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#7841 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Music Madness - Round 2, Battle 3 » 890 weeks ago
jungle
#7842 Re: Guns N' Roses » Can anyone make me some GNR group pics? » 890 weeks ago
Ok i've been trying to make my own featuring bumble and Dj...this is the best I could do so far...but I freely admit I SUCK at altering pics!
#7843 Re: Guns N' Roses » Scraped Introduction Poll » 890 weeks ago
Anyway, you only really notice the wavering voice of a live singer when you listen back on bootlegs or watch videos. Watching a rock band live is fucking loud, raw and always sounds amazing. When you see a human being standing up there belting their lungs out for your pleasure, you just accept and appreciate how they sing it on the night.
So true. Axl blows me away in real life. I've seen him 3 times and it was insane every night!
#7844 Re: Guns N' Roses » Mixing "Guns N' Roses" LIve With Waves » 890 weeks ago
They are a cover band when they play ANYTHING.
And as for CD...
Frank is covering material wrote by Brain, who's covering material written by Josh Freese. Richard is covering material originally recorded by Paul Tobias. Ron is covering material originally written by Buckethead. And now DJ is covering material originally done by Robin.
Not sure I agree with that...Tobias may have originally written the songs with Axl - but I mean a song like "yesterdays" was written by Axl with West Arkeen and others...and we didn't consider Izzy to be 'covering' it. Likewise a lot of slash's best work is songs where he is not technically the composer of the song.
I will grant that DJ is outright covering. But Richard and Bumble (and to a much lesser extent Frank) both recorded contributions to the album - in bumble's case some significant changes...so I think it's pretty legit for them to be doing CD songs.
Now when it comes to the AFD stuff...we'll sure...I'll agree on that level. But anyone who appears on the studio version of CD is legit for this band - sure there's a couple of faces missing...but still.
#7845 Re: Guns N' Roses » Scraped Introduction Poll » 890 weeks ago
I appreciate the love for Axl's voice, but let's be honest... he's one of the most inconsistent singers in history.
But Monk, you pretty much proved my point. We can't sit back and praise Axl's voice on a STUDIO song, that has been tweaked 50 times over, with 3 or 4 different tracks done in DIFFERENT takes, then go and give him credit for his 'range'.
Yeah I see it as two different issues to be honest.
Like the first issue is the consistancy - and I agree with you there - while I always enjoy seeing Axl live as he's my favourite singer - I think its beyond question that on some occasions he sings better than others. Which is only human I guess. He had good and bad nights vocally since the illusion days, and in 2000-2 for whatever reason he seemed to have a different voice going on entirely. In 2006-2007 I thought his voice was a better mix of his traditional GNR voice and also some of the higher stuff he does now - but I agree some shows it was better than others. So yeah - he is very inconsistant - although when he is "on" he's devistatingly good IMO. So no argument from me there.
But in terms of range. Not sure of the technical defination. But I'm defining range as the number of notes he can hit - like from the lowest note if you found it say on a keyboard, to the highest note he can hit. In
terms of that I think it's a very wide number of notes. Far more than most singers. Like for example there is no way I can sing anywhere near as high or as low as he does - I have a very limited "middle band" number of notes I can hit.
I dont deny that a studio setting can be used to fix the consistancy - we can get every good take - and he's also able to layer his own voice and sing harmony parts with himself - but I don't think he's actually altering his voice pitch via technology (even though it can easily be done) to increase his range.
So in terms of range as in the number of notes - he definately has the goods - delivering a flawless peformance all the time is a different matter.
#7846 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses To Play Chile? » 890 weeks ago
I hope they do a festival thats pro shot and we get some cool footage.
I'd love them to release an offical live video or somethign too one day. Cos i notice the pro shot vids we always get are editied by people who can't tell which guitarist is playing what solo - like they cose up on robins hands while bumble plays a solo lol
#7847 Re: Guns N' Roses » Scraped Introduction Poll » 890 weeks ago
I think i'll wait until Scraped is performed live... then we'll see.
Well of course the intro is going to be impossible live, it's axl singing 3 or 4 part harmony with himself, unless he brings some other Axl's with him he's only ever going to be able to sing one of the parts at a time 
I think live it would have to just have a huge scream intro ala jungle or the old intro to SCOM on the illusion tour....
While it's obviously going to have to be different than the studio version in places, I have no doubts axl could make this track rock live.
#7848 Re: Guns N' Roses » Scraped Introduction Poll » 890 weeks ago
The problem is, Axl doesn't have the vocal range to pull off that kind of Freddie Mercury sound.
Are you serious? Axl's vocal range is incredible, he can go from very low to scarily high. Those high vocals in twat are amazing.
#7850 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Music Madness - Round 2, Battle 1 » 890 weeks ago
tallica
