Slash comments on talking with Axl again - "It was probably way over due. It's very cool."

[wasted]

After sobering up I considered that Slash is refering to them both signing off on each others projects, not really had a conversation. The source is shady, its in some weird viking language and probably. Out of context again. And suddenly Axl is great again?

I think they should do it even if they hate each other. Think of the money!

The Swedish part just makes it all seem more legit to my fevered mind. They're trying to trickle out this idea that fences have been mended. Where better to do that than in fucking northern Sweden in the dead of night? Who the hell would pick up on that? It's like something a Bond villain would come up with. Or Axl, who pretty much is one these days.

What they didn't count on was the rabid fanbase guns still has. There's no whispering news like this. And those are the same rabid fans that'll fill stadiums all over the world if they follow through.

It's a step in the right direction. They arent suing each other or blocking old material things.

I think now neither of them benefit from the feud. Slash for a while it helped get attention on VR etc. but now he's establish solo artist it just brings negative vibe.

A reunion is more complex than just Axl and Slash high fiving.

so maybe, hopefully for the fans they can put something together.

They have all done what they wanted, proven themselves. So just a reunion tour would round everything out nicely. But I dont see it here yet.

To get excited it has to be more concrete.

[Rovim]

To get excited it has to be more concrete.

Get concrete or fuck off. You think Slash didn't know it will create hype? that little comment in that interview and now it's on rolling stone and all over the internet.

So why would he say that if he knew? could have said something else or nothing at all. Still, I think the scale of it is not as impressive as it might seem right now and we pounce no questions asked. Let the smoke clear right now it's on viagra blast.

[Ender04]

I've seen the video but is this 100% confirmed by Slash? Many, many times during interviews people will ask a question and then re-record it if the question isn't included in the answer and it could have been altered so slightly.

My thoughts exactly. There isn´t something like reliable media, there´s only media trying to sell copies and clicks. I´m not going to get excited unless I hear something concrete from the camp

[Graeme]

I'm a Guns N' Roses fan, have been for years, they're probably my favourite band ever. I love their back catalogue, from the opening of Jungle to the last chords of Prostitute... The 87-93 era stuff includes a lot of my favourite songs of all time and I think Duff, Izzy and Slash are awesome.

It's great if Axl and Slash are finally getting the opportunity to overcome a very ugly episode in their lives which has cast a shadow (to a certain extent) over everything they've done subsequently. Getting a deep-seated festering resentment out of your life after so long has got to be a positive development, regardless of the context.

I'm still not excited at the thought that this might lead to a reunion. I'm just not. I'm pretty gutted to be honest. I think the guys who've dedicated the best part of the last 10-15 years to being in Guns N' Roses deserve a better siren song than just saying "Well, that was all for nothing... Here's all the much more famous people to take your jobs back off you, bye!" It legitimises a line of argument that I've never agreed with: the "Everything post-1993 was an awful embarrassment and not proper Guns N' Roses" argument.

I don't have any problem with people holding that view, what I did have a problem with was people who believed that hanging around here with a belligerent sense of smug superiority and insisting that everyone else should have that perspective too. Those guys were/are the worst.

I loved post-2006 GN'R. They're still the best band I've ever seen live, of all the hundreds I've seen... They're one of the few bands I would travel to other countries to see. I loved the build up around the release of the record, I would happily defend them all day against all the critics who had written them off because of who they were, rather than going to a show and experiencing the atmosphere they created. They were my Guns N' Roses.

I hate the prospect of the inglorious end that seems to be hovering over this chapter of the band's history. I mean, either a reunion happens at which point the whole era becomes almost forgotten (or framed as a mistake which has now been rectified). Or a reunion doesn't happen and the obfuscating silence and dysfunction of the last 4 years persists until the wheels fall off and the band just dissolves.

CD era GN'R deserve better.

[durruti column]

Even TB knows that reunion is the best thing to generate massive incomes. They know that reunion is good for everybody. That's an essential point from a managerial perspective.

Axl and Slash could never co-exist in a business relationship. They have both been Capaitn's of their respective ships for so long that returning to an equal partnership would be beyond both of them in "this lifetime".

lmao

axl's ship (fakegnr) is sinking and slash is touring in bars, i'm pretty sure they'll reach an agreement

[GibsonLP]

Well thank fuck for that. These last 19 years of waiting has seemed like a lifetime

[SoulMonster]

Stop overreacting.

