Velvet Revolver

Duff McKagan and Slash, roughly half of Guns N' Roses, team up with ex-Stone Temple Pilot singer/jailbird Scott Weiland for this long-awaited release. The good news is: no one's OD'd yet, and Slash is writing his meanest riffs since the heyday of GNR. Add choruses you can't forget, and you have a pretty good reason to turn it up.

Before you start cracking wise about out-of-work refugees from multiplatinum bands or
rock stars with drug problems and arrest records -- as if we haven't seen a few of them in
the last half-century -- consider this: Singer Scott Weiland, late of Stone Temple Pilots, and
the ex-Guns n' Roses trio of guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum
have, with second guitarist Dave Kushner, gotten more done in one year as Velv... More >