SHOOTER JENNINGS Offered VELVET REVOLVER Job Twice
March 19, 2009, 15 years ago
Classicrockmagazine.com is reporting:
Country rock star SHOOTER JENNINGS has confirmed that he has been offered the job of singer with VELVET REVOLVER – but has turned the band down twice! Shooter, the son of country legend Waylon Jennings, was one of the men Classic Rock tipped as potential VR singers back in April last year.
At that time Duff McKagan admitted that Jennings could make a good replacement: “Shooter’s great, actually,” he told CR’s Scott Rowley. “That’s a good idea. He’s does a southern rock thing, but his old band was straight up kinda rock. He’s a talented guy man, he’s pretty awesome. He would be good.”
In a new interview with Classic Rock, Jennings confirms that he was asked – but turned the band down. And not just once.
“They’ve asked me twice, dude,” Jennings told CR’s Henry Yates. “I’ve done a couple of shows with those guys, and they asked me a couple of years ago and they asked me again last year to be the singer. And it pained my heart not to say yes, because those guys are the best players in the world. They’re literally one of the best bands I’ve ever heard and to be able to sing with them has been amazing. But I had a talk with them about it, and I would absolutely still, to this day, get in a room and jam with them, but first of all, I knew I was gonna be doing another record and that what I wanted to do was really special to me, and I didn’t feel I could stifle that.”Read more here.
