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Never liked him. And I find it annoying that he never shuts up. When he is not singing in that awful voice, he is whistling, or doing that "Aye, aye, aye" thing that I find unbearable. And if anything they had 1 good album. Use your illusion (both) blow ass.

Haven't heard anything good about Axl Rose for the past couple of decades or so.
He made his contribution with Guns n Roses, but he is more or less, insignificant these days.

Dude sounds like a large mosquito. Night Train is the ONLY song I can stand out of their entire catalog, and it's mostly due to Slash's solo at the end. I was excited to hear Buckethead was to play on the Chinese Dem, but that album was such a let down. I think he bailed when he heard it, and Bumblefoot stepped in.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1489151)

He seems to be one of the most beloved frontmen in all of rock music, and I just don't get it. I can't say anything about is stage presence, since I've never seen Guns N' Roses live, but I just never got the appeal. I suppose I can see liking him better than Bret Michaels, if for no other reason than he has a bit more personality to him, but if nobody had ever told me he was supposed to be special then I would have just considered him a slightly-above-average glam metal singer and moved on. If I had two main issues with him...

1.) I say this as a moderate lover of hair bands---with some especial love for Vince Neil, Blackie Lawless, and the guy from Faster Pussycat---but I find his voice ever-so-slightly grating. I suppose it's supposed to sound sleazy, but I just don't see anything special about his take on sleaze. He just comes off like another in a long line of guys who just aren't as good as Steven Tyler.

2.) When he's not doing the raspy sleaze thing he likes to drop his voice low (e.g. "Mr. Brownstone"), which I just find to be even more annoying than his normal singing voice.

P.S. And what's the thing with people who try to describe GNR as a punk band, or I guess a punk band that plays glam? Don't just about all of the not-as-derivative-as-Poison have a heavy punk influence? Wasn't that half the point of the New York Dolls worship? It just comes across as whiny tools who don't want their favorite band thrown in with the likes of Warrant.

Well, he has pretty dang good vocal range and honestly I've never thought of his style as annoying. I've just always thought that he had one of the most ideal voices for being the lead singer in a rock band.

Ja, I agree that he's pretty overrated. Slash is as well. Range doesn't mean **** when your style is obnoxious.

To get into Axl Rose, where should I start?

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Originally Posted by KatyA (Post 1489300)

To get into Axl Rose, where should I start?

About 1988

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1489205)

Ja, I agree that he's pretty overrated. Slash is as well. Range doesn't mean **** when your style is obnoxious.

This.. I can't listen to more than one GnR song in a row, I hate his voice and the general sound of the music they create.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1489151)

Axl Rose falls into a long list of white rockers who have really squeaky voices (Neil Young, Tom Petty, John Lydon ect) it must drive black people nuts to have to listen to it, lol.

I agree with everyone that Axl has a much wider range than Vince Neil, he is simply a better vocalist, that being said Vince Neil's voice does sound slightly less squeaky than Axl's, so I can see where your coming from.

To my regret I never saw GNR live, but I have heard that Axl is a phenomenal front man from countless people, and I believe it.

The whole punk thing largely comes from some of the band members influences, particularly Duff Mckagen who played in North West punk bands before joining GNR. That being said GNR's primary influence were bands like Aerosmith, the Rolling Stones & AC/DC ect, so I would say they are a hard rock band with some punk influence, but overall they have always been in the hardrock metal category.

I just think that a lot of people associate a horrible and scratchy voice like Axl Rose's with hard rock and therefore expect it. The fact is, that Axl Rose got his singing inspiration from Dan McCafferty of Nazareth but at least Dan knew how to holler and do it properly.