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Is AC/DC’s still-unconfirmed hookup with Axl Rose messing with your head? I’m feeling pretty good about it, though some of the math confuses me.

Let’s assume it’s actually going to happen.

Axl Rose will do an excellent job fronting the band; he is a gifted and almost historically charismatic vocalist whose skills have not significantly dimmed with time. Now, in purely musical terms he might not be the ideal singer for AC/DC and their grinding, stuttering, riffing, rasping and grimacing material. Both Brian Johnson and Bon Scott had a chesty bottom to their strangulated yelp that Axl lacks, and when/if you hear those AC/DC classics without that distinctive mixture of cat-yowl and dog-woof that both Johnson and Scott excelled in, you’ll hear how odd it sounds (which is not a criticism of Axl—he has a pure and bold high-end, somewhere between a tenor sax and an air-raid siren, that any singer would envy).

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