Slash Bursts Steven Adler’s Reunion Bubble
In a long, rambling statement that sounds kind of like a person sorta-tipsily explaining to his friend why he just couldn’t keep leading someone on, despite a long-ago one-night stand that turned into friendship, Slash explained why he didn’t get onstage at Steven Adler’s party celebrating the 20th anniversary of Appetite For Destruction last month:
What happened was Steven has finally come out of that sort of haze that he’s been in for the last 17 years — I don’t think I need to explain it any more than that. I was sort of instrumental in getting him out of the place he was in into a little bit more sober kind of environment. So I’ve been hanging out with him and supporting him and stuff. He had that gig that was about to happen, and I’m really jazzed that he’s gotten back on the drums and he’s gotten ambitious again and he’s gonna go out and play. And then at some point he went public and said… Steven’s just an excitable guy and he meant well when he said it, but he said that there was gonna be this reunion, that I was gonna be there and Duff [McKagan] and Izzy [Stradlin] and Axl [Rose] possibly, and that just fueled that already rapid-fire kind of GUNS N’ ROSES rumors that goes on. Once I started getting phone calls and e-mails from all over the world about this gig, I said, ‘You know what? I can’t support it as such ’cause that’s not what it is.’ So I went down there but I didn’t wanna get up and play because I didn’t wanna fuel that any further. So I think Duff got up and played, and Izzy got up and played, and it was what it was, but I don’t see any reunion happening for real.”
Not that we’re surprised by any of this–this whole idea of Guns N’ Roses’ original lineup reuniting seemed like a daydream that had life breathed into it by the tired-of-waiting-for-Axl blogosphere–but we do feel sorta bad for Steve. Here’s hoping his MySpace mood doesn’t stay “bummed” for too long.
SLASH Explains Why He Didn’t Take Part In GUNS N’ ROSES ‘Reunion’ Gig In Hollywood [Blabbermouth] [Photo: Getty Images]
