Gibbo Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ilS_hXVmOw Edited May 2, 2014 by Gibbo 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCK82 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I'm sorry but those braids are rediculous.2002 braids maybe, but when he turned up at Hammerstein in 2006 with the shortened braids in a ponytail, I thought he looked awesome...I'd cut off my left testicle and eat it, to get this Axl back 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I been watching youtube videosStopped right there, invalid criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Ernie Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I hated the braids at first, but they grew on me.His whole look in 2006 was just badass IMO. His voice was really good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Reality Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I been watching youtube videos of the 2006 tour that where proshot and I have to say that Axl had the best tour of his life in 2006!!!His vocals where very consistent during the whole tour and his physical shape was amazing.The only time I can think of that he sounded that good was in late 87 and very early 88 he was only missing the rasp back then at the shows I went to.Yes mickey mouse did happen but it wasn't bad and he had alot of power and he also had the rasp but did not over do it like in the UYI days and the 2010 tour.Some will say vocally 2010 was better but I think he had way too much rasp, I love how he mixed the clean vocals with the rasp in 2006 it was a perfect fit.Axl in 2010 was not near as fit as he was in 2006, he was all over the place in 06 not just on the ego ramps.My only complaint with the 06 lineup was Robin he was very hit and miss live but that was common for him.Take Download early on that concert looked like it was headed for disaster but they won the crowd over by mid show or so and it looked everyone there was having a blast.RAR IMHO was one of the best shows of 06. Jungle was just so intense. Also the LA shows are very good.Here is a video from that show which I think is one of the best live versions of Nightrain. i sometimes wonder if Axl did any overdubbing on the Rock Am Ring gig, because even by the standards of '06, his voice was exceptionally strong that night. It's probably the longest, raspiest Jungle scream he's ever done. Nightrain was fantastic. And he sang certain songs like SoD with more deep rasp than I've heard him sing them with before. I guess he was just having a really solid night.Universal Ampitheatre, Download and Rock Am Ring are my three favourite gigs from '06. Three of the best gigs he's ever done, period. I think '06 was the best mix of the falsetto and rasp. On songs like Rocket Queen it was particularly resonant because he was actually singing the verses and when he needed to, he belted out certain parts (like the outro) with a good amount of rasp. Struck a perfect balance.i love the old sweaty, gritty, rn'r-excess GN'R of the '90s but if you listen to Axl's "singing" here you can pretty much hear his vocal cords being shredded apart: I think the '06 version probably would sound better to most people in terms of actual singing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblecool Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 axl was looking and sounding great in 2006 but the best ever? every performance from 87-93 is better than any one from 01-14.Sure Every YCBM performance from 2006/2010 is better than this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcountry Posted May 2, 2014 Author Share Posted May 2, 2014 2010 was a good year vocally but for my taste he used too much rasp and it seemed very forced and his movements on stage where just to the ego ramps and that was about it.2006 he had the cleaner vocals with some rasp, to me it was perfect, but that is was suits my tastes as far as Axl vocally and being more physical.Also his look in 06 braids and all was badass!!! In 2006 he had the badass rock star look and 2010 he had the pimp 70's porn star look going. Most of the time back in the day he song like he had gravel in his voice. Yes he gave 100% and was extreme mobile but he sounded terrible if you ask me.As I stated before in late 87 and very early in 88 I seen them twice and he had very clean vocals. The next time I seen them was opening for Aerosmith and he sounded like he was very hoarse and very strained, there was nothing clean about his vocals but he gave it all he had and GNR up staged Aerosmith that night, the crowd was more into GNR than Aerosmith and the crowd was also very diverse in age so it wasn't just young people it was people in there 40's through 60's I would say it was 50/50 young and older and GNR was on fire and Axl was Axl even though he sounded terrible he put on a hell of a show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) axl was looking and sounding great in 2006 but the best ever? every performance from 87-93 is better than any one from 01-14. Sure Every YCBM performance from 2006/2010 is better than this. That is atrocious. But later in the song you can hear his voice is essentially still good. Everything else is shite though. What was that anyway? Problems with his mic and his ear thing? Couldn't hear himself? Edited May 2, 2014 by username Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young_Gun Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Axl was fucken perfect in 2006/07. Glad I got to see him tour in 2007. Looking back now, he was under-appreciated during the time. Some like the 2010 vocals better but he was in way better shape in 2006/07 and seemed to have more passion. 2011-2014 is a fucken trainwreck compared to either 2010 or 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Axl was fucken perfect in 2006/07. Glad I got to see him tour in 2007. Looking back now, he was under-appreciated during the time. Some like the 2010 vocals better but he was in way better shape in 2006/07 and seemed to have more passion. 2011-2014 is a fucken trainwreck compared to either 2010 or 2006.The passion part especially. In 2010 he was good (imo in 2006 better), but the main difference to me seems to be that he actually gave a crap in 2006. There was still that sense of hunger and having something to prove. Dare I say even a sense of danger. Personally, I missed that in 2010 (including the show I attended). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suckerpunched03 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 2006 was the last time the band seemed like a beast. Not sure who was added or who left but the raw hard rock organic feeling is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 2006 was the last time the band seemed like a beast. Not sure who was added or who left but the raw hard rock organic feeling is gone.That's easy isn't it? Finck out, Ashba #terrible #emobitch #bulliedcrybaby #poser in. