My thoughts:

1. Axl was actually a surprisingly 'pretty' young man (I think this was what led to the trucker assaulting him) and in general like a few stars of the era aside from the hyper masculine persona's they are actually quite feminine looking. Like Axl was borderline male model kinda looks in his youth...in that kinda "pretty boy" way that Di Caprio was in Romeo and Juilet...like a little too fresh faced for a man but in a way that makes young women swoon. Boy band stuff but with a tough guy legit street kinda attitude.

2. Charisma. Axl has buckets of it. A sort of magmatism. It's why he can captivate a crowd. It's why back in the day he could get away with all kinds of bullshit. I mean I think he could look like absolute dogshit and still pick up a supermodel just with his vibe to be honest. There's something odd about him that works for him.

3. Rock Star.  GNR was like THE biggest thing on the planet for a time. Like 1991 Axl owned the earth lol. He could have any woman he wanted here so you can see why supermodels were his feeding ground. Add to this his bad boy thing...and that will seal the deal for many women....

I agree he would be better suited to a more intellectual woman though, he's clearly a bit of a thinker.

yeah that's what i'm thinking of.

I remember I was surprised it seemed to be money related..when you consider how much is involved with the reunion...but then according to MSL's leaks there were financial issues around people being paid in the CD days too...so it seems to be an issue with these guys.

But yeah I forget the basis of the video guys claims but it was something like he was asked to film a stadium show and wanted more cameras to do it because the space was wider than the troubladour but was told his budget was less than he needed to do it properly or something like that. From memory there was talk of getting someone cheaper to do it or something. I forget the story but it was a typical GNR mess. lol.

At the time I thought they picked the wrong show cos although good it wasn't one of the totally magical nights of that era...but these days anything from that vintage would be awesome to have.

I'm going to give Axl a pass here.

From memory Sweet Child is about song 9 and he BROKE HIS ANKLE on song 2 and kept fucking going....

This is that show right? Would make sense he seems a touch under his best given that.

I agree he was tons better a couple of shows in though, seems he's often better at about show 2 or 3 each tour, I guess he gets into the zone or something. I can see why they filmed this show for the historical significance, but yeah, in that sense a later show would be better. I want all of houston 2016 to come out cos that night he had the closest to peak retro voice we've seen since at least 2006 IMO.

I have a soft-spot for Jungle.

I know it became cliche by the end.

But in it's prime, when you've been waiting for how long, and there's always that mystery of if the show is going to go wrong, then like early 2000s Axl comes out with that epic screamed "Do you know where the fuck you are" and the way he does that predator kinda pacing during the song breakdown in the middle...when it works it works! lol.

yeah perhaps would be awesome, and state of grace. I really want some version of Eye on You as well...I love the verses before the mac daddy stuff...it's a great melody for a song.