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Re: Guns N' Roses, Jack White set for Bridge School Benefit
This just in, Dave has discovered that both Jay-Z and Axl have used the word "Yeah" in recent songs. So it is obvious that Axl ripped off Jay Z on multiple occasions. Please stay tuned. Dave is currently investigating a claim that both Axl and Steven Tyler have used the word "Hey" in a song. Accusations of plagiarism to follow.
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Re: Guns N' Roses, Jack White set for Bridge School Benefit
dave-gnfnr wrote:Axl does not practice, the band members have been saying it since the UYI days.
You know I agree that it wasn't a good performance but I think there's much more to it than that.
We know Axl doesn't practise much with the band, but that doesn't translate to knowing that he doesn't have some kind of private voice regimen. The band practise is about stage blocking, dividing up the solos and so on.
Axl practising wouldn't so much be about him running through November Rain as it would be about him doing warm up and down exercises each day, doing those opera singer exercises and so on, doing breathing work to strengthen his diagraphm and that kind of thing.
For all you know Axl does this daily and what we get is actually how it sounds WITH that kind of work and it would be worse or impossible without it.
We just don't know.
For all the examples of Axl getting good mid tour there's also times he's come good out of nowhere. I think the 09 japan shows didn't have a warm up yet he sounded good on those.
Also lazyiness doesn't account for other changes, like the sudden return to rasp in 06, and the strange decision to sing everything clean in 2001.
Also there's videos where Axl does a jungle scream and looks pleased, and ones where he does it and looks dissatisfied.
I suspect there's a more serious issue with his voice than just "couldn't be fucked" and that perhaps like some other medical problems it might come and go a little....so some days he can scream it out and other days he struggles to get any usable Axl tone.
If Axl had some kind of voice regimen, if he did he would sound a whole lot better. That is why he always tends to sound better by the end of the tours than he does at the beginning because he is singing every other night.
As for the rasp or not, that is because he chooses to sing that way or he doesnt. That is all it has to do with. Even in 2006-2010 he would sing some shows with it and some without at the same show.
The reason he didnt use it in 2000-02 is probably because using the rasp is not the correct way to sing and that is when he was doing most of his vocals for the album and he didnt want to sing incorrectly and blow out his voice by singing like that like he did at the first hammerstein show in 2006
Re: Guns N' Roses, Jack White set for Bridge School Benefit
Given Ali likes the clean tone best, and prefers the feel of the 2012 wobbling pitch displayed during last night's rendition of "better" over the cold cutting sharp anger of a 2009 Axl...I can only hope that he'll report that the gig sounded bad...as to the rest of us...that will mean Axl's back!
wow MC I have never seen this side of you. 
- dave-gnfnr
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Re: Guns N' Roses, Jack White set for Bridge School Benefit
Im convinced most people are tone deaf.
just some GNR fans ha
- dave-gnfnr
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Re: Guns N' Roses, Jack White set for Bridge School Benefit
"An unkempt Axl Rose arrived onstage late, hunched over a microphone stand and huffed his way through tunes that sounded vaguely familiar with a cast of misfits that looked vaguely like a band. His voice and blue jeans equally shredded, Rose forgot the lyrics to his group's biggest hit, "Welcome to the Jungle," and delivered an off-key version of "Sweet Child o' Mine" that most likely had all the dogs within earshot of the concert howling in pain."
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Re: Guns N' Roses, Jack White set for Bridge School Benefit
He said how good foster the people and eddie vedder were
Re: Guns N' Roses, Jack White set for Bridge School Benefit
Bumblefoot about Axl being sick:
"Yes, Axl *did* perform with strep throat, not easy to do. And there are 2 months of shows coming up to consider, you can't push and risk damage for the rest of the touring. Kudos for him pulling it off 
Rather than judging, let's remember the whole point of this, which is to support those kids. It was about the smiles on their faces, and they had fun In my world this was the most meaningful and successful show we've done. Anyone who wants to join me in that world is welcome to, room for all "
