Supergroup Velvet Revolver only lasted for a few years, but founding member Matt Sorum is convinced they could have been massive.
We can file Velvet Revolver under “fondly remembered” these days. Formed in 2002 by Guns N’ Roses alumni Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, plus Dave Kushner of Wasted Youth, and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots on lead vocals, the supergroup managed to put out two decent albums before Weiland’s drug use led to him being unceremoniously fired in 2008. A search for a new singer proved fruitless and, a couple of one-off reunions, that was pretty much that, with Weiland’s tragic overdose death in 2015 seemingly putting the final punctuation mark on the band’s brief existence.
But “what might have been” haunts us all in some way or another, and it certainly haunts Matt Sorum to some degree. In a recent interview with Get On The Bus, Sorum held forth on where he think Velvet Revolver may have gone if they’d managed to hold it together.
“It was difficult times, early days, but so worth it,” he said. “Obviously, I was in the other band, but it was a new band and we had to recreate. We really couldn’t be Guns N’ Roses. We couldn’t just rest on that.”
Sorum goes on to say that being in the band brought out a competitive edge in everyone.
“It was a different rhythmic sense,” he said. “The rhythm wasn’t this swagger retro rock and roll thing, it was more like a pumping kind of punky. It was a good club. We were all in the best shape of our lives. We got really serious about ‘How are we gonna compete?’ We never talked about it like this ever, but it was known. It was just, ‘We have to be the best we can be. Let’s just fucking throw it down.'”
But that camaraderie wasn’t enough.
“It wasn’t as big as G’N’R, but it could have been. It just didn’t last long enough. We really wanted to keep it together. Unfortunately, it fell into bad habits again and the same old shit and the wheels came off.”
Check out the full interview here:
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