Steven Adler’s Dream Of Getting Back Together With The Guys Still Burns Bright

Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler sat down for a chat with the Latin American online radio station Rockum Radio recently, and during his long, slurry monologue he talked about how American people are pretty much bitter jerks (OK, I get that), his upcoming judging gig for the Cannabis Cup, how Matt Sorum pretty much took over his life (guess Americans are bitter!), and how he still holds the belief that the original Appetite-era lineup of Guns N’ Roses will, someday, get together. Perhaps when Chinese Democracy comes out.

“It’s been wonderful because I’ve been talking to them a lot lately. They feel the same way I do — it’s just a matter of Axl wanting to, [being] ready to do it. But all four of us wanna do this — have a nice, good reunion and play for everybody. Finish what we started doing. That’s what we wanna do. And Slash and Izzy and Duff — even Axl, but I Axl wants to put his record out. I don’t know… I can’t say.”

(Transcription via Blabbermouth.) You get the feeling that everyone just really wants to be nice to Steve from all of these interviews he’s doing, right? And that no one has the heart to take him aside and say, “Look, this just isn’t going to happen, dude.” Maybe they have about as much faith in Chinese Democracy ever coming out as I do, so they figure that “Axl wanting to put his record out” is the ultimate excuse, and they’re probably hoping against hope that the guy never gets his shit together.

In all fairness to Adler, though, out of everything he does say, there’s one thing (aside from his repeated assertions that he loves to smoke up) that doesn’t seem completely borne from his head. And that’s the fact that Weiland may be kind of a dick:

“Yeah, it was great. Matt Sorum and that other guy, that singer, that Scott Weiland guy [of VELVET REVOLVER] — that’s why Slash didn’t come up and play, because they kept calling him and being all upset, like, ‘What are you doing here?’ Like little babies, little kids. I was like, ‘What the fuck? Just go have him play a couple of songs.’ They were like, ‘Oh, we don’t want you to.’ It was crazy.”

See, I can believe that! So maybe he’s not wrong about the Guns N’ Roses thing … right? Oh, come on, I’m just trying to be nice.

Steven Adler interview [MP3; rockumweb.com, via Blabbermouth] [Photo via MySpace]