Slash "Closes the book" on Guns N' Roses

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, guitarist Slash has commented on the situation regarding Axl Rose not attending the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction for Guns N' Roses, stating he really wanted the band's original line-up to perform on the evening.  

He said "My whole thing was that I really, in my heart of hearts, wanted to have the whole original band get together and actually perform, which I sort of knew was wishful thinking. When the whole thing first came up, that's basically what I wanted to do. It became apparent that that wasn't going to happen. I was like, "Oh fuck," and I was sort of disillusioned with the whole thing, but there was that commitment that was sort of made that I was going to go, and I thought Axl was still going to go, and it wasn't until the last minute that I heard that he wasn't coming, and that's when we all decided we were just going to go ahead and play anyway".  

Slash continued "I didn't have any illusions or delusions of GNR getting back together for anything. I maybe tried to see it happen for this one particular event, I didn't have high hopes for that, I didn't feel confident it was going to happen, but having done this one gig, and for the event itself, when it was all said and done, it really felt like closing the book on the whole thing".

To read the full Rolling Stone interview with Slash click HERE. 

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