Shooter Jennings Offered Velvet Revolver Job Twice

[FunkyMonkey]

Shooter Jennings Offered Velvet Revolver Job Twice!

19/03/2009

Country rock star Shooter Jennings has confirmed that he has been offered the job of singer with Velvet Revolver ? but has turned the band down TWICE!

Shooter, the son of country legend Waylon Jennings, was one of the men Classic Rock tipped as potential VR singers back in April last year.

At that time Duff McKagan admitted that Jennings could make a good replacement: ?Shooter?s great, actually,? he told CR?s Scott Rowley. ?That?s a good idea. He?s does a southern rock thing, but his old band was straight up kinda rock. He?s a talented guy man, he?s pretty awesome. He would be good.?

In a new interview with Classic Rock, Jennings confirms that he was asked ? but turned the band down. And not just once.

?They?ve asked me twice, dude,? Jennings told CR?s Henry Yates. ?I?ve done a couple of shows with those guys, and they asked me a couple of years ago and they asked me again last year to be the singer. And it pained my heart not to say yes, because those guys are the best players in the world. They?re literally one of the best bands I?ve ever heard and to be able to sing with them has been amazing. But I had a talk with them about it, and I would absolutely still, to this day, get in a room and jam with them, but first of all, I knew I was gonna be doing another record and that what I wanted to do was really special to me, and I didn?t feel I could stifle that.?

?I didn?t feel like my next step should to be to go from feeling like my back was broken by Nashville to stepping into the shoes of Scott Weiland and singing that stuff,? he continued. ?I kinda said, if you wanna get together and do some stuff, that?d be fine, but I don?t know about me going out and singing those songs, and being the replacement for Scott Weiland, after Axl.?

?You have to understand how big that is for me, because Guns N? Roses was one of my favourite bands of all time,? Jennings continued. ?I was six years old when Appetite For Destruction came out and it was the coolest thing. I never liked Bon Jovi. I never liked hair metal. I never liked any of that. When I heard Guns N? Roses, it was dangerous and it was mean, and that was why I wanted to move to LA. I wanted to be Axl stepping off the bus with the hayseed in his mouth.?

?Duff, Slash, Matt and Dave have all become good friends and it?s no disrespect to them, but I just felt like it wasn?t my time to do that, y?know? For all the money it probably would have brought??

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/shooter-jennings-offered-velvet-revolver-job-twice/

[IKnowWhereIAM]

Interesting...it would be a good 'shift' for VR, rather than trying to find a scott-alike.  I never even considered this - hopefully, since he has refused, we will have an equally surprising singer.  Shooter has done some pretty hard stuff...I know he is on the 'Waylon Tribute Album' with his metal band.

[Smoking Guns]

I would have like Shooter myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGebIMd0lw

[FunkyMonkey]

^^ Another video here...

SHOOTER JENNINGS Claims He Was Offered VELVET REVOLVER Job Twice - Mar. 19, 2009

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=116476

[FunkyMonkey]

?I kinda said, if you wanna get together and do some stuff, that?d be fine, but I don?t know about me going out and singing those songs, and being the replacement for Scott Weiland, after Axl.?

This seems to be part of the problem they have getting a bigger name.  He's not the first one to say this...

[Falcon]

?I kinda said, if you wanna get together and do some stuff, that?d be fine, but I don?t know about me going out and singing those songs, and being the replacement for Scott Weiland, after Axl.?

This seems to be part of the problem they have getting a bigger name.  He's not the first one to say this...

Between them not wanting to work with a singer with let's say, "eccentricities" and known guys not wanting to jump into other musical shoes the options are definitely limited to the lesser known/unknown variety...

[lynn1961]

Yeah, too bad.  I would love to have seen Shooter Jennings give it a try, but I can see his point.

This version is my favorite version of Whole Lotta' Rosie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJY7hPQTss&feature=related

[GNR4L]

He made a wise choice not to join.  I kinda of understand where he's coming from.

[makane]

Too bad, seems like a nice guy.

[Alan]

# For the record, Shooter Jennings was NEVER asked to join Velvet Revolver

http://twitter.com/SlashHudson

[CheapJon]

# For the record, Shooter Jennings was NEVER asked to join Velvet Revolver

http://twitter.com/SlashHudson

the man of truth has spoken

[FunkyMonkey]

# For the record, Shooter Jennings was NEVER asked to join Velvet Revolver

http://twitter.com/SlashHudson

Without going into too much detail, there is a possibility (and I know I was the one to post it) that Twitter page is fake.  But maybe not.

I'll wait to see it reported from another source before I believe it.

[FunkyMonkey]

   So Shooter Jennings made the whole thing up?

Classic Rock magazine brought down a landslide of rumors by reporting that Shooter Jennings (son of country legend Waylon Jennings) had been offered the Velvet Revolver singer position twice and had turned it down each time. We checked with SLASH, and he said that the offers weren't true, but it was no big deal.

Snakepit.org

[Rage in the Cage]

Either Shooter Jennings was asked by Velvet Revolver to audition twice, or someone here is a big fat phony.

[FunkyMonkey]

Either Shooter Jennings was asked by Velvet Revolver to audition twice, or someone here is a big fat phony.

Well, they're both performing with Tom Morello tonight...so maybe they can figure it out.

Justice Tour - March 28 - Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theater

Scheduled guests:

Slash
Serj Tankian
Corey Taylor
Shooter Jennings
Boots Riley
Wayne Kramer

[IKnowWhereIAM]

Either Shooter Jennings was asked by Velvet Revolver to audition twice, or someone here is a big fat phony.

Well, Shooter hasn't been caught lying to us yet, so I would have to believe his side in this case...especially if Slash made an unannounced 5am visit to his home to do it.