Oh jeez. Oh boy. We can't ignore this any longer, can we? William Axl Rose, who was once one of rock's greatest and most forbidding frontmen, has entered his late-Elvis stage. At the Rock In Rio festival on Monday, Axl showed up wearing a weird fluorescent raincoat thing, a gigantic cowboy hat, and about five bazillion extra pounds. We didn't know how good we had it with the dreads-and-hockey-jersey stage.
And that weird look and weight gain wouldn't even matter too much if he still had that terrifying helium wail, but no. He now sings in a pitched-up chipmunk squeal that's somehow come a whole lot closer to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's godawful impersonation of the man. Observe the damning evidence below.
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That guitar solo didn't turn out too well either, did it? Maybe that's what happens when you try to play in a stormtrooper helmet. And no, I have no idea why the audio cuts out halfway through, unless it's YouTube just deciding that we've had enough and doing us a favor.
In happier news, Use Your Illusion recently turned 20.
