A timeline for the reunion

[Sydney Fan]

19 minutes ago, zigzagbigbag said:

And for me the latter is the reason why there still is no new material. I think Axl is afraid that the public hates the new album and that it destroys the kind of reputation he recreated with NITL. 

Yeah i dont know.....i think with Slash back that it now gives credibility to the fans for any future guns release which is why an EP  and NITL DVD/album would be a good method of gauging reaction with a short tour, then a full length album and a massive tour, media blitz  and promotion in quick succession.

[zigzagbigbag]

21 minutes ago, Sydney Fan said:

Yeah i dont know.....i think with Slash back that it now gives credibility to the fans for any future guns release which is why an EP  and NITL DVD/album would be a good method of gauging reaction with a short tour, then a full length album and a massive tour, media blitz  and promotion in quick succession.

I fully agree. 

[alfierose]

18 hours ago, Twinaleblood said:

I don't know why, but the formatting of the post came out all messed up and I can't seem to be able to edit it in a readable way. Can't remove those empty lines and those numbers. If a mod can help, it would be much appreciated.

 

I had a look at the editing but I don't know how to fix it at the moment without losing the quotes. We're looking into it, Russ may know what to do when he has chance to get to a PC.

[Twinaleblood]

 

 

 

 

7 hours ago, Blackstar said:

Merck did an interview about three months ago and said some interesting things:

Thank you, I just added that excerpt to the main post

[Blackstar]

@Twinaleblood a few more quotes:

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Wondering if the news of Duff McKagan's temporary return to the Guns N' Roses lineup has been making Slash nostalgic for the old days? Well, don't.

Slash shrugged off the subject during a recent interview with the U.K.'s TeamRockRadio [...] "What Duff does is what Duff does. It doesn't really concern me," said Slash. "Duff's relationship with Axl is different to mine. That call to me is just not going to happen."

Not that Slash has a problem with McKagan playing with the band again. "I don't judge Duff. He's cool," he insisted. "He just has a way more amicable, neutral relationship with Axl than I do."

Slash, Ultimate Classic Rock, April 2014

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Duff told us that it's been a great experience for him to play with Guns again.

It went really well. He worked really hard on the parts and he liked playing the newer songs from Chinese. And you know, it's pretty funny because we'd go to talk about certain things from Illusions, and there's things he doesn't remember, there's things I don't remember. We kind of finish some of each other's memories sometimes. And the Duff that played these shows with us isn't really the Duff that I knew from what I'd call "Old Guns" or the Appetite lineup or the Illusions lineup. [...]

It was great to see and hear you and Duff pairing up on the vocals in "It's So Easy," just like in the old days.

That was a fun thing about some of these shows. Because there's also things like that little line in "Civil War" "Peace could last forever." Duff wrote that line, and he sings it. And I've always been a fan of Duff's voice. There's a punk element to it and a sincerity to it. I like hearing it.

Do you think you and Duff will do more work together?

It's possible. I don't know yet. It depends on scheduling, or what shows Tommy [Stinson] wants to do with the Replacements and stuff like that. And you know, almost everybody in the band has some kind of issue going on, personally. There's people who have lost family members. Other people are dealing with separations. Sometimes court gets in the way. Real life!

Axl, Revolver Magazine, May 2014

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"[Rose and I] haven't really talked in a long time. But a lot of the tension that you were talking about has dissipated," Slash said. "We don't have all those issues anymore. There's not a lot of controversy. It's something that's more perpetuated by the media than anything."

Slash, CBS, May 2015

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Speaking to Aftonbladet TV in Sweden, where Slash was making a special appearance on Friday (August 21) for a launch event for the Marshall London phone, the guitarist said of his restored relationship with Axl: "It was probably way overdue, you know. But it's…. you know, it's very cool at this point. You know, let some of that, sort of, negative… dispel some of that negative stuff that was going on for so long."

Asked if his warmer relationship with Axl will lead to a reunion of GUNS N' ROSES' classic lineup, Slash said: "Oh, I couldn't answer that one, though…" Pressed on why that is, Slash replied: "All right, let's get off the subject, 'cause, you know, that's an old one."

