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- metallex78
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Re: Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman
I thought Contraband was pretty aggresive hard rock, but they really steered away from that on Libertad. Glad to hear they wanna get back on track in that style again!
- monkeychow
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Re: Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman
yeah actually contraband was a lot more agressive...but even that stayed away from the solos - like songs like Superhuman had that kinda STP style - hook-chorus-repeat feel to them instead of a blazing outtro solo and stuff. Although I like that contraband had some balls live! Be good if they amp it up again too!
- monkeychow
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Re: Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman
Well on contrband most of the riffs were around pre-scott - he then just worked on the song structures to make them work for him (which i'd guess ment no solos and lots of hook repeats) - I got the impression libertad was more of the ideas that scot wanted to sing. I read an interview where they said they each brought something to the album and that most of the songs wern't worked on as a group...and i think you can hear who wrote most of the songs in the song - like you can tell the ones that have obvious slash riffs to them...but i got the impression with VR overall that everything functioned to appease scott.
- metallex78
- Rep: 194
Re: Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman
I thought Superhuman was more like Alice in Chains heavy riffing, which I quite liked. Even Slither is quite a heavy riff rocker. And there was still plenty of soloing on there too, well, enough to keep me happy anyway. Contraband was a good step in that it was still rocking while giving them a modern edge, which I what I think works best for VR so they stay kinda relevant.
Libertad while having some moments here and there was very pop-sounding, and much more like an STP album.
- metallex78
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Re: Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman
Got this from htgth.
John Corabi Declines Velvet Revolver Audition
John Corabi is interviewed on the Classic Metal Show...the VR mention is at 11:30.
Sun, 07 Sep 2008
He says that VR sent him some songs and asked him to come into the studio to record vocals....as great as the music was, at this point, he declined because he didn't want to take another established lead vocalists spot and be compared to Scott Weiland. He just wrote the guys a letter 4-5 days ago and declined.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/theclassicmetalshow
Damn shame, I reckon he would've been an awesome frontman for VR.
And I guess if VR actually seeked him out for an audition, they do intend on going in a heavier rock direction.
Re: Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman
ps....they need to drop this crap.....it's over. End of discussion. Either go back for a proper Gnr reunion or do something else.
I agree. Its obvious that its not going anywhere. Just do solo shit until reunion time. Slash could milk a solo record for 2 years.
- monkeychow
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Re: Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman
ps....they need to drop this crap.....it's over. End of discussion. Either go back for a proper Gnr reunion or do something else.
Not to turn this into a VR vs GNR thing, but you could easily say that about GNR too, I mean bucket is gone, Robin is now gone...and yet most of us are still keen to hear what Axl will do with another lineup.
Slash and Duff and Matt have good chemestry....sure i'd love to see them play with Axl again...but I'll take them experimenting with other singers over going back to endless shortlived solo efforts.
