IMO Axl Rose is everything but a singer. An italian rock television is broadcasting these Christmas days the video of GNR concert at Ritz in New York City (198. Back in early nineties I used to listen to the bootleg of that gig about a million of times...I was a real GNR fan.
Listen to it now I can't understand why...
He's a very good lyric writer and frontman but he's not a singer.