I think there's a lot of generalisations on both sides.

People like to talk about how slash runs down axl...but  I actually think in general slash tried to avoid talking about axl most of the time.

However he is pushing his own career both as a solo artist (the new record) , session player for established artists, and in other bands (Snakepit, and VR) and does the traditional industry thing and works the media circut appropriately when he has music to promote.

The media always wants to talk about GNR cos it was massive and controversial and so sells copies. And so they always ask slash stuff, and sometimes he cracks a little and says something. But considering the volume of interviews he's done, the extent of the drama in gnr, and the length of time he and axl have been on bad terms, I feel overall he's been mild in his remarks.

Likewise, I'm not surprised if there's inaccuracies. There's time delays, there's drugs, there's issues of perception, there's opinion. I don't really think it's a situation where anyone can be right or wrong.

Nothing that was entirely shocking...i mean it's pretty obvious his views on most of the stuff, obviously he's pro-reunion, regrets that drugs have fucked up his life, is defensive about his role in the legacy, and that kind of thing.

I know there's a lot of anti adler people around, and even if some of what happened to him is his own fault, I can see it would be tough to take from his side of things.

I mean he achieved his childhood dream of making it in music, gets kicked out of a band known for drug use by other people on drugs. He admits causing some problems but points out that there were a lot of issues that didn't concern him (during the writing of UYI) and felt he was singled out. Then he had to watch the band go massive on UYI, the other guys do VR and then all the strange new era gnr stuff now. Meanwhile his life was in the toilet on drugs. Like i say....i'm not saying he is right or that he didnt make his own situation to an extent...but thats got to be pretty tough for any human. How does one live with that.

Anyway...so he's obviously got some bias about what happened to him, and what should happen. But overall he came across as back having his act togehter, and having a pretty good sence of humour about the situation and the other guys considering everything.

He actually was positive about Matt which surprised me. He said basicly that recently matt has been more respectful of steven's position as the original drummer...and that therefore matt is an ok guy and that he (steven) just didnt like it when people forget about him or pretend like he never existed and it was always matt.

He said adler's appetite is looking to record a new album in a couple of months. I think he said july but i could be wrong about that.

And he told some funny anicdotes about the other guys.

Oh and he also said that he consider's slash's book to be pretty much true, and that he is working on his own version of events, which he says when viewed with what slash has written will be like reading the other 50% of stuff they got up to as kids.

I disagree with that. The "myth factor" was fun for us fans, who spend our days on here obsessing over the next record, but it was bad for the 'brand' of GNR.

Sure some people we're swept along by the intruge but not as many as were lost through inactivity and silence. You have a situation where the band announces a tour, and the responce is "why will that happen? He can't even put out an album" - and all news in the media, no matter what was always followed by a disertation that Axl's gone mental, that he can't release music, the year count, the waiting, comparisions to brian wilson, talk of kicking out the ex-members. while to an extent all press is good press, the myth forced this shit to be the focus of the band for decades. If the band had released more material in a timely fashion and behaved more normally, it would have been better.

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