It s all too common that we hear stories about musicians having been forbidden from listening to rock music at home when they were younger. Yet, they still manage to make a career out of it. Mastodon s Brent Hinds said that AC/DC was like a religion for him growing up, though he wasn t allowed to listen to it. because of religion.
The Mastodon frontman detailed his love for AC/DC on the podcast,
AC/DC Beyond the Thunder. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and the first instrument he learned to play was the banjo, which he used to teach himself to play Led Zeppelin s Stairway to Heaven. Eventually he upgraded to an acoustic guitar, and his father promised he d get him an electric one if he stuck with it.