Axl Rose Talks New Guns N’ Roses Music, Relationship With Slash, More in Candid Interview

Yesterday, Axl Rose took part in a talk with Sir David Tang at London’s China Exchange. In their wide-ranging and candid conversation, they touched upon his current relationship with former band members, updates on the reunited Guns N’ Roses, performing with AC/DC, his own personal work, and much more. He said that Guns N’ Roses are working on new material: “I got a lot of stuff together, and I played some stuff for Slash and Duff and they liked it, and they might be on it.” He also said he and AC/DC’s Angus Young “are talking about working together.” (Earlier in the year, Rose took over singing duties in AC/DC after Brian Johnson developed hearing problems.) Watch/listen to the conversation in full below, via Alternative Nation. 

Rose expressed a desire to write his own book on his career with GNR, but said the difficulty was figuring out how to “word things in a way that doesn’t look like being negative to everybody else and calling them a liar.” This led into a discussion of his historically tense relationship with Slash and Slash’s own autobiography, saying, “Slash and I hadn’t talked in 19 years, and it was a good talk. And, I was like, you wrote a lot of stuff that didn’t even happen. It’s not real.” Despite all that, they’ve obviously reconciled; he praised Slash’s work on the reunion tour, and said an UK tour was being planned.

When talking about his recent performances with AC/DC, he told the audience that Brian Johnson’s vocals were very demanding: “Sing it wrong you may not be singing again.” He also indicated interest in writing music for a film, partially because it makes up a bulk of his own personal listening, and that he “was more interested in that than staying in Guns N’ Roses.”

 

Read “Revisiting the Magnificent Excess of Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion Video Trilogy” from the Pitch. 

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