Credit: Michael Loccisano / Staff
Credit: Michael Loccisano / Staff
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This has only taken the better part of my life to happen.

I don't remember when Guns N' Roses first came out. I don't remember the first time I heard a GNR song, or the first time I saw one of their posters or t-shirts. I only remember getting into music, and learning they were a big deal.

Equally, I don't really remember them dissolving, or more specifically, why they broke up. Maybe it was too much for my young brain to process. Since then, Guns N' Roses has traveled a rather odd road. The band has gone through line-up changes, one album had been released since I got into radio, and former member Slash has had a solo career that is beginning to seem like comparing Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters to Nirvana. Sure if they had made more music it might be different, but the new bands are making music and having success.

The obvious question has always been, if Guns N' Roses was so successful, why don't they reunite. The answer has always been some unspecified problem between Axel Rose and Slash. We may never know what the root of that problem was, and we may no longer have to care. Horns Up Rocks, which seems at least as credible as anything else on the internet, is reporting of something, though now it's still a whisper.

Soundwave is a music festival in Australia, and word in a bar is, the original Guns N' Roses line-up may be getting back together next year for the show. I want to stress how awesome and not awesome this is all at the same time. Obviously it's awesome if it happens. There's a whole generation of kids who have no idea about Guns N' Roses. Now lets look at the other side. This is completely unconfirmed, and likely won't be confirmed until it's a reality. In fact there's a part of me that's worried merely writing about it will be enough for it to vanish all together. Only time will tell.

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