Velvet Revolver Plan Concept Album, Weiland Plans Solo Album
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MTV.com reports that Velvet Revolver are writing a concept album for their second full-length release. Weiland refused to reveal any details about the concept but said he and his fellow VR members have been writing for months.
"It's something I've been wanting to do since the last STP album, since the Shangri-La Dee Da album [in 2001], and it never was completely realized," singer Scott Weiland (formerly of Stone Temple Pilots) said. "You never know until you really completely get there, but it's going in that direction right now."
"This album really has to make a statement," bassist Duff McKagan added. "We've toured for 18 months. Now we have a brand name. Now we know each other as a band. The first album was just us together at home, a spontaneous product. Now it's time to make that record."
Along with the follow-up to 2004's Contraband, Weiland is also working on the follow-up to his 1998 solo album, 12 Bar Blues, for which he has 25 songs written. Weiland intended to release the solo album a few years ago but joined Slash, McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner in Velvet Revolver instead.
"I think I was looking really for a way out of doing drugs," Weiland recalled. "Then I kept on thinking the music [they were sending me] was getting better and better and finally I was just like, 'I think that there really might be a real contribution waiting to happen for rock and roll here. And I think if I join this I can really add something to this and make a real contribution.' "
There's no title or release date yet for either album, but McKagan said to expect a spring release for VR.
In the meantime, the band is performing a New Year's Eve show at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. "It's a tiny little club where people can hang from the rafters." McKagan said. "It's gonna be hot and sweaty and ferocious, but that's rock and roll."
Source: MTV.com
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6 Comments on "Velvet Revolver Plan Concept Album"
2. writes:
I don't know, man. I'm pretty curious about it. Concept albums were big back in the sixties and seventies when artists were alowed to be artists. Instead of making singles for the radio, the entire album is the musical statement...like some of the Pink Floyd albums, and Sgt. Pepper from the Beatles and so on. I wasn't too impressed by VR's first album, but who knows, it could be great.
4. writes:
well the GNR guyz have went downhill big time as far as meusical ability espically slash
cause after GNR he formed Slashes SnakePit, like a blues/heavy metal/rock hybrid.(Matt Sorum , & dizzy reed on the 1st SnakePit CD) LIke what the f*** with valvet revolver the sound is so generic and boring and weiland has those whiny girly vocals with make everything even worse. Plus VR has only 1 that right 1 f***in Cd out and there considerec brand name/ big time mainstream i think its f***ed up what happened back in the days were u had to make a great CD or many CDs to get reconized. Now is it like hey remember GNR,/ ya i do,/ well there coming out with some new sh** under a differnt name,/ ok charged like $45.00 + a ticket , play the sh** out of ok songs on the raido and call them a big time success, just because of there past history. Its complety f***ed up. Why didnt DamagePlan immeditly go to the big time cause of ( Vinnie & DimeBag in PANTERA) and i could keep naming stuff. OK heres and idea of some complete bullsh** why doesnt Metallica start a new band cause there new sh** sucks anyway, and before the come out with 1 CD there ticket prices are gonning to be crazy and everyone will think how great there are cause of there old,old paast even before there hear the new sh**. Finally why doesnt cannibal corpse change there name to the Great American Plan and dress up like MTV fa**ots everone would buy there sh** and think there great thatbis unti they heard what Cannibal Corpse really sounds like, SOCIETY SUCKS
5. writes:
ok. we need to sit down and realize that even Pantera was friggin awesome and that it was a great tragedy that took Dime away from us, we need to stop glossing over the fact that damageplan sucked. it was not good. we listened to support pantera, or the idea that we would catch a glimpse of it in the music, but it sucked, and Dime dying doesnt change that. sorry Dime, RIP.
6. writes:
ya i forgot to mention that i wouldnt say they sucked there tons of terrible sh** out there but still they werent that good. BUT hey neither is velvet revolver compared to GNR so why was VR skryrocketed to the mainstream ( and there pure sh** compared to damage Plan) while DP was just sweeped under the mat
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1. lament_in_nite writes:
VELVET REVOLVER SUX MAJOR ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. This has to be one of the worst bands I've ever heard. It's all crap. GnR is ok, you know back in the day. STP always sucked. Now this s h i t. F U C K!!!!!. . .Where is music going these days!?