In an interview with Vice, actor/musician iOTA, who played flamethrower guitar wielding “Doof Warrior” in Mad Max: Fury Road, explains that he was inspired by bands such as AC/DC and Soundgarden.
What’s pretty amazing is that he was actually strapped to the rig and not placed there in post-production:
Yes, I was up on the truck and we were tearing through the desert and I had bungies on my hips and the guitar had bungies on it as well because it weighs about 60 kilos (132 pounds). It’s impossible to hold up. I wasn’t blind until the mask comes off at the end of the film and I had a prosthetic on for that so I was kind of led around by the hands for a day or two.
In talking about the music he churned out:
Yeah, the guitar wasn’t… it wasn’t a great guitar. It spent a lot of time out in the desert, you wouldn’t want to record with it. Most of the time, I’d just try to make noise. I pulled out some AC/DC, some Soundgarden, some Zeppelin, but after eight hours, you do just start thumping on it for a while.
The full interview can be read at the link above.
You can read my review for the film right here.