Report: SCOTT WEILAND Cleared To Tour With VELVET REVOLVER

April 8, 2004

Vocalist Scott Weiland, who has has spent the past several months in a court-ordered drug rehabilitation center after pleading no contest last year to heroin possession, been cleared by California authorities to tour with his bandmates in VELVET REVOLVER, according to Billboard.com.

"Scott actually just got cleared to tour today," VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) told the magazine. "We've been planning dates this whole time."

If everything goes according to plan, VELVET REVOLVER will be playing "medium-sized places" leading up to the June 8 release of their RCA debut, "Contraband".

"The first thing we're going to go out and do is establish ourselves as our own band in our own environment," Slash told Billboard.com. "We're trying to keep it as personal as possible but at the same time, expose ourselves as much as possible. We want to do this on our own terms, as opposed to going out, jumping on the road and opening for somebody, or playing a festival bill, but that is coming."

According to Slash, fans can expect a host of tracks from "Contraband" in addition to "a little bit more GUNS [N' ROSES] and [STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Weiland's former band] than just one song a piece, and a couple of covers. [We'll do] whatever we can to make a really good, punchy set and express ourselves as openly and as uninhibitedly as possible."

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