MATT SORUM Plans Solo Album; To Host L.A. Benefit With SLASH
September 10, 2013, 11 years ago
RollingStone.com's Steve Baltin is reporting that drummer Matt Sorum (ex-GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER, THE CULT) is hosting a benefit gig with SLASH and MACY GRAY in L.A. this Sunday for his Adopt The Arts charity, a program he started to combat funding cuts in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Sorum will be performing, though not in his familiar role behind the drum kit. He'll be showing off his troubadour side, to be featured on his January solo album. "It's much more introspective than my usual heavy rock stuff," he tells Rolling Stone. It's more of a singer-songwriter thing. I play acoustic guitar, and it's a little mellower kind of album."
After working with one school facing budget cuts, Sorum says, "I came up with this idea – why don't I adopt the school? I'll raise the money, I'll be the figurehead of that music and art program.' So I went downtown to a rally and I spoke to the superintendent of the school district and got up there and spoke in front of the board. Basically, they held the cuts. They didn't cut the program."
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