Ex-Guns N' Roses Drummer Hasn't Been Approached About Reunion

Iconic '90s rock band Guns N' Roses are reportedly in talks for a 2016 reunion tour, but ex-drummer Steven Adler has revealed he hasn't been approached and he believes the reason is that his former band mates don't believe he is sober. 

The 50-year-old musician was famously kicked out of the group in 1990 for a heroin addiction, but speaking to Eddie Trunk, Adler revealed that he is currently 21 months sober. 

He also cited the fact that Gunners bassist Duff McKagan doesn't think he's "cool".

"...He doesn't think I'm cool and that I'm not that great of a drummer," Adler explained. 

"And Slash, he doesn't believe that I have 21 months and 21 days sober. He doesn't believe it. I don’t know why, but they forget that at one time in their life, they were doing drugs and drinking and they were fucking up. They forget that they were like that too. Duff has got 20 years sober or more, Slash has got, like, 11 or 12 years sober, and I've got a year, nine months and 21 days."

He recalled an incident in which he toured through Japan in 2013 with McKagan, where he believes their relationship became frosty. 

"...The second I got to the airport, I made a beeline for the bar, and I just started doing shots of Jäger. And the whole trip I was sick and I was just a mess. And, you know, Duff’s sober and he’s very judgmental and forgetful of where he came from. And he was just so bummed and pissed at me."

"Just because they stopped doing it before I did doesn't make them any better. We're all people who have addiction problems. I was just able to get a grip on it later on in life than they did."

While it is speculated that the reunion plans are well underway, Adler admitted that he had heard "nothing" personally, though he was surprised it has taken this long for the original line-up to consider reforming. 

"We’re just rock bands. We all started practicing in our garage or our bedroom. We met each other, and we started playing in our garage, then we worked on songs. This is what we wanted to do. Our dreams came true."

"I don’t know why it’s so difficult for people that have been successful and still can moderately successful…Of course, nobody’s gonna be like they were in the ’80s; that was our generation. It’s a new generation now of music and people and kids. But there are bands like Bon Jovi and Metallica and the Guns N’ Roses reunion; [if that were to happen] that would be huge."