Slash, Aftonbladet, August 2015

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Now 48, Tommy has been playing bass with Rose in Guns N’ Roses since 1998. Even before rumors started flying a few weeks ago about the late ’80s lineup of GNR getting back together, though, he said his status in the group was up in the air. His last GNR gig was April 2014 in Las Vegas.

“I reach out once in a while to that crew of people — a lot of whom are also my good friends — but I really have no idea what’s going on,” he said, clarifying at least this much: “I didn’t quit the gig or walk away from it. We just all sort of left it in Vegas.”

Tommy, Star Tribune, September 2015

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January 5, 2016 – Upholding a three-decade tradition of breaking ground, creating trends, and forever changing the face of rock ‘n’ roll, Guns N’ Roses announce the most significant and anxiously awaited musical event of this century. Founder Axl Rose and former members Slash and Duff McKagan will regroup to headline the CoachellaMusic & Arts Festival (April 15-17 & April 22-24)—as announced last night!

For months, critics and audiences alike have generated immense excitement and speculation over the possible regrouping of the iconic line-up. The April performances will mark the first time since 1993 the Gunners will share the stage for what is certain to be an explosive event.

Band Press Release, January 2016

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"I know there's a lot of questions regarding my Twitter account. But it's me. I opened the Twitter account. There was just so much speculation going on regarding my involvement and studio recording. There’s so much misinformation, so I wanted to clarify that I'm not in the studio recording with any of the Guns N' Roses guys. At this point in time, I'm not involved in the actual shows ... A lot of stuff [fans] are reading isn't true."

Izzy, Rolling Stone, March 2016

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Marc Canter, Slash's best friend, has revealed how it was bassist Duff McKagan who hammered out a peace settlement - after Slash split from his wife.

Duff, he says, was the only person who spoke to both the warring ex-bandmates and could lead them to a peace settlement.

But he said one of the key elements fell into place after Slash split from his wife Perla Ferrar in 2014, 13 years after they married.

Ferrar managed Slash's career and held executive posts in all of his companies, but the pair divorced in January last year.

Axl, he says, felt that Ferrar was 'controlling' and her presence was a key obstacle to any reunion. 

'Perla was out of the picture and Axl didn't like Perla and the way she controls things,' Canter, 51, said.

It opened the way for McKagan to make peace.

Canter said: 'Duff was a big part in getting them back together. He was working with Axl again and is a good middle man. There was no-one else who communicated with Slash and Axl.

'When Axl was venting about Slash, Duff was able to help him see things through Slash's eyes.'

And Canter says that Duff has been instrumental in several business deals over the years.

'Axl put a live DVD out a couple of years ago that needed Slash's permission because it was the old songs,' he recalls.

'Before that Slash would never sign off and Axl would never sign off if Slash wanted music.

'Duff was somehow able to finagle Slash to sign off on that. Soon after that Axl signed off on one for Slash for Live at the Roxy. That was a sign of some kind of truce.

'So the the old partnership was working together but not talking. Then they started licensing music for movies because, before, they weren't doing that, because that requires all their signatures.'

Marc Canter, Daily Mail, April 2016

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Axl: I hope to keep this [the reunion] going for a quite a while. It's just really- we're right now- it's all good. I mean obviously that could just explode. But no, everything is actually good between everybody so as long as we can keep it going we probably will.

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Axl: [...] I do want to put out more music with Guns n' Roses and I don't know if that has to do with Slash or not but underneath Guns n' Roses thing (?) and if he and I write something or if he wants to play on something we have it's like that'd be great.I have been working to get where things are. This isn't- the Guns n' Roses reunion hasn't happened by chance or whatever… it was always looked at as a possibility but it just never seemed right or felt right.

Axl, China Exchange, June 2016

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Slash: You know, over all that period of time, there was a lot of bad feelings, from the break up up into - all throughout, that whole 20 years, whatever it was.  [...]  But there is also a part of you, that’s like in a marriage, where you love somebody, you know, so there is always that feeling, but then there is all this negative stuff, and -

Nikki Sixx: Which by the way comes from a lot of people.  

