Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash was recently asked by Q104.3 New York for his thoughts on Axl Rose singing for AC/DC, to which he replied (via Blabbermouth):
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“I went to one of those shows, and it was phenomenal. One of the first things he said was – he had a way of doing it where it wasn’t taxing on his voice. I was in awe of the whole thing.
“He definitely had a way of doing it that it wasn’t killing him every night. It’s hard to come back from that if you’re not doing it right, and as soon as he came back from the AC/DC tour, he went straight into Guns N’ Roses and it was seamless.”
Focusing on Guns N’ Roses, Slash said about the band’s upcoming November tour dates:
“That’s it for the ‘Not in This Lifetime’ tour. Then I’m going go back out with The Conspirators, and we’re going to do a whole world run over the next year. We’ll see what happens with Guns, the next cycle.”
Have you guys started working on any new material?
“We haven’t gone there. We’ve been so busy on the road this entire time. We’ll just see what happens as it happens.”
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Slash also talked about GN’R’s latest single – the unreleased 1986 Mike Clink studio recording of “Shadow of Your Love” – saying:
“The [first] Guns N’ Roses lineup – the ‘Appetite for Destruction’ lineup – that was one of the first songs that we played, and we played that and a handful of other songs live at our first gigs.
“As this lineup started writing new material, it sort of slowly but surely got phased out. We didn’t play it again for a while, and then when we were looking for producers and met Mike Clink, we wanted to go and record a song with him before we signed on to do a whole album.
“‘Shadow Of Your Love’ was the song that we picked. That version you’re hearing now is that demo from back then. I think we just grew out of it, but now, it’s a lot of fun. This last European tour we just did, we put it in the set, and it’s a blast.
“There’s something really cool about having a song like that that you haven’t played in fuckin’ 30 years, and then all of a sudden, it’s out on the radio, and you get to go back and start playing it. It’s got a cool, cool attitude. It’s pretty kinetic.”