“You should never play Back In Black sitting down”: Orianthi explains that she found her injury-limited appearance at PRS’s 40th Anniversary concert “embarrassing”
Last month, it was announced that Orianti had pulled out of Alice Cooper’s touring band due to an injury, with former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke stepping in to replace her.
Now, the Australian guitarist has opened up about the experience, revealing how a torn hamstring and hip not only disrupted her plans but also made one of her most recent performances feel “so embarrassing”.
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Speaking on the Guitar Hang podcast, Orianthi details the injury that led to her withdrawal from Cooper’s January and February 2025 tour dates.
“I’m recovering from a slightly torn hamstring and hip. And I had to cancel some Alice Cooper dates, which I felt terrible – really terrible about,” she says [via Blabbermouth]. “But I felt this terrible pain and I was, like, ‘I don’t know, holding the guitar for two hours a night and not being able to move around.’ And I called Alice, actually, when I was in Saudi Arabia, and I said, ‘I’m in a lot of pain. I’m not too sure what’s going on.’ So I gave him a heads up, and I said, ‘I don’t know. I don’t know what’s happening.’”
“Obviously I couldn’t go see a doctor there. So when I got back, yeah, they were, like, ‘Oh, you can’t really do this.’ So I was, like, ‘Man.’ I’d never canceled anything before. So it weighed heavily on me. But now I’m feeling better and all of that.”
Despite her frustration, Orianthi has been focused on recovery and is already preparing for her next gig. However, she admits that her injury made her appearance at PRS’s 40th Anniversary concert particularly challenging – especially when she had to play AC/DC’s Back In Black while seated.
“So it’s good,” she continues. “‘Cause I’m playing this show at the end of the month to raise some money for the fires, with Sammy Hagar and a bunch of people. And I really wanna be able to stand up and do that, ‘cause playing the 40th anniversary for PRS sitting down on a chair, it was so bad.”
“I was, like, ‘Man, this is so embarrassing.’ And I’m, like, in a tracksuit and playing with Dany [Daniela Villarreal] from The Warning; she’s awesome. We played [AC/DC’s] Back In Black. You should never play Back In Black sitting down. It was just weird because they didn’t show me walking out. So my mother saw it. She goes, ‘Did they wheel you out? You just appeared on a chair.’ That was some weird shit. Whatever. Anyway. What can you do?”
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