Slash: Well, there was so much stuff perpetuated in the media and just blown up out of proportion. So when he and I talked for the first time, it was really, really cool. 

-Was it in person? 

Slash: Yeah, that was...  No, first time we spoke was on the phone, and then we got together when I got back into town, because I was on the road. I was in Peru, I remember it specifically. But it was very cathartic [...] to physically talk, ‘cause I mean there’s a bond you have that it’s never, you know - [...]  And then it makes the break up - I mean what happened, it’s just - the bond makes the negative side that much worse, because you’re forced out of it. Anyway, so when we got together and played, it was Coachella. It was just fuckin’ awesome. And we played the Troubadour, it was the first gig that we did. And so it just snowballed from there. 18 months... I mean I would never, you know - If you talked to me 20 months ago, I would have said ‘No fucking way. It’s not ever gonna happen.’ But it did, and it was fuckin’ awesome.  

Slash, Sixx Sense, December 2017

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“I’ve been busy,” he says. Yeah, just a bit. From 2014 through most of 2016 Slash was on tour with The Conspirators, 150-plus dates, writing for the next record, working on “movie projects” and so on. And then… 

“And then Axl and I talked,” he says, “and that was something that came totally out of the blue, totally unexpected. We talked and managed to alleviate some of this negativity that had been brewing. 

“Not between us,” he stresses, “because we had never actually spoken. It was sort of perpetuated through the media and stuff, and it just became a running thing – the biggest rivalry or whatever. So it was really nice to talk.” 

The ice broken, after a few phone calls, Slash and Axl met in person. They’d been getting offers to re-form for the Coachella festival for ages, but had never even considered it. 

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When the two of them met, Axl said: “You know, Coachella would be sort of fun, wouldn’t it?” 

The plan was just to do two dates at Coachella and some warm-up gigs, but… 

“We just had a fucking insane blast doing it,” says Slash, “that, you know, one thing led to another and the next thing you know we had booked a leg of a tour, and it just kept adding up and adding up.” And now that little get-together is the fourth biggest tour of all time.

“It’s been quite a fucking positive experience,” he nods.

Slash, Classic Rock Magazine, August 2018

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Why did you go back to Guns N’ Roses after 20 years of quarreling?
 
Slash: That ended when Axl and I talked again. We talked about everything, the reasons I left in 1996, the people who had put us against each other. It was good to realise that there weren’t problems anymore as complicated and huge as what the press was saying. 
 
And in 2016, the Coachella festival made you an offer to reform...
 
Slash: Coachella had been offering us every year since it started in 1999. We tested the waters with two concerts and then three club shows. We had a great time, Axl was perfect, so continuing was the obvious thing to do.

Slash, Le Parisien, January 2019

Edited August 5, 2019 by Blackstar

[Twinaleblood]

Thank you @Blackstar, gonna add them to the main post

[Italian girl]

16 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

 

 

 

January 5, 2016 – Upholding a three-decade tradition of breaking ground, creating trends, and forever changing the face of rock ‘n’ roll, Guns N’ Roses announce the most significant and anxiously awaited musical event of this century. Founder Axl Rose and former members Slash and Duff McKagan will regroup to headline the CoachellaMusic & Arts Festival (April 15-17 & April 22-24)—as announced last night!

 

Band Press Release, January 2016

 

BEST DAY EVER!

I stil rememebr the moment I read it!!

[shotsfired cro]

nothing from GNR world ever made sense and 90% of the things that are official - probably never happend.  So why bother.

After being the biggest band on the planet - Axl fires the whole band.

A couple of years after being a cancer - Slash is a best buddy.

Izzy from being 'the only person I can imagine working again from the old line up' and playing with him in 2011 - 2016 the only crucial member not being on board of the reunion tour.

Ferrer being the worst of the revolving 78 drummers in the band but he still remians in the 'reunion' band.

