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VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum has issued the following update:

"Looks like VELVET REVOLVER are finally going to start recording the album. We have 18 songs ready and we are all very excited. Producer Brendan O'Brien [PEARL JAM, SOUNDGARDEN, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, AUDIOSLAVE] has been in pre-production with us at Scott's [Weiland, vocals] Lavish studios for the last three weeks. We have been working six days a week, and let me tell you that man has whipped us into shape. This will be a killer album, I promise you.

"We are planning to record right up to Christmas and then finish up just after the New Year. Making plans for touring in the spring. I know it has taken a little while, but it's going [to] ROCK. Can't wait to get back out on the road with all you great fans."

VELVET REVOLVER's sophomore album has a working title of "Libertad". The band's 2004 debut, "Contraband", was certified double-platinum for sales in excess of two million copies in the United States.

Source: Blabbermouth.net

This is great... I can't wait to hear some new material and hopefully catch these guys live again!

Scott is amazing live-I still can't get over that-I was a casual STP fan, but seeing Scott in concert-and I love Slash and Duff-you can't stop watching Scott

Great! Hope I can see them on tour again, hopefully this time i'll have better seats too!  : ok:

it would be great if they put the 18 songs on the album, a long and all kind of stuff album, like Illusions

yeah IMO that would be the ultimate with a bunch of new songs instead of the 12 they think would sell the most album just include all 18 and maybe more?so that everybody can fins their personal favourite

yes Merck yes, I agree!

wtf i thought that rick rubin was producing?

Great news. I'd love to hear some new stuff from them and hopefully catch them in concert.

I'll be interested to hear what they're working on.  I didn't find the first album "blow me away great", but it was good enough for me to listen to anything else they record. 

Any word if ALL 18 are slated for the album, or are they pickin' n' choosin'?

I hope it's going to blow away Contraband.

Very hopeful that VR does not suffer from the sophmore slump and they put out an outstanding new album. Just so long as it does not get released before chinese democracy. Wouldn't that be awful if VR were able to release two stellar albums over a three year period without axl's magnum opus surfacing. As a fan of both bands I just feel that if the new VR album came out first it would just add to the constant press and industry mockery of CD.......

seems rubin was asking too much of them, i mean back mid october they said they had 10 songs, rubin told them only 3 were good enough, now he'd gone...........

Where'd you hear that? I wasn't even sure if they actually got to work with him since he was working with U2 and was scheduled to work with Metallica. I thought they might have switched because they didn't want to wait around.

Probably would take way too long. I think Brendan O'Brien has pretty close ties with Rubin anyway.. So he may be somewhat involved still.

Anyway, it is great that things are moving along now.  It would be great to see them on the road in the spring.. Although I would hope they release the album first.

Heresay, never documented.

So this sounds like another June release then???  Not a bad thing, I'm just predicting.  I can't see them getting the album out before then if they are still in the studio at Christmas.  We all know it's possible but history shows this is a fairly slow moving band. 

I wouldn't neccessarily say that they are slow. These guys have always been quick recording in the studio.
Just remember, Contraband was recorded and ready around Christmas 2003, but it was the record company that pushed it back to the June 2004 release date. So I expect the same for this album, because the record company would probably like to plan their marketing strategy for it.

Most bands go through the whole "follow-up not as good as their debut" syndrome with a second release, so I think the fact that they have spent so long on this when usually they are quick about things, gives us promise that they really want this new album to be something great.

They get into the studio in 5 days... I think things will roll along pretty quickly from there.... Would love to see this thing by May.

STP recorded their second album in one month. So I think B 'B works fast. If the album is finished by Feb, hopefully we can see a May/June release, which would rule.

Tour in the spring - Awesome! : ok:

"We are planning to record right up to Christmas and then finish up just after the New Year. Making plans for touring in the spring. I know it has taken a little while, but it's going [to] ROCK. Can't wait to get back out on the road with all you great fans."

i heard rick rubin is in the studio with metallica, whatever happened to him working on the vr record is they are almost done recording?

yes it was. matt actually said it himself on CFR.

"Matt said that Rick listened to the songs they already had and he only liked one. So, he suggested the band go out and jam and record it. Ok, so they did, came back and he liked three. Rick told them that he was going to the South of France (to work on U2's album) and he'll be back at the end of September"

hardly hearsay when the bands drummer is saying it.

"Liked" and "Good enough" are 2 different animals entirely.

Just because Rick may have not cared for what he heard initially doesn't meet they "sucked" so to speak.  O'Brien may think the exact same material is freaking gold, who knows?

From all accounts, there seems to have been a lack of chemistry with Rubin.  Best they found out early in the process and cut ties.

Ya I guess he wouldnt know what he is talking about.   Right,  ::)

I have my doubts about this record

So with this whacky logic, by default, Brendan O'Brien is absolutley tone deaf for taking the gig?? ?: ok:



Apparently the band nor the current producer don't.

Didn't Rick Rubin produce the new Justin Timberlake album? Screw him. Everything BOB has worked on has been great pretty much. I think this new album is gonna be great.

VR are great, its not gonna suck, its gonna be amazing.

Next year is a great year musically for me.

GNR hopefully,finally

VR? and? new bon Jovi album

Its gonna be a great year!


If u watched Metallica's Some kind of Monster u would know how slow and conflicted Metallica are, so no wonder VR went another direction cause they didnt want to wait.

They wanted a producer who could focus all his attention on them cause they dont like to wait around.

It should also be noted that Metallica nearly broke up during the recording of their last album, hence the extra delays they had. But then again, Metallica have always taken their time in the studio, and if it would've held VR up, I'm glad they've picked someone else, especially Brendan.

I'm expecting really great things with the new VR album, and I still think pretty highly of Contraband.
I'm really eager to hear some new Slash riffing! :beer:

Matt said that Rubin didn't like the songs they had shown him, but the only reason given for Rubin's departure was that "things didn't work out."

With all the GNR activity I've been kind of forgetful of VR but listening to Contraband today and I'm getting more and more pumped for the boys second album.  Matt's drumming is really standout imo in VR, really cool. 

I think we're all in agreement that we want more Slash on the second album compared to the first.  I've never heard anyone disagree with that statement. 

Yeah ... well, with a Buckethead avatar staring at me while I read your post ... I'm not surprised ;)

C'mon now!!  Buckethead is a HUGE part of the Gn'R's legacy!!   :rofl: