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MYSTERIOUS: Velvet revolver - You Need To See This

The unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds

Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground

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“We exhausted ourselves trying to help Scott and be a friend. He wanted no part of that.” The story behind Stone Temple Pilots’ ill-fated sixth album, as told by the band themselves

What was meant to be a fresh start for the grunge giants ended up being the beginning of the end

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From Cream and Velvet Revolver to Them Crooked Vultures and Temple Of The Dog, these are the best supergroups in rock history

Some supergroups just aren't worth the sum of their parts. These are the exceptions

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“The head of LA’s Mexican mafia was in a cell next to me. He passed me a note and asked for an autograph for his daughter”: The hair-raising adventures of ’90s rock icons Stone Temple Pilots and their doomed singer Scott Weiland

“I could not seem to put more than 30 days of abstinence together”

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"We saw the end coming." How the 90s' last big rock band reinvented after their frontman went off the rails - courtesy of one of the best singers in the game

Velvet Revolver's loss was Alter Bridge's gain when Myles Kenendy helped his bandmates shake off the bad taste of Creed

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Matt Sorum believes Velvet Revolver 'could have been as big as Guns N' Roses'

Matt Sorum is convinced his band Velvet Revolver "could have been as big" as Guns N' Roses but it "didn’t last long enough" because the " the wheels came off".

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"It wasn't as big as Guns N' Roses - but it could have been. It just didn't last long enough." A member of one of rock's most celebrated supergroups says things could have got even bigger if the wheels hadn't fallen off

This band of rock icons were a big deal in the 2000s - but could they have been even bigger?

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Myles Kennedy looks back on the time he refused to audition for Slash and Velvet Revolver: “I knew that I wasn’t mentally prepared to jump into something of that magnitude”

After being diagnosed with tinnitus, the Alter Bridge singer/guitarist shot down the chance to audition for Velvet Revolver and their lineup of then-former Guns N’ Roses members

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Previously unheard Scott Weiland song released to mark 10th anniversary of singer's death

Listen to the 25-year-old If I Could Fly now

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“I was ready to go out and really promote the album. But then Guns started to stir and the plug was pulled”: The ‘back-to-basics’ side-project that saw Slash step out of the shadow of Guns N’ Roses – and led to his departure from the band

Way before Velvet Revolver, Slash’s Snakepit were the GN’R guitarist’s first extra-curricular band

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 16-22 includes Pete Davidson and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Nov. 16-22 include comedian Pete Davidson, movie director Martin Scorsese and jazz singer Diana Krall

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“I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics

It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994

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"It's supposed to be like a gnarly fever dream": Noah Weiland releases extremely trippy video for cover of Velvet Revolver's Slither

If you'd like to watch Slash and Duff McKagan kiss passionately in a whirlpool made of money, here's your chance

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“We exhausted ourselves trying to help Scott and be a friend. He wanted no part of that”: the story behind Stone Temple Pilots’ ill-fated sixth record, as told by the band themselves

What was meant to be a fresh start for the grunge giants ended up being the beginning of the end for their classic line-up

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"The management have threatened to arrest me!": Scott Weiland on his furious final days with