SLASH DISCUSSES FALSE VELVET REVOLVER RUMORS

Slash shares his thoughts on the false rumors surrounding Velvet Revolver’s search for a replacement for vocalist Scott Weiland

Velvet Revolver continue to search for a singer to replace Scott Weiland, even though multiple rumors continue to swirl as to who the band will finally decide on. News reports surfaced a few weeks back that Spacehog’s Royston Langdon had got the job but that wasn’t the case. In fact a few singers have also linked to Velvet Revolver, most notably Lenny Kravitz and Chester Bennington, although both have also denied reports they were in the mix.

We caught up with Slash to get his thoughts on all the rumors about the bands next vocalist being circulated because of the internet.

“Oh there was, basically as a result of the internet people just make up all kinds of crazy stuff. But with all due respect to…I’m drawing a blank right now. With all the rumors that are out there’s some singers that we actually did work with for a second and Royston was actually one of them. But we’re still looking.”

We also wanted to see if Slash could give us an update on how Velvet Revolvers search is going.

“Well I mean we can’t really update something that hasn’t really happened. The search is happening but we haven’t found the guy yet so it’s sort of an ongoing thing at the moment.”

While Velvet Revolver continue to write new material and audition vocalists, Slash has been spending his nights in the studio working on demos for his upcoming solo album. Slash plans on bringing in multiple guests vocalists for the album which will he’ll begin recording in January of 2009.