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunzopolis Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 axl was looking and sounding great in 2006 but the best ever? every performance from 87-93 is better than any one from 01-14.Sure Every YCBM performance from 2006/2010 is better than this."Performance" in this instance is denoting the quality of Axl's voice, not whether or not the microphone is turned on or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Black Sabbath Posted May 2, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted May 2, 2014 2006 was the epitome of what "old" Axl should be, and what I would somewhat expect him to be. Older and looks different, but still has a modern vibe going on, and looks badass too. People might have made fun of the braids, but I still 100% said he pulled them off well (at least when he had them pulled back in 06/07). Other than that, what was Axl getting bitched at or made fun of for in 2006? No one was calling him fat or saying he was washed up. He wasn't trying to re-create his old image or look like he was stuck in the 90s or anything. He had matured and changed his look and still looked like one hell of a badass Axl Rose. If he was pictured with a girl or a model or something, people didn't laugh at it, they complimented it really. He was one of the celebs we would post a picture to in comparison and say "Yeah, that other guy looks like shit for his age, but look at how good Axl looks!" The dude was amazing at that time and was pretty much everything I could have wanted in a front man for my favorite band at the time. His voice might not have been absolutely perfect, but for the most part, on nearly every song, he sounded very good. It's stuff like Rock am Ring or the Los Angeles gig from that time that I want to show to people now and be like "Check out this show from last week, dude!".Don't get me wrong, I still love Guns N' Roses and Axl, but I'd be a liar if I said I wouldn't be more excited not only in the lull times, but for upcoming shows and just about everything, if things were still like they were in 2006. Looks and sound-wise.I understand things and people change, but had he just been able to stick with this look and feel, I think a lot of the shit around here wouldn't exist.Fuckin' 2006. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrolg Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 While I really like the 2010 performances, I hear something weird on the longer screams. It really seems to me like there is some sort of reverb or overdrive effect applied to the voice, eletronically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOLGER Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Sorry for you............but ummmmmmm.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suckerpunched03 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 2006 was the last time the band seemed like a beast. Not sure who was added or who left but the raw hard rock organic feeling is gone.That's easy isn't it?Finck out, Ashba #terrible #emobitch #bulliedcrybaby #poser in.I know it's ashba. I was trying to watch the pro shot of 2012 HOB Chicago yesterday to relive the show. During the end of jungle-best part- camera followed ashba as he turned his guitar upside and started frolicking around. Axl nails the end of the song and all I could do is sigh and say "aw god damn it ". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 axl was looking and sounding great in 2006 but the best ever? every performance from 87-93 is better than any one from 01-14.Sure Every YCBM performance from 2006/2010 is better than this.No.Also, that was the second gig of the Use Your Illusion tour. I thought Axl was given a pass for the first gigs because they were warm-up gigs to him? Are we going to ignore that Axl was drunk and forgetting the lyrics of a brand new song?No way anything from 2006 or 2010 can be better than the video posted, not only regarding Axl's voice but because... you know, the group of musicians that wrote and recorded You Could Be Mine were playing the song. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasteofammo Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 2006 was peak of nuGNR.Axl was unbelievable then. Will always be grateful I saw them on that tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 2006 was the best year overall for NuGuns. Not as good as any of the old years because obviously. Better than 2002 because Axl's voice was so much better and he didn't look like Flavor Flav. Better than 2010 because he didn't look like Tony Clifton and there was no Ashba, although the voice in 2010 was arguably slightly better. And better than 2011-Present because obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNR 1991 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 2006 was a great time to be a fan. Axl in RS, the leaks, the Hammerstein shows, Jesus Finck, Axl's vocal power and stage presence, Down on the Farm, HD commercial with Better, The great Euro tour, Izzy! and so much more.Really glad I got to see them twice that year (still the last time I've ever seen a full band show, Bridge School doesn't count). Saw them at the Warfield, which was sold-out and then the infamous Post-firing of Merck letter show in Oakland where Lars played on Out Ta Get Me.I miss those days of coming on the forum and reading some crazy, excited news. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin2002 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 axl was looking and sounding great in 2006 but the best ever? every performance from 87-93 is better than any one from 01-14. Sure Every YCBM performance from 2006/2010 is better than this. No.Also, that was the second gig of the Use Your Illusion tour. I thought Axl was given a pass for the first gigs because they were warm-up gigs to him? Are we going to ignore that Axl was drunk and forgetting the lyrics of a brand new song?No way anything from 2006 or 2010 can be better than the video posted, not only regarding Axl's voice but because... you know, the group of musicians that wrote and recorded You Could Be Mine were playing the song.^ This... I always laugh when people say that any new lineup of Axls new bands played the old songs better than the band that wrote and recorded them, sure they play them well, but I can play the songs, I didn't write them though.There will always be a difference of opinions on Axls voice, I personally like his 93 and 06 voice, and I liked his 02 voice, go listen to Leeds, Boston or MSG, rarely does he go as badly off key as he does post 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faxl Rows Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Cannot believe 06/07 is now the subject of misty-eyed nostalgia. Fond memories of grabbing as many boots of new songs (anyone remember IRS?!) and hearing Catcher for the first time, and Better. Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman007 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I have seen GNR in 06,07,10,11,12, and 13. And 06 was one of the best I have seen Axl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSoftie Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I have seen GNR in 06,07,10,11,12, and 13. And 06 was one of the best I have seen Axl.Out of curiosity how did 07 compare to 06? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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