Slash: I left Guns N’ Roses in 1996 and haven’t spoken to Axl Rose since then

Slash, the former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist, has revealed all the drama that forced him to leave the band in 1996. The 46-year-old has also admitted that he has not spoken with Axl Rose since leaving Guns N’ Roses.

During a recent interview on CNN, Slash revealed that he does not remember all the things that happened between him and Rose when he parted ways with the American hard rock band.

“It’s a lot of attention put on a lot of negative stuff. And granted, the negative stuff existed, and might still exist or whatever, but dwelling on that stuff … All things considered, I left the band in 1996, so we’re talking a pretty long amount of time
that I haven’t really even focused on that”

“Basically, it was just that I’m done. And it wasn’t even me necessarily leaving the band, it was not continuing on with the new band that Axl put together that he was now at the helm of, which was the new Guns N’ Roses. I was given a contract to basically
join his new band, and it took about 24 hours before I decided, I think this is the end of the line”, Slash said.

The guitarist, who has also performed many a times with late Michael Jackson, went on to reveal about offers being made to reunite the classic Guns N’ Roses line-up.

“I’ve heard a lot of numbers, but I’ve never been handed a specific offer. But I’d say it starts off with seven figures and then sometimes it starts to get even more grandiose than that”

“I don’t think it’s a matter of that; it really isn’t. I think you’ve got a situation where nobody involved wants to revisit. It’s not just me, it’s the whole band. And so I don’t think there’s a price tag that anybody’s going to put in front of us that’s
going to make that work”, Slash concluded.

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