One of the rare times I've seen a male celeb get roasted for his appearance and bad singing. It's usually only a big deal for the female celebs Anyway, Axl Rose is grabbing headlines after a performance in Rio earlier this week.

but does anyone know what happened to Axl? Yeah he's in his 40s but he looks so different! Take a look!!

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and another article:

http://stereogum.com/8349...now/video/

[Edited 10/7/11 18:54pm]

Somewhere on planet Earth, Slash is laughing his ass off!

I know I've said this a million times about Axl but how the mighty have fallen...

If people keep saying these things about him he is only going to go into a binge.

He looks like what most men in their early 50's start to look like.

I was worried about seeing him moving around like that on stage. He is definitely going to hurt himself or have a heart attack.

At least we know he isn't doing too much heroine, coke or meth. That's a good thing right?

^ Well as long as he ain't self-destructive, I guess this can pass. I mean he is gonna be 50 next year anyway.

While he did look like an angry big bird meets james hetfield, some of the performances where good. We had a thread and judged each song, November Rain was eeek! he forgot the lyrics, played the wrong chords and yeah it was a mess

But some of the set was great, others it was not. Axl has been in a downfall for years, he was once ahead of one of the coolest, most talented bands you can think of. But he is slowly loosing his grip, he knows people want Slash, Duff & Matt back[Well ok, Some want Stephen & Izzy but that is ]

Gunsnhalen said:

While he did look like an angry big bird meets james hetfield, some of the performances where good. We had a thread and judged each song, November Rain was eeek! he forgot the lyrics, played the wrong chords and yeah it was a mess

But some of the set was great, others it was not. Axl has been in a downfall for years, he was once ahead of one of the coolest, most talented bands you can think of. But he is slowly loosing his grip, he knows people want Slash, Duff & Matt back[Well ok, Some want Stephen & Izzy but that is ]

Heaven forbid the guys get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Axl tries to perform and forgets the words to "Welcome to the Jungle". The rock press will have a fucking field day!

Timmy84 said:

Gunsnhalen said:

While he did look like an angry big bird meets james hetfield, some of the performances where good. We had a thread and judged each song, November Rain was eeek! he forgot the lyrics, played the wrong chords and yeah it was a mess

But some of the set was great, others it was not. Axl has been in a downfall for years, he was once ahead of one of the coolest, most talented bands you can think of. But he is slowly loosing his grip, he knows people want Slash, Duff & Matt back[Well ok, Some want Stephen & Izzy but that is ]

Heaven forbid the guys get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Axl tries to perform and forgets the words to "Welcome to the Jungle". The rock press will have a fucking field day!

Oh no don't say that , that will be the end of Axl!

It's sad.. but people forget Axl actually has an interesting voice. And even those live performances where he sounds rough, i like that roughness to his voice. I still do!, but it is starting to age & i can tell he just cares about himself and well money probably. There was a time when he was wanting to make symphonies and shit

Gunsnhalen said:

Timmy84 said:

Heaven forbid the guys get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Axl tries to perform and forgets the words to "Welcome to the Jungle". The rock press will have a fucking field day!

Oh no don't say that , that will be the end of Axl!

It's sad.. but people forget Axl actually has an interesting voice. And even those live performances where he sounds rough, i like that roughness to his voice. I still do!, but it is starting to age & i can tell he just cares about himself and well money probably. There was a time when he was wanting to make symphonies and shit

Use Your Illusions

G&R is the pitch perfect example, of how an entity of a band, is not the same once you lose key members.

Axel thought HE was GNR because he wrote the songs.

John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant knew they weren't gonna be the same Band without Bonham.

Would've respected Axel more if he just started another band, then try to maintain the GNR ghost through this bastardized shell of a band.

hot mess

Spinlight said:

hot mess

Oh boo, this is beyond hot mess. This is the volcano

I beg to differ [at least for men in his field] - see Prince, MJ, Mick Jagger, Aerosmith's Steve Tyler [or is it Styler?], etc... all slim&sexy in their fifties...

In any case, Mr. Axl has got our attention:) Maybe that was the point about the appearance radical change, who knows...

V10LETBLUES said:

If people keep saying these things about him he is only going to go into a binge.

He looks like what most men in their early 50's start to look like.

I was worried about seeing him moving around like that on stage. He is definitely going to hurt himself or have a heart attack.

At least we know he isn't doing too much heroine, coke or meth. That's a good thing right?

V10LETBLUES said:

He looks like what most men in their early 50's start to look like.

Yeah! People just tend to get fat as they age, that's life. Some more than others. Some work hard to stay slim. Some work hard to loose weight to no avail. And some can eat whatever they want and still stay slim. So whatever.

Dang they talking about Axl's weight gain like he's 400 pounds or something. He looks like a normal older man. At least he isn't singing from a wheel chair because he's too damn fat to stand up and move around. And also I'd rather see him in that yellow raincoat rather than him running around with his shirt off with the beer belly hanging and jiggling every where. The only complaint about his weight gain that I have is that when he sings (according to the vid posted) he seems to be out of breath extremely too much. For that reason, he could stand to lose some weight or get in shape some how...but he doesn't look awful.

