AlexC

Just now, killuridols said:

Just confirmed by @Andy14

They played Yesterday, Used To Love Her and My Michelle.

Awesome, officially the longest show of the tour so far then. At this rate we might even get a repeat of the legendary Forum show from '91 when they finish up there in November. 

Can anyone else who attended confirm whether or not they actually did play My Michelle? Someone said they did. If so that would've made it a 31 song show. Amazing.

4 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

Haha I just don't understand how everyone has gotten so offended. You have a point of view, I have a point view, Alex sometimes has a point of view. I know you don't care what I say and I know I'm not going to offend you ever, so I don't mind arguing with you. But at the end of the day it's just some fans bickering over little things. That's what forums for bands are for...for hardcore fans that like discussing the band

The day I get on here and the show threads are 2 pages long with people saying "another great show! On to Prague" or wherever I'm going to be disappointed. My comments nor anyone else's should ruin a show for people. 

I feel like I have to repeat this every now and then Bc we have Alex over here freaking out over my terrible analysis of nightrain. 

 

I think "freaking out" in this context should be defined as posting endless videos with time stamps comparing one specific word sang in basically the same tone and sweating over whether you think he should switch it to a lower register or not.

In fact, forget freaking out. That's fucking INSANE.

Congratulations, you're certainly living up to your namesake as far as this thread is concerned.

1 minute ago, IncitingChaos said:

Exactly right, it's such a small difference like I referenced in my post. I prefer some things he did in Houston and some he did tonight. Neither is perfect but it's cool. 

Nightrain has been good everywhere so the small differences are where it's at...now talk about My Michelle or RQ and we see where those small switches he makes in nightrain become vital. It's all about that mid clean voice. If it's strong the performance is but if it's not then the performance suffers. 

Im not sure how you guys have been here this long and don't notice these things. 

Please stop using the term "mid-voice" so candidly as it's painfully obvious you have absolutely no clue what it even means.

8 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

@AlexC 

here at 1:32 you hear the growl low vocals then at 1:37 is when the verse ends and he switches you hear the voice drop but he doesn't go to Mickey. It's an indicator how strong his voice was that night. 

Again at 1:18 the part I think you referenced to me he switches to a mid voice where as tonight he kept his low growl until 1:50

1:50 he tries the same switch...just a touch weaker, not a song ruiner but it's doesn't carry the same way.

two ways he sings the songs...he changes ever so slightly from time to time but I like the way he used it tonight just the first few lines are a bit weaker

Now that IS nitpicking. The difference is absolutely minuscule. In fact, it's difficult to tell if there even is one due to the differences in acoustics and camera, venue etc. I thought you were gonna reference the "ready to crash and burn" part at the end or something, you know, where one is ACTUALLY better than the other. Not one where the difference is so inaudible it may not even be there and, if there is one, it's probably due to him moving or some shit.

I can't argue these microscopic nuances anymore, it's ridiculous.

1 minute ago, killuridols said:

Have you ever heard of Radiohead?

Gosh, this is so depressing....

About @IncitingChaos, I think he's just trying to sell a story but I don't know to whom..... No one believes his shit. Those of us who have followed this whole tour (not just one leg) know that Axl is one inconsistent singer and he's not great at some places and shit in others. It's not about the place, its about his voice not being consistently cool since 2006 or 2010 (for those who want to be more benevolent) EVERYWHERE. And that's how its going to be for a long time,  maybe until the end of his career. So IMO, better watch the guy live the sooner you can. Anyone expecting him to still be somewhat good in 2-3-10 years is crazy and lazy ass.

I don't agree jack shit.

And hopefully I will be going to a show again in the next months. So I will have new experiences and a new show to test the mickey and all that, lol-

Shit I'm embarrassed about that Radiohead reference going over my head haha. I'm just gonna pretend that didn't happen.

But I disagree with pretty much everything you just said.

I'm sorry but Axl was consistently exceptional during the NA leg. Sure he was better on some songs than others but he was consistent with those too. 2016 was a golden year for Axl even if you remove his AC/DC tenure out of it.

My beef with Inciting Chaos was simply that I think he doesn't recognise or acknowledge great performances on this leg as much as he should and he's too quick to dismiss them and find a superior one from elsewhere, sometimes without actually watching the video. That's all.

2 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

Sorry @killuridols it was the best Coma since 2016...my bad haha

but really the nitpicking was just a joke...I understand that's too much. 

