Guns N' Roses will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on April 14th, and the big question has been will the original players reunite onstage and perform. Original GNR bassist Duff McKagan doesn’t think so.

He told Rolling Stone magazine, “I think it would be killer. Do I hope to? That’s a tricky question. It would be awesome. You have those daydreams like, ‘We’ll go up and play ‘Nightrain’ and ‘Brownstone’ and throw down the microphone and drop off! That’ll be killer! But I doubt that’ll happen.”  McKagan says the former band members have not discussed playing at the ceremony.

“There’s been no communication about anyone playing,” McKagan said. “There was probably a day in the mid-1990s where I would have tried to gather the troops, but I’m just not that guy anymore. It’s too frustrating to change anyone else… I’m not even sure I’d want to change how anyone else sees a situation. But I’m going.” 

And how does Duff feel about GNR’s induction? He says it’s all about the fans. “Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that important to me? No. Is it something I've aspired towards? No. It's not sports. You get into the Baseball Hall of Fame, that's bad ass. But that's a competitive sport. You have stats. Look, we were a good band – but there were a lot of good bands.

A lot of people liked our band, eventually. And that's kick ass. What I found out when we got nominated is that there's just a shit ton of fans around the world who are really psyched. In that case, it's more about them and the people that believed in us and bought our records and came and saw us. Imagine that? All those people believing in our band – a thing we created out of thin air. That part of it is an honor.

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