Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler is still living in the afterglow of the band’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Adler raved about the event, saying “It was the greatest way to end that chapter of my life. It couldn’t have gone better. It ended that chapter of my life great, and it’s starting this new chapter of my life, with my new band, even bigger and better. It’s very exciting. It’s f**king exciting. Life is exciting again.”
As for reuniting on stage and playing with Slash and Duff [Matt Sorum and non-inductee Gilby Clarke were also involved], Steven said, “It was great, and Myles Kennedy did a fabulous job…This is the only thing I’m going to say about Axl, and this is the last thing I’m ever going to say, ever, you’re getting it, is I feel blessed and thankful that he was a part of my life for that chapter of my life, but that’s it. That’s it. I have no desire to know him or work with him or do anything with him again. Letting go of that was like a huge weight was lifted off my body. I feel f**king free. Yay!”
After chasing a reunion for years, Adler claims he is done with the dream.
“Yeah, it’s gone,” he says. “If it was going to happen, that’s when it was going to happen, and in Axl’s letter, he showed his true colors to the world. After that, that’s it.”
Regarding Axl’s ‘true colors,’ Steven says “I think it’s disrespect. He's not for the fans, which is everybody in the world. Basically, he told everybody in the world, "F**k you, I don’t give a s**t what you think."
RS: He mentioned you in his first letter. He said, "Steven was at our show at the Hard Rock, later in '06 in Las Vegas, where I invited him to our after-party and was rewarded with his subsequent interviews filled with reunion lies. Lesson learned."
Adler: “That doesn’t even make any sense. That’s Axl, he doesn’t make any sense, and that’s it, I’m done with him, I’m never mentioning him or talking about him again. That’s it. One last thing – God bless him.”
Read the full Adler interview at Rolling Stone here.
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Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame – Cleveland, OH – April 14, 2012
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