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Post by Üncle Snake on Apr 15, 2004 9:54:21 GMT -5
Velvet Revolver will be playing the 9:30 Club on Thursday, May 27. I am definitely going to try to go to this. There is no ticket information, but I'm sure it will sell out fast.
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Post by muthagoose on Apr 15, 2004 9:56:31 GMT -5
I am definitely in and 100% confirmed.
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Post by Üncle Snake on Apr 15, 2004 11:37:12 GMT -5
They are also playing at the Electric Factory in Philly on Friday, May 28. I prefer DC because it's closer and because I've been to 930 a zillion times I have no trouble finding my way there or my way out. Maybe we should try to get tickets to both and sell some for ridiculous prices on eBay. If haven't heard their new single, "Slither," you can listen to it at www.velvetrevolver.net. Their CD, "Contraband," will be released June 8. |
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Post by muthagoose on Apr 15, 2004 11:44:19 GMT -5
Try as you may snake, you will never capture the magic that is Muthagoose.
The Electric Factory is OK. I prefer 930 because you can see well from practically anywhere and it is about an hour closer.
Keep in mind that it is Weiland that is fronting the band. You want to see him as early as possible on tour before he is locked up or dead.
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Post by Üncle Snake on Apr 15, 2004 12:42:26 GMT -5
Very true, Muthagoose. I wouldn't be surprised if Weiland doesn't even make it to the DC show.
As I said, that's the one I'd rather go to as well. I will be on the lookout for ticket info.
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Post by Üncle Snake on Apr 20, 2004 16:20:52 GMT -5
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday. A price has not been listed yet. I know Goose, Stomper and Chris have expressed interest. If that's it, I'll order tickets. I don't really want to put any more than that on my credit card. I'll need money this weekend or whenever I see you next.
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Post by Üncle Snake on Apr 21, 2004 9:35:41 GMT -5
Using the "secret presale," four tickets were ordered this morning (me, Muthagoose, Stomper and Chris). They came out to $35 apiece.#nosmileys
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Post by Üncle Snake on Apr 21, 2004 9:38:33 GMT -5
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Post by muthagoose on Apr 21, 2004 9:47:53 GMT -5
Good work Snake. Now we can pray that the tour makes it this far!   ;D |
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Post by muthagoose on Apr 21, 2004 13:20:04 GMT -5
A Note From Scott Weiland... 4/21/2004
"I'm disgusted with the music industry. Since making my last record two years ago, I've encountered more censorship in the past three months than in ten active years with S.T.P. Let's hear it for the lambs! Censorship Is Naziism"
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Post by muthagoose on Apr 21, 2004 13:44:34 GMT -5
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Post by muthagoose on Apr 22, 2004 10:41:04 GMT -5
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Post by Üncle Snake on Apr 26, 2004 19:12:23 GMT -5
Tickets arrived in the mail today. Remember, that's $35 apiece kids.
Now, if only Weiland can last another month...
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Post by Üncle Snake on May 3, 2004 13:04:41 GMT -5
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Post by Üncle Snake on May 5, 2004 13:08:10 GMT -5
Listen to Velvet Revolver's live acoustic performance on KROQ in LA last week. There is an interview, as well as Slither, Interstate Love Song and Used to Love Her available to download here: www.belowempty.com/vr/downloads.php |
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Post by muthagoose on May 5, 2004 13:42:36 GMT -5
Good find Snake.
Your contributions are always appreciated.
I will be putting together about 2 CD's of Scott Weiland Rarities, Acoustic Performances and other assorted goodies shortly.
I will keep you posted on what is going on it.
I'd look for it to be complete in about 3 weeks.
Let me know if you have anything that I don't kids!!!!
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Post by muthagoose on May 10, 2004 8:39:31 GMT -5
VELVET REVOLVER: Setlist From Roxy Show Revealed, Photos Posted Online - May 10, 2004 From: www.blabbermouth.net <br>As exclusively announced here last month, VELVET REVOLVER performed a "secret" show at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California Sunday night (May 9) in front of an audience composed of "a few lucky contest winners" and various industry personnel. Opening band for the show was GOSLING and VELVET REVOLVER played from 10:15 p.m. until midnight. The headliner's setlist was as follows: 01. Sucker Train Blues 02. Spectical 03. Headspace 04. Superhuman 05. Crackerman (STP cover) 06. Mr. Brownstone (GN'R cover) 07. Fall to Pieces 08. Big Machine 09. Illegal I 10. Do it for the Kids 11. Set Me Free 12. Used To Love Her (GN'R cover) 13. Sex Type Thing (STP cover) 14. It's So Easy (GN'R cover) 15. Slither 16. Negative Creep (NIRVANA cover) Several photos taken at the show can be viewed at this location www.artgumbo.com/BE/VR/contraband_era_live4.php |
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Post by Üncle Snake on May 23, 2004 22:18:48 GMT -5
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Post by muthagoose on May 26, 2004 9:30:35 GMT -5
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Post by Üncle Snake on May 26, 2004 9:37:45 GMT -5
I saw Living Things open for the Brides at Thunderdome. They're not awful, but I wasn't exactly impressed either.
