Guitar legend SLASH (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) spoke with Perth Now recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Perthnow.com.au: You’re clean and sober now, but everyone always talks about your drink and drug hell – which you didn’t really touch on in your autobiography.

Slash: "I didn’t want to focus on all that stuff in the book. I’m over it. The main focus on the book was to get out some of the reality about Guns N’ Roses and the reunion."

Perthnow.com.au: Has the book at least stopped people asking if you are going to reunite with Axl Rose in Guns N’ Roses?

Slash: "It slowed down considerably when I put the book out, yes. It really does spell it out. You’d have to be an idiot to not get it, but there’s still obnoxious people who insist on perpetuating that myth. All things considered, I’m really flattered the band has this stigma, this ongoing mystique, attached. I try not to get too agitated. There’s this newer generation of Guns N’ Roses fans who never saw the band – it’d almost be nice to get it together to do some shows for them, but it’s just not logistically going to happen."

Perthnow.com.au: What did you think of Chinese Democracy, the first Guns N’ Roses album without you?

Slash: "It’s great. It’s the perfect Axl record."

Perthnow.com.au: That’s very democratic.

Slash: "No, it is. Axl’s brilliant. I look at it differently than your average fan. I look at it more from what he’s about and what it represents and our relationship. I think it’s a great record. It’s very much the record I would have expected him to do."

Read the entire interview here.