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Dave: And how are things with Axl Rose now?
Slash: Uh, we haven't really spoke but I think, what I would like to sort of do is clear some of the air. The media sort of purportrated alot of negative... energy about the whole thing. And I think I probably helped too 'cause I think, uh, when I started doing press when Velvet Revolver first started I was still bitter about the whole Guns n' Roses break-up and I didn't have anything really positive to say. Sort of air that out if I can.
Dave: But he actually lived in your home for awhile when you guys were younger, right?
Slash: When he and I first met he shacked up at my house, when I was still living at my mom's house, and we had some interesting situations. I think, 'cause we'd first met and I didn't really know him that well, and one morning I took off went to work and, uh, I guess he got, in the afternoon he woke up, went up, passed out on my grandmother's couch.
Dave: On Grandma's couch.
Slash: Yeah. My mom... I came home from work, my mom said, "You know that guy, Axl... you know, I came home, he was asleep on the couch, grandmother had nowhere to sit, and so I told him he had to get up and whatnot, so he went downstairs," and so I thought I had to confront this issue. So we had rehearsal that night, and we got in the car and I very delicately put it to him that that was sort of rude and whatever, and it was... his reaction was to jump out of the car. It was going about 35-40 miles per hour down Santa Monica Blvd. And I realized that what I'd said to him had offended him.
Dave: Uh huh. How could it possibly offend him? He's the one that took Grandma's couch, for God's sakes. HOPPED OUTTA THE CAR.
Slash: So, we, I, from that point on it was sort of kid-gloves after that. He had a different way of looking at things.
Dave: And, uh, will all of this ever be healed, do you think? This rift?
Slash: You know, I can't really tell what goes on in the future. I'm sort of more in the now, not really dwelling on how that's all going to happen. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't... it's been 12, 11-12 years or something.
