Slash Won't Return As A Gunner But Will Fight For "Libertad"

Former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist Saul "Slash" Hudson insists that he never planned on performing with the current reincarnation of GN'R last month in New York.

"I don't know where [the rumours come] from, but I haven't dealt with Guns N' Roses any more than I have in the last 10 years," Slash told MTV News. "I have, in the foreseeable future, no re-involvement with that band whatsoever."

It comes as no surprise that Slash chose not to rekindle his relationship with GN'R because his recent relations with singer Axl Rose have been anything but friendly. Rose filed a lawsuit against his former bandmate in March to confirm his "ownership of his own creative works" in response to an action filed by Slash and former GN'R bassist Duff McKagan over a royalty dispute.

Rather than focusing on the GN'R rumour mill, Slash has been busy working on the new Velvet Revolver record, Libertad, the follow-up to 2004's Contraband debut. Slash said that the album title "is Spanish for 'liberty.' It's something that we feel strongly about.

"When Slash wasn't working on Libertad, which he hopes will be released by the end of the year, he wrote a song and some of the score for the recently released film, The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift.