Just kidding you're actually at Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy welcome where the
proof is in the singing or screaming at this point. I wanted to go and do a
local coach reacts to Axl Rose of Guns n' Roses. I've done one before I'm
actually but I wanted to go ahead and do "Sweet Child Of Mine". Now I did do a few
different versions of Guns N' Roses tunes. I've done "November Rain", I've done
"Paradise City", I've done "Welcome To The Jungle" with my student Gabriela Guncikova.
I did do a version of "Sweet Child Of Mine" with my student Gaston Sanchez.
So check those out I'll put all those in the description but we'll go ahead and
check this one out. This is live in Japan and it's "Sweet Child Of Mine" and let's
just dive right in, here we go.
Ok that must of been the end of something and the beginning of something.
"Sweet Child Of Mine"
You're welcome.
Look at that outfit. What happened to those red pants he was running around in.
Doesn't he still wear those. The shorts.
The Richard Simmons you know workout
shorts, you guys know what I'm talking about right. Come on
let's get this song going here.
Is he gonna sing an Irish jig with the skirt on.
What's going on here.
Shmeh.
It says "Sweet Child Of Mine" so
I'm expecting this to kick in any second here.
Is this where Mel Gibson in Brave Heart makes a guest appearance.
I should have fast forward to this and looked to see when the song started sorry
guys but it's still kind of interesting it's entertainment.
Looks like he's chewing it on something.
Okay, okay, okay already.
Ok I know there's massive man love for Axl but this
doesn't do it for me but and there's no real melody to what
it is he's doing. He's got his his Axl tone going on but I'm not really
understanding what the thing is here.
Here we go.
Finally. I knew it was coming. I was...Here we go.
Now come on everyone has wondered if that cigarette hanging out of his Slash's
mouth has ever burnt his hair. You guys ever thought about that. I have. Here we go.
Oh by the way I forgot to mention this too its 7:23 in the morning over here and I don't even I
do no drugs, I don't even drink anymore. I quit drinking a while back and I just
want to stay healthy but it's 7:23 in the morning and I couldn't sleep last night
so I thought what the heck let's go react to Guns n' Roses why not. So this is
like my third or fourth reaction this morning I've done. Just kind of letting the
tape roll and having a good time. I did have some green tea and I don't normally
drink any caffeine either because I'm already kind of a wiry kind of guy. So
but anyway here we are 7:23 in the morning in my new studio by the way here in
Flagstaff Arizona and it's a killer place. It's specifically designed for vocal
production and I'm doing reactions from here at 7:23 a.m. on what is this a
Tuesday here we go.
Long intro.
I never did learn that dance man I gotta..and then that
I gotta get that microphone thing down you know.
Now if you notice after all the screaming and stuff that he did, he's
almost got no voice, no actual tonal quality. His voice is like pure dysphonia in
his voice and (sings) I can' even do that, I'd have to like really work at it to do that especially not at
7:23 a.m. but anyway so I'd like to hear more tone come out of his voice
you know actual phonation but anyway so it is Axl let's continue.
Got on on sky a little bit.
You know when I see and I'm guilty of this too. You see some guy running across
the stage it's like who's he running from or what's he running to he gets
over there is like wow there's nothing here I better go around that side of the
stage oh yeah it's nothing over here either ah let's go to the center. It's
just some stage humor there behind the scenes stuff for you guys that have been
on a lot of stages you know what I'm talking about here we go.
See he looks just he's running into a camera. Check me out baby.
It's hard to sing alone with no background vocals like that. I gotta confess.
He must give that spotlight camera guy or a spotlight guy a run for his money
because he's all over the place. He's got to kind of always find where where's Axl.
There he is oh. Where's he going now. Ah he's going here he's going back over here right.
Ok wait. I just realized something. Okay you got all the band members that have all their
shirts open and Slash isn't even wearing one he's got his open bass player over
that so let's just go ahead and okay now I feel better let's do this.
You hear those buttons flying.
Yeah I feel better more at home here.
No I didn't have any coffee. I told you I don't even drink caffeine in the morning. A little green tea that was it.
Again still no actual vocal tone, you notice that. There's no actual real phonation
going on there. It's kind of, kind of weird, kinda interesting. It'll come back though
I mean you know his voice will rejuvenate and he'll get it back. He must
have just had a lot of shows or you know kind of blew it out on this performance
I don't know what song this is in the set maybe the last song I don't know.
Stop looking at me.
Oh you're looking at my scar. Is that what you're looking at. Alright wait I'll explain that okay hold on. See my
scar. See that big belly scar. I have to deliberately pick it out like that. Alright
you're wondering what that is okay I'll explain it. So when I was 12 years old I
was infatuated with like flying rockets I kid you not and so I made this rocket.
