MATT SORUM Says He Is Working On New Project With His Girlfriend
May 3, 2011Matt Sorum (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER) and his girlfriend of seven years, DARLING STILETTOS lead singer Ace Harper, were interviewed by Maximo TV before CAMP FREDDY's performance at "The Thalians" 55th anniversary gala at the Playboy mansion in the Holmby Hills area in Los Angeles, California on April 30, 2011. You can now watch the chat below.
Matt Sorum, 50, was born Matthew William Sorum (Norwegian spelling Sørum),on November 19, 1960, in the present-day city of Mission Viejo, California. His parents were of English and Norwegian descent.
Sorum achieved fame with GUNS N' ROSES, where he replaced Steven Adler in the band, who was fired because of drug addiction. While with the Los Angeles-based hard rock group (1990-1997),Sorum recorded the highly successful albums "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" (both 1991) and "The Spaghetti Incident" (1994). He also supported the group on the "Use Your Illusion" tour and can be heard on GUNS N' ROSES' "Live Era: '87-'93" (1999) and "Greatest Hits" (2004). Starting out as a season musician in Los Angeles in the 1980s, Sorum had his first taste with success as part of THE CULT in 1989. A decade later, after being fired from GUNS N' ROSES, he was reunited with the group and played the drums for their 2001 album "Beyond Good And Evil". Currently, Sorum is the drummer of VELVET REVOLVER, a group he founded in 2002 with former GUNS N' ROSES band members Slash and Duff McKagan. The band has released two albums, "Contraband" (2004) and "Libertad" (2007). On his own, Sorum released a solo debut in 2003 called "Hollywood Zen".
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