 

[Amaya]

It would be cool if all 5 men could meet up. Alone. No assistants. No independent staff from each man. Meeting in a comfortable and relaxed setting would be best. Neutral territory. A recording studio.  Maybe a place like that would not be best, but a home which is more loose and comfortable. And send us fans some pictures on their social media.

Edited August 5, 2019 by Amaya

[alfierose]

47 minutes ago, Amaya said:

It would be cool if all 5 men could meet up. Alone. No assistants. No independent staff from each man. Meeting in a comfortable and relaxed setting would be best. Neutral territory. A recording studio.  Maybe a place like that would not be best, but a home which is more loose and comfortable. And send us fans some pictures on their social media.

I'd be very surprised if they haven't done that by now. I don't think we'd get social media pictures from an 'off duty' setting.

Welcome to the forum btw. 

[alfierose]

Maybe not Steven perhaps but Izzy in the early reunion days did turn up for some stuff.

[Gibsonfender2323]

53 minutes ago, Amaya said:

It would be cool if all 5 men could meet up. Alone. No assistants. No independent staff from each man. Meeting in a comfortable and relaxed setting would be best. Neutral territory. A recording studio.  Maybe a place like that would not be best, but a home which is more loose and comfortable. And send us fans some pictures on their social media.

Yeah and in 2 months time this board would still be complaining about how old and slow they are. Give me a break

[lame ass security]

18 minutes ago, Gibsonfender2323 said:

Yeah and in 2 months time this board would still be complaining about how old and slow they are. Give me a break

Not true, it would take two days.  They've lost a step and a little off their fastball.😄  But man, it just puts into perspective what the Stones have been able to pull off.  Those guys are amazing, especially Jagger.  He truly is a freak of nature, how the hell does he do it?

[Amaya]

2 hours ago, alfierose said:

I'd be very surprised if they haven't done that by now. I don't think we'd get social media pictures from an 'off duty' setting.

Welcome to the forum btw. 

Thank u 4 the welcome. I just dived  in talking jive.

[Ratam]

32 minutes ago, Amaya said:

Thank u 4 the welcome. I just dived  in talking jive.

Welcome!!! 👍

[Draguns]

3 hours ago, lame ass security said:

Not true, it would take two days.  They've lost a step and a little off their fastball.😄  But man, it just puts into perspective what the Stones have been able to pull off.  Those guys are amazing, especially Jagger.  He truly is a freak of nature, how the hell does he do it?

Not to get too further from GNR, but I'm quite amazed that Mick Jagger and two others from the Stones went to Tick Tock Diner in Clifton last Thursday, which is my hometown.  Out of all the places to go to in NYC, the Rolling Stones picked a NJ diner to eat breakfast. 

[GNRfanMILO]

@Blackstar this doesn't make sense to me:

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"[Rose and I] haven't really talked in a long time. But a lot of the tension that you were talking about has dissipated," Slash said. "We don't have all those issues anymore. There's not a lot of controversy. It's something that's more perpetuated by the media than anything."

Slash, CBS, May 2015

 

 

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According to Slash, the first time he and Axl spoke in 2015, "it was on the phone, and then we got together when I got back into town. 'Cause I was on the road — I was in Peru; I remember it specifically," he said.

Slash, Sixx Sense, December 2017 (http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/slash-says-it-was-cathartic-to-speak-with-axl-rose-for-first-time-in-nearly-two-decades/)

 

It was mentioned in a few interviews too, the fact that they spoken for the first time somewhere between the 2015 southamerican leg. Peru's show was in march 9th. So was Slash lying in his first interview or what? Maybe he didn't want to reveal it yet, it makes sense because the Aftonbladet question came out of the blue. Almost like he wanted the reporter to ask him that. There were no rumours of them being on speaking terms again at that time.

Edited August 6, 2019 by GNRfanMILO

[lame ass security]

48 minutes ago, Draguns said:

Not to get too further from GNR, but I'm quite amazed that Mick Jagger and two others from the Stones went to Tick Tock Diner in Clifton last Thursday, which is my hometown.  Out of all the places to go to in NYC, the Rolling Stones picked a NJ diner to eat breakfast. 

