2016 beside Axl/DC is overrated. Although I’m sure he sounded awesome in person.
I saw them live in 2018 and it was an obvious major decline but he still has some rasp (although it was very forced) at the crucial moments like the screams in WTTJ, Nightrain. I can’t say he sounded good at all but it sounded pretty good live. In 2022 when I saw them he sounded like dog shit. Of course it sounded better live than on a recording but you can’t cover fucking up with tempo with volume as you can do it with mickey mouse. And listening to recording was just painful and sad. However, there was just a one or two song when he couldn’t keep up with the tempo.
I listened to WTTJ from yesterday and during the second verse he was already off the beat.
I don’t believe it sounds good live. It can’t.
It’s not a matter of his tone, he sounds like he’s about to have a stroke.
Volume and being excited may make you not notice many issues but if the singer is off key, off beat, fat and mumbling through the lyrics it can’t sound any good.
I’m not going to their concert ever again because it’s basically a rip off. I wonder if Axl Rose is delusional, deaf or he’s laughing his ass off testing how badly he can perform still selling out stadiums. Or maybe he just don’t give a shit. Anyway, he’s not getting my money.
Sadly it doesn’t fucking matter because he still earns millions of dollars doing this shit.