AC/DC w/ Axl Rose Retrospective | Axl/DC Review

In 2016, this polarizing match in rock n' roll heaven was born. AC/DC, in need of a replacement singer for Brian Johnson, connected with Axl Rose to front the band for its remaining shows of the Rock or Bust tour. In this video essay, I reflect on the shows with Axl, the lead-up and backstory behind it all.
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[@Leonardo2003]

AXL/DC was EPIC

[@marinadiamondz]

Axl/DC was one of the thing that I can't believe it happened until this day... it was like a fever dream

[@colleenmiller242]

Wow. Amazing video!

[@ROCKAVILLE]

AXL F'N ROSE 🎶

[@BXtremP]

What a great video, and a great channel. I recognize myself a lot in your tastes and statement, mostly because Guns N Roses is just my fav rock band, despite being born after they split up. So you can imagine, as I'm sure you did, the joy of them reuniting, eventhough I really wish they'd put all of their beefs behind them, and actually would have done a real reunion, with Steven and Izzy. When I've heard Axl was to replace Brian for the ACDC tour, I was hell of proud of him, knowing the guy and the band history (even red Slash's book), I could imagine that his life was truly turning for the best at that time, stepoing up for one of his idol band, living a dream, and putting back his old crew to revive Guns N Roses, he must have been thrilled and honnestly you can feel he's in a much better place, more relaxed, chill and diligent than what he used to be, or at least what he was critisized for in the past by people simply not knowing the guy, his mindset, traumas and impulsive reactions. Anyway, I really, really, really wanted to attend the Marseille Axl DC show, but life decided to fist me, and it turned out the show was on the day of my final exam, the last of a long list ending a 2 years course I was attending. I couldn't fuck this up, and I couldn't physically do the exam and then attend the show, as I was a good 5 hours away by car. But seeing how freaking good he sounded on KZbin, and what an absolute beast he was again, I just promised myself, no matter the cost, to go see GnR, and so I did a year later, booked 3 tickets, brang my brothers with me, and we drove to Paris to see them. Best fucking show of my life, best fucking night of my life, what a blast, to see my idols there, few feet away from me. Since it was the beginning of the tour, Axl's voice was quite alright, he wasn't all washed up by 2 years of touring like he did later, and had still a bit of that ACDC energy left in him, so it was amazing. Now, well... the man is 60, he has nothing to prove to anyone, anymore. He was the bigger man concerning Guns N Roses, and he has made rock'n'roll history for nearly 40 years. So I guess, we just can be happy he's still arround doing what he loves. After all, he's one of the greatest front man in Rock history.

[@legendodinson7082]

Wish I could have seen one of those shows

[@Seacai150]

I thought it was gonna suck so I didn’t even attempt to go. Axl has really worked on himself in so many ways this past decade. He nailed the songs, I wish I would’ve went.

[@WestCoastStruttin99]

Hopefully they one day release a pro shot show from that tour for history’s sake

[@DylanRichardBets]

Epic. Legendary. What a time

[@bakulaw63]

BON FOREVER.

[@onurfuck]

Perfect video. New sub

[@WestCoastStruttin99]

Thanks dawg

[@lucasbrown4186]

I was so pumped to see them for the first time back in 2015 on this tour but the news of brian’s hearing came out just a day before. I do really like guns n’ roses don’t get me wrong, but for me brian is a huge part of that AC/DC sound so i ended up skipping out on Axl/DC. Fast forward to today and I now have tickets for power trip so fingers crossed they pull off a great show 🤞🏻

[@WestCoastStruttin99]

I hope you have a killer time at Power Trip!

[@user-bd5iw7sx2w]

And that's what really caused his voice loss went downhill from there.

[@WestCoastStruttin99]

Yep he threw his last heymaker at AXLDC