Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I've read several posts that claim Axl had vocal problems in addition to low blood sugar/pressure on the last gig of the European tour.  I even saw someone go as far as say he may have blown his voice out again.

Has any of this come to fruition?

i don`t think he blew his vouce out... he almost did it at donnington though...

i hope not, when did axl blow it the 1st time?

At Hammerstein Ballroom. Bach's vocal teacher(?) helped him out.

I do't think this is accurate. if he had blown his voice at Hammerstein, there would not have been sufficient time to recover for the shows that followed, and likely his voice would have suffered badly on the tour as well. All signs point to this not being the case. I think Bach's coach worked with him before they started playing gigs to help him get in shape for singing this much again.

As for the 7/30 date, the boot should tell the story. If his voice was blown, you would be able to tell that he is hoarse or straining more than usual.

He sounded pretty darned good to me.

Actually I was at the Hammerstein show where Axl was talking about it. He said that after friday's show, then next morning, Saturday, he couldnt talk at all.  So Bach had his vocal coach work with Axl and then he was fine for Sunday, the night that I saw them.

Indeed - there were no problems with his voice

He'd just 'blown' a fuse - realised his plane back to LA left an hour earlier than he thought - 'seb cover for me - i'm outta here'

He didn't "blow" it during the concert. I remember reading(maybe even Axl himself said this at the concert?) something about him having difficulties to sing the next day, but fortunately he got help from Bach's vocal teacher and was able to perform.

well i was at all 4 hammerstein shows and his voice was definately at its weakest on the sunday (2nd show) but he came back swinging for the last two.

I thought that if you blew out your voice,you weren't able to sing for quite some time..Not like the next day.
Feeling that you're almost about blow it out though..that's something different.

nope. at least from the boot he sounded really great!

The answer is no.  The voice did not blow out.  He sounded very good.  I'm listening to Night Train right now and he sounds great.  I thought by now the conspiracy theorists would have mentioned Axl's last lyrics sung were, "Never to return...NO!" 

May I add, that one of the reasons I can't get enough of GNR and Axl's vocals...energy!  I can't think of another performer that puts more energy into a show.  The ability to put on 3 shows at this level in less than 24 hours is just fucking insane.  Kudos to the entire band as well!!!

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Well, that's different - obviously he didn't seriously strain his vocal cords or no amount of warm-ups would have gotten him back into shape for a 2 hour show.

Nope.

I find it suprising but his voice only got better and better the more shows they played, in the end i almost could not belive it.
So it would stay good. I think he was very concerned about this at the beginning of the 2006 tour, but it worked out better than anyone could hope.

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Axl voice is unique just like betwen normal and falsetto.Tryn yourself to sing 20 song with your falsetto voice in high pitch.maybe you can't speak for a week.and Axl do it every night

Whatever he did, he sounded amazing at Donnington.

No problems with his voice, the guy just got a bit sick, enough though to cancel the gig, but still he told the doctors "Fuck that, I have a gig" and he did it...