During a recent interview with the Guns N’ Roses-centric “Appetite for Distortion” podcast, guitarist Scott Ian (Anthrax) praised Axl Rose saying he ”crushed it” singing along with AC/DC.
See below what Ian said:
“That Axl/DC show, it was fantastic, because I just thought he nailed [late AC/DC singer] Bon [Scott]. He nailed it, he nails Bon and Brian. And his joy as a fan of that band… ‘Cause I don’t know Axl, other than having said ‘hi’ to him a couple of times over the decades, I don’t know him.
”I think I hung out with him, kind of, one time in the ’90s at a bar in New York, but other than a, ‘Hey, how are you…’ But I’ve always been a fan of certainly ”Appetite [Of Destruction]” and that record. And I’ve always known he’s an AC/DC fan, ’cause he talks about it.
”Axl crushed it. And boy, his fanboyness came out so strong on that stage, you could tell how happy he was to be fronting one of his favorite bands of all time. And not only did he do it justice, but it just couldn’t have been… Other than Bon coming back from the dead and a zombie walking out onto that stage, it couldn’t have been better. I mean, he nailed it, he f*cking nailed it. He took a backseat to Angus [Young].
”It was just so respectful. The fact that between songs, it was, like, ”You probably know this next one,’ and then they bust into ”Highway To Hell”. It’s just, like, ‘Jesus Christ.’ Everything about it was great. It was two and a half hours of headbanging, just non-stop. A fabulous, fantastic show.”