VELVET REVOLVER Records B-Sides In Cleveland; First Club Date Announced

[FunkyMonkey]

The Plain Dealer reports that VELVET REVOLVER spent time at Lakewood, Ohio's Lava Room Studios earlier in the month tracking b-sides for ther upcoming album, "Libertad", just before heading into New York for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. According to bassist Duff McKagan, the band is no stranger to the studio. "We recorded the song 'Come On, Come In' for the 'Fantastic Four' movie soundtrack here and liked the sounds and the vibe," he said.

In other news, the first club date for VELVET REVOLVER's upcoming North American tour has been announced: Monday, May 7 at Seattle's Showbox Music Club, Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Wednesday, March 21 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.

VELVET REVOLVER's schedule is now shaping up as follows:

South American tour:

Apr. 10 - Pista Atl?tica Del Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile
Apr. 12 - Claro Hall, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Apr. 15 - Quilmes Rock - Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Apr. 16 - Estadio Obras (a.k.a. Estadio Pepsi Music), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Apr. 18 - Palacio De Los Deportes, Bogot?, Colombia

North American tour:

May 07 - Showbox - Seattle, WA
May 19 - Rock On The Range - Columbus Crew Stadium, Columbus, OH

European tour:

Jun. 01 - Rock Am Ring - N?rburgring, Eifel, Germany
Jun. 02 - Gods Of Metal - Idroscalo, Milan, Italy
Jun. 03 - Rock Im Park - Zeppelinfeld, N?rnberg, Germany
Jun. 08 - Download Festival - Castle Donington, Derby, England
Jun. 15/16 - Provinssirock - Seinjoki, Finland
Jun. 17 - Fields Of Rock - Walibi World, Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands
Jun. 22/23 - Monsters Of Rock - Feria De Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Jun. 25 - Le Z?nith De Paris, Paris, France
Jun. 26 - Volkshaus, Z?rich, Switzerland
Jun. 29 - Marley Park, Dublin, Ireland
Jul. 02 - Quart Festivalen - Idrettsplassen, Kristiansand, Norway

More dates will be announced soon.

VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum revealed during the Camp Freddy Radio broadcast on Los Angeles' Indie 103.1 FM earlier in the month that the band has finished mixing its second album, "Libertad".

VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland told MTV.com that the new CD "definitely still rocks, but it's incredibly more musical. There's a lot more textures, and Slash and Duff [McKagan] have really sort of risen the bar. It just goes places that the first album didn't go."

The members of VELVET REVOLVER gave the induction speech for honorees VAN HALEN during the 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which unfolded inside New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel on March 12. VELVET REVOLVER also performed at the event in VAN HALEN's place.

(Thanks: Velvet-Revolver.com)

[MarioGunner]

Cool, I understood there were more dates for southamerica....  but that is still cool I guess.   

And still waiting for Libertad!!!

[tomass74]

Looks like I'll be seeing VR in May.. Hopefully we get some leaks before hand...

[RageNirvanaNIN]

Cool cool its funny how both bands have a disk having to do with civil freedom ( chinese democracy , libertad ) lol just a random thought. Def' will pick this up and go see them again. This is one band that knows how to bring it!

[Grouse]

Guess I'll be seeing them again june 17th really pumped about this 

[Mr Rage]

wish they would add more Uk dates

[Fingers]

The studio they recorded the songs at I think is owned by Billy Morris-he toured for a while with Warrant playing guitar-the studio is about 20 minutes from me-that's interesting-anyway, I'm looking forward to album, tour-I wished they would have put out the live DVD that was in the plans, though

[Tatu]

Good!

WHAT are "B-Sides"?

[GeraldFord]

^Songs that are on the singles, and not on the album.

[Verse Chorus Verse]

Cool cool its funny how both bands have a disk having to do with civil freedom ( chinese democracy , libertad ) lol just a random thought. Def' will pick this up and go see them again. This is one band that knows how to bring it!

Just like the "Coincidence" between the "Pretty Tied Up" single packaging and the "Slither" packaging.

[Falcon]

Cool cool its funny how both bands have a disk having to do with civil freedom ( chinese democracy , libertad ) lol just a random thought. Def' will pick this up and go see them again. This is one band that knows how to bring it!

Just like the "Coincidence" between the "Pretty Tied Up" single packaging and the "Slither" packaging.

Let's leave the conspiracy theories to Oliver Stone and remain on topic.

Thanks.

[Jim Bob]

i would consider most of VR's song catalogue to be "B-sides", so this is not surprising. 

[GeraldFord]

I wonder if these b-sides are covers?

[tomass74]

i would consider most of VR's song catalogue to be "B-sides", so this is not surprising.?

Another brilliant post by one hell of a guy