Singer Axl Rose emerged with Guns N' Roses just when rock needed him, with late-'80s music dominated by safe pop-metal and synthy dance music. GNR reshaped hard rock in their image on their 1987 ...

So imagine my delight over the weekend when, while watching Oswalt’s new stand-up special, Finest Hour, I saw a bit on Axl Rose’s now-infamous performance at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards. Sure, the ...