Matt Sorum Interview With Frazer.ca

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Matt Sorum Interview With Frazer.ca

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Here is some of the interview...

Matt Sorum Interview

November 26, 2008

Laurie:
So, you?re on hiatus right now, but Velvet Revolver is coming back, right?

Matt:
Yeah, well, we?re looking for our new singer, ?cuz Weiland went back to STP. But it?s pretty exciting because now we can think about where we want to go musically. The first album came out fairly aggressive and kind of punk rock. I guess there may have been elements of Guns n? Roses, but not really. But at that time we didn?t feel that we could be a retro band and get away with it, or rest on our laurels from where we?d been and come out with this riff rock, almost retro-sounding kind of stuff. With the producer that we chose and everything we did at the time, it sounded a little bit more modern than my liking. There was more compression, and we had the guy that mixed Lincoln Park, but he also did Nirvana and other big bands. But it worked, so I can?t say why that is. Then we went with Brendan O?Brien and we wanted to make that kind of a record again. But on our second outing, something happened in the mix again where we didn?t have the fire of the first album. So, I think the second record came off a little bit soft. I think there were some good songs, but with Weiland being gone now, I?m very excited about it. I don?t want to say anything bad about Scott, but I think we wrote more for Scott on the second album.

Laurie:
Now you?re going to be able to write what you want.

Matt:
Yeah, even with Guns n? Roses when we wrote the Use Your Illusion albums, Axl was never around. So, we wrote the heaviest riffs and the best stuff that we could come up with while thinking about a vocal. It was the same kind of thing in Velvet Revolver, where Weiland wasn?t always around when we were writing. But when it came to our second album, Weiland wanted to go a little bit trippier and more artsy on it, and looking back in retrospect, maybe we should have just done something similar to what we did on the first album, which was to write a bunch of shit, give it to him, and see which ones he liked. For the first one we had 50 riffs and he came in and chose 13 or 14 of them that he thought he could lend his voice to and make something cool out of them. On the second album he was around more and saying he didn?t like this or that, and I don?t think it worked as well. So, I?m real excited about our third album, because we?re going to be able to do more of what we do with me, Duff and Slash.

Laurie:
I?ve just got one more question if you?ve got time, mainly because Stevie asked me to re-direct the question to you, and it concerns the change of the face of music in the digital age. Do you see more changes coming?

Matt:
I think something is gonna pop soon, because it has to. I?m really excited about it, because I?m feeling a real rock n? roll thing coming back. In the time of a recession, which we are in, rock n? roll rides it out. If you look at AC/DC, they?re selling out in four minutes. Then there?s Metallica, even the Chinese Democracy album finally coming out ? it?s interesting about the timing. And I see one good thing happening and I think it relates to a game called Guitar Hero. I think that maybe in the next five or six years, you?re going to see a generation of young guitar players that are coming from a game that has nothing to do with a guitar (it?s not about strings, it?s about buttons), but what?s happening is that these kids playing Guitar Hero are now coming up listening to the bands that we grew up listening to, like Aerosmith and Gun n? Roses and AC/DC. These kids are just getting hip to it now, but through a game. So, it?s gonna inspire them to play guitar hopefully and create a next generation of real musicians. ?Cuz I think a lot of musicians get lazy with things like ProTools and cutting drum tracks together with this thing called Doctor Beat. But where we come from you had to be good to go out and play, you had to look good and you had to have it all together. You had to be a pretty serious musician to get the gig, and fairly flamboyant and present, and now kids have lost that a lot. But now, these kids playing these music video games, in a few years will be inspired to put their little band together and imitate these bands like AC/DC, and Guns, and even Led Zeppelin??cuz if it goes a little further back like that, that would be even better.

http://www.fazer.ca/2008/12/02/stevie-salas-matt-sorum-interview-november-26th-2008/


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