Guns N’ Roses and AC/DC have been tied together in several ways in recent years. GNR singer Axl Rose famously filled in for AC/DC’s Brian Johnson when Johnson suffered hearing problems on the band’s “Rock Or Bust” world tour.
AC/DC guitarist Angus Young has also guested on stage several times with Guns N’ Roses, and Johnson recently appeared on Slash’s blues albums, “Orgy of the Damned.”
During a recent appearance on Matt Pinfield’s “New & Approved” show on 95.5 KLOS, Slash talked about AC/DC and revealed his favorite albums from the band. “’Powerage’, still probably one of my favorite AC/DC records,” Slash said. “But at the time when I got into ’em, the record that came out was ‘Highway to Hell’. And that’s how I became familiar with them. Because of that record, I heard ‘Powerage’, and I was like, ‘Whoa, this record.’ That was, really, that got me into the whole AC/DC catalog. And then Bon Scott died. And that was just… It was, like, ‘I just got into these guys.’ And then really in pretty quick succession, Brian came into it. One of the biggest years for metal in the ’80s was 1980, and you had ‘Back In Black’ come out and then you had Ozzy’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ come out and all that. And Sabbath’s ‘Heaven And Hell’. It was a huge, huge year for rock.”
Slash continued: ‘”Down Payment Blues’ was the song that really stuck with me. It’s still, to this day, one of my favorite all-time rock ‘n’ roll songs.”
Slash’s full interview can be viewed below.
