Slash says Velvet Revolver singer search is 'still ongoing'

[FunkyMonkey]

From Matt Sorum

Jul 23.09

Hey friends< I am not kidding friends the girls are getting so good I gotta tell you might be hard to go back to my day job. Velvet Revolver that is. let me see i could ride on a bus with 4 other smelly guys or 4 very attractive women. huuuum Just kindin love my band, but am havin a blast playin w the girls.

[Jdog0830]

From Matt Sorum

Jul 23.09

Hey friends< I am not kidding friends the girls are getting so good I gotta tell you might be hard to go back to my day job. Velvet Revolver that is. let me see i could ride on a bus with 4 other smelly guys or 4 very attractive women. huuuum Just kindin love my band, but am havin a blast playin w the girls.

I bet he is!!!!

[D]

God I hate Matt Sorum

I am listening to "Messages" right now

what a bunch of idiots for not putting this on LIbertad and releasing it as a single.

[CheapJon]

God I hate Matt Sorum

I am listening to "Messages" right now

what a bunch of idiots for not putting this on LIbertad and releasing it as a single.

well, the band would be better if he didn't come back to  VR

[D]

I say get Adler, let Izzy and Duff go around and sing

Fuck it

[Jdog0830]

God I hate Matt Sorum

I am listening to "Messages" right now

what a bunch of idiots for not putting this on LIbertad and releasing it as a single.

well, the band would be better if he didn't come back to  VR

Are you thinking what im thinking Steven Adler back in a band worthy of his great drumming!!!

[m_rated96]

My cousin met matt sorum a couple of weeks ago - apparently she talked to him for an hour and got a bunch of pictures.

Anyways, shes a crazy alter bridge fan, and she kept telling him to get myles kennedy to sing for VR- matt apparently said they had been "talking about talking to him"

... wouldn't that be cool...

[Jdog0830]

My cousin met matt sorum a couple of weeks ago - apparently she talked to him for an hour and got a bunch of pictures.

Anyways, shes a crazy alter bridge fan, and she kept telling him to get myles kennedy to sing for VR- matt apparently said they had been "talking about talking to him"

... wouldn't that be cool...

More intersting than cool but it would be still cool

[Rage in the Cage]

My cousin met matt sorum a couple of weeks ago - apparently she talked to him for an hour and got a bunch of pictures.

Anyways, shes a crazy alter bridge fan, and she kept telling him to get myles kennedy to sing for VR- matt apparently said they had been "talking about talking to him"

... wouldn't that be cool...

They wanted to try Miles out during their first search for a lead singer, but he turned them down. I don't know if much has changed since then, but he seems satisfied with working on his solo record.

[FunkyMonkey]

Not too much, but from an interview posted today with Scott Weiland:

Rockerrazzi: Velvet Revolver is no longer...there's no chance of you coming back to that band?

Weiland: That's what I said about STP.

He goes on to say that STP is his band right now and they are almost finished with the album.

@2:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxcHKs65Nxs

[Jdog0830]

Not too much, but from an interview posted today with Scott Weiland:

Rockerrazzi: Velvet Revolver is no longer...there's no chance of you coming back to that band?

Weiland: That's what I said about STP.

He goes on to say that STP is his band right now and they are almost finished with the album.

@2:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxcHKs65Nxs

Sounds like something he would say but its unlikely that he will return...

[FunkyMonkey]

@sebastianbach babe, is it true that you're singing with Velvet Revolver??

about 2 hours ago from web

From Duff:

@_Alecita_ its not true. Apparently, some1 has started a facebook under my name. I took mine down a few weeks ago. Sorry 4the confusion.

about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry

[FunkyMonkey]

From Duff in an article posted today:

But Duff has promised we've not seen the last of Velvet Revolver.

In 2008, singer Scott Weiland announced on stage at the SECC he was quitting the band but Duff says plans are in place to reform the band next autumn.

He said: "We've got a top 10 list of singers we'd like to try out and enough material for a great new record."

http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/135492147

[Jdog0830]

that's good news hope they do by next year ; )

[gnrjanus]

10 guys... that's about freaking TIME... we miss those guys...

[Jdog0830]

10 guys... that's about freaking TIME... we miss those guys...

I wouldn't count on them having something set in stone though every time one of the VR members talk they say different things about it but if they all said the same thing then I would be convinced

[faldor]

10 guys... that's about freaking TIME... we miss those guys...

I wouldn't count on them having something set in stone though every time one of the VR members talk they say different things about it but if they all said the same thing then I would be convinced

Yeah I wouldn't get too excited about this.  Actually I wouldn't get excited at all.  They've been stringing us along all the way.  Back in April they were a week away from announcing the new lead singer.  Now they'll be back at it NEXT autumn.  Next Autumn they'll surely have another story.  They're keeping VR on the backburner for now, and for good reason.  Just in case.  But for the moment Duff is touring with Loaded and seems real happy.  And Slash is working his ass off on that solo album and I expect him to milk that for all its worth, probably much longer than next autumn.

[FunkyMonkey]

I guess reforming the band in the fall of 2010 makes sense.  With Slash releasing his album in early 2010 and talking about touring, Duff touring with Loaded and Matt working out behavioral problems with his dog.

And I thought they had it narrowed down to 2 or 3 singers a while ago, now they have 10...maybe they've started over.

[Jdog0830]

No Matt is touring with Motorhead I think you were the person that told us that eventhough it's only for a little while.

And I did not mean for people to not get excited just to wait for what EVERYONE IN VR has to say about it if they all say the same thing then my guess would be that it is confirmed

[FunkyMonkey]

No Matt is touring with Motorhead I think you were the person that told us that eventhough it's only for a little while.

I was being a little flip with that comment.  And yeah, Matt is touring with Motorhead until their drummer is done shooting his reality show.  I don't know if he's still playing with The Darling Stilettos and he probably has side projects as well.