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House Speaker Paul Ryan is not pleased with AC/DC’s decision to recruit Axl Rose as the lead singer of the band.
In an interview with Politico, Ryan said it’s “a little weird” that Rose is filling in for Brian Johnson. “The AC/DC voice is just so iconic, so known, it’s strange,” said Ryan.
“[The] Brian Johnson [era of AC/DC] is the one that most of us grew up with. Now, Dirty Deeds, I have that album. … My kids love a couple of songs on that album,” Ryan explained. “But the raspy voice of most of what people think of AC/DC — ‘Whole Lotta Rosie’, ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top’, all the ‘Back in Black’ stuff— that is not Axl Rose. But you have to understand, that’s what younger people think of as AC/DC.”
The Wisconsin congressman joked saying, “if Axl smoked a couple of packs a day for the last 10 years, he’d be better. And it [would] sound like AC/DC.”