Vr Talk About Stage & New Album

[Malcolm]

ABC ePrep reports: VELVET REVOLVER recently kicked off their Electric Wonderland Show tour, and their next show is tonight at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California. This tour marks VELVET REVOLVER's first arena tour, and frontman Scott Weiland says that it's a challenge to bring an intimate quality to a large venue. He says that VELVET REVOLVER solves the problem by keeping the stage smaller because, "if you enlarge the stage too much, we found that the band doesn't play as a band any more ? you start playing as individuals...So, we sort of keep the stage smaller, just so we perform as a band."

Guitarist Slash says that VELVET REVOLVER has started to work on the follow-up to their hit debut album, "Contraband", and as he puts it, "We're making arrangements to take, whenever we have some time off, to go in and start pre-production and do this thing, 'cause everybody's really excited about it."

[Judge Dredd]

Cool stuff, nice to see the boys have found something constructive to do with thier time between shows these days.

[Dave_Rose]

That rocks a new album not to far to wait!

[starchild_666]

maybe we'll hear some new song on the end of the tour... 

[Krispy Kreme]

That would really be something if VR put out 2 albums before Chinese Democracy saw the light of day.

[discobiscuit1]

2 sad things for me...its very possible that they may have 3 albums before CD...and whilst i find VR quite bland....taking the best Of VR's music and the best riffs from snakepit....add Izzy stradlin and Axl...and lo and behold you have 3 fuckin amazing albums.

[Eeebs]

This is what I have noticed with their stage...

At their club show, the stage was very low, and the people were able to get super close to the band members.

At the next concert, the venue was much larger, and so was the stage, but people were still close enough to reach out and touch the band members, etc... I for example, reached out and touched Scotts hand at one point

During the last concert, the barracades were quite a ways back from the stage, and the stage was much higher.

It seems as if the more popular the band becomes, the further they distance themselves from their fans.

Just some random observations

[tomass74]

maybe we'll hear some new song on the end of the tour...?

They are doing some new song for a movie soundtrack that Slash said they will be playing by the end of the tour...