![]() ![]() “You’d have to look at Goldenvoice and AEG, sitting there with a festival that last year generated eighty million dollars in profits. Tom Zutaut, the A&R man who signed Guns N’ Roses to Geffen and who brought in Niven to manage them, feels that the chance to play at Coachella may explain the timing of the re-formation. There are two Coachella shows, two Vegas, shows in Mexico City… But why not have that all in place before there is an announcement?” And there would be plenty of promoters asking that too. “Why not next year, when it is the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Appetite? That’s the first question I’d ask. “There is definitely a ‘Why now?’ factor to this,” he says. Alan Niven is the gregarious New Zealander who managed the band during their commercial peak in the late 1980s and early 90s. If the reunion was unsurprising, then the timing of it is more so. It was always a case of, we’ll see where the road takes us. “Axl was quite realistic about the possibility of a reunion, saying: ‘Who knows?’,” Warwick tells Classic Rock. Black Star Riders/Thin Lizzy frontman Ricky Warwick suggested that Axl wasn’t averse to the idea as recently as 2012, when Lizzy supported GN’R in the UK. ![]() In 2008, Scott Weiland revealed to Classic Rock that there was an aborted attempt to reunite the band around their 2004 Greatest Hits album. There have been some near-misses in the past. When that divorce was in the making, it went all forward really fast.” Axl has being saying for two years that this year he would put it back together. “Axl has been saying it for a couple of years, and basically the main reason is that Slash is available without the attachment of a bitchy wife. “There are lots of reasons to re-form now,” says Arlett Vereecke, the LA publicist who has been associated with the band since their early days. But a speculative reunion took several steps closer to becoming reality in December 2014 when Slash announced his divorce from wife Perla Hudson – an unpopular figure in GN’R circles. To anyone paying attention, Slash’s birthday tweet to Axl suggested a detente, while Duff made his peace with the singer years ago, even standing in for Tommy Stinson on a GN’R South American tour in 2014. The Guns N’ Roses reunion was the worst-kept secret in the music industry. But it’s very cool at this point.”Īxl and Duff in LA in 2014 (Image credit: Getty) The biggest thing that happens when you have a break-up that is less than harmonious is you build up a bad energy because of the distance.” In August, Slash tells Swedish television that he and Axl have met and reconciled. Over time we all just got sick and tired of the black cloud. The following May he tells the CBS This Morning programme: “A lot of the tension… has dissipated. ![]() ![]() In February 2015, Slash tweets birthday greetings to Axl, which suggested a thaw in rock’s most high-profile cold war. Axl and Slash secretly formalise agreements that they will sign off on the mutually written material performed on their respective bands’ DVD releases. “What’s clear is that one of the two of us will die before a reunion,” said Axl. Matters were seemingly put beyond doubt in 2009, when Axl called Slash “a cancer” in a rare interview with Billboard magazine. The reunion dreamed of by fans seemed as distant as Axl’s mountain-top house. It was the peak of an acrimonious fall-out that meant the ‘most dangerous band in the world’ were now communicating only via their lawyers. ![]()
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