STEVEN ADLER On GUNS N' ROSES Reunion: 'If Anybody Could Be As Huge As Ever, It Would Be Us'

Former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler recently spoke to U-Press Telegram about his new group, ADLER'S APPETITE, and the possibility of a reunion of GNR's original lineup. Several excerpts from the interview follow:

On performing the classic GNR tunes with ADLER'S APPETITE:

"The songs sound how they're supposed to. This is the closest you're going to get to what we used to be, until the five of us get back together."

On the post-GUNS N' ROSES years:

"I didn't live 15 years of my life the way I wish … It was a very hard thing that happened to me, leaving the GNR guys. It took me many years to be able to handle it and move on."

On his drug addiction:

"When I was looking out at the people through the door, and my dogs looked at me and said, 'Hey, Steve, if there was somebody out there, we'd tell you.' That's when I decided to put the pipe down. It was time to do something."

On GUNS N' ROSES' success and seeing everything he and childhood friend, former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash, worked so hard for slip away:

"It was everything we dreamed of. Me and Slash threw a TV out a window of the Hyatt on Sunset. We did everything we always wanted to do and we always thought that that's what rock 'n' roll was about. If you were a rock star, that's what you did. They didn't have those 'Behind the Music' things back then."

On the possibility that the original GUNS N' ROSES lineup will take the stage one more time:

"Let's get it together. So many bands are getting back together and being successful again. If anybody could be as huge as ever, it would be the five of us."