Alter Bridge once performed Led Zeppelin with AC/DC's Brian Johnson at a wedding

Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti and drummer Scott Phillips have revealed they once joined musical forces with AC/DC legend Brian Johnson at a wedding

Speaking to Planet Rock before their Apex Stage performance at Download Festival on Thursday (8th June), Mark Tremonti and Scott Phillips said that they and their Alter Bridge/Creed bandmate Brian Marshall united with Brian Johnson nearly two decades ago.

“My best AC/DC story is I actually shared a stage with Brian Johnson at a wedding,” Tremonti said.

“There's a famous baseball player in America named Johnny Damon that's a friend of ours, and he was getting married (in 2004) and he's like, ‘Yeah, you should go up and ask Brian if you want to go do a song.’

“So, I went up to (Brian Johnson) at the bar and said ‘Hey, Brian, my name is Mark Tremonti, I play guitar. How about we do a song together?’ And he goes (puts on bad Geordie accent) ‘Fook yeah, mate.’ So, we went up and we played (Led Zeppelin’s) Rock N’ Roll’. Funny thing is we didn't do AC/DC.”

Scott Phillips added: “No, we did a Zeppelin song. And funnily enough, this was gonna be my same story about AC/DC, at least the most personal story.

“So Mark and I were there together obviously. I got a guitar, Brian (Marshall) got on bass, myself on drums and Brian Johnson singing Robert Plant parts. Yeah, and it was pretty surreal.

“I think we were all pretty lubed up to begin with, so I don't know if it was the best performance in the world, but it was definitely memorable.”

You can check out photos of Alter Bridge’s rapturously received set on the Apex Stage at Download Festival below. There are also pics of the mighty Metallica, Halestorm, Skindred, Puscifer and more.

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