Doubletalking - Welcome To The Jungle

Axl & Slash sexy

Axl, it is said, is a notoriously difficult character to deal with. How do the two of you get along as people, outside the band?

Slash: "We love each other."

[The Most Dangerous Band in the World by Mick Wall.]

The many times Slash and Axl referred to their relationship as a marriage:

"If there ever was a combination of fucking opposites, like me and Axl or whoever else in the past, that one is crystal clear. Me and Axl are so unalike that we attract each other. The relationship between most lead singers and most lead guitar players is very sensitive, very volatile—I could go on listing these things for hours. It's just very intense. It has major ups and major downs. But somewhere between all this intensity and this friction there's a chemistry. And if the chemistry's right, like me and Axl are really tight, then there's something—a spark or, you know, a need, that holds it together. You fight too. The biggest fights are between me and Axl. But that's also what makes it happen…Like a marriage…When we talk, we're not band members. We talk about ideas that we have, or remember seeing this or hearing that? We'll just sit up all night and talk, and it's me and Axl talking. It goes beyond anything you could write down.” Q-magazine, 1991.

Interview Magazine, 1992: Do you think that having a relationship with a band has to do with the same things as having a relationship with a person? Axl: "Yes, l think so. Especially with Slash and it's definitely a marriage.”

“Slash's name pops up repeatedly, invoked in a way that suggests a shell shocked husband speaking of an ex-wife after a particularly horrific divorce. ‘It is a divorce,’ Rose says with a sad stare.” Rolling Stone, 2000.

"In retrospect, it’s kind of interesting that I suddenly had disconnected with the two most long-term, closest relationships I had had up to that point, just a matter of months apart," Slash in his book about his divorce and leaving GN'R and thus Axl.

“There was a lot of bad feelings from the breakup all throughout that twenty years, whatever it was. But there’s also a part of you that’s, like, in a marriage, where you love somebody; so there’s always that feeling, but then there’s all this negative stuff…It was very cathartic to physically talk. 'Cause there's a bond that you have that's never [broken]. And then what happens is the bond makes the negative side of it that much worse, because you're forced out of it." Slash on Sixx Sense, 2018.

this clip is so real ... axl, i too would have to take a break from singing to cuddle up on izzy

Have you ever worked with female singers? Izzy: Um... Axl. Uh, no. [laughs]

Now, Izzy, why would you say this? 😭

Axl deciding his next move (and manages to be all three simultaneously)

Right Next Door to Hell (Ritz ‘91)