AC/DC pro-shot footage of debut show with Axl Rose

Portugal — Here is what everyone has been waiting to see and hear. AC/DC has played their first ever show with Axl Rose.

Naysayers expected this not to go well, but it appears to many it went much better than most could have ever expected.

After all we are talking about the Guns N’ Roses frontman. Who has been notorius for being tardy, no-showing soundcheck and refusing to attend most rehearsals (with his other band that is).

So how could this all come together so quickly and smoothly without a potpourri of trainwrecks.

Add to this Axl Rose just recently reunited with Guns N’ Roses core members (Slash & Duff McKagan). Then broke his foot on their surprise show in West Hollywood just 5 weeks ago.

Now roughly a month later he’s fronting AC/DC in Portugal.

Who wold have thought?

The Guardian calls their debut show a “triumph”.

The triumph lies in the renditions of the songs AC/DC wrote and recorded when Bon Scott was still alive. Whereas the Johnson era material tended towards boozy bonhomie, Scott was often a malevolently misanthropic writer and singer, concealing a slightly terrifying rage behind apparent good humour. Rose, who is familiar with both malevolence and misanthropy, delivers those songs perfectly, giving them fresh menace. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap loses its cartoonish aspect, and becomes the barroom chatter of a psychopath; he introduces Shot Down in Flames as “the story of my life” and convinces you it’s true. His voice, too, is brilliant: no matter how high, every note is hit, and sustained. And he keeps it up for two hours. – The Guardian 

Below is the AC/DC set list from their debut performance with vocalist Axl Rose.

We’ve also posted several high quality videos that have surfaced. Included at the very bottom is the full concert start to finish.

AC/DC set list…

01. Rock Or Bust
02. Shoot To Thrill
03. Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be
04. Back In Black
05. Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder
06. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
07. Rock ‘N’ Roll Damnation
08. Thunderstruck
09. High Voltage
10. Rock ‘N’ Roll Train
11. Hells Bells
12. Given The Dog A Bone
13. Sin City
14. You Shook Me All Night Long
15. Shot Down In Flames
16. Have A Drink On Me
17. T.N.T.
18. Whole Lotta Rosie
19. Let There Be Rock
20. Highway To Hell
21. Riff Raff
22. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)