Axl gets a lot of crap for sometimes sounding out of breath, but when you consider that he's over 50 and he's still running up and down stage ramps, that's understandable. He could probably sing better if he just stood in place, but he's still as much of a frontman as he is a singer.

And that's funny that you mention about Axl just playing to a CD by himself, because that's basically what Buckethead did on his last tour a couple of years ago.

The only question I have is whether we'll ever get to hear any of the dozens of additional songs they've recorded over the past two decades.

Funny, I've been dicking around on YouTube all day, and I saw this video about the Rapidfire Kickstarter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPkUKAodhM. There was a link to pre-order the album at Amazon, and imagine my surprise to find out it was released today! I heard about this years ago but gave up any hope of it ever coming out.

Pretty cool to hear what's probably the earliest knows recordings of Axl!

I used to think that singers just opened their mouth and these beautiful sounds came out. But after doing a little bit of karaoke singing, I can appreciate that there's a lot more technique to being a professional singer. You really have to train your voice, and practice like you would with any other instrument. And yeah, some nights Axl is spot on and other nights he sounds like someone is sodomizing an alley cat, but I at least have a better understanding as to why.