{"id":14042,"date":"2025-11-19T03:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:17:02","slug":"it-was-really-hard-axl-rose-shares-the-first-time-he-met-slash-after-15-years-and-how-many-hours-it-took-to-resolve-a-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=14042","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt Was Really Hard\u201d \u2014 Axl Rose Shares the First Time He Met Slash After 15 Years and How Many Hours It Took to Resolve a Vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES, CA<\/b> \u2013 The legendary, decades-long feud between Guns N\u2019 Roses frontman Axl Rose and guitarist Slash had become one of rock music\u2019s most famous unresolved conflicts, symbolizing the explosive mixture of talent and volatility that defined the band. But after 15 years of silence, the two icons finally buried the hatchet, and Axl recently revealed the difficulty\u2014and the ultimate payoff\u2014of that reconciliation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really hard,\u201d Axl confessed, describing the first time he met Slash face-to-face. \u201cWhen we finally sat down, there was this silence that felt like the weight of every year we hadn\u2019t spoken. Fifteen years of stuff just hanging there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Two-Hour Icebreaker<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The path to peace began in 2015 with a phone call, instigated by a mutual friend. Axl admitted he almost didn’t make the call, fearing that too much damage had been done.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA mutual friend kept saying, \u2018You\u2019ve got to talk to him. You don\u2019t have to be friends \u2014 just talk,\u2019\u201d Axl explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

What started as a cautious exchange turned into a two-hour conversation that began to thaw years of tension. Axl noted that they initially avoided band business, preferring instead to talk \u201cjust like people \u2014 about life, about everything we\u2019d been through.\u201d Though awkward, the exchange was, crucially, real<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Five-Hour Healing Session<\/span><\/h3>\n

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That initial call led to a face-to-face meeting at a private residence in Los Angeles\u2014a summit that would change rock history.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just sat there for a minute \u2014 didn\u2019t even know where to start,\u201d Axl recalled. \u201cThen he cracked a joke, and that was it. The ice broke.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What followed was a raw, emotional, and unexpectedly healing five-hour conversation<\/b>. They revisited the height of their early fame\u2014the struggle, the rise of Appetite for Destruction<\/i>, and the eventual, painful breakdown that had torn their creative brotherhood apart.<\/span><\/p>\n

Axl admitted that the session was filled with anger and frustration, “sure,” but emphasized that the overwhelming emotion was “mostly sadness\u2014because we\u2019d wasted so much time.”<\/span><\/p>\n

By the end of the marathon talk, their relationship had fundamentally shifted. \u201cWe didn\u2019t fix everything,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we remembered why we started this in the first place \u2014 the music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reunion and Redemption<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The emotional breakthrough laid the foundation for the band\u2019s long-awaited, aptly named Not in This Lifetime\u2026 Tour<\/b>. The global phenomenon brought Axl, Slash, and bassist Duff McKagan back together for the first time since 1993.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The tour went on to become one of the highest-grossing concert treks in music history, reportedly earning over <\/span>$584 million<\/span><\/b> and proving that their chemistry was still undeniable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Axl described the experience of performing with his friend again as \u201clike coming home.\u201d He added, \u201cWe\u2019d fought like brothers \u2014 and in a weird way, it made the music stronger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For fans, the sight of Rose and Slash sharing a stage again was more than nostalgia; it was proof that even the deepest fractures can heal when both sides are willing to invest the time to talk.<\/span><\/p>\n

The journey back was long, but as Axl concluded, they chose to play louder than the pain: \u201cWe\u2019re not pretending the past didn\u2019t happen. We just decided to play louder than the pain.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 The legendary, decades-long feud between Guns N\u2019 Roses frontman Axl Rose and guitarist Slash had become one of rock music\u2019s most famous unresolved conflicts, symbolizing the explosive mixture of talent and volatility that defined the band. But after 15 years of silence, the two icons finally buried the hatchet, and Axl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}