Slash says Velvet Revolver singer search is 'still ongoing'

[jacdaniel]

I thought Slash's solo album was just a bit of fun and something personal that he wanted to put out.  I didn't think he'd spend time promoting or touring for it.  I also thought VR was the priority.

[faldor]

I thought Slash's solo album was just a bit of fun and something personal that he wanted to put out.  I didn't think he'd spend time promoting or touring for it.  I also thought VR was the priority.

VR may be the priority in the end, but it certainly isn't right now.  Evidence Duff and Slash, and no forward movement on the VR front.

[Smoking Guns]

I thought Slash's solo album was just a bit of fun and something personal that he wanted to put out.  I didn't think he'd spend time promoting or touring for it.  I also thought VR was the priority.

VR may be the priority in the end, but it certainly isn't right now.  Evidence Duff and Slash, and no forward movement on the VR front.

I see no problem with that and I love the idea of Slash's new album.

[Guitar1281]

I thought Slash's solo album was just a bit of fun and something personal that he wanted to put out.  I didn't think he'd spend time promoting or touring for it.  I also thought VR was the priority.

Not saying its true but I bet record lables see a Slash solo album featuring big names and current stars as being way more profitable than velvet revolver with an unknown singer just think about it, Slash is a bigger name himself than Velvet revolver hes all over the place and if hes working with Fergie, Kid Rock, M. Shadows, Ozzy, Ron Wood you got the slash fan base covered, pop music with fergie, pop/modern rock with kid rock, modern metal with M. Shadows, older metal with Ozzy, classic rock with ron wood, its almost all of the big genres tackled and you know this thing is going to get the shit promoted out of it, slash is allready all over the place and myspace will do shit on it guitar magazines tv shows, the record companies know this will make more than velvet revolver where libertad commercially flopped and add an unkown singer it doesn't spell straight up easy megasuccess via their name alone.

[jacdaniel]

yeah thats true.  Well hopefully it will be a success, id love to hear a song with ozzy!

[Jdog0830]

would be cool to us, but make them look like a joke

yeah maby but it wouldnt be funny if they did that and got there lead singer that would just connect with everyone then VR would be ready for this year touring like Adlers Appitite and GNR

then it would be truely a year for GNR fans from almost all the different fractions

then again it could totaly reverse on them if the new guy pulled what Scotty did

[CheapJon]

then again it could totaly reverse on them if the new guy pulled what Scotty did

what was it that scotty pulled?

[oldgunsfan]

I thought Slash's solo album was just a bit of fun and something personal that he wanted to put out.  I didn't think he'd spend time promoting or touring for it.  I also thought VR was the priority.

Not saying its true but I bet record lables see a Slash solo album featuring big names and current stars as being way more profitable than velvet revolver with an unknown singer just think about it, Slash is a bigger name himself than Velvet revolver hes all over the place and if hes working with Fergie, Kid Rock, M. Shadows, Ozzy, Ron Wood you got the slash fan base covered, pop music with fergie, pop/modern rock with kid rock, modern metal with M. Shadows, older metal with Ozzy, classic rock with ron wood, its almost all of the big genres tackled and you know this thing is going to get the shit promoted out of it, slash is allready all over the place and myspace will do shit on it guitar magazines tv shows, the record companies know this will make more than velvet revolver where libertad commercially flopped and add an unkown singer it doesn't spell straight up easy megasuccess via their name alone.

wonder what the media / fan / general reaction would be if Slash's Solo album outsold Chinese Democracy in it's first week of release and debuted at #1

[Guitar1281]

I thought Slash's solo album was just a bit of fun and something personal that he wanted to put out.  I didn't think he'd spend time promoting or touring for it.  I also thought VR was the priority.

Not saying its true but I bet record lables see a Slash solo album featuring big names and current stars as being way more profitable than velvet revolver with an unknown singer just think about it, Slash is a bigger name himself than Velvet revolver hes all over the place and if hes working with Fergie, Kid Rock, M. Shadows, Ozzy, Ron Wood you got the slash fan base covered, pop music with fergie, pop/modern rock with kid rock, modern metal with M. Shadows, older metal with Ozzy, classic rock with ron wood, its almost all of the big genres tackled and you know this thing is going to get the shit promoted out of it, slash is allready all over the place and myspace will do shit on it guitar magazines tv shows, the record companies know this will make more than velvet revolver where libertad commercially flopped and add an unkown singer it doesn't spell straight up easy megasuccess via their name alone.

wonder what the media / fan / general reaction would be if Slash's Solo album outsold Chinese Democracy in it's first week of release and debuted at #1

I could forsee it doing so just on the basis of promotion and being hyped up, it doesn't mean that musically it is a better record, that we will have to wait and see. I severly doubt it will be and i'm a die hard slash/old guns fan but just based on some of the people who are going to be on it and how it he has billed it a good ol rock and roll record doesn't make me to excited about the album being all that amazing but who knows he could suprise us. But musically, experimentally, and songwriting wise i'm almost 100 percent sure CD will be better.

[Jdog0830]

then again it could totaly reverse on them if the new guy pulled what Scotty did

what was it that scotty pulled?

you know with all the drugs and then leaving to join another band

[ShotgunBlues1978]

I thought Slash's solo album was just a bit of fun and something personal that he wanted to put out.  I didn't think he'd spend time promoting or touring for it.  I also thought VR was the priority.