Its all good, I'm just glad we can agree that Axl was much better in North America than he is now

It's rare for him to use it on that part of nightrain and continue to use it after the verse ends. He usually drops his voice closer to a mid voice. But on this nightrain he simply kept it going and kills it with those vocals like you said he's very good with that voice. Sorry for the misunderstanding 

I know what you meant. He did the exact same thing in Stockholm.

1 minute ago, killuridols said:

TIL has not always been good. Tonight's TIL kind of sucked. Lots of Mickey but he did something very good at the end of it.

'My Michelle' is another horrible song that has not sounded good live since the 80's (IMO).

What is the best Coma full of rasp?? Tokyo 1992?

Don't worry Karma Police. When people from Prague come back (after some good sleep) they will unruin it with their amazing reviews of the show. Then and only then, you'll feel at peace with yourself

Lol. That's nitpicking too much and I could find loads of Mickey from NA leg using that "technique".

I don't believe in Karma. I do, however believe that @IncitingChaos is beginning to show his ignorance when it comes to his tireless commentary on Axl's vocals.

What you (IncitingChaos) said earlier about it being rare for Axl to maintain his low verse voice of Nightrain lately is just incorrect. He's been doing that extremely well for ages, if you're gonna criticise every show and continue to masturbate over the NA leg in the process, at least actually watch the performances you're constantly shitting all over.

Just now, WindsorBoy147 said:

how do you ignore guys ???

Avert your eyes.

6 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

overalk fix the first few lines like Jungle which has the same issue and you have a brilliant performance 

The irony is that one of the lines that you're talking about is "you're a very sexy girl, that's very hard to please." I have no idea how sexy of a girl you are but you are definitely hard to fucking please haha.

3 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

Amazing! Thanks for looking that up

Will do! Someone post it 

It's on that Facebook link last page about 20 something minutes in.

Forget it. Mr. Softie to the rescue!

1 minute ago, KiraMPD said:

Sometimes it's just out of your control, you know? Even session singers/pro vocalists eventually loose it. I mean, even Axl's speaking voice has changed.

It is what it is... 

 

 

Not to continue this argument because I hate it and I've talked it to death but that's just not true, AC/DC disproves it.

I will say no more because it can't be good for my blood pressure, but if one more person forgets about his legendary AC/DC performances I will drop kick a child.

Just now, IncitingChaos said:

That's incredible! I complain a lot but congrats to Axl, great accomplishment. That's playing a show every 4-5 days for over a year...amazing 

Check out Nightrain from tonight.

1 hour ago, rocco said:

They played My Michelle

Where about in the set? Before or after Used to Love Her?

6 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

Just a question: 

has Axl crossed 100 tour shows since April 2016? 

Including AC/DC yes or must be close to it. Just with Guns he's on about 80ish I think, give or take.

Wow, what a setlist! Can't wait to see a video of Axl singing the Only Women Bleed intro! 

Just now, beebee_head said:

Where's this Slash N' Beta picture?

Video that GN'R shared on Facebook of them walking to the stage.

2 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

That's a pretty rad video...........excuse me.......lit video.

I don't think there was enough dope involved for it to be considered lit. Rad is a fair label for this one.

Sleta... 

I'm still convinced Axl is fully capabale of annihilating a 3 hour Guns set with AC/DC rasp no problem. Like you've said, he has plenty of breaks and it's not always full throttle belting as is case with AC/DC. He had songs were he can "rest" or at least parts of songs and they could even construct the setlist accordingly.

But Axl could fully rasp the current setlist fairly consistently if he properly warmed up before every show and didn't stay up until 6am with Tom Jones getting pissed. 

The Philadelphia show with AC/DC was a 25 song set. That's the longest AC/DC show in history to my knowledge and it was the last show of the tour too. On top of that, it was one of the strongest vocal performances by Axl as well (not that any were weak) but I mean come on, the show was about 2 and a half hours of him screaming his ass off on every one of those 25 songs. By this point he was even applying heavy rasp to Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be and Dirty Deeds, plus they played Problem Child. For Those About to Rock is the last song and it was brutally good that night as well.

I honestly just think Axl can't be assed putting that amount of effort into GN'R on a regular basis, everyone's happy who goes anyway and even if he did belt out You Could Be Mine with AC/DC power, no one would even notice the difference imo.

Theres no need for him to do it.