AC/DC scheduled the ultimate 10 dates of their Rock or Bust World Tour in March 2016 on account of vocalist Brian Johnson‘s danger of listening to loss. The tour picked again up later that 12 months with Guns N’ Roses vocalist Axl Rose, although different vocalists had been in competitors for the spot.
One such vocalist was Jet vocalist Nic Cester – the man who sang “Are You Gonna Be My Lady” – as he not too long ago revealed on the Triple J present. Based on Cester, it began with a cellphone name shortly after seeing the information.
“I used to be staying with my in-laws and I obtained up within the morning and browse the paper and it stated that Brian Johnson was not within the band anymore,” stated Cester. “I bear in mind saying to my father-in-law, ‘Holy shit, you wouldn’t need to step into these footwear,’ and actually 20 minutes later my cellphone rang they usually’re saying, ‘Would you be serious about going to Atlanta, Georgia to audition and doubtlessly fill in for this subsequent spherical of dates that we have got?'”
“I used to be like, ‘I feel I will say sure only for the life expertise.’ I wasn’t actually anticipating to get the gig to be trustworthy however I assumed, ‘How may I flip this chance down?'”
Cester then talked a bit concerning the audition, saying that guitarist Angus Younger wasn’t settling for something lower than good. “They had been within the Black Crowes‘ rehearsal studio and it was a tiny place however they had been arrange there with the big backline and I bear in mind watching AC/DC and pondering, ‘There is no approach all of these amps are on.’ Let me let you know, they had been all fucking on! It was the loudest factor I would ever heard in my whole life.”
“Angus put me via my paces. All the things was a take a look at to see how I would deal with it – the quantity and him going, ‘OK, let’s do that tune’, and I did not know [some of them] off the highest of my head so he’d simply go, ‘Go over there and be taught it’ and the entire band can be ready there for ten minutes and I am simply going, ‘Oh fuck’. It was fairly intense, however I notice now Angus was a brilliant skilled man and he wished to push me to my absolute restrict to see how I might react.”
In case you wanna see Cester‘s abilities on an AC/DC tune, look no additional than his dwell cowl of “Again In Black” with Muse from 2010. It is fairly stable.
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