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- monkeychow
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Re: What "IF" Axl had released a solo album back in 1995
D have you seen that slash interview post snakepit 1 where he talks about going back to GNR?
I'll try and youtube find it but it's obsure as hell...I think it's somewhere like 1996 fom memory.
He basicly says he's booked in to do GNR stuff and that "finally" the band can get back together and that it's been business shit holding them back but that they have plenty of new song ideas. I could be wrong but I think he says they had dinner or something too. Been a while.
To me in that interview slash kinda gives the impression that he's going to do whatever compromising needs to be done to make the band work.
But sadly none of it came to pass and I think he went from that moment to formally quitting for good.
To an extent I think the reunion doesn't happen because of the battle of the egos - but at the end of the day I think the band just couldn't stick together because the communication got all fucked up.
- metallex78
- Rep: 194
Re: What "IF" Axl had released a solo album back in 1995
Slash went to his house... thats a pretty good attempt
Exactly!
- metallex78
- Rep: 194
Re: What "IF" Axl had released a solo album back in 1995
yes i considered that before my post.
id be more impressed if slash called axl and set up a time to talk when sober.randomly showing up drunk in the middle of the night did nothing for axl and does nothing for me.
You talk about it like you know Axl yourself... 
How do you know Slash didn't try to do just that? Axl has made it clear that he wants nothing to do with Slash. Maybe Slash was so pissed at not getting through to him, that's why it resorted to that middle of the night drunken drop by his house.
Re: What "IF" Axl had released a solo album back in 1995
i dont know axl and i think its hilarious how members on this forum regularily psychoanalyze him with there claims about this and that. hes a strange mf and a recluse and nobody other than axl himself knows what the fuck is going with him at any given moment.
all i know is what is rumored which is that, according to scott weiland, a deal for a reunited gnr was close to in place around '06 and slash showed up at axl's place that same year drunk and was sent away.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: What "IF" Axl had released a solo album back in 1995
FWIW,
According to Beta's press release slash was NOT under the influence when he arrived at Axl's place.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: What "IF" Axl had released a solo album back in 1995
Found it...clearly says he was sober.
Source: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/gen … kagan.html
The following press release is the official response from W. Axl Rose in regards to the lawsuits filed by Saul "Slash" Hudson and Michael "Duff" McKagan, according to GunsNRoses.us.
"W. Axl Rose, on Friday March 3, 2006 responded to one of Saul "Slash" Hudson’s baseless lawsuits by filing a counterclaim asking the Federal Court to confirm his ownership of his own creative works. Slash and Michael "Duff" McKagan had previously filed cases both in Federal Court and in the Los Angeles Superior Court making numerous false allegations about Axl. Mr. Rose believes that once apprised of the true facts the Judge or Jury deciding these lawsuits will rule in Axl’s favor on every issue before them.
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More surprising to Axl are recent media reports that Slash (Saul Hudson) is claiming that he has always been supportive of Axl Rose and the new Guns N’ Roses. Slash’s actions in recent years have in fact been anything but supportive. Besides the lawsuits filed against Axl Rose, claiming, among other things, that Axl does not own the copyright in the songs that Axl co-authored with his former Guns N’ Roses band mates, Slash has continually made negative and malicious statements about Axl in order to garner publicity for himself.As an example the Federal lawsuit Hudson and McKagan filed was based on a faulty premise from the start. What Hudson and McKagan attempted to portray as egregious misconduct by Axl was in fact as Slash and Duff have learned nothing more than a clerical error committed by ASCAP. Had Slash and Duff or their representatives bothered to pick up the phone the clerical error could have been easily sorted out without the need for filing an utterly baseless lawsuit which one can only assume had been filed for the purposes of self-publicity at Axl’s expense.
The lawsuit also attacks Axl’s integrity as Slash and Duff, in a vindictive attempt to aggrandize their own stature, re-write history through false statements, which have been repeated by the media. Their attacks on Axl stand in sharp contrast to Rose’s conduct. Axl has at all times worked diligently to maintain the artistic integrity of the band by choosing with great care which properties to license Guns N’ Roses songs to and refusing to participate in what he believed were potentially embarrassing projects. He has fought to avoid the release of material that does not live up to the highest of standards demanded by the band’s history and it’s followers. Axl chose not to respond through the media while taking the high road in the face of Slash and Duff’s attacks. Hudson and McKagan, by contrast, have told ever changing - and false - stories regarding the formation of the band and it’s history and believe that the band’s catalogue should be exploited without careful consideration - for the Guns N’ Roses brand and their loyal audience - or Axl’s input as if it were fast food by anyone willing to pay for it.
For over 10 years Slash, a consummate press, photo and media opportunist and manipulator, has attacked Axl Rose on a number of levels. Slash’s actions whether in or out of Gun’s N’ Roses have been a complete betrayal across the board of his alleged friendship and business relationship with Axl and the so called brotherhood and band loyalties that are supposed to have existed. Instead Slash has publicly attempted, by soliciting public and media support, to take credit for something that was not his or anyone else’s to take, notwithstanding that Slash played a major part in the success of the band as Axl has continually acknowledged.
In October of 2005 Slash made an unannounced 5:30 AM visit to Axl Rose’s house. Not appearing to be under the influence, Slash came to inform Axl that: "Duff was spineless," "Scott was a fraud," that he "hates Matt Sorum" and that in this ongoing war, contest or whatever anyone wants to call it that Slash has waged against Axl for the better part of 20 years, that Axl has proven himself "the stronger." Based on his conduct in showing up at Rose’s home, Axl was hopeful that Slash would live up to his pronouncements that he wanted to end the war and move on with life. Unfortunately that did not prove to be the case.
Mr. Rose’s attorney Howard Weitzman commented, "Axl regrets having to spend time and energy on these distractions but he has a responsibility to protect the Guns N’ Roses legacy and expose the truth. Axl believes he has been left with no alternative but to respond to these lawsuits. It would have been Axl’s preference to resolve disputes with Slash and Duff in private. The courthouse is not his choice of forum. However, Axl could no longer sit quietly and allow the continuing dissemination of falsehoods and half-truths by his former band-mates."
