Who Should the Next VR Singer be?

[FunkyMonkey]

LENNY KRAVITZ: I Am Not Joining VELVET REVOLVER - Aug. 12, 2008

Lenny Kravitz has shot down as false Internet reports that he is set to become the new singer of VELVET REVOLVER. The singer told RollingStone.com, "I know and love the VELVET REVOLVER guys but there is no truth to the story about me joining their band."

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/08/12/exclusive-lenny-kravitz-tells-rs-no-truth-to-the-story-about-joining-velvet-revolver/

Thanks to Blabbermouth.net

[Thorazine Shuffle]

LENNY KRAVITZ: I Am Not Joining VELVET REVOLVER - Aug. 12, 2008

Lenny Kravitz has shot down as false Internet reports that he is set to become the new singer of VELVET REVOLVER. The singer told RollingStone.com, "I know and love the VELVET REVOLVER guys but there is no truth to the story about me joining their band."

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/08/12/exclusive-lenny-kravitz-tells-rs-no-truth-to-the-story-about-joining-velvet-revolver/

Thanks to Blabbermouth.net

Damn.  I was digging the concept of Lenny joining VR.

Here's to hoping that they reconsider and get Royston Langdon. 

[CheapJon]

was waiting for that

[jarmo]

LENNY KRAVITZ: I Am Not Joining VELVET REVOLVER - Aug. 12, 2008

Now that's truly shocking!

 



/jarmo

[oldgunsfan]

time for the next rumor:

Andrew Stockdale

[Falcon]

I'll save the "I told you so's"....

Bennington, Kravitz, Astbury, Hagar...

Who's next - Staley, Cobain, Morrison (Jim that is)

[jarmo]

I'll save the "I told you so's"....

Bennington, Kravitz, Astbury, Hagar...

Who's next - Staley, Cobain, Morrison (Jim that is)

Rod Jackson!




/jarmo

[Falcon]

I'll save the "I told you so's"....

Bennington, Kravitz, Astbury, Hagar...

Who's next - Staley, Cobain, Morrison (Jim that is)

Rod Jackson!

/jarmo

He's right there with Corabi, Bach, Rock Of Love...etc...

Maybe Robert Plant will squash those Zep rumors and come aboard..

[Jimmy?]

I wouldn't be surprised if Lenny made a guest appearance on an upcoming album (slash/vr) but there was no way in hell he'd become the new VR singer. Imagine him singing Slither 

[Smoking Guns]

Where do we go now?  Where do we go?

[Jizzo]

Brett Hestla

[alejoyp]

I'll save the "I told you so's"....

Bennington, Kravitz, Astbury, Hagar...

Who's next - Staley, Cobain, Morrison (Jim that is)

Rod Jackson!




/jarmo

Please NOO!

Ronnie James Dio?! wow... that sound strange... a way heavier stuff...

[ShotgunBlues1978]

I don't see why they can't just go out and get a singer who fits in with the type of music these guys are the best at making.  Even if he's a no name, they have enough label clout and name recognition in the band already, to where if they write good music it will get airplay and sell records

But to me I think some guys in the band have this ego where they feel like they deserve to have a lead singer who's already a big name, or at least like they need one to sell records.  They don't.  They just need someone who is a good songwriter with a good voice whose style lines up with the styles of the guys in the band

[Fingers]

It's amazing how all the web sites picked this story up in the last few days-while I think they would have been awsome live, I've never been a Lenny Kravitz fan, just a personal thing about his voice

[Dayle1066]

Funny how much interest there is in who they get considering the low level of interest in Libertad etc

[CheapJon]

Funny how much interest there is in who they get considering the low level of interest in Libertad etc

i was interrested in libertad until i realized that it really wasn't good

i'll be interrested in this until they start suck, it can be great, and it could be awful.. if it's good i'll stay interrested, if it's crap my interrest will fade away

I guess it's the same for most people on htgth and the press etc.

[Falcon]

Funny how much interest there is in who they get considering the low level of interest in Libertad etc

The amount of interest is due to their high profile personas and their
status (less Kushner of course) within the lexicon of rock.

[Hudson]

Lenny Kravitz would have been perfect, but I knew that was a long shot. He has a good thing going on his own and there is no reason to mess with that. That is like Justin Timberlake now wanting to join the Backstreet Boys.

I don't think that the reason that they want a big name is to fullfill their egos. It is simply a business decision and a smart one. Remember this band and all famous bands are a business at the end of the day. If they were to get a Rod Jackson they would only have a small cult following like Loaded or Snakepit and it would probably lead to the breakup of the band all together, especially since Libertad was not as succesful as they hoped. I saw both versions of Snakepit and they played really really small venues. The first version was packed the second time I went to see them it was almost empty... it was really sad because I thought they were good.

Therefore they need to re-emerge as they origially did and create a buzz for their new singer and new material. When Scott joined the group people were excited because the band was like a super group... GNR+STP. People wanted to hear their product. The only way to do that is with a lead singer that will bring that excitement that people will be interested in and that the press will want to write about. If they get someone like Rod Jackson.... I am sorry but that will not grab any headlines. Maybe a couple of articles in guitar world and a paragraph in Rollingstone but nothing crazy. However, if they would get someone like Lenny Kravitz or a Chris Cornell... Everyone will be talking about it,  the press will have a field day with the kind of material that the band will create because their is so much potential for great music that it is inevitable that their will be an anticipation to finally hear the music just like whats going on with GNR. As annoying as it is to wait as long as GNR fans have waited one thing I think everyone on this board can agree on is that we are definitely anticipating CD to finally get released. I think that is what VR is striving for and i hope that is what they do.

For me its funny I do not regret that they chose Scott for the role and things did not work out, however one decision I wish they would have made was to have stuck with Rick Rubin to produce Libertad, because he is a genious at what he does. Although I like Libertad I think that they may have rushed their material and that it could have been better. I think this is a band that needs someone to pull on their reins to get the best musically out of them. They seem to always be in a rush. I think that is one of the elements that Axl brought to the mix that made them keep challenging themselves musically.





 

[FunkyMonkey]

So was Lenny the "big name vocalist" that Matt was talking about and it didn't work out?  Or do they have another "big name vocalist" in the works?

And what happened to the website to audition singers that Slash talked about in that Billboard interview a long time ago?

[Jizzo]

just announce that you have someone, get a record done and then tour already, lol