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VIDEO: Guns N' Roses Drummer Matt Sorum On Steven Adler & Rock Hall Of Fame: "I Was Like The Guy Who Shagged His Girlfriend"

Former Guns 'n' Roses drummer Matt Sorum says he and original drummer Steven Adler are now friends, but initially, he was like "the guy who shagged his girlfriend" in a new video interview with Triple M's Becko.

Now things have "calmed down," Adler was the guy who informed Matt Sorum that Guns 'n' Roses had been nominated for the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame, and would be inducted later this year.

"It's kind of a weird thing, like what's going to happen...I don't know. I've been hearing a few things, a little bit, through Sebastian Bach, because he hangs around with Axl. Hopefully everyone is sorta like, before I get too old, let bygones be bygones. But the problem, it's not me, I'm just the guy who played drums in the band."

Rumours have been swirling for months about the actual configuration of members that will be present (and potentially perform) at the ceremony, though nothing conclusive has emerged about the historic moment for the band, or whether Axl and Slash could mend their decades-long rift and play side by side again.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRzrcNezHz4

From the Q&A with Matt Sorum:

January 30, 2012

musinq.net:  If you were to play three songs during the HOF ceremony, as is customary, would it be okay for you to include a song off Chinese Democracy?

Matt Sorum: I don?t think so. I would like to see the 5 original guys play 2 and maybe I play one.

The full transcription of what he says in the video:

MATT SORUM: I Found Out About GUNS N' ROSES' ROCK HALL Induction Through STEVEN ADLER - Feb. 4, 2012

Matt Sorum (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES, THE CULT) was interviewed in early December on Sydney, Australia's Triple M radio station when he was in town for the Hard Rock Caf? opening down in Darling Harbour, a locality of the city center of Sydney.

When asked about GUNS N' ROSES' upcoming induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Sorum said, "I got this random text from [original GUNS N' ROSES drummer] Steven Adler [one] morning. We're now friends, which is cool. If you could imagine, when I joined GUNS N' ROSES, for Steven I was like the guy who shagged his girlfriend. You wanna just kill the dude. [Laughs] But, really, it's the girlfriend's fault. She's the one who shagged the dude. It's not his fault. He was just happy to be there. And she is a chick. And what dudes do when chicks wanna shag? Get busy. So now we're cool after all these years. It's kind of calmed down quite a bit. But anyway, so he texted me. He says, 'Congratulations.' I said, 'What?' He was the first one to tell me about Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. I had no idea. It's kind of a weird thing. It's like, what's gonna happen? Who knows? I don't know. I've been hearing a few things, a little bit, through Sebastian Bach, 'cause he hangs around with [GUNS N' ROSES singer] Axl [Rose]. Hopefully everyone's just sort of? before I get too old, let bygones be bygones. But the problem is it's not me. I'm just the guy that played drums; I'm not the dude that was in the mix of all the other drama. I was there for the drama, [laughs] and maybe I caused a little bit, but there was nothing I could say about it."

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I guess it is pretty obvious that only the AFD line-up will be inducted.