that it feels most like a tribute show, with an excited fan thrust into the spotlight, but the stories are told with such obvious delight you can't help but be charmed. And if the evening couldn't get any more bewildering, a chant of "Axl! Axl!" rises from the crowd, but he corrects the unruly mob with a modest, "you mean Angus." We even get surprises, with Riff Raff the unexpected meat in the traditional Highway To Hell/For Those About To Rock encore sandwich.

So what the hell is going on? Is this a new, humble Axl, about to unexpectedly breath life into an ageing band while working angles on his own redemption? On this showing, it really feels like it could work.

And he did it from a chair.

[Wooody]

I wish the original recordings of the rehearsals where released in some form?