Just a day after original Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler took shots at Axl Rose and his current band – calling them “hacks” – he is retracting the statement and issuing an apology.
Earlier this week, Adler sat down with Loudwire for an extended conversation about his new project, as well as the GNR Rock Hall situation.
“He’s my brother. I know he’s up to it,” Adler says about Slash and the Rock Hall reunion. “He wants to do it. I want to do it. Just from what I hear, Izzy [Stradlin]‘s not gonna show up and Axl will probably want to play with his hack band — his band of hacks. ‘Axl and His Hacks’ — it shouldn’t even be Guns N’ Roses. He’s just driving that name into the freakin’ ground. ‘Axl and His Hacks.’”
Now, Adler has come forward to hit the reset button.
"Sometimes my emotions get the best of me when talking about my former band,” explains Adler. “It's hard to see your ex in bed with somebody else. We created one of the biggest-selling debut albums of all time and it's no secret that I want to finish what we started 25 years ago and play together at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. The guys that Axl has put together are all great players. They're not hacks in the sense that they can't play, they're all incredible musicians. I just meant that they are not the original lineup. I would like to apologize to Axl, Bumblefoot, D.J., Tommy, Dizzy, Richard, Frank, and Chris for my statement."
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