During a Loaded show at West Hollywood's Viper Room, McKagan re-introduced Dave Kushner to Slash, who were previously friends in junior high and high school. Recognizing that their musical relationship was still intact, the trio began rehearsing with Todd and Nelson, working on material that would become 'Dirty Little Thing', but eventually decided against forming a group with them. When musician Randy Castillo died from cancer in 2002, Slash, McKagan, and Sorum performed at a benefit concert to raise money and commemorate Castillo, with Josh Todd and Keith Nelson of Buckcherry as well as B-Real and Sen Dog of Cypress Hill. Following a tour of Japan in 2002, former Zilch, Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, and Dave Navarro guitarist Dave Kushner joined Loaded in place of Mike Squires. McKagan also added both Mike Squires and Jeff Rouse to the lineup. McKagan reformed Loaded, previously his band for the tour in support of Beautiful Disease, with Geoff Reading. Slash began working with the Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman and an unnamed bassist on a new project: writing the music for what would become 'Fall to Pieces'. īy 2001, Slash's Snakepit had disbanded for the second time. Following their departures the trio focused on separate projects, with Slash reforming Slash's Snakepit and McKagan reforming 10 Minute Warning as well as recording his second solo album, while Sorum rejoined the Cult. However, disagreements with singer Axl Rose resulted in Slash leaving the band in 1996 and McKagan departing in 1997 shortly before Sorum was fired. Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum were members of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Slash and McKagan later rejoined Guns N' Roses in 2016. This proved to be their last performance together before Weiland's death on December 3, 2015. Velvet Revolver was put on indefinite hiatus and in November of that year, requested to be released by their record label RCA Records to allow themselves 'complete freedom to go through whatever process it would take to accomplish' replacing Weiland.Īlthough Velvet Revolver worked on new material and auditioned new singers following Scott Weiland's departure, the band has not released any new material and only performed publicly once since 2008, when they reunited with Weiland for a one-off reunion show on January 12, 2012, at a benefit concert. In April 2008, Weiland was fired from Velvet Revolver and reunited with Stone Temple Pilots. The band released Libertad in 2007, driven by the release of the single ' She Builds Quick Machines', and embarked on a tour with Alice in Chains. With their single ' Slither', they won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.

Despite positive reviews, some critics initially described Velvet Revolver as a mere combination of Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N' Roses, and criticizing them for a 'disconnection' between Weiland and the rest of the band. In 2004, the band achieved commercial success with their debut album, Contraband.

The band formed in 2002 and was active until 2008, when Weiland left the band abruptly to rejoin Stone Temple Pilots. Velvet Revolver was an American hard rock and alternative metal supergroup consisting of Guns N' Roses members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals), alongside Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) formerly of punk band Wasted Youth, and Scott Weiland (lead vocalist) formerly of Stone Temple Pilots.

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