AC/DC's final rehearsal with Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose for the band's upcoming European tour took place on May 4th in Lisbon, Portugal. Footage of Rose meeting with fans after the rehearsal can be viewed below.

AC/DC European Tour Dates (with Axl Rose):

May
7 - Lisbon, Portugal - Passeio Maritimo De Alges
10 - Seville, Spain - Estadio De La Cartuja
13 - Marseille, France - Stade Velodrome
16 - Werchter, Belgium - Werchter Site
19 - Vienna, Austria - Erns-Happel Stadium
22 - Prague, Czech Republic - Letnany Airport
26 - Hamburg, Germany - Volksparkstadion
29 - Berne, Switzerland - Stade De Suisse

June
1 - Leipzig, Germany - Red Bull Arena
4 - London, England - The Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
9 - Manchester, England - Etihad Stadium
12 - Aarhus, Denmark - Ceres Park

In a new video uploaded by AC/DC, new singer Axl Rose talks about the challenge of replacing Brian Johnson for the upcoming shows.

"Back In Black is the highest-selling rock album of all time, so it's, like, you'd be measured a lot singing. And there's nothing I can… I can't take anything away from Brian's singing. It is what it is. It's, like, he's one of the rock singers.

"And how many albums have they got? I have a couple. It's, like, I have a couple, and they have a stack."

Rose then explained that he wasn’t sure if he could do the shows or not: "For one, it was scheduling. Two, it's, like, just how they do things; I didn't know. Would it work? Would we get along? That kind of thing. And also just the material itself. I hadn't fully listened to certain things. I think in a car or whatever, you can sing part of 'Back In Black', but I never tried to sing the songs fully. I'd sing a little bit of 'Shoot To Thrill', but you always knew it was a really tough song to sing. And I never tried to do it professionally or learn the thing. So, yeah, it's a challenge, and I wanna do right by the band and the fans."

Rose went on to talk about rehearsing with the band: "There's no audience in their rehearsals and they're a freight train. I mean, they rehearse and the first day or [rehearsals], it's, like, 'See you at the end,' and the song starts, and then it's a freight train.

"The rehearsals… it's been really, really cool. It's like now I know the benefits of rehearsals for the first time in my life."

NME spoke with AC/DC guitarist Angus Young and bassist Cliff Williams, along with Axl Rose (Guns N’ Roses) ahead of the band’s European tour dates, which launch tomorrow, May 7th in Lisbon, Portugal.

Axl Rose joined AC/DC after Brian Johnson was advised by doctors to stop performing live to avoid the risk of losing his hearing. Axl, Angus and Cliff spoke about the situation. An excerpt follows:  

NME: Did you ever consider getting a number of different guest vocalists?

Angus: “To be honest with you, it was a case of ‘what do we do?’”

Axl: “They were in the process of trying to decide what they were doing as a band in general, is my understanding, because it just went down.”

Angus: “It was a crisis that came then, and we had to act. We were in Miami at the time, when all of this came up, and unfortunately, when you’re in that situation you got to make decisions pretty quick, because there are a lot of people waiting. We were supposed to actually play in Atlanta, so you’re kind of going ‘what do we do now’. Because of the nature of Brian’s deafness, we knew that there was no easy fix. So you’ve got to then say, ‘what do we do here?’ The options were very limited and you think, if we just stop with all of this machinery it’s going to be a hell of a lot of legal entanglement…”

Axl:  “That, and the fans, and not wanting the band to have to go through that, as I have gone through a little bit of that at times!”

Angus: “It was good that he offered, y’know. He said, if I can do it…”

Axl: “Which I had no idea, I mean, they play really loud, they have their way of working and you never know if you’re going to blend. But it started out pretty good and its gradually got better. I’m hoping to make it through the first show before I get fired!”

NME: Did you ever consider pulling the shows?

Cliff: “We wanted to finish what we’d started.”

Angus: “And that was our main goal, especially Cliff and myself, being there the longest. We wanted to complete what we had started. And I mean, you can’t call a tour ‘Rock Or Bust’ and then go bust!”

Axl: “Ha! That’s amazing.”

Read more at NME.

Axl Rose has appeared on camera with his AC/DC bandmates Angus Young and Cliff Williams prior to their live debut with the Guns N’ Roses singer this Saturday (May 7th) in Lisbon, Portugal at Passeio Maritimo De Alges.

“We are really excited to be here in Portugal,” Angus Young says. “We are here to give you a great rock show.”

“We are very excited to be there,” adds Axl Rose.

More supposed audio clips of AC/DC rehearsing with Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose have surfaced. Check full audio of “Hells Bells,” “Back In Black,” and “Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be” from a Lisbon studio below: