WEILAND cleared to tour with VR

[Stacey0471]

Vocalist Scott Weiland, who has has spent the past several months in a court-ordered drug rehabilitation center after pleading no contest last year to heroin possession, been cleared by California authorities to tour with his bandmates in VELVET REVOLVER, according to Billboard.com.

"Scott actually just got cleared to tour today," VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) told the magazine. "We've been planning dates this whole time."

If everything goes according to plan, VELVET REVOLVER will be playing "medium-sized places" leading up to the June 8 release of their RCA debut, "Contraband".

"The first thing we're going to go out and do is establish ourselves as our own band in our own environment," Slash told Billboard.com. "We're trying to keep it as personal as possible but at the same time, expose ourselves as much as possible. We want to do this on our own terms, as opposed to going out, jumping on the road and opening for somebody, or playing a festival bill, but that is coming."

According to Slash, fans can expect a host of tracks from "Contraband" in addition to "a little bit more GUNS [N' ROSES] and [STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Weiland's former band] than just one song a piece, and a couple of covers. [We'll do] whatever we can to make a really good, punchy set and express ourselves as openly and as uninhibitedly as possible."

[Stacey0471]

I guess it could be difficult, headlining medium-sized venues when you don't even have a record out.

'Establish ourselves as our own band', yeah right. Live off former glories by playing covers and previous band stuff. You're too big to open for someone? [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]

[Cotton Candy Lover]

Is Hanoi still slated to be opening for them?

[Stacey0471]

Nothing concrete. Guess we'll have to see when the tour is finalised. Maybe Weiland will get nicked again by then.