SLASH Shoots Down GUNS N' ROSES Reunion Rumors

June 23, 2006

Former GUNS N' ROSES/current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash has shot down endless months of rumors that he will rejoin Axl Rose in the band he helped create.

Stories had been rife that Slash, real name Saul Hudson, would play with the band at their recent New York shows.

However, the guitarist told MTV.com: "I don't know where [the rumors come] from, but I haven't dealt with GUNS N' ROSES any more than I have in the last 10 years," which is not much at all. So it's not really a thing with me. I have, in the foreseeable future, no re-involvement with that band whatsoever."

Slash is currently working with VELVET REVOLVER on their forthcoming second album, the follow-up to 2004's double-platinum "Contraband".

"We're in preproduction and it sounds amazing," Slash told MTV.com. "I'm just really excited 'cause hopefully we'll get this thing out before the year's over. The material is amazing and ... we've grown so much as a band."

While frontman Scott Weiland has called the material a concept album and bassist Duff McKagan said the band will record with a variety of producers, all Slash would reveal is that the LP is coming together naturally, and "it's not phony in any way, shape or form, and the band's whole-heartedly into it.

"I don't want to say [anything specific about] the songs, but the name for the album is 'Libertad', which is Spanish for 'liberty,' " Slash said. "It's something that we feel strongly about: liberty, freedom, you know ..."

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