i really like the sound they have going [img]cool.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Rolling Stone review: Velvet Revolver: Contraband [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]...Weiland, Slash, Duff, Sorum have, with...Kushner, gotten more done in one year as Velvet Revolver than Axl Rose has achieved with his version of G n' R in the past decade.
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i really like the sound they have going [img]cool.gif[/img]
I'm hoping the radio station dolls out tickets to the Rolling Rock Town Fair again this year. I hate the horse piss they sell as beer, but I'll drink to these guys being on the bill. Last I heard they didn't have a date with Pittsburgh in the near future. Latrobe's just as close anyway.
I still haven't picked up that CD! [img]mad.gif[/img]
I looked for it when we were at Future shop the other day, and they didn't have it....Fuckers!
I need to get my ass to a real music shop, damn it! I wish had the car during the day.
Detroit Free Press wasn't too kind to VR's album. I'm not sure if I heard anything off it yet.
Anyone know the name of the track they have on the TV right now?
That's most likely Slither. I think you can sample that video on RS.com as well.
Whoops! I stand corrected. Even though the review appeared in the Detroit Free Press, it was first in the New York Daily News.
Velvet Revolver --"Contraband"(RCA) TWO STARS out of four
Talk about gluttons for punishment: The coherent members of Guns N' Roses break with their loony leader, Axl Rose, and then hook up with one of the few singers more famous for screwing up: Scott Weiland.
Velvet Revolver is an old-fashioned supergroup, built from core GNR musicians (guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum) with Weiland, the vocalist of Stone Temple Pilots. In recent years the front man has spent more time in jailhouses and detox centers than in the studio or onstage. If the group's union makes sense in terms of personal history, its musical connection seems purely opportunistic. The album is a Frankensteinian freak show, stitching together ill-fitting parts of two bands that long ago outlasted their natural lives.
Some songs sound like low-end GNR (Think: the weakest parts of "Use Your Illusion"). Others sound like stuff STP wisely left in the can. Never does the band hit on a fresh or organic sound of its own. Mainly, it makes corny Los Angeles rock only slightly less cliched than the hair metal its members have spent their careers trying to counter.
Lyrically, they exploit their druggy history with words meant to condemn such behavior, but wind up making the group sound more self-glamorizing than ever. Fans should perform their own intervention on the group by committing its music to the cutout bins.
By Jim Farber, New York Daily News
Jim clearly hasn't done his homework. I'm often guilty of spouting off my opinion without really knowing all the facts, but that's just culture. When a reviewer like this guy who gets paid to criticize doesn't even take the time to get the history right he just comes off as a pompous moron like me instead of a decent reporter and it leaves his article meritless. At that point who really cares if he's slamming or praising.
To correct him, VR doesn't qualify as "an old-fashioned supergroup," and the real insult is that he doesn't even mention Kushner. He goes on to grossly exaggerate Weiland's path to recovery, and tells it like the members' only common thread is substance abuse without even considering their musical chemistry or talent. He's also off saying that the roots of this bunch have worn their welcome, yet AFD still sells 5000 copies a week and STP has also achieved legendary rock history status. [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img] The rest is his own conjecture to which he's entitled, but is clearly overcompensated for. I give this review 1 out of 5 stars.
Was that really worth my time? [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]
...yeah...you kind of took that entirely too seriously, there, Nostro. [img]wink.gif[/img]
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