| Product Summary | | Label: Rca Records | | UPC: 00828765979429 | | Release Date: 6/8/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 61007735 | | Item#: MQ7WCR | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 26182 | Format:  CD |
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| Band members are SCOTT WEILAND of Stone Temple Pilots, SLASH of Guns N’ Roses, DUFF of Guns N’ Roses, MATT SORUM of Guns N’ Roses and The Cult, DAVE KUSHNER of Infectious Grooves.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Velvet Revolver: Scott Weiland (vocals); Slash (guitar, background vocals); Dave Kushner (guitar); Duff (bass guitar, background vocals); Matt Sorum (drums, background vocals). | | Timing your gigs and recording sessions around an unpredictable (and occasionally incarcerated) new lead singer might not seem the most auspicious start for a band. But when the singer is former Stone Temple Pilot Scott Weiland and the other musicians include Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum--all veterans of Guns N' Roses--it's just business as usual. And these circumstances don't seem to have affected the supergroup's performance any, as evidenced by the outfit's raucous debut, CONTRABAND. | | "Sucker Train Blues" roars out of the starting block, rocking like there's no tomorrow, with Weiland's seething vocals riding the six-string whirlwind generated by guitar supremo Slash and his new sidekick Dave Kushner. "Big Machine," with its doubtlessly autobiographical storyline about the pitfalls of stardom, melds the ring of truth with the voice of experience. The anthemic "Fall to Pieces" has echoes of vintage GNR, and Slash's "Sweet Child o' Mine"-like guitar intro to "Superhuman" similarly rolls back the years to his former band's late-1980s heyday. Far from being '80s-metal retreads in search of a new niche, though, the reenergized members of Velvet Revolver wipe the slate clean and rededicate themselves to take-no-prisoners rock & roll with CONTRABAND. |
Producer: Josh Abraham; Velvet Revolver |
| | Artist Overview | | Something of a post-Guns N' Roses hangover remedy, Velvet Revolver consists of three former members of that band, including guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan, as well as former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland on lead vocals. The band plays an accessible mix of Sunset Strip metal and classic glam and hard rock that helped propel their 2004 debut to the top of the charts. The band released their Brendan O'Brien-produced follow-up, LIBERTAD, in 2007. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/08/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 59794 | | Label : RCA Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00828765979429 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.153)
- Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "[V]icious, unapologetic Sunset Strip glam-metal classicism..."Entertainment Weekly (pp.79-80)
- "Like a refurbished Corvette tearing down Sunset Strip, they're determined to rock, dammit, and they go about their job with a revved-up efficiency." - Grade: B- Q (p.127)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "An old-school arena rock album enlivened by Weiland's Beatles-esque melodies and chameleon delivery." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.107)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "CONTRABAND is a guilty pleasure....Velvet Revolver shoots for the sky and erupts in fireworks." |
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