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Velvet Revolver - Libertad
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Some bands have all the luck. Velvet Revolver has never been one of those bands. From the git-go, this supergroup of ex-Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, Wasted Youth guitarist Dave Kushner and three Guns N' Roses alums -- top-hatted guitar hero Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum -- has seemed on the verge of implosion. Overdoses, rehab stints, drug busts, court cases. And that was just Weiland....full text |
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| For their sophomore effort the supergroup comprised of ex-members of STP and GnR once again bring the hard-driving post-millennial barroom brawl inducing rock thematics, especially apparent on the opening salvo "Let It Roll," which has Scott Weiland delivering what sounds like a balls-to-the-wall sequel to The Cars classic "Candy-O." Huh? For some reason even though the VR song is entitled "Let It Roll" Weiland prefers to chant "candy-o" at high volume while Slash and Dave Kushner grind and crunch amidst Duff McKagen and Matt Sorum's streamlined rhythm cavalcade....full text |
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| Velvet Revolver are an impressive act of defiance: a band of old-school bad boys from twentieth-century megagroups who make a rocket-guitar racket that is more compelling than most current woe-is-me punk and emo. The blitz in "Let It Roll," "Get Out the Door" and "Pills, Demons & Etc." may be second nature to guys who did time in Guns n' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, but there is plenty of thrill in the fuzz-lined hard-rubber bends of Slash's guitar breaks and the way bassist Duff McKagan keeps time, like a cop swinging a billy club....full text |
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