Duda Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 6. Axl RoseSlash still remembers the first time he heard Axl Rose's singing voice. It was on a low-fidelity cassette tape that he heard shortly before joining Guns N' Roses."His squeal was so high-pitched that I thought it might be a technical flaw on the tape," he wrote in his memoir, Slash."It sounded like the squeak that a cassette makes just before the tape snaps – except it was in key."When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman. Axl is an extremely difficult man to work with, but few other men on earth could sing material like "You Could Be Mine."Maybe that's why Velvet Revolver has had such a hard time finding a new singer. Rolling Stone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flayer Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Good picture for them to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Maybe that's why Velvet Revolver has had such a hard time finding a new singer. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Where's Layne Staley? Bob Dylan? No. 1? He's good, but meh... definetely not my favorite singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDRE Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Jeremy Enigk from Sunny Day Real Estate and it isn't even close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flayer Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Tom Waits earned his spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packersnroses Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 "When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 "When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packersnroses Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 "When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract?Who knows, but Axl didn't join Slash's band, like this article seems to be misleading to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Tom Waits earned his spot.Agreed and so did Dylan."When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract?Who knows, but Axl didn't join Slash's band, like this article seems to be misleading to.I just noticed that. Slash saw Axl sing in Hollywood Rose and was impressed and ended up replacing Tracii in Guns N' Roses. The only original members at that point were Axl and Izzy so as far as I am concerned it was Axl and Izzy's band, not Slash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realpoti Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Mike Patton ? Anyone ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB. Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Well, the list is about 'unique' voices, not about 'best'. I think the list is not so bad. All those voices are very recognizable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNR123GNR456 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Jeremy Enigk from Sunny Day Real Estate and it isn't even close.Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketQueen1985 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Tom Waits earned his spot.Agreed and so did Dylan."When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract?Who knows, but Axl didn't join Slash's band, like this article seems to be misleading to.I just noticed that. Slash saw Axl sing in Hollywood Rose and was impressed and ended up replacing Tracii in Guns N' Roses. The only original members at that point were Axl and Izzy so as far as I am concerned it was Axl and Izzy's band, not Slash.Duff got together with Axl and Izzy and it was Duff who asked Slash and Steven if they wanted to join Guns N' Roses, that's what it says in Duff's book anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Tom Waits earned his spot.Agreed and so did Dylan."When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract?Who knows, but Axl didn't join Slash's band, like this article seems to be misleading to.I just noticed that. Slash saw Axl sing in Hollywood Rose and was impressed and ended up replacing Tracii in Guns N' Roses. The only original members at that point were Axl and Izzy so as far as I am concerned it was Axl and Izzy's band, not Slash.Duff got together with Axl and Izzy and it was Duff who asked Slash and Steven if they wanted to join Guns N' Roses, that's what it says in Duff's book anyways.How much do you know about early guns lore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Brian Johnson, Lemmy Kilmister and Zach de la Rocha also have VERY unique voices. Should've made the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mansin Humanity Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 where's les claypool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakey Styley Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Jeremy Enigk from Sunny Day Real Estate and it isn't even close.Most uniquely generic, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketQueen1985 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Tom Waits earned his spot.Agreed and so did Dylan."When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract?Who knows, but Axl didn't join Slash's band, like this article seems to be misleading to.I just noticed that. Slash saw Axl sing in Hollywood Rose and was impressed and ended up replacing Tracii in Guns N' Roses. The only original members at that point were Axl and Izzy so as far as I am concerned it was Axl and Izzy's band, not Slash.Duff got together with Axl and Izzy and it was Duff who asked Slash and Steven if they wanted to join Guns N' Roses, that's what it says in Duff's book anyways.How much do you know about early guns lore?So Duff is lying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Tom Waits earned his spot.Agreed and so did Dylan."When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract?Who knows, but Axl didn't join Slash's band, like this article seems to be misleading to.I just noticed that. Slash saw Axl sing in Hollywood Rose and was impressed and ended up replacing Tracii in Guns N' Roses. The only original members at that point were Axl and Izzy so as far as I am concerned it was Axl and Izzy's band, not Slash.Duff got together with Axl and Izzy and it was Duff who asked Slash and Steven if they wanted to join Guns N' Roses, that's what it says in Duff's book anyways.How much do you know about early guns lore?So Duff is lying?Just asking. Duff may be telling the truth, but we tend to get different stories from all the band members. Oh vh1 behind the music Steven said that he and Slash saw Axl and Izzy in Hollywood Rose and said "we need to get that singer and guitar player"In one interview with original guitarist Tracii Guns, Duff was already in the band and Duff was never in Hollywood Rose. I am going with Duff's story over Steven's.