The questions is. "Will the original Guns & Roses lineup have a jam at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Induction." Slash would like it to be so. Axl, not so much.
Slash is not the only one, with various former members having spoken about reuniting for a jam long before their nomination for induction to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Recently Slash spoke to Livewire, and naturally the subject of the reunion came up. This is what he had to say. "I would love to play. It's just, one of those things where I know that it's not going to happen, so… I just did an interview and said, 'I don't think we're playing.'[Laughs]. I mean I think it would be cool to play, but very early on when the whole thing came up, it became apparent that it wasn't going to happen — and you know, that doesn't surprise me. We've been at odds for… well, not at odds, but we just haven't had any sort of communication in a long time so…
that's basically it. That's all I can tell you."
Axl has in the past alluded to the friction surrounding a reunion jam with the G&R originals as being his relationship with Slash since day dot. In an interview with Randall Roberts of The Times in December 2011 he made the following comments regarding Slash, "It was really a fight with me and Slash, Izzy was doing the same thing, but the fight with me and Slash started the day I met him. He came in, popped my tape out and put his in and wanted me in his band. And I didn't want to join his band. We've had that war since Day 1." Axl went on to add when asked about whether he took any responsibility for the limbotic state he was in as far as a reunion was concerned, " You can say it's my fault, but to me it's like if you're on a plane and somebody trips you and the air marshal arrests you for falling — like it's my fault for allowing somebody to trip me?"
It's a shame that a potentially history making moment will not happen due to ego. If only Slash and Axl could just let it go for one night.