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Post by Üncle Snake on May 27, 2004 7:30:09 GMT -5
Info for tonight from the 930 Club's Web site:
Doors open 7:30
Living Things 8:45
Velvet Revolver 10:00
From what I've read, Velvet Revolver appears to be playing for about 80-85 minutes.
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Post by Stomper on May 28, 2004 10:05:57 GMT -5
The Velvet Revolver show kicked ass! Everyone who reads this should run out and buy the album June 8.
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Post by Üncle Snake on May 28, 2004 10:56:58 GMT -5
Yes, it was an awesome show. A great time was had by all.
Random observations:
I think I could see Weiland getting skinnier and more frail as the show went on.
Slash's tophat received one of the biggest pops of the night.
We need a bullborn to use during karoake.
Slash looks like he hasn't aged in the past 12-13 years.
Used to Love Her is one of the greatest and best songs ever written.
Just about any song by GNR or STP (and probably Velvet Revolver too) is better than any song by Nirvana, so why did they close the show with Nirvana's Negative Creep?
June 8 can't get here fast enough.
Here's the Velvet Revolver set list:
Sucker Train Blues
Do It for the Kids
Headspace
Crackerman
Illegal I
It's So Easy
Fall To Pieces
Big Machine
Set Me Free
(Encore #1)
Used to Love Her
Slither
Sex Type Thing
(Encore #2)
Mr. Brownstone
Negative Creep
The show lasted about 85 minutes.
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Post by Üncle Snake on May 31, 2004 13:56:17 GMT -5
Velvet Revolver, Making a Bang at the 9:30 Club By Sean Daly Special to The Washington Post Saturday, May 29, 2004; Page C01 Shaggy, shirtless guitar star Slash -- formerly of iconic hair-metalists Guns N' Roses, currently of hirsute supergroup Velvet Revolver -- is a sublime musician but a shaky judge of character. After hitching a bumpy ride from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s with the infamously unstable W. Axl Rose, who seemed to flake on more shows than he played, Slash has now partnered with wide-eyed wackjob Scott Weiland, the one-time Stone Temple Pilot. Perhaps already sensing the inevitable meltdown of Velvet Revolver -- catch 'em while you can, kids -- Slash was a strutting, swaggering, all-or-nothing marvel at the 9:30 club Thursday, leading his much-hyped throwback band through a power-chords-aplenty 75-minute set that had a sold-out all-ages crowd of aggressive guys (and a few understandably skittish gals) eager to bang their heads -- and any other nearby noggins, as well.  "Boys and girls, we are a rock-and-roll band," the kooky Weiland -- initially clad in an airline pilot's cap, polka-dot tie and aviator shades -- promised a hungry audience that devoured every last ticket for this time-travel event in seconds flat. "And we're here to put the sex back in rock-and-roll." Soon enough, backed by a strobed-out light show, Weiland and his band mates -- which also include former GNR staples bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum, both looking absolutely muscle-ripped -- had doffed their tops, lit their ciggies and assumed those too-cool rock-star poses. After all, this is an L.A.-born band, and its sole function is to sell the naughty lifestyle of the Sunset Strip. Just as those goofy Brits the Darkness are playing it for real, there's nothing even slightly ironic about the old-school theatrics of Velvet Revolver. These days, that's a beautiful thing. With his creepy stare, skeletal frame and herky-jerky dance moves that make him look like he's fighting his way out of a straitjacket, Weiland is an unsettling frontman. He doesn't have the glass-shattering howl that Rose used to welcome teens to the jungle, and he busts out the lame sing-through-a-megaphone trick far too much. But such anthemic Velvet Revolver burners as "Sucker Train Blues," "Do It for the Kids" and incendiary first single "Slither" -- the band's debut disc, "Contraband," arrives June 8 -- were such massive walls of cowbells, gongs, bass lines and feedback you couldn't really hear him anyway. Besides, this was Slash's time to shine, and every amped-up song came equipped with one of the ax-wielder's frenetically bluesy solos. Playing most of his licks with his guitar sticking straight up -- a showoff move allowing everyone to see his masterful chops -- Slash gave a suitable greasy sheen to Stone Temple Pilots mock grungers "Crackerman" and "Sex Type Thing." He sweetly plucked out the pretty hook to "Patience"-esque new ballad "Fall to Pieces." And when he fingered out the opening riffs to Guns N' Roses classics "It's So Easy" and "Mr. Brownstone" -- both from 1987's "Appetite for Destruction" -- you could see a smile through the tangled layers of his sheepdog 'do. "Before this tour, I never knew how popular this hat was," Slash said laughing when, late in the set, he unveiled his trademark black top hat to the gone-bananas delight of his fans. "I wish this [expletive] hat could talk." The crowd was still cheering on his headgear when Slash picked out the acoustic opening to GNR's anti-love song "Used to Love Her" (you know: "But I had to kill her.') The place, of course, erupted to the night's best surprise -- and even those nervous gals couldn't help but join the rowdy sing-along. Here's hoping Slash's next doomed band is just as entertaining. © 2004 The Washington Post Company |
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Post by Üncle Snake on Jun 1, 2004 17:40:57 GMT -5
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;D
