SLASH Talks About VELVET REVOLVER's Split With SCOTT WEILAND

May 19, 2010

Legendary guitarist Slash recently spoke to Spinner about the circumstances that led to VELVET REVOLVER's April 2008 split with lead singer Scott Weiland, putting one of music's most successful supergroups on an indefinite hiatus and sending the two factions on a quest to recapture their place in the rock zeitgeist.

"VELVET REVOLVER was intended to be a lot of fun and we started off having a great time, but I think that we all had a lot of chemical issues as that thing wore on," Slash told Spinner. "I definitely went way down the fucking drain for a minute there after the 'Contraband' record [debut VELVET REVOLVER CD] came out and we went on tour for two years.

"During the 'Contraband' tour I started drinking heavily and revisited my opiate passion, then had to come out of it so eventually I had to say that's it. Certainly Scott had his issues, even Duff [McKagan, bass] and Matt [Sorum, drums] went down the same road. The only one that stayed sober during the whole thing was fucking Dave Kushner.

"We all eventually came out of it and made the 'Libertad' record, which I thought, musically, was a good record but we lost Scott and we never regained that. I thought the overall spirit of everything was declining at that point so by the end of the last tour Scott was here and we were here [motions with hands in different places] and cancelling that Australian tour was the final blow."

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