Not saying its true but I bet record lables see a Slash solo album featuring big names and current stars as being way more profitable than velvet revolver with an unknown singer just think about it, Slash is a bigger name himself than Velvet revolver hes all over the place and if hes working with Fergie, Kid Rock, M. Shadows, Ozzy, Ron Wood you got the slash fan base covered, pop music with fergie, pop/modern rock with kid rock, modern metal with M. Shadows, older metal with Ozzy, classic rock with ron wood, its almost all of the big genres tackled and you know this thing is going to get the shit promoted out of it, slash is allready all over the place and myspace will do shit on it guitar magazines tv shows, the record companies know this will make more than velvet revolver where libertad commercially flopped and add an unkown singer it doesn't spell straight up easy megasuccess via their name alone.

wonder what the media / fan / general reaction would be if Slash's Solo album outsold Chinese Democracy in it's first week of release and debuted at #1

People would mock Axl but they do that anyway.  It would be an apples and oranges comparison anyway, a more apt comparison (that never would happen) would be if Axl did a solo album featuring his vocals over individual instrumental tracks from Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, Elton John, Zakk Wylde, Brian May, Tom Morello, Dr. Dre, etc.  That would be cool but it's not realistic.  As it stands, Axl made an album with a bunch of guys who are talented but the general public doesn't know, got a lot of backlash for using the GnR name and it was not a really "commercial" album.  Slash's solo album features a ton of big name musicians spanning multiple genres and it will probably be a lot more commercially viable as far as song structure, hooks, and all that, and won't have any negativity attached to it

[CheapJon]

then again it could totaly reverse on them if the new guy pulled what Scotty did

what was it that scotty pulled?

you know with all the drugs and then leaving to join another band

slash did drugs too man, (didn't pretty much everybody go to rehab except davey dave?)
+ you can't blame a man for going someplace where he is more wanted, liked and respected can you?

[Jdog0830]

then again it could totaly reverse on them if the new guy pulled what Scotty did

what was it that scotty pulled?

you know with all the drugs and then leaving to join another band

slash did drugs too man, (didn't pretty much everybody go to rehab except davey dave?)
+ you can't blame a man for going someplace where he is more wanted, liked and respected can you?

true on both points but it would have been better if VR did take the time to find the right person to be the singer the first go around with all this would have saved a lot of time in the long run

[Dayle1066]

I think Weiland was the right choice, he is a great singer and a great frontman.

And hey, who can predict what will hapen 5 years down the line anyway?

[FunkyMonkey]

SLASH Says VELVET REVOLVER Is Still Searching For Singer - Apr. 1, 2009   

According to Slash, VELVET REVOLVER is still searching for a replacement for singer Scott Weiland, who was dismissed last April. He says, "There was a lot of talk about our announcing a new singer in March but it obviously didn't happen. We had somebody that we thought was a really good candidate, but it just wasn't meant to be. So, we're still looking. [As for possible VELVET REVOLVER live shows], of course VR is going to tour again, we just have to find the right person to front the band. We have a bunch of new material and we're all anxious to get going, but the key ingredient for a rock n' roll band such as VR is an amazing frontman, and we haven't found the right man for the job, yet."
 
 http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=117339

[LunsJail]

These guys need to swallow their pride and call Scott back. Obviously there are no great candidates out there who want this job.

[gnrjanus]

It's a shame some people just can't get over some 10 year old issue.
come on.....
Money is already on the table... and I can understand why they don't take it.
it's not about the money we get it.

Just do it!. get someone. he doesn't need to be that big... if he has a voice..... hire him..

[IKnowWhereIAM]

Its such a small world...wouldn't it be wierd if they got the dude (James Michael?) from Sixx AM?  Heck, Slash already has Freese drumming on his album...seems like the music business is one little incestuous family.   

[Pine Barrens]

SLASH Says VELVET REVOLVER Is Still Searching For Singer - Apr. 1, 2009   

According to Slash, VELVET REVOLVER is still searching for a replacement for singer Scott Weiland, who was dismissed last April. He says, "There was a lot of talk about our announcing a new singer in March but it obviously didn't happen. We had somebody that we thought was a really good candidate, but it just wasn't meant to be. So, we're still looking. [As for possible VELVET REVOLVER live shows], of course VR is going to tour again, we just have to find the right person to front the band. We have a bunch of new material and we're all anxious to get going, but the key ingredient for a rock n' roll band such as VR is an amazing frontman, and we haven't found the right man for the job, yet."
 
 http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=117339

I think fresh blood is the way to go. Find a kick-ass new talent that no one has heard of with a great voice and a great personality. Hopefully the search will end as such.

[FunkyMonkey]

So when Duff said that the announcement was soon...he thought they had found their singer?  But everyone did not agree?

"We will find a singer at some point," he predicts. "We just have to find the guy. There's been a couple guys I thought were perfect, but everybody's got to be 100 percent into it. We have an albums worth of material -- great, big, huge songs. Zepplinesque. Once we find the guy that can complement those and take it to another level, that'll take off. But I can't give any sort of timeline at all."

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/duff-mckagan-restarts-loaded-says-u-s-economy-1003958810.story