I saw that, very cool.  

[Twinaleblood]

 

 

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, GNRfanMILO said:

@Blackstar this doesn't make sense to me:

It was mentioned in a few interviews too, the fact that they spoken for the first time somewhere between the 2015 southamerican leg. Peru's show was in march 9th. So was Slash lying in his first interview or what? Maybe he didn't want to reveal it yet, it makes sense because the Aftonbladet question came out of the blue. Almost like he wanted the reporter to ask him that. There were no rumours of them being on speaking terms again at that time.

I'd say he didn't want to let the cat out of the bag yet. He had already talked to Axl when he did that interview, but it was probably too early to share it with the press because things were still up in the air. So he just said things were better between him and Axl. That's just an educated guess on my part.

EDIT: forgot to add that DJ announced in July he was leaving and confirmed he already knew then that Slash was coming back. This basically confirms that Slash just tried to keep things quiet in that interview with CBS in May, but stuff was going on behind the scenes. 

Edited August 6, 2019 by Twinaleblood

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On 04/08/2019 at 9:09 PM, Graeme said:

At least Pitman had the guts to publicly criticise the fact that the band he'd been part of for more than 15 years was being unceremoniously dismantled and Axl was capitulating to the pressure he'd resisted forever. 

I hate the way the CD-era band ended, it just felt so heartless towards the guys who had been in the band for years, like they were just swept aside and dumped like both them and their work meant nothing. I suppose the fact that even one person felt that way means that it didn't mean nothing, but I found it so offputting that it managed to end my interest in my favourite band.

Lets all be honest here, that band was dead long before they buried it.

And this one is starting to go the same way.

[AncientEvil80]

21 hours ago, Amaya said:

It would be cool if all 5 men could meet up. Alone. No assistants. No independent staff from each man. Meeting in a comfortable and relaxed setting would be best. Neutral territory. A recording studio.  Maybe a place like that would not be best, but a home which is more loose and comfortable. And send us fans some pictures on their social media.

Marc Canter, is that you? 

[GnR Chris]

On 8/4/2019 at 7:09 PM, Graeme said:

At least Pitman had the guts to publicly criticise the fact that the band he'd been part of for more than 15 years was being unceremoniously dismantled and Axl was capitulating to the pressure he'd resisted forever. 

I hate the way the CD-era band ended, it just felt so heartless towards the guys who had been in the band for years, like they were just swept aside and dumped like both them and their work meant nothing. I suppose the fact that even one person felt that way means that it didn't mean nothing, but I found it so offputting that it managed to end my interest in my favourite band.

Pitman has no one but himself to blame for the way things ended. He wasn't "unceremoniously" booted from the band. He blew it.

[Sydney Fan]

On 06/08/2019 at 8:18 AM, alfierose said:

Maybe not Steven perhaps but Izzy in the early reunion days did turn up for some stuff.

I think with axls comment in one of the gnr shows where he was told to play 1 song not 2 shows that i doubt whether any afd5 reunion would ever  happen......

[rumandraisin]

13 hours ago, GnR Chris said:

Pitman has no one but himself to blame for the way things ended. He wasn't "unceremoniously" booted from the band. He blew it.

And as Fortis said, what is to miss? Essentially saying he did nothing apart from backing vocals and loading a few samples from the cd tracks. 

In 2001/2 he did do a few synth lines on the older tracks but come 2006 that had passed. 

[denin]

This is somewhere in the China Exchange.

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Axl said that he and Slash patched things up over the phone in 2015. “Slash and I hadn’t talked in 19 years, and it was a good talk,” he recounted. One of the main points of contention, Axl revealed, were the contents of Slash’s 2007 autobiography. “And I was, like, ‘You wrote a lot of stuff [in your book] that didn’t even happen. It’s not real.’”

That book had actually made things worse on the intervening time, as some Dexter chats show.

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Then you have the mind twisting equally as true horseshit in Slash’s book but I have the rehearsal tapes...