GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose is featured in a new interview with Randall Roberts at the Los Angeles Times. An excerpt from the story is available below:

When he's asked the inevitable question — who will perform onstage as Guns N' Roses at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony? — Rose is circumspect. These kinds of honors, while special to him, are also complicated. "I've got mixed emotions about what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame actually really is, but at the same time, there's a lot of people — the fans — that it just means something to them, and they're happy. It's like you won the Heisman or something."

The last thing Rose wants to do, he stresses, is ruin it for others. He refers to Marlon Brando sending an American Indian activist to accept his Oscar and give a protest speech "and everybody getting … off, or when Michael Moore got up at the Academy Awards and said whatever about George Bush. People don't want that associated with their awards shows, even if you have a big audience. In one way it might be right, but it usually backfires on whoever does it. So I really don't want to spoil it for everybody else — or take the beating."

Then he said curtly of the induction performance: "There is no plan yet. There really is no plan. We're still busy with this lineup. We're gonna be busy — we're gonna be busy all next year. We'll be putting out new stuff as soon as we can figure out what our deal is with labels, blah blah blah."

As to whether he feels that he bears any responsibility for the state of limbo he's in, Rose says: "You can say it's my fault, but to me it's like if you're on a plane and somebody trips you and the air marshal arrests you for falling — like it's my fault for allowing somebody to trip me?"

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As previously reported, ex-Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan joined the band on stage on December 16th at the Key Arena in Seattle to perform the GN'R classic 'You Could Be Mine'. It was the first time DUFF McKAGAN'S LOADED had opened up for GN'R.

Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below:

Guns N' Roses setlist:

'Chinese Democracy'

'Welcome To The Jungle'

'It's So Easy'

'Mr. Brownstone'

'Sorry'

'Shackler's Revenge'

'Estranged'

'Rocket Queen'

'Richard Fortus Guitar Solo ('James Bond Theme')

'Live And Let Die'

'This I Love'

'Riff Raff' (AC/DC)

'Motivation' (first time played, Tommy Solo)

Dizzy Reed Piano Solo (THE WHO's Baba O'Riley)

'Street Of Dreams'

'You Could Be Mine' (with Duff McKagan)

Dj Ashba Guitar Solo (Ballad Of Death)

'Sweet Child O' Mine'

Jam ('Another Brick In The Wall: Part 2')

Axl Piano Solo ('Gran Torino'/'Someone Saved My Life Tonight'/'Yellow Brick Road')

'November Rain'

Bumblefoot Guitar Solo ('Pink Panther')

'Don't Cry'

'Whole Lotta Rosie'

'Civil War'

'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'

'Nightrain'

Encore:

'Madagascar'

'Better'

'Patience'

'Paradise City