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 a 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.”
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