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Re: 2026 Tour Dates
I asked a chatbot to calculate the amount of money the band takes home. Slash & Duff makes 300k each night. Just on the last tour that was 15 million. Axl makes double that, but he has to pay everybody.
Since the beginning of the reunion Slash & Duff has collected 100 million each.
Let's face it, they're going to keep doing it until they fall off the stage. Remember those late Franki Valli shows? GN'R is totally doing that.
- metallex78
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Re: 2026 Tour Dates
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As cool as that is for them to bring that one back, I just can’t get past the vocals. Just horrible Mickey Mouse
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The handful of clips I’ve seen so far Axl just sounds horrible. Could be the songs I’m picking. Maybe there’s nothing that can be done about it but he just sounds like he’s never sung these songs before.
This has been beaten to death…but what is actually wrong? Is it just age?
This on top of everything else discussed in this thread from management incompetence to a strange schedule of dates (including Tinley Park lol) and the weird sporadic song releases with no follow through…i will likely pass when they come through my neck of the woods in 6 weeks.
Meh…
Re: 2026 Tour Dates
The handful of clips I’ve seen so far Axl just sounds horrible. Could be the songs I’m picking. Maybe there’s nothing that can be done about it but he just sounds like he’s never sung these songs before.
This has been beaten to death…but what is actually wrong? Is it just age?
This on top of everything else discussed in this thread from management incompetence to a strange schedule of dates (including Tinley Park lol) and the weird sporadic song releases with no follow through…i will likely pass when they come through my neck of the woods in 6 weeks.
Meh…
I watched this classically trained opera singer on YouTube, The Charismatic Voice, critique a live version of SCOM from the UYI days and she talked about how strained his voice was compared to a studio setting. That was 30+ years ago. Father Time is undefeated. I don’t think it’s lack of preparation or that he doesn’t care, it’s just the years catching up to him. It affects some more than others, but his style was certainly unique. He just can’t sing like he did in 1987 anymore. That’s the way it is
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There is a reason peak SCOM is from 1986. Singing that way wrecks your vocal chords. Even by 1988 Ritz he is not reaching half way on the end chorus. By 1992 he has adopted a more compromised style but he can't maintain that for long either. In 2000 he comes out with an almost clean approach. That "You're Crazy" rasp is no longer possible for him. Only when he sings with a lot of power can he bring a raspy quality to it. That's why his Live and Let Die screams were out of this world in that period. Or when he goes crazy on Nightrain. But the more subtle stuff, which is most of the catalogue, he simply can't do anymore.
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Age matters but I think it's more a matter of style. He was only 26 in 1988 and already completely unable to do some of the stuff he did a year or two prior. Now I think he mainly dials it down as much as he can to preserve whatever voice he has left, but apparently he is also struggling in the studio so who knows what he is actually capable of anymore.
AC/DC is an interesting example. He was mid 50s and while no longer having the fine texture of the 80s, there was nothing weak about that voice at all. It was world class rasp and power. Could he do anything similar to that now? Who knows.
- elevendayempire
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This is why I remain convinced that the only viable solution for him long term is to lean on AI. Build a model using their vast library of isolated studio vocals and live multitracks, apply it as a filter over his current vocals. He'd effectively be "playing" his own 80s-era vocals like a musical instrument with his current voice, and in theory it wouldn't sound artificial because the vocal tics and dynamics would be the same.
Yeah, it'd renege on the "No Trickery" thing, and people (not unjustly) have a gigantic hate-boner for AI right now, but, well... it wouldn't be doing anyone out of a job because the model would be trained on his own vocals.
No idea if it'd work in a live setting – I'm not sure it could be done in real-time (yet) – but it'd definitely work in studio.
And ultimately it's no worse than Mick Fleetwood (allegedly) hiding a session drummer behind the curtain when "playing" live.
