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VELVET REVOLVER Cover GUNS N' ROSES, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS During Live Debut - June 20, 2003
VELVET REVOLVER, the new band formed by STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland and former GUNS N' ROSES members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt
Sorum, made their official live debut Thursday night (June 19) at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, California.
The group, who are completed by ex-LOADED/WASTED YOUTH guitarist David Kushner, played two original tracks and four covers, including renditions of
songs from GUNS N' ROSES and STONE TEMPLE PILOTS.
The band's set list for the short performance was as follows:
01. Bodies (SEX PISTOLS)
02. Set Me Free
03. Sex Type Thing (STONE TEMPLE PILOTS)
04. It's So Easy (GUNS N' ROSES)
05. Slither
06. Negative Creep (NIRVANA)
The exclusive invitation-only event was preceded by a media question-and-answer session beginning at 7:30 p.m.
FilmMagic.com & WireImage.com have pix.
Duff McKagan told reporters during the press conference that Weiland's much-publicized substance abuse woes were a fact of life.
"Rock 'n' roll is not a safe thing," McKagan said. "It shouldn't be a safe thing. There's a lot of safe rock 'n' roll out there right now. We're real.
What happens is real ... What happened to Scott Weiland a few weeks ago, it really could happen to any of us. It has happened to all of us."
VELVET REVOLVER manager David Codikow told Reuters "everybody's optimistic" that Weiland won't go back to jail.
"Like everybody else, they've all had their problems in the past," Codikow said. "They've all worked through it, there's a real support group, and you
never give up."
VELVET REVOLVER reportedly have five original songs in the can, and have about 50 tunes in various forms of completion. The band hope to do some
touring in the summer and release an album by the end of the year. So far, they do not have a record contract, and are keeping their options open.
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VELVET REVOLVER: 'Set Me Free' Takes Off On Radio, iTunes - June 19, 2003
VELVET REVOLVER's single "Set Me Free", which is featured on Decca/Universal's soundtrack to "The Hulk", is among the most-requested songs on
alternative stations WBCN in Boston and KROQ in Los Angeles, according to Billboard. The group's managers, Dana Millman-DuFine and David Codikow of
Immortal Entertainment, pacted with Apple's new iTunes download service to offer the single, and it's already the No. 2 most-downloaded song.
Guitarist Slash (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) said that the band want to focus on writing music and rehearsing before pursuing a record deal.
"In light of the way the music business is right now, you want to put out a record that's going to be cost-effective and distributed properly," he
said. "If you're going to make a deal, you want to make the best deal you can possibly make, and if you can afford to do it yourself, it's even
better. We're just looking at it from all these different directions ... I've cut my teeth on all different aspects of the wrong way to do it."
The band's management are weighing their options, including the possibility of releasing the group's debut album directly through an Internet company.
"People are talking to us, and in the next 60 days or so we're going to figure it out," Codikow said. "If radio embraces this band the way that we all
hope, who's to say that you couldn't drop ship records to record stores and download them — and even if you sold less, from an economic standpoint
you'd still make money."
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So did anybody hear them ? How do they sound ???
Damn it good music is never enough ...
and WEILAND ... PLEASE STOP TRYING TO TAKE THAT LAST STEP INTO THE ABYSS ... ONE OF THESE DAYS YOU'LL GET IT AND IT WILL BE ONE MORE HELLUVA ROCK
SINGER IN THAT ROCK'S HEAVEN BAND ABOVE !!!
Do they have a site ?
JRoberto
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