TonyVanDam said:

Somewhere on planet Earth, Slash is laughing his ass off!

Maybe, or he could just not be thinking about him at all.

does he look fat?

This really is a whole lot of nothing

Flo6 said:

I beg to differ [at least for men in his field] - see Prince, MJ, Mick Jagger, Aerosmith's Steve Tyler [or is it Styler?], etc... all slim&sexy in their fifties...

In any case, Mr. Axl has got our attention:) Maybe that was the point about the appearance radical change, who knows...

V10LETBLUES said:

If people keep saying these things about him he is only going to go into a binge.

He looks like what most men in their early 50's start to look like.

I was worried about seeing him moving around like that on stage. He is definitely going to hurt himself or have a heart attack.

At least we know he isn't doing too much heroine, coke or meth. That's a good thing right?

Their genetically small, petite men. Theyve been that way ALL their life. Thats their bone structure.

Fri, Oct 7 2011

Axl Rose heckled for extreme weight gain

Ah well, whatever... at least he's singing "Don't cry" again:

In Chile the trilogy (Don't cry, November rain and Estranged) was complete!

missfee said:

Dang they talking about Axl's weight gain like he's 400 pounds or something. He looks like a normal older man. At least he isn't singing from a wheel chair because he's too damn fat to stand up and move around. And also I'd rather see him in that yellow raincoat rather than him running around with his shirt off with the beer belly hanging and jiggling every where. The only complaint about his weight gain that I have is that when he sings (according to the vid posted) he seems to be out of breath extremely too much. For that reason, he could stand to lose some weight or get in shape some how...but he doesn't look awful.

OMG this made me laugh so hard but you are so right. People are acting like he's obese, which it looks like he's not. Sometimes people forget that celebs, musicians, actors, etc are people too and yes, some times they age and even put on weight. We can't always be skinny forever. Anyway, I didn't thinkhe sounded too bad either. I've heard worse. That was still better than what some others could do on their best day (j. lo anyone )....I don't know, i'm ahuge Axl/ G N' R fan so I guess I love him not matter what but that's just me.

missfee said:

TonyVanDam said:

Somewhere on planet Earth, Slash is laughing his ass off!

Maybe, or he could just not be thinking about him at all.

Don't bet against that! Axl & Slash really hate each other professional AND personally more than before, hence the real reason why there will never be a true GNR reunion.

TonyVanDam said:

missfee said:

Maybe, or he could just not be thinking about him at all.

Don't bet against that! Axl & Slash really hate each other professional AND personally more than before, hence the real reason why there will never be a true GNR reunion.

But WHY though? I dont understand it. Id think by this time they would put aside their differences...

TonyVanDam said:

missfee said:

Maybe, or he could just not be thinking about him at all.

Don't bet against that! Axl & Slash really hate each other professional AND personally more than before, hence the real reason why there will never be a true GNR reunion.

Axl hates Slash! It has been years since Slash publicly said anything negative about Axl.

2020 said:

Yikes that was just painful to watch. Need to team up Axl with Sinead and get them on a celebrity version of Biggest Loser

Marilyn Manson is getting up there in pounds too. He was thin right up until 2006 which means age 38 and Axl has only added weight after age 40. So it is a middle age spread. Maybe it is the result of taking it easy on yourself while not touring. Many of the skinny for life guys tour and tour and tour. They know they are not going to be away from the camera for long.

All the fatties seem to back away from the public eye a bit so months and years go by where no one sees them and maybe they can lie to themselves about what is happening to their looks. Food, especially sugar, is often the go-to addiction for anyone trying to get off of mind altering substances.

Axl must be very very low on cash in order to be seen looking like that.

Deadflow3r said:

Axl must be very very low on cash in order to be seen looking like that.

Wow! That's kinda laughable! Those shows were agreed upon over half a year already. He was touring the latter half of last year! It's not like he noticed last week, that he has no cash left and called up his manager to tell him he needs a gig.

mjscarousal said:

TonyVanDam said:

Don't bet against that! Axl & Slash really hate each other professional AND personally more than before, hence the real reason why there will never be a true GNR reunion.

But WHY though? I dont understand it. Id think by this time they would put aside their differences...

There are so many reasons. All of the drama during the makings of Use Your Illusions I & II was and still is a starting point to fully understand . Slash never believed in using keyboard synthesizers, but Axl do. There was even that time when Axl wants to take GNR to the same kind of vibe that Trent Reznor was taking Nine Inch Nails, but none of the GNR band members (especially Slash) liked this idea at all.

There were some recent pictures of him where he already looked quite bloated. Apparently he's gotten even bigger during the last couple of months, but his current appearance shouldn't be a huge surprise. He should have just worn a loose shirt and forget all about the hat and that jacket. Everybody can see that he's gained a lot of weight.