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketQueen1985 Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Tom Waits earned his spot.Agreed and so did Dylan."When Slash realized the superhuman voice was actually legit, he knew he had found his frontman."Right. Because Slash was the one that put the band together. If they never took that trip to Seattle, would GNR have fallen apart before they even had a record contract?Who knows, but Axl didn't join Slash's band, like this article seems to be misleading to.I just noticed that. Slash saw Axl sing in Hollywood Rose and was impressed and ended up replacing Tracii in Guns N' Roses. The only original members at that point were Axl and Izzy so as far as I am concerned it was Axl and Izzy's band, not Slash.Duff got together with Axl and Izzy and it was Duff who asked Slash and Steven if they wanted to join Guns N' Roses, that's what it says in Duff's book anyways.How much do you know about early guns lore?So Duff is lying?Just asking. Duff may be telling the truth, but we tend to get different stories from all the band members. Oh vh1 behind the music Steven said that he and Slash saw Axl and Izzy in Hollywood Rose and said "we need to get that singer and guitar player"In one interview with original guitarist Tracii Guns, Duff was already in the band and Duff was never in Hollywood Rose. I am going with Duff's story over Steven's..Yep, Duff is the one I believe as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I will take Duff's book over a heavily edited and biased documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) Just asking. Duff may be telling the truth, but we tend to get different stories from all the band members. Oh vh1 behind the music Steven said that he and Slash saw Axl and Izzy in Hollywood Rose and said "we need to get that singer and guitar player"In one interview with original guitarist Tracii Guns, Duff was already in the band and Duff was never in Hollywood Rose. I am going with Duff's story over Steven's..From every thing I've read so far, they both seem to be right. Everyone bumped into each other on the Hollywood scene before the final line-up formed. I think Steven wanted to recruit Axl and Izzy at one point and Slash was in agreement with getting Axl but was not comfortable playing with another guitarist at the time.Later Hollywood Rose broke up and Axl joined L.A Guns with Tracii. Eventually Hollywood Rose was reformed again and they ended up merging the two bands to form Guns n' Roses (I think as a way for Izzy and Axl to work together again). Duff later joined as their bassist. Duff booked a tour in Seattle but Tracii and their drummer at the time did not want to go. They ended up quitting, the reason may have been their reluctance to go to Seattle, but its also been said that there was tension between Axl and Tracii. Anyway, they recruited Slash and Steven because Axl, Izzy and Duff had all bumped into them at some point or another, and went to do the Seattle tour and the rest is history...(this a brief summary, I believe there are other details such as Slash auditioning for Axl and Izzy's band and getting snubbed and several lineup changes during the early years) Edited January 26, 2012 by KiraMPD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Just asking. Duff may be telling the truth, but we tend to get different stories from all the band members. Oh vh1 behind the music Steven said that he and Slash saw Axl and Izzy in Hollywood Rose and said "we need to get that singer and guitar player"In one interview with original guitarist Tracii Guns, Duff was already in the band and Duff was never in Hollywood Rose. I am going with Duff's story over Steven's..From every thing I've read so far, they both seem to be right. Everyone bumped into each other on the Hollywood scene before the final line-up formed. I think Steven wanted to recruit Axl and Izzy at one point and Slash was in agreement with getting Axl but was not comfortable playing with another guitarist at the time.Later Hollywood Rose broke up and Axl joined L.A Guns with Tracii. Eventually Hollywood Rose was reformed again and they ended up merging the two bands to form Guns n' Roses (I think as a way for Izzy and Axl to work together again). Duff later joined as their bassist. Duff booked a tour in Seattle but Tracii and their drummer at the time did not want to go. They ended up quitting, the reason may have been their reluctance to go to Seattle, but its also been said that there was tension between Axl and Tracii. Anyway, they recruited Slash and Steven because Axl, Izzy and Duff had all bumped into them at some point or another, and went to do the Seattle tour and the rest is history...(this a brief summary, I believe there are other details such as Slash auditioning for Axl and Izzy's band and getting snubbed and several lineup changes during the early years)Things would have been a lot different if Tracii ageed to go to Seattle. Seattle at that point had to have been the second biggest music scene on the coast. I wouldn't be surprised if this is when Axl got a taste of Seattle music. I think Slash changed is mind about Izzy when he heard all the ideas he had. According to Tracii everyone who knew Izzy at the time were amazed how he came up with such cool riffs. Like over half the riffs on AFD were Izzy, but Slash's ended up being more memorable. Tracii noted now Axl got fired from L.A. Guns even though he lived with Tracii at the time. The two went home and decided to start a band calls Guns N' Rose, and recruited Izzy because he was not in a band at the time. Then Duff "Rose" McKagan came along and they became Guns N' Roses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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