I'm surprised to hear this. I saw them around the same time (could have been the same tour or the one after) at a medium-sized venue about 5 mins from my house, and they absolutely blew the roof off the place. Only time I've ever seen them (sadly) and I was just amazed at the amount of energy on display, especially at their respective ages.
Maybe I'm conflating clips you see nowadays? It's creeping up to 20 years ago by now which is fucking WEIRD. It's mainly Klaus' voice. Rudolph still runs around like decapitated chickenI'm surprised to hear this. I saw them around the same time (could have been the same tour or the one after) at a medium-sized venue about 5 mins from my house, and they absolutely blew the roof off the place. Only time I've ever seen them (sadly) and I was just amazed at the amount of energy on display, especially at their respective ages.
LOL @ decapitated chicken. So very apt.Maybe I'm conflating clips you see nowadays? It's creeping up to 20 years ago by now which is fucking WEIRD. It's mainly Klaus' voice. Rudolph still runs around like decapitated chicken
Yeah, he was much better than I would have expected. Kudos to those kids too, of course. I don't think I could have kept up.
Oh man; I've always LOVED his love of hard rock and metal and I expected nothing less from him vocally
Same, but sometimes when his sense of humor collides with music I hold dear (and take maybe just a little too seriously LOL) it gets a bit cringe to me. Yesterday he actually pulled off "straight-faced rock musician" - apropos of the event.Oh man; I've always LOVED his love of hard rock and metal and I expected nothing less from him vocally
Yeah if there was an 'intensity' knob on this feature; he could turn it down probably 2 notches and be a pretty damn amazing frontman I'd say.
I haven't listened to the GNR stuff but I'm assuming Never Say Die is a hellscape with Axl's voice
On a German music note; some of my most revered metal is German. Scorps, Accept, Helloween, Destruction, Sodom
You're absolutely right about Slash. (In fairness, almost no one can sound quite like Tony. There's a local tribute band in my neck of the woods called Sabotage whose guitarist really has it IMO, but that is an exception to the rule. Even among guitarists who can technically run circles around Tony.) And Axl is not exactly cut out for mid-70's Sabbath, at least not anymore. I never really loved his voice, even in his heyday. But I still think they carried it off in rock & roll style. It felt like a genuine tribute to me.Don't do it. It was brutal. Slash kind of sucks doing Sabbath, too. They are much more of an Aerosmith
descendant than a Sabbath one. Odd fit.
No offense to anyone who thought Axl and GnR killed it. They really did on Paradise City!
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Never heard that one before. That's awesome. :)Teutonic Plague.
You're absolutely right about Slash. (In fairness, almost no one can sound quite like Tony. There's a local tribute band in my neck of the woods called Sabotage whose guitarist really has it IMO, but that is an exception to the rules. Even among guitarists who can technically run circles around Tony.) And Axl is not exactly cut out for mid-70's Sabbath, at least not anymore. I never really loved his voice, even in his heyday. But I still think they carried it off in rock & roll style. It felt like a genuine tribute to me.
Anyway, I don't think most folks in the audience would want to hear one star player/ vocalist sound like another one. Excepting the crazy virtuosic chameleon hired gun types like Nuno, they want to hear Slash sound like Slash, see Axl be Axl, etc.
(That said, in about 2 hours, my little pick up band is going to have a couple of beers and play a better version of SBS to no one in particular in my basement.
I had no idea who this person was. I said to my buddy, "This guy sounds pretty good, but I'm pretty sure he was my gym teacher in middle school." And my buddy said, "I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING."
Possible he was scared shitless. I always joke that Tony tuned down a m3 to take it easy on Ozzy, Ozzy got defensive, ran through all the Coke, and sang a M6 up for the next three years.Good points. My beef with Axl is he tried to sing cleaner and I think he suffered for it.
Check the difference between the Sabbath tunes and when they go into the GnR
material. HUGE difference. It was like someone lit a fire in his ass.
he was being too deferential to Sabbath/Ozzy and should have just been himself 100%.
