Fair enough, just had to get it off my chest...

1. about the madagascar thing (fairly sure this is what happened):

They started playing before he was ready to sing, on stage, out of his oxygen tent, or whatever...
He then goes on to tell Dizzy & Pitman to "fix" this by starting the first verse over again. You can hear them actually trying to accomplish this, but Axl doesn't get the cues they give him. So they just start over again from scratch (which is by no means a very professional way of fixing a mistake like this), prompting the obviously very sarcastic "very nice" comment from Axl. My thoughts: ok, they might have started to soon, but Axl should've jumped in, started singing, when Robin was doing the little "dzjigidy" thing on guitar you can clearly hear around 1:48. He had another chance to start singing 1 measure after that, that sort of break in between would still have been a better way to recover from this.

But then again, Axl was never really able to recover from these kinds of (band) mistakes gracefully.

2. About the singing:

My take on it is that since his "old" voice was so straining (he had multiple fucked-up shows back in the day 'cause of a shot voice), he tried something different in 2002: drop the rasp but keep the high pitch. The resulting "Ozzy-on-helium" effect wasn't much appreciated by the critics and the crowds, so he reverted to his old raspy voice (as much as can be reasonably expected at his age).

Great, maybe someone decided to take matters into their own hands and keep a real log of everything official that has been posted on the official site.

Fuck, I read about the end-credits thing and completely forgot about it when I was in the theater...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Except for "Creep", I don't think anyone knows anything from STP over here. VR is definitely a bigger brand than STP in Europe.