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Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor recently told Loudwire that he recorded nine or ten songs with Velvet Revolver.

“I think it was ten [songs that I recorded with Velvet Revolver]… I think it was… It’s either nine or ten,” Taylor said (see video below). “There was a handful that we wrote, and then there was a handful that I kind of rearranged a little bit based on music that they already had. So it wasn’t music that we kind of wrote together. I mean, there were, like, three… I think there was three songs that we wrote together, which were actually pretty sweet. And then the rest of it was me writing to music that they already had that I thought was pretty cool.”

He continued: “Yeah, the world will probably never hear ‘em, which is fine, because, I mean, I would want another crack at kind of working on some of that stuff anyway. But that will never happen, so it’s…. You know, it’s all good.”

Dave Kushner discussed Velvet Revolver’s one off 2012 reunion show with Scott Weiland in a May 2014 Alternative Nation interview, and Weiland then claiming in the press that the band were set for a reunion album and tour.

“It was such a weird time dude, I just really don’t know. Me and a couple of friends of mine put that whole benefit together, my wife was really sick at the time and I don’t really remember a lot of the band part of it. I was just trying to deal with my best friend dying and all that kind of stuff, and getting all those people and trying to secure talent. I mean we didn’t really have anyone helping us. It was just me, the drummer from Alanis Morissette’s band, Matt Wallace the producer, and my buddy John Fister, trying to put together a big event, and going to these bands directly. It was a cool event. The vibe with the band was still tenuous, there was no: ‘Alright! This is great, this feels great, like I’m putting on an old pair of whatever.’ It definitely wasn’t that vibe. Then obviously there was a ton of talk and speculation about what was going to happen. We just kind of, no one really talked that much any more.

I have no idea where or why out of nowhere Scott said that to someone in some press thing. Honestly, it just really came out of nowhere. Maybe someone had been saying to him: ‘Maybe you guys can do a record now!’ Or someone had given him that information, that maybe that potentially was going to happen? I think I was talking to someone in management saying: ‘Maybe we can write some songs or whatever, and see how this goes.’ I think that that little bit of information, by the time he heard it, it was like a game of telephone.

What was funny was reading Slash’s denial of the whole thing was like wow (laughs), very adamant. When I asked him about it, he said it was because he was touring for his solo record, and he didn’t see it in the press. He was at some morning radio show at like 6 or 7 in the morning, whenever you do those morning talk shows, and got asked by a couple of DJ’s about the whole thing. That’s where his reaction came from, like: ‘What? I don’t know, he’s crazy, I don’t even know what the fuck he’s talking about.’ It was like not enough coffee, early morning, kind of blindsided by this whole thing. That’s partly why his reaction sounded as harsh as it did. But yeah, it just never went anywhere.”

Duff McKagan discussed reuniting with Axl Rose to perform with Guns N’ Roses last year on Talk Is Jericho earlier this week, admitting that he missed playing with his pal. Alternative Nation has transcribed a summary of the interview’s Guns N’ Roses discussion. Duff said his reaction to the chance to play with Guns N’ Roses again made him think about his friendship with Axl. “This is a good opportunity to get your old pal back,” said McKagan.

“I was going to go out and play with a guy, we went through the gutter, from nothing, to believing in our music.”

McKagan also told a funny story about showing up 30 minutes late to a van during his reunion with Axl, and why he thinks Axl is punk rock. “I came from a punk rock background, and that guy was more punk rock that anybody I’d seen, because everything is real. There’s no put on, it’s real, and that’s punk rock. He was honest, and real, the guy can’t lie, he can’t. That bear honesty and truth from that guy is more punk rock than anything else. He was born a frontman, it’s natural. That’s not something you can go home and practice, it’s just, you’ve got it or you don’t. Once you have it, you always have it. We just had a really good time, we traveled together. (Laughs) I kept him waiting in a van for a half hour. I didn’t know, I thought we were supposed to meet in a lobby, and he was laughing when I got to the van. I finally got this text: ‘We’re waiting for you dude.’ [i was like] ‘A-ha,’ he goes, ‘Touche.’ ‘I didn’t mean to make you wait, I was in the lobby.'”

Duff also complimented Axl for being able to sing in the altitude in Bolivia, especially since Duff himself had to take medication for it. He also said he wishes he’d played again with Axl sooner.

“After playing with Axl last spring and those guys, I just missed playing with him, I’ve got to be honest. I’m like dude, we should have been doing this for the – so much time has passed, of course. We talked about some things, we did, we thought we were just this gang, we weren’t going to fall into any typical rock crap, no man. We fell into every one of them man, and we were laughing about that.”

McKagan also discussed Izzy Stradlin, revealing that he had recently recorded a couple of tracks with him. He said there is such musical trust between himself and Stradlin, that if Izzy says ‘I have a bridge’ he doesn’t even question it or ask to hear it, he immediately says yes.

GNRTruth have up an exclusive excerpt from Duff McKagan’s new book How To Be A Man where he discusses reuniting with Axl Rose and performing with Guns N’ Roses recently.

“After I agreed t play the shows, I quickly realized that I hadn’t played many of these songs in a long, long time. Axl and I started to communicate, and our initial discourse – via text, naturally – reminded me of the levity that made up about 75 percent of our old relation: knock-knock jokes. They’re my specialty, really. But I was impressed to discover that Axl had amassed quite a catalogue of his own during our time apart. I had to reach deep into my knock-knock chest to keep up. But then our conversation turned to the songs, the real shit that mattered. It was a bit strange at first, the two of us texting about which GN’R songs we were gonna do. He and I hadn’t had a conversation about a set list in like twenty years. Twenty years ago, there wasn’t even texting!”

He also discussed relearning old Guns N’ Roses songs. “I realized there in my basement room, going through these songs again, just how fucking good we were. I’m not trying to blow smoke or be cute here, I just simply forgot how heavy that music is. It was a bit emotional. With those songs cranking through my ghetto blaster and my bass in my lap, I was transported back to a time when the followship and songwriting of that band was in its prime.”

He also discussed letting go of resentment, and first seeing Guns N’ Roses perform with their new lineup. “It was totally weird to see ‘your’ singer do his thing with a whole new set of musicians, but my gut reaction then was to pull for him. I realized then that all of my work on past resentments had actually paid off when it came to Axl. It was a great personal moment.”

Duff also said he has a good relationship with all of the current members of Guns N’ Roses.

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In Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Kurt Cobain is shown mocking the idea of being high on heroin with Courtney Love, sarcastically shaking while he jokes about missing a tour with Guns N’ Roses.

“At the height of their drug abuse. Damn, if I wasn’t so needle sick id be on tour with Guns N’ Roses right now. Me and Axl would be whooping it up, snake dancing.” He added, “But I’m too god damn needle sick man.”

Cobain takes several more sarcastic pot shots at GNR in the film. At one point Courtney Love asks Kurt, “Why do you think everyone says you’re the good one and I’m the bad one?” Kurt responds, “Because i know how to use my illusion.” There is later a part where Kurt and Courtney are doing baby talk with Frances Bean, and though he is not visible, it appears that Kurt goes into a joke voice talking about Guns N’ Roses and Nirvana: “Nirvana, who the fuck do you think you are? seeing your interviews makes me think you guys are the most immature pieces of trash ever made. if you assholes could ever write anything that could close to anything guns n roses have written, maybe you could talk. but until you sell a few billion more albums, take your head out of your asses, and smell the air.”

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has an unreleased song called “Goodbye,” recorded with Jordan Freeman and copyrighted in 2010, though the year 1992 is also mentioned on the listing. Thanks to reader @ChainsForAlice for sending Alternative Nation this tip.