VELVET REVOLVER Guitarist Says GRAMMY Win Not 'Vindicating'

February 16, 2005

Launch Radio Networks reports: When asked if VELVET REVOLVER feels "vindicated" by the band's Grammy win for Best Hard Rock Performance on Sunday (Feb. 13),lead guitarist Slash says he doesn't know if he would quite put it that way. "I guess in some ways it's a little bit vindicating just to have, you know, reached a point where things had got to be so heavy that we all are actually surprised that we're still standing here, or that we're standing here at this point, yeah," he said. "So that's a little bit of vindication. But as far as vindicating as far as our music is concerned or what anybody else was thinking along the way...nah, it's just, this is what we wanted to do."

VELVET REVOLVER begin a tour of Australia and New Zealand on Thursday.

Although no new U.S. shows have been announced yet, several Canadian dates have appeared online at Pollstar.com, beginning on March 23 in Ottawa, Ontario.

The group plan to enter the studio later this spring to begin recording the follow-up to their 2004 debut, "Contraband".

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