SLASH On Sirius XM Octane Tomorrow, New VELVET REVOLVER Album To Be "A Lot Heavier"
June 2, 2010, 14 years ago
SLASH sat down with Sirius XM Octane host Kayla to talk about his new solo album, his favorite singers, tour information, thoughts on various former band members, and what other bands he worships. Tune in Thursday, June 3rd at 5PM ET to listen to the interview. Repeat broadcasts are as follows:
June
4 at 12AM ET
5 at 8PM ET
6 at 3PM ET
In other news, Slash recently spoke with Kyle Anderson of MTV about the current status of VELVET REVOLVER. An excerpt from their chat can be read below:
"As soon as we got off the road from the last tour and parted ways with Scott (Weiland), we got together and wrote half a dozen really great, sort of heavy metal pieces of music," Slash told MTV News. "It's a lot heavier than what Velvet Revolver has put out, so I'm dying to put out the quintessential Velvet Revolver record."Slash said the new material better matches the group's original intentions. "When Duff (McKagan) and Matt (Sorum) and I first got together, we wrote a ton of material that never saw the light of day, and that was all very heavy," Slash explained.
"It's definitely our natural way of doing things. But when we started working with Scott, we started to lighten things up a lot, and we progressively got lighter. As much as I love the two records we did do, one of the things that was progressively more and more frustrating was the direction the band took."In the meantime, Velvet Revolver remain a band without a singer — but not for lack of trying. "This next record will be us doing what we want to do without making any concessions to anybody," Slash declared. "Which is why it's taking so long to find a singer, because we want to find the guy who can front that band and not something we have to conform to."
To read the rest of MTV's report, click here.
