Axls ripping voice

[norway]

If you seen the belgium bootleg 02 you know what i'm talking about.
It's high pitched and raspy... IT ROCKS!!!

He is just ripping on the vocals on this one.
I love it.

What's your favorite vocal moment in the new gnr?

[ClintroN]

the intro scream to VMA 02', give me the goosebumps everytime

[ToMMyBoY]

What's your favorite vocal moment in the new gnr?



You Know Where You Are... You're In the Jungle Rio You're Gonna Dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........ieeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jungle Welcome to the Jungle.......

[norway]

Oh fuck. forgot about that part...  his opening is so fucking whrencing, i love it!!!

That alone makes the (disaponting) video outstanding.

The outa get me part in belgium... man  

[kujo722]

Well There was the show in Tampa where he ........... oh, yeah. Well certainly than the show in West Palm Beach when he .......... what, oh...... yeah. Shit. Guess I dont have one.  

[badapple81]

What's your favorite vocal moment in the new gnr?



You Know Where You Are... You're In the Jungle Rio You're Gonna Dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........ieeeeeeeeeeeeeee Jungle Welcome to the Jungle.......

WTTJ RIO.. AWESOME!!!!!!

[Vegar]

Hi. I totally agree with you...
The WTTJ-Scream is Great!

Also-  Live & let die at Albany 02!!
It's so great..

[DRUNK]

This is why I think his voice is better now.  It's the best of both worlds.  He can still do the shredded scream voice, but now he can also tap into his sick upper range, and hit it all with power and clarity.  Amazing.


Some people are totally clueless about Axl's voice.  He is better now.

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

The screams - yes, awesome!     On WTTJ & LALD

Couple stand out moments for me are HOB The Blues
 "What I thought was true before were lies I couldn't see   What I thought was beautiful is only memories"  

The way he singed that part at the HOB just pierces me and draws out this ache....  much like some of the notes Slash hits during his solos...

And oh my god...     Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Madison Square Garden *tears*
I was literally in fuckin' awe - he sounded like AN ANGEL... like an angel I tell ya.
Mother- fuckin' orgasmic I tell ya! Like being lifted off your feet - fucking levitated! and sustained outside yourself.  Fuckin' awesome live experience.
Mercy   - Axl has a beautiful, beautiful voice  
And I believe 100% no matter what is on that album - Axl's voice on it is going to be at the epitomy of his career.  (not sure about my grammer on that one - but, ya get what I'm saying   )

[dave-gnfnr2k]

listen to the blues from boston, a good chunck of that song axl has the rasp.

[discobiscuit1]

Axl may well have developed tones and styles that move forward from AFD style rasp and growl, but absolutely no one  with any sense of logic or actual ears can say that he has the same level of growl or strength in his voice after listening to 2002, compared to 1987 - 1991.

It is simple. I still love the guy, but people like dave who use the ...' oh he was using his...ahem...'touring voice' are just making lame excuses. Axl Rose simply no longer has the passionate voice of an angry young man who doesnt give a damn....cos he's a middle aged man with lotsa money who cares WAY too much about what people think, and is less sure of himself  at 40 than at 20.

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Here is something I noticed about Axl and his voice.  I have heard all the bootlegs from the tour and saw him in Boston.
First off, hearing him live his voice is much stronger than hearing him on the bootlegs. Bootlegs don't do his voice justice.  My brother who went with me to the gnr show in Boston heard some of the bootleg versions in the car on the way to the show and like you said disco his voice was not as strong, but after hearing the whole show it said how much better and stronger it was.  So don't go by the bootlegs because they don't pick up how strong his voice is.

Also, Axls voice is much more prominent on the newer songs than the AFD songs. The band also rocks out more to the newer songs than the AFD songs.  I think Axl and the band are bored with the old songs and much more enjoy playing the CD songs.

If you want  to go by bootlegs, listen to riyadh from HOB, his voice is amazing on that song.

[F*ck Fear]

When I saw GN'R in Toronto Canada in 2002.

"All the love in the world couldn't save you or the innocence inside.....You know I tried so hard to make you ooohohhohh....OHHHHOHHHHH TO MAKE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND!!!!".

At the begining of The Blues.....Man if you guys haven't heard it get the bootleg(download etc) and listen.....At that part the crowd give Axl a well deserved applause.

[discobiscuit1]

Im not bagging the guy, cos i Think what he has lost vocally he will most likely make up for lyrically and being willing to experiment to more extremes musically.

But I dont think bootlegs have changed in a way that he used to sound quite awesome a lot of the time...just so powerful and wild to nowadays where most of the time he sounds chipmunkesque....and often vocally weak to the point where his normal speaking voice is louder than his singing.

I think comparing old bootlegs to new ones is a better measure than being at a loud concert with god knows what effects, to judge his voice.......and remember the vma's??....to me at no point after the initial scream did he sound anywhere near good, whereas In the 87 version of jungle at the MTV awards he sounded mindblowing the whole time....and it all seemed so effortless.

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Like I have said before, Axl has always been hit or miss live.
Just take the toyko DVD vs the France PPV show.
Axl sounds great for the PPV but like shit for the dvd.
The only thing that really matters is how axl sounds on the album.
Listen to him at the end of the SCOM big daddy version or those short studio clips from that ad. Axl sounds great.

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

When I saw GN'R in Toronto Canada in 2002.

"All the love in the world couldn't save you or the innocence inside.....You know I tried so hard to make you ooohohhohh....OHHHHOHHHHH TO MAKE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND!!!!".

At the begining of The Blues.....Man if you guys haven't heard it get the bootleg(download etc) and listen.....At that part the crowd give Axl a well deserved applause.

now that is spine tingling, eh?  

I liked the voice he used in Silkworms.... kinda like the Down on the Farm Voice... but much more nasty-like

Ryiah is a great, great showcase for Axl's vocal strength - good pick Dave  

[Lord Kayoss]

What's your favorite vocal moment in the new gnr?

At the 2002 VMA's during Paradise City Axl lets out an angry "YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!" and follows up with a "LOOK OUT!"  Both sounded very old school Axl and still gives me goose bumps.

[DemocracyRose]

the intro scream to VMA 02', give me the goosebumps everytime

Me too....

The "new" voice is fantastic....

I like his voice back in 88 and 93.....

92 suck most of the time.....

[JamieG]

Dave is right, the only thing that matters is how he sounds on the albums and he sounds great. He's the best because his voice is so unique.

But the truth is he's never sounded great live. I totally disagree with people who say is voice isn't nowhere as good as it was years ago, implying that it was great back then.

It wasn't, it never was even during the prime years of GNR. He's fine and does a great job when he sings the softer, slower parts of songs like Madagascar, but the raspiness that makes his voice so great on the records, isn't there live. Take a song like Yesterdays, the rasp he has in that song, I think it's impossible for him to sound the same live.

[JamieG]

Since we're talking about live performances here, I'll ask a question I've been wondering about since I got the downland.

On the download of The Blues that I have, I think it's from Rio (but it's been so long I forget).....in the middle of that song after the little solo, you hear someone, and I think it's Axl, yell out in a normal speaking voice "OK, NEVERMIND!" and then like a second later Axl continues singing "Don't know what I should do..."

Does anyone have a clue what is going on there and what that was about? The voice sounds like Axl's normal voice, but he sings like a second after he says that, so I'm not sure. And it certainly doesn't sound like it's part of the song, so is he talking to someone on stage and didn't realize that the mic picked it up?

It just sounds strange when you listen to it and I've always wondered what that was about.