Report: VELVET REVOLVER Rockers Enjoy Success, Soberly

July 7, 2007

Dean Goodman of Reuters reports: When a band sells 3 million copies of its first album, its members might expect to celebrate with a few drinks.

In the case of VELVET REVOLVER, which comprises three well-heeled veterans of rock 'n' roll bad boys GUNS N' ROSES, the contents of a medium-sized distillery should suffice.

But alas, most of the members of VELVET REVOLVER are now family men who no longer touch alcohol. The eerily lucid quintet has just released its second album, "Libertad", a follow-up to 2004's Grammy-winning "Contraband".

"I haven't had a drink in 11 months," says guitarist Slash, a star graduate of the Keith Richards school of bad behavior.

"Or anything else for that matter," he added in a recent interview with Reuters, puffing on an endless string of Gitanes. "Yeah, it's pretty much cigarettes at this point. Cigarettes and sex."

Sex with his wife, mind you. Groupies are old news. "I just ended up with one girl who was exciting enough to make me give all that up."

Read the entire article at Reuters.

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