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Axl Rose gave his first TV interview in over a decade and it didn't start until 5:30 a.m.

by Nicole Villeneuve

This is essentially an interview about an interview, but when the subject is Axl Rose and the context is that he granted VH1’s That Metal Show his first on-camera interview in over a decade, it’s a curiosity worth exploring.

Spin magazine wrangled the show’s three hosts, Eddie Trunk, Jim Florentine, and Don Jamieson, to ask them why the interview they had scheduled for after a show on GN’R’s U.S. tour in Miami on October 29 didn’t start until 5:30 a.m. (because Axl runs on Axl time), whether or not the Slash/Axl beef is repairable (yes, they think so), whether or not the original GN’R line-up would reunite (no) and what Axl was like, basically (guarded at first but quickly friendly and fun).

The interview will be featured on the season premiere of That Metal Show, but if you’d like a little more host insight on the interview, read it over here at Spin.