Who Should the Next VR Singer be?

[Jimmy?]

Where did these Kravitz rumors come from anyway...is there any source?

I think people are just putting 2 and 2 together and making 5.

[CheapJon]

Where did these Kravitz rumors come from anyway...is there any source?

I think people are just putting 2 and 2 together and making 5.

haha best ever

and i'm sure you're right too

[oldgunsfan]

Where did these Kravitz rumors come from anyway...is there any source?

I think people are just putting 2 and 2 together and making 5.

i thought it was the new math?

[cineater]

Got it from the Rope; fucking cool if it is true.

Itz Lenny for Revolver
Published: Today
 
LENNY KRAVITZ has got himself a new job ? as frontman of hard rock supergroup VELVET REVOLVER.
The rocker, who is playing at the V Festival in Staffordshire and Chelmsford this weekend, has been spotted in the studio with the band. The group, originally made up of former GUNS N? ROSES and WASTED YOUTH members, including guitar legend SLASH, have been looking for a new frontman since their split from SCOTT WEILAND.

Other names that had been linked to the job include ex- VAN HALEN singer SAMMY HAGAR and SPACEHOG?s ROYSTON LANGDON. A new album is expected early next year.

A source said: ?Velvet Revolver?s new album will draw heavily on their messy split with Scott. ?The band wanted a big name who could easily hold his own and reckon Lenny is just the man for the job.?

Former wildman Lenny should be able to hold his own all right ? he vowed earlier this year to stay celibate until he marries again.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1545748.ece

[jarmo]

Lenny has solo tour dates booked until November and then a French tour in May 2009.






/jarmo

[Smoking Guns]

Is the Sun a Tabloid?

[alejoyp]

Got it from the Rope; fucking cool if it is true.

Itz Lenny for Revolver
Published: Today
 
LENNY KRAVITZ has got himself a new job ? as frontman of hard rock supergroup VELVET REVOLVER.
The rocker, who is playing at the V Festival in Staffordshire and Chelmsford this weekend, has been spotted in the studio with the band. The group, originally made up of former GUNS N? ROSES and WASTED YOUTH members, including guitar legend SLASH, have been looking for a new frontman since their split from SCOTT WEILAND.

Other names that had been linked to the job include ex- VAN HALEN singer SAMMY HAGAR and SPACEHOG?s ROYSTON LANGDON. A new album is expected early next year.

A source said: ?Velvet Revolver?s new album will draw heavily on their messy split with Scott. ?The band wanted a big name who could easily hold his own and reckon Lenny is just the man for the job.?

Former wildman Lenny should be able to hold his own all right ? he vowed earlier this year to stay celibate until he marries again.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1545748.ece

Mmmm... unlikely... but Lenny is a childhood friend of Slash so a collaboration seems very probable... but joinin' the band? Mmmm... I don't think so...

[Lurk]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1545748.ece

I doubt it judging by the source, but interesting all the same!

[mrlee]

damn well.

we are gonna get some very funky stuff if that is the case...but i cant see how they are gonna do there hard rock thing with him.

[fuckin crazy]

Sammy would make a hell of a choice. I didn't care a lot for his stuff with VH, but his early stuff kicks ass.

Too, I think he is trying to throw something together right now.

[cineater]

I didn't pay much attention to VR the last time around.  Didn't care for their singer or the name but with the right singer, they could be pretty good.  Worth paying attention if they are going to draw people like this.

[metallex78]

damn well.

we are gonna get some very funky stuff if that is the case...but i cant see how they are gonna do there hard rock thing with him.

Yeah, Lenny is pretty funky, but has some pretty rockin' tunes as well.

It would be cool to hear VR play Always on the Run, Fields of Joy and Are You Gonna Go My Way. They could even bust out that hidden gem off Duff's first solo album - The Majority.

[Smoking Guns]

The band would be more rock n roll and less hard rock.  I am fine with that.  I would Imagine their Stones influence to really come out.  Slash would do great in that genre.

[metallex78]

The band would be more rock n roll and less hard rock.

Yeah, and that's still better than the alternative/pop stylings on Libertad.


I really hope it is Lenny. I reckon with him they could do really well, creatively and commercially.

[Smoking Guns]

The band would be more rock n roll and less hard rock.

Yeah, and that's still better than the alternative/pop stylings on Libertad.


I really hope it is Lenny. I reckon with him they could do really well, creatively and commercially.

Me too!  It would be a Homerun for the Band to land him!

[metallex78]

Although, with Lenny in mind, I find it hard to imagine him singing the old VR stuff, he sounds nothing like Scott.

[Fingers]

It would be intersting to see Slash, Duff and Matt come up with a number one album with a third different lead singer in a band they have been in

[Smoking Guns]

It would be intersting to see Slash, Duff and Matt come up with a number one album with a third different lead singer in a band they have been in

Yes.  And with Lenny you could get a nice fat groove to dance too.  This is the best option I have heard so far by far!

[FunkyMonkey]

Is Lenny Kravitz Really Going To Fill Weiland's Velvet Shoes?

THE RUMOR: The new lead singer of Velvet Revolver is none other than Lenny Kravitz.

TRUTH THRESHOLD: 38%.

LIKELY TRUTHS: The "source" of the Sun story that broke this rumor is claiming that Kravitz has been spotted in the studio with Slash, Duff, and Matt Sorum, a scenario that isn't all that far-fetched. Kravitz is no stranger to playing with many of the members of Guns N' Roses, what with Slash appearing on his album Mama Said and Lenny jumping on stage to perform "Always On The Run" during a Guns N' Roses show back in the day. That sort of pre-existing chemistry could definitely serve as a hedge from relations devolving into the sour sniping that marked Velvet Revolver's end.

LIKELY FALSEHOODS: But would Kravitz want to subsume his identity into a band that wasn't his? Kravitz's latest solo effort, It Is Time For A Love Revolution, didn't sell too badly, reaching the 189,000-scanned mark before it dropped off the Billboard 200 back in April. And his name recognition has, after all, led him all the way to the racks at Kohl's.

http://idolator.com/400236/is-lenny-kravitz-really-going-to-fill-weilands-velvet-shoes

[FunkyMonkey]

From MTV

Who?s Fronting Velvet Revolver This Week? Place Your Bets!

Published by Gil Kaufman on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 1:14 pm.

It?s kind of like the Summer Olympics, only it comes around about every six years instead of four: It?s the Velvet Revolver frontman decathlon, and the hits keep coming.
 
Who?s disqualified: Former Spacehog singer Royston Langdon was scratched from the competition last week, when VR bassist Duff McKagan told Billboard.com that the diminutive glam revivalist was not the band?s gold-medal pick.
 
Who?s on deck: Lenny Kravitz. According to the borderline reliable British tabloid The Sun, Kravitz has reportedly been ?spotted? in the studio with the band. An unnamed source reportedly told the Sun, ?Velvet Revolver?s new album will draw heavily on their messy split with Scott. The band wanted a big name who could easily hold his own and reckon Lenny is just the man for the job.?

This probably isn?t the last word in the competition. So here?s a tentative list of our favorites, if we were betting folk:

Gaahl (Gorgoroth): odds 1,000 to 1
Lenny Kravitz: 500 to 1
Ronnie James Dio (Dio, ex-Black Sabbath): 100 to 1
Otep Shamaya (Otep leader): 40 to 1
Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit): 20 to 1
Corey Glover (ex-Living Colour): 5 to 1
 
Stay tuned next week for another installment of ?Who?s Fronting Velvet Revolver Now??

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2008/08/12/whos-fronting-velvet-revolver-this-week-place-your-bets/