MATT SORUM Talks To VINTAGE ROCK About VELVET REVOLVER Singer Search (Video)

January 20, 2011

Junkman of Vintage Rock conducted an interview with VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES drummer Matt Sorum at this past weekend's NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. You can now watch the chat below.

When asked about the current status of VELVET REVOLVER, Sorum said, "VELVET REVOLVER is always going on...but it's not going on. [laughs]"

He added, "We're just gonna keep saying we might have a [new] singer, and we'll see if we can do it as long as [GUNS N' ROSES singer] Axl [Rose] did making that record ['Chinese Democracy']. If we keep sayin' it, we're thinking we'll be, like, 65 years old by the time [the next VELVET REVOLVER album] comes out."

He continued, "Yeah, we're working on [finding a replacement for vocalist Scott Weiland]. I liked the guy we tried out last week, and I went and opened my mouth. And I said something like, 'yeah, we're gonna make a decision.' I really liked him, but that was me going, I like him. But there's another guy that's got to make a decision — it's a group consensus, we're partners. So we can't say yet. But in the meantime, I'm real busy."

Sorum posted in recent days that VELVET REVOLVER has demoed nine new songs with the mystery vocalist, while both he and guitarist Slash have hinted that an announcement about the singer and the band's future will come sometime this month.

Sorum recently gave The Pulse Of Radio a few more clues about the singer VELVET REVOLVER is currently looking at. "He's a guy that we've had our eye on but the timing wasn't right," he said. "You know, we don't like stealing people. Weiland was available, you know, he was out of STP. It wasn't like we went and said, 'Hey, dude...' Similar situation with this particular individual. It's cool because we're feeling the guy's work ethic is similar to ours, like, when we mean business, we mean business. We're not gonna dabble in it."

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