[IZZYISGNR]

Even TB knows that reunion is the best thing to generate massive incomes. They know that reunion is good for everybody. That's an essential point from a managerial perspective.

Axl and Slash could never co-exist in a business relationship. They have both been Capaitn's of their respective ships for so long that returning to an equal partnership would be beyond both of them in "this lifetime".

lmao

axl's ship (fakegnr) is sinking and slash is touring in bars, i'm pretty sure they'll reach an agreement

+1 Durruti

Dj and BBF already abandoned the sinking ship...

[Ender04]

I think the guys who've dedicated the best part of the last 10-15 years to being in Guns N' Roses deserve a better siren song than just saying "Well, that was all for nothing... Here's all the much more famous people to take your jobs back off you, bye!" It legitimises a line of argument that I've never agreed with: the "Everything post-1993 was an awful embarrassment and not proper Guns N' Roses" argument.

I agree, and I can't see Axl doing that.

CD era GN'R deserve better.

Yes.

[durruti column]

CD era GN'R never existed. it was only Axl making experiments and milking the name with a backing band. it didn't work, it failed.

i'm truly sorry for the people who supported that travesty. you've been played.

Edited August 23, 2015 by durruti column

[Graeme]

CD era GN'R never existed. it was only Axl making experiments and milking the name with a backing band. it didn't work, it failed.

i'm truly sorry for the people who supported that travesty. you've been played.

Bullshit.

[DieselDaisy]

CD era GN'R never existed. it was only Axl making experiments and milking the name with a backing band. it didn't work, it failed.

i'm truly sorry for the people who supported that travesty. you've been played.

Ironically though a lot of people were supporting it up until about 2011 when Axl became a fat purveyor of Vegas cheese and revealed the 'nugnr' experiment for all it was which was always a vacuous con trick basically. If Rose had put out four albums and was playing experimental setlists now, it would be a different story. I hate to say it but even I was carried along for awhile.

[My Name is Trinity]

Best GNR news in decades!!!!! Woohoooo!!!

[SoulMonster]

Slash vaguely implies he is now friends with Axl again, forum erupts with people talking about details about the ensuing reunion tour and record while others either lament the end of "nuGN'R" or uses the opportunity to bash all lineups after 1993 and everyone who at any time enjoyed them.

:facepalm:

[DieselDaisy]

Slash vaguely implies he is now friends with Axl again, forum erupts with people talking about details about the ensuing reunion tour and record while others either lament the end of "nuGN'R" or uses the opportunity to bash all lineups after 1993 and everyone who at any time enjoyed them.

:facepalm:

'Vaguely'? Have you actually watched the video?

[SoulMonster]

Slash vaguely implies he is now friends with Axl again, forum erupts with people talking about details about the ensuing reunion tour and record while others either lament the end of "nuGN'R" or uses the opportunity to bash all lineups after 1993 and everyone who at any time enjoyed them.

:facepalm:

'Vaguely'? Have you actually watched the video?

Yes, and have you compared it to what he said at the CBS interview in May? In the Aftonbladet interview he talked about "some of the negative stuff" having been mispelled, whereas in the May interview it it clear that whatever had happened by then, at last, could be nothing but signals from the GN'R camp about Axl having mellowed and that there had been no direct contact between the two. So, by putting two and two together, I am not sure we will see they embrace and hold hands just yet.

Still, even if they are now close friends again, and that things have happened since May and that more than just "some of the negative stuff" is gone, people here are still completely overreacting by insinuating that "nuGN'R" is over or that Slash will ever play with Axl again.

[durruti column]

CD era GN'R never existed. it was only Axl making experiments and milking the name with a backing band. it didn't work, it failed.

i'm truly sorry for the people who supported that travesty. you've been played.

Ironically though a lot of people were supporting it up until about 2011 when Axl became a fat purveyor of Vegas cheese and revealed the 'nugnr' experiment for all it was which was always a vacuous con trick basically. If Rose had put out four albums and was playing experimental setlists now, it would be a different story. I hate to say it but even I was carried along for awhile.

Back in 1995, Axl thought classic hard rock was a dead end, he thought the GNR masses were going to follow him on the path of techno-industrial experiments a la Trent Reznor.... He was wrong. It would have been cool if he had done it as a solo project. GNR fans in general don't like indus music, they love hard rock, they love Slash. Hard rock is still alive nowadays, but nobody gives a damn about indus music anymore.