I don't know if you guys ever seen what a co2 shell is. So it was an empty co2
shell and you could fill them with match heads. Kids don't try this at home or
this will happen but anyway you fill them with matches and they'd shoot across the sky
you know like just a big huge kind of and it would kind of get molten red and
it would go (sounds) like crazy. So as a 12 year old I wasn't really thinking too much
too clearly those days. I thought that if you took an Allen wrench and you took
match heads and match powder and you pounded it in it would go farther and
faster right so whatever that's supposed to mean.
I didn't realize I was making a pipe bomb and so it blew up and the tip shot
me in the stomach and they had to remove my spleen and by the way I'm gonna say
this for you singers out there. Is this is why I say there's no excuse about the
abdominal support oh my stomach hurts I can't do it or you know because I actually have
some tears that happen in here and so when they removed my spleen I caught
something called staph infection and peritonitis that set in and the
doctors only gave me about 24 to 48 hours to live but I had a praying mom
and she was super super awesome called a lot of prayer chains across the country
and prayed for me and I'm actually a medical miracle. So in the doctor reports
if you read it this guy named Dr. Ampudia. Yes that was his real name Ampudia
as in amputation but anyway Dr. Ampudia says hey. He didn't use the word hey
he just says a young boy the age of 12 came in with severe abdominal wounds due
to a explosion of metal into his stomach. We give him about 24 hours to live
then the next day comes by and he goes he hasn't died yet and the only
explanation that we have right now is that we put these saline solution...
sponges in his stomach but that wouldn't actually make the peritonitis and staph
infection disappear and go below the blood count level that had already
consumed my body. So in other words the the the blood count level of the staph
infection had taken over my body to the point where there was a point of no
return. I wasn't supposed to return. So the doctor report says mother attributes
it to the prayers of her God and I thought that was really cool. That's
probably why you guys are going Ken you know you always talk about this
spiritual stuff. I'm a Christian and I'm proud to say it and I thank God every
day for my life but getting back to the the muscle structure here. So they, when
they, way back when a lot like when they did c-sections for women having
babies, they would cut through the muscles, the muscles are sinew and they
come across the stomach this way and they would cut clean through it. So it
literally cuts open the entire muscle structure when they removed my spleen
and they removed part of my colon and then they took out the shrapnel. Well
they did that to women with c-sections. Now they're smarter and they pull the
muscles apart and they cut the length of the muscles so they can go and take the
baby out. They didn't have that technology back then so so I had to
rehabilitate my entire stomach and I also have two very large hernias that
run through here as a direct result of this that I've overcome too over time and
there is a way to do that. Guys I know you with you hernias out there you can
certainly send me messages and I'll give you some info on that that can help you
but I wanted to explain that and no I'm not trying to show off my awesome bod
but I'm just being funny here with the video for Guns'n'Roses. Alright let's
continue way too much information.
Long solos.
I don't know. Where do we go.
Go to that side of the stage. See I told you I wasn't kidding. See he's
gonna run on that side of the stage, he just doesn't know where to go.
Should I go stage left should I go stage right. I'm just saying right.
Go over to that side of the stage.
Ok I'd always wondered about that cause you know you gotta count that out right you know
how many times he says where did we go, where do we go and I don't even remember was that
that eight bars, sixteen bars probably sixteen bars right but at what point do you actually
remember as you're running around a stage that oh yeah it's bar bar fifteen on bar
sixteen you know (sings) right. I guess you play the song so many times it's like in your
sleep you don't really think about it. You ever wonder about stuff like that. I
do. I stay awake oh there's a funny joke what does a dyslexic you guys know
dyslexic is look it up if you don't, agnostic, don't know what agnostic is
look it up atheist do right. What is a dyslexic, agnostic, atheist do. He
stays awake all night wondering if there really is a dog. What did that have
to do with this I don't know it was gonna lead to something but I forgot. Here we go.
Ken you're in raw form this morning. Yeah I told you man it's now 7:40.
Oh yeah I know what it was. It was running back and forth on the stage trying to remember how many beats
it was for a certain thing that happened.
Didn't really relate but it's all good.
Good performance you know I've made a lot of fun of this.
I know I made a lot of fun here going through this but it actually rocks. Guys
it's Guns n' Roses. It was a flawless performance, the band kicked butt, no
missed notes, a lot of great energy, typical Guns n' Roses fashion. They did
an awesome job. Hey guys if you like what you heard please like and subscribe to
my channel I'll try to be a little bit more modest next time and I have a
singing course it's called How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else and we negotiate
all this stuff. So check out again in the description some of our versions of some
Guns n' Roses stuff and until next time God bless you all and peace out.
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