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Original Guns N' Roses Reunion Faces Big Hurdle

09/30/2015
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The original members of Guns N' Roses have been dogged by fans desire for a reunion and there was excitement recently when Slash revealed that he and Axl Rose has reconciled, but it appears that there are personal differences between other members that may be an obstacle to a reunion of the "Appetite for Destruction" lineup of the group.

Drummer Steven Adler, who was fired from the group in 1990 over his drug issues, has long been the only member that expressed a strong desire to see the original lineup play together again.

He once again discussed the possibility in a new SiriusXM interview on Monday night and said that believes that Duff McKagan and Slash have problems with him and doubt that he has cleaned up his act.

He said in the interview (via Blabbermouth), "I love those guys, and I always will, but Duff, he doesn't think I'm cool. He doesn't think I'm a cool guy. This is what people tell me. And he doesn't think I'm cool and that I'm not that great of a drummer. And Slash, he doesn't believe that I have 21 months and 21 days sober. He doesn't believe it.

"I don't know why, but they forget that at one time in their life, they were doing drugs and drinking and they were f***ing up. They forget that they were like that too. Duff has got 20 years sober or more, Slash has got, like, 11 or 12 years sober, and I've got a year, nine months and 21 days. So everybody gets it at a different time. I'm just thankful I got it."

He continued, "They don't think I'm cool and they don't think I can play drums that great and they don't think I'm sober. Duff, he has a right, in a way, but, like I said, he forgets where he came from too. But we did do some shows [together] in Japan [in 2013], and Duff invited [Steven's current band] ADLER to come down, and I was still drinking then. And the second I got to the airport, I made a beeline for the bar, and I just started doing shots of J�ger. And the whole trip I was sick and I was just a mess. And, you know, Duff's sober and he's very judgmental and forgetful of where he came from. And he was just so bummed and pissed at me.

"I mean, the playing part, the shows when we actually were performing, that went all right, but everything else� So I kind of ruined it and gave him the excuse to be able to say, 'Well, he's not cool and he's not that good.' But I stopped doing that. They stopped doing that. Just because they stopped doing it before I did doesn't make them any better. We're all people who have addiction problems. I was just able to get a grip on it later on in life than they did." Read more from the interview here.

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