[DieselDaisy]

Two guitarists errant and a lazy sineger would also contribute to the notion that ''nugnr are over''. In fairness, if this was a cricket match, nugnr would be following on with a 200 run deficit and one wicket remaining.

CD era GN'R never existed. it was only Axl making experiments and milking the name with a backing band. it didn't work, it failed.

i'm truly sorry for the people who supported that travesty. you've been played.

Ironically though a lot of people were supporting it up until about 2011 when Axl became a fat purveyor of Vegas cheese and revealed the 'nugnr' experiment for all it was which was always a vacuous con trick basically. If Rose had put out four albums and was playing experimental setlists now, it would be a different story. I hate to say it but even I was carried along for awhile.

Back in 1995, Axl thought classic hard rock was a dead end, he thought the GNR masses were going to follow him on the path of techno-industrial experiments a la Trent Reznor.... He was wrong. It would have been cool if he had done it as a solo project. GNR fans in general don't like indus music, they love hard rock, they love Slash. Hard rock is still alive nowadays, but nobody gives a damn about indus music anymore.

The only thing I would add is he did not even do the techno-industrial thing. He did not carry through with it. He procrastinated for a decade, finally releasing the thing in 2008 - and apparently this was the first part of a trilogy. Now he is fat, in Vegas and playing Nightrain to housewives who missed out on Springsteen tickets. History comes full circle.

[SoulMonster]

Here's a thought: Slash tells the CBS crew in May that there isn't that many issues between him and Axl anymore, and that it is mostly media exaggerating, but that he hasn't actually talked to Axl. This would suggest that signals have come from the GN'R camp that Axl has mellowed (maybe nothing more than Slash interpreting Del congratulating his on his birthday, etc). The Aftonbladet interviewer saw this interview and maybe interprets it slightly too strongly in the direction of the friendship between the guys having been restored, and asks, "I've heard that you made friends with Axl Rose again. How was that possible after all those years?" to which Slash answers "It was probably way over due, you know, but it's very cool at this point. Let some of that... dispel some of that negative stuff that was going on for so long." Again, nothing suggests anything new has happened since May. Slash could still just be going on from signals from the camp. Hell, he might even have decided to not correct the interviewers assumption that they are friends again, because he wanted it to be a hand stretched out to Axl.

[Towelie]

There's gonna be some pissed off folks around here when in 2-4 months NuGNR announce their new guitarists and it ain't Slash.

Mark my words.

[DR DOOM]

There's gonna be some pissed off folks around here when in 2-4 months NuGNR announce their new guitarists and it ain't Slash.

Mark my words.

There's gonna be a silly looking Towel when in 2-4 months there is no announcement of any kind from NuGNR

[Gibbo]

There's gonna be some pissed off folks around here when in 2-4 months NuGNR announce their new guitarists and it ain't Slash.

Mark my words.

I think everyone knows thats not going to happen. Your not going to see Slash on stage with out Duff

Edited August 23, 2015 by Gibbo 27

[Padme]

Here's a thought: Slash tells the CBS crew in May that there isn't that many issues between him and Axl anymore, and that it is mostly media exaggerating, but that he hasn't actually talked to Axl. This would suggest that signals have come from the GN'R camp that Axl has mellowed (maybe nothing more than Slash interpreting Del congratulating his on his birthday, etc). The Aftonbladet interviewer saw this interview and maybe interprets it slightly too strongly in the direction of the friendship between the guys having been restored, and asks, "I've heard that you made friends with Axl Rose again. How was that possible after all those years?" to which Slash answers "It was probably way over due, you know, but it's very cool at this point. Let some of that... dispel some of that negative stuff that was going on for so long." Again, nothing suggests anything new has happened since May. Slash could still just be going on from signals from the camp. Hell, he might even have decided to not correct the interviewers assumption that they are friends again, because he wanted it to be a hand stretched out to Axl.

It is up to Axl to put an end to all this! Because we have RS magazine and Billboard and pretty much all the media printing this story. You could say they should´ve called Axl and his camp for comment. May be they want Axl to show his cards once and for all and get answers about everything from Slash to new GN´R future plans. In the meantime let people dream and speculate all they want. And eventually if Axl announces a new album with new GN´R then you can post "I TOLD YOU SO"!!!!

[gunsfanoldie]

Slash has probably only succeeded in pissing Axl off again, for having to be the one to sort of outright come out and say "I don't know what the fuck he's talking about. Nothing's happening." The feud continues, the dream is gone, and we get no new music from Axl.

[My Name is Trinity]

axl's twitter is on fire