Rose lambasted his former GUNS bandmates, McKagan and VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash, claiming that the latter called VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland a "fraud" and McKagan "spineless" in an early morning meeting at Rose's house last year.

McKagan told Launch that he would rather not get involved in the situation at all. "I think, you know, a lot of it's really unfortunate, very difficult," he said in an interview conducted last Friday (March 10). "I've always just wanted to make great music and that's what I plan on doing. As far as a rebuttal to what he said, or what Slash has said, I won't get involved in a war of words, you know. People say all kinds of stuff and I'm not going to be one of them."

According to a posting by Matt Sorum on his Sorum Forum, VR are putting their final touches on a DVD release. He speaks of a show the band recorded in Texas at the start of the 'Contraband' tour. This is most likely the show from June 18, 2004 in Houston, TX, which was broadcast on HDNET earlier this year.