AXL 2002 VOICE COMING BACK?? OH NO

[mikepatton]

judging by the sound for the paris show the other night Axl is back doing the 2002 voice.....This is horrbile news! we were so excited that axl had his voice back then he has a bad nigh tliek Paris...Does anyone else realize the importance of this?? If Axl is back to the 2002 voice then everything that we had hoped for will be dashed..No real GNR fan likes the 02 voice..Maybe the 14 year old newbies who never heard Axl in his prime, or maybe the drunks in the crowd who cant tell the difference, but this is something  to keep an eye on..God, i hope it was just an off night for Axl.................What do you think Izyy was thinking, hearing that high pitch voice.....he must have been like 'what the hell happened?'......This is a big issue right now,

[RichardNixon]

What are you talking about? 

[mikepatton]

listen to the audio bootleg of the june 20, paris show....Axl's voice was HORRIBLE!! The worst of the tour by far................no more rasp or hoarse voice liek in hammersmith, budapest etc.....The high pitch horror show is back

[jazjme]

maybe the poster sucked to much helium.

[bazgnr]

Anyone want to describe the "2002 voice" for me?

[Bill 213]

This same thread was created about 2 hours ago and moved to the Dead Horse where it is right now.
? Why create another one?

[estranged.1098]

This is not dead horse material. The Paris show is the most recent and compared to Donington Axl indeed doesn't sound too good on the bootleg.

[loretian]

This is not dead horse material. The Paris show is the most recent and compared to Donington Axl indeed doesn't sound too good on the bootleg.

That entire idea that Axl sounded shitty in 2002 is dead horse.

[sic.]

This is not dead horse material. The Paris show is the most recent and compared to Donington Axl indeed doesn't sound too good on the bootleg.

If so, wait until the Graspop gig on the 24th. He's had an extra day off to give his vocal chords a break.

Might be unrelated, might not be. Regardless, wait for the next gig before saying its anything more than an isolated incident. And KOHD in Paris didn't sound helium to me.

[DunkinDave]

judging by the sound for the paris show the other night Axl is back doing the 2002 voice.....This is horrbile news!

You're listening to an absolute shit-quality bootleg.

People used to cite the 2002 Albany bootleg as proof that Axl's voice still sounded like it did in 1992, which is idiotic.

Wait for a soundboard to come out before you judge Axl's voice.

[themovieaddict.com]

Yeah, the show was a bit higher pitched than usual for this tour so far - he hit the high notes early on in Madagascar, and Used to Love her wasn't as low as it was at Download - but hey, you know what? It was still a lot better than the '02 voice and he DID have rasp. It was the best performance of IRS yet and his mid-song scream was controlled this time, instead of sounding out-of-breath.

Knockin' On Heaven's Door rocked and sounded a lot like the way he used to perform it - faster and he even put some of the "whoa-yea-yeahs" in - and at one point he accidentally began singing one of the "whoas" he used to do in the Illusion era that he cut from the new version of the song - and quickly recovered and skipped to the next verse. I thought it was fantastic and nostalgic.

So, whatever.

[faldor]

I read an article that said the Paris show was the BEST show to date.  So I guess everyone has a different take.  I'm not worried.

[SWINGTRADER]

I haven't listened to the Paris boots yet  but if his voice sounds like 2002   it is not good news.   I wouldn't worry about it unless a does it 2 shows in a row .    If this is indeed true  then i guess it answers our question about whether he was singing with the high pitch on purpose in 02' .  Why he would choose to sing that way is beyond me,  someone needs to tell him he sounds like shit and should sing with the reasp all the time .   

[mikepatton]

to all you people who do not know what we are talking about when we say 2002 voice get a clue and listen to a bootleg................to the people who liek the 2002 voice i hate to admit it but you are not true gnr fans..........i was just listening to july 29,1991 inglewood...god was his voice awesome...total rasp and hoarseness...shredded sweet child and jungle.....thats the beauty of bootlegs, if axls voice is shot now we can relive the glory days any time we want

[WhosGilby?]

I got use to the 2002 voice but now that it's 2006 and he is sounding really good I cant listen to. I haven't watched or heard anything from 2002 since Hammerstein

[Mattattack]

I like his 2002 voice on The Blues, Madagascar, KOHD, and LLAD. That voice suits those songs.

[killingvector]

to all you people who do not know what we are talking about when we say 2002 voice get a clue and listen to a bootleg................to the people who liek the 2002 voice i hate to admit it but you are not true gnr fans..........i was just listening to july 29,1991 inglewood...god was his voice awesome...total rasp and hoarseness...shredded sweet child and jungle.....thats the beauty of bootlegs, if axls voice is shot now we can relive the glory days any time we want

what exactly is a 'true Gnr fan'?

[jazjme]

to all you people who do not know what we are talking about when we say 2002 voice get a clue and listen to a bootleg................to the people who liek the 2002 voice i hate to admit it but you are not true gnr fans..........i was just listening to july 29,1991 inglewood...god was his voice awesome...total rasp and hoarseness...shredded sweet child and jungle.....thats the beauty of bootlegs, if axls voice is shot now we can relive the glory days any time we want

TO all you fools that claim to know GNR, make me laugh, lol, since Ive been around and seen the band since 1987 live back in the day, so really STFU! YOu can also relive your asinine dreams .lol

[SWINGTRADER]

I just listened to the Paris bootlegs  and his voice does sound high pitch  , but it's not horrible.   You can tell he is  singing like this intentionally , maybe he decided to take a night off on the rasping to save his voice .   The problem with Axl singing with the high pitch voice isn't that the voice is horrible  it's just that it isn't Axl .  The thing that made Axl so unique was his voice. When he sings with the rasp  he is Axl Rose  , but when he sings with a clean voice  he's just a very good  generic  80's singer.   Let's hope this was just a one show thing  and he returns with the rasp on the next show. 

[jazjme]

BUt remeber swingtrader, he even said himself on the eddie trunck interview concerning the new album, that people will will like it and others will will be like "this isnt axl". so bottom line, is ..its his voicew he can use it and sing with it as je pleases and it relly doesnt matter what you , me or anyome thinks. At the end of the day when all is said and done he is doin it the way yhe wants.