Velvet Revolver Looking For Talent ... Online
After Scott Weiland was very publicly kicked to the curb and decided to focus his considerable energies on the Stone Temple Pilots reunion, we had hopes for some sort of GN'R hatchet burying, but it looks like the revolving door of Velvet Revolver has other ideas. (And, by the way, that's not their new vocalist in the accompanying picture cozying up to Weiland -- it's legendary rock 'n' roll photographer Jim Marshall ... but dare to dream.)
Via NME:
Velvet Revolver are set to hold an online audition to replace singer Scott Weiland.According to the band's guitarist Slash, the group are building a website to bring in singers over the next month.
He said: "The band is actually talking about building a Web site [and] doing some auditions via that, so that's been something that's developing at this point.
"We're at that point of just listening to different things... it's one of those kind of situations where you can't really explain it to anybody because you'll know it when you hear it. So I'm waiting to get that feeling of, 'Yeah that's it.'"
The band are due to play a forthcoming gig in Las Vegas which will see a number of singers take up vocal duties.
Slash told Billboard: "I'm not gonna name any names, but a bunch of well-known people will get up and sing some songs, and then also bring up a couple people that we think are pretty good and might sing a couple songs."
Why not save yourself the time and energy, Slash, and just troll YouTube? It worked for Journey.
Posted at 10:11 AM
Tags: Stone Temple Pilots | Velvet Revolver
They should change their name to Velvet Musket because those guys without S. Weiland are OUTDATED!!!!!!
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YES! VELVET GEEZERS. or Velvet BB Gun.
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Why don't they just call up Mark Burnett and have him resurrect Rock Star?
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Actually Rock Star is coming back but they haven’t said who the band will be, it could be Velvet Revolver…I hope not.
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I've never heard that Rock Star is coming back. Have a source?
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You guys need to remember this is an indie rock site. I'm 17 and I'm not even sure who these guys are or were, or whatever, or who the singer they lost is, or any of that!
It all seems old and uncool to me. Keep it new and cool and you will have a reader in me!
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no you knob. it's a MUSIC site that discusses indie more than most else.
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Remember when bands were formed by friends that had common musical influences?
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Whoa----- "Rawk Hater",
You gotta to listen to more music (of all genres) if you don't know who these guys are. You need more exposure. This is basic music ed we're talking about here.
When I was a teenager, i knew all about the music that landed generations before me: Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Zeppelin, Beatles, Thin Lizzy, Queen, X, Dead Boys, Clash, and so on...
The Rolling Stones have always been a bunch of old guys to me, but that doesn't make them uncool or suck or irrelevant. They're great.
There more than indie rock out there. WAY MORE.
If you love music, do yourself a favor and dig into the past. You may find that it's better than what is happening nowadays. I mean this all in the nicest way possible.
Try starting with the album Appetite For Destruction... It ain't indie rock.
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THE WORD INDIE IS JUST SHORT FOR INDEPENDANT! MEANING NOT A MAJOR LABEL,IT'S NOT A FUCKING GENRE OF MUSIC YOU IDIOTS.IF GUNS N' ROSES DECIDED TO BE ON AN INDEPENDANT LABEL FROM THE START,THEY'D BE FUCKING LABELLED AS INDIE!GET IT YOU "YOUNG DICKHEAD KNOW FUCKALL"!
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