The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame received a “Thanks, but no thanks” letter from Axl Rose regarding the induction of Guns N’ Roses in Cleveland the next weekend.
Rose’s decision appears to be motivated by resentment toward some former band members from the original 1985 lineup.
Why did Axl Rose turn down Hall of Fame?
The Guns N’ Roses frontman concluded that the induction ceremony “doesn’t appear to be somewhere I’m genuinely desired or respected” despite his efforts to be “nice, respectful, and open to an agreeable settlement,” he wrote.
Rose, who tours with a version of Guns N’ Roses that doesn’t contain any of the original members from 1985, stated, “Of course I recognized as things stood, if Guns N’ Roses were to be inducted it’d be somewhat of a problematic or awkward situation.”
Rose lamented his former bandmates’ “apparently limitless amount of revisionism and fantasies” that he claimed were being used to hide the truth and promote themselves and their businesses.
Steven Adler, the original drummer, was singled out for five years of “interviews replete with reunion lies.”
