Axl Rose’s Former Manager Predicts Guns N’ Roses Will Reunite ‘In the Next Two Years’
by Ken Kelley June 4, 2014 12:57 PM



Could a reunion of the classic Guns N’ Roses lineup take place in the next two years? Craig Duswalt, Axl Rose‘s personal manager from the group’s ‘Use Your Illusion’ tour, believes it could happen.
These comments come on the heels of the release of Duswalt’s memoir, ‘Welcome To My Jungle.’ Seeing as how the time he spent with the group included the last time the original line-up toured together, he is intimately familiar with the relationships among the former bandmates.
Duswalt tells ABC News Radio that he believes that Duff McKagan‘s return to the band to occasionally fill in for current Guns N’ Roses bassist Tommy Stinson’s commitments to the Replacements is the catalyst which will eventually reunite the original lineup.
McKagan most recently appeared with Guns N’ Roses in Las Vegas, and he also performed with the group at several shows in South America. “Duff is paving the way to open the gates again,” Duswalt says. “Axl and Duff are really getting along well at the concerts, so there’s an opening.”
Despite the current good vibes between Rose and McKagan, Duswalt acknowledges the most fractured relationship is the one between Rose and guitarist Slash. Mending that bridge is going to be the ultimate deciding factor. For what it’s worth, Slash does not believe that Rose will be calling him any time soon.
“About five years ago, Slash went to Axl’s house one day, and Axl didn’t want to see him. We [had] thought for a while yes [a reunion could happen], but then it just got ugly again and we thought, ‘There’s no way.’”
Duswalt elaborates further on the acrimony between Rose and Slash, acknowledging that he knows “for a fact they hate each other right now. It’s bad. Axl is a loyal guy and you get on his bad side and some people don’t come back, but Slash and him were so close. We [in the old-school Guns camp] all have a feeling it will happen. It’s gonna happen in the next two years…there’s an opening because of Duff playing with Axl.”
For the past two decades, many have wondered exactly what precipitated the nasty split between Rose and Slash. And though Duswalt does not mention the specific incident that caused the chasm between the two, musical differences and the direction of the band played a part:
“It was a thing that happened at the end of ['Use Your Illusion']. There were also the differences in music. Slash wanted to do more hard rock stuff and Axl wanted to do more ballads, rock ballads. There was that difference, but there was [also] a specific thing that happened that both of them are at odds over.”
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I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Nope not going to happen. No way Axl n Slash mend that rift, millions of dollars be damned.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

It could happen.

Don't The Eagles all hate each other, but they still tour and cash the checks. GNR will find a way to make it work.

Yeah but theyve already been down the offered millions to reform road and turned it down. Why would this be different?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

It could happen.

Don't The Eagles all hate each other, but they still tour and cash the checks. GNR will find a way to make it work.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Cubs make the playoffs
Guns N Roses reuinte
Derrick Rose plays an entire NBA season

Which incarnation would it be, though?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

i would be giddy for like maybe the first few licks of "sweet child 'o mine" and then be bored by the lazy renditions of "you could be mine" and "paradise city".

Im pretty hammered right now.

but there is no way the execution would match the excitement.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

This is kinda how I feel too. I'd be excited to hear the news, but there is no way the execution would match the excitement.
And I wouldn't spend any $ to see them either.

i would be giddy for like maybe the first few licks of "sweet child 'o mine"

that's probably all Axl could muster before gasping for air

When I saw him a couple years ago in Vegas, he was reasonably fit. The thing is, you can't really go back. I can understand why the most rabid fans like Panther would be excited, but it can really only be disappointing. You're not going to feel the same. As much as I like the Replacements and I wouldn't have missed them, I couldn't possibly feel the same way I did at Duke Ellington Ballroom in 1984 or whatever. And they were pretty fucking good at Riot Fest. Probably better than I had ever seen them before from an actual music perspective. You'd be better off to stop living in the past and buy a Kendrick Lamar or Orwells record.

I hope this dude is right, but sounds like someone just wanting to get his book some publicity and make $

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

When I saw him a couple years ago in Vegas, he was reasonably fit. The thing is, you can't really go back. I can understand why the most rabid fans like Panther would be excited, but it can really only be disappointing. You're not going to feel the same. As much as I like the Replacements and I wouldn't have missed them, I couldn't possibly feel the same way I did at Duke Ellington Ballroom in 1984 or whatever. And they were pretty fucking good at Riot Fest. Probably better than I had ever seen them before from an actual music perspective. You'd be better off to stop living in the past and buy a Kendrick Lamar or Orwells record.

Still waiting for "The Next Great Rock Band", and, believe me, I will know it when I hear it.

Really needs to be a bunch of poor fuckers coming up from nothing, though. Can't be a gaggle of rich college 'Big Bang Theory'-type kids who decide to go off and live "art lives" because they can.

Still waiting for "The Next Great Rock Band", and, believe me, I will know it when I hear it.

I blame school shootings. In the past the guys most likely to shoot up a school instead focused their angst into rock and roll. I mean, look at Axl and Izzy, they're the original Columbine kids. But did they shoot up Jefferson High? Hell, no! They hit I-65 for L.A. and got on stage at the Troubadour. If they were teenagers today, they'd probably shoot up their school instead.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.