No not harsh at all. There are tons of singers who are in their 50s and still sound good, not terrible like Axl.  Before Chris Cornel died he sounded amazing live, Steven Tyler is almost 70 and sounds way better than Axl. Tyler at Axls age blows Axl way.

Axl has not sounded good since 92 or 93, its because he stopped giving a shit.   People love to claim he was so amazing in 2006, he was spotty at best in 2006, but shows the few times he tried he could sound pretty good.  And even at teh shows people think Axl sounds amazing, its not on every song, its just a handful of songs and teh rest of them he sounds like ass.

Axl had botched botox that is what fucked up his face.  remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eFa6vUr-g

Axl did have some vocal sugeries which hurt his voice but since he never kept his voice in shape, he never got back to where he was.

Adele who is an amazing singing had vocal surgery where they didnt know if she would ever sing again, and she worked her ass off after the sugery, and she is back to top form.

If Axl actualy worked at his voice he could be half way decent.

I already knew all of those lol

There were rumors GNR was playing the VMAs so I remember all of the gnr forums watching, then when it started the band sounded amazing, and Axls opening scream was amazing then he opened his mouth to sing and everyone was in horror and shock.

Then the fuckery began.

if they were going to book another rock band, they would do foo fighters or metallica over GNR anyways.

I know what you mean,  the album version is super loop heavy. it needs more BH guitar work, that is for sure.

Even the solo in the middle by BH isnt nearly as good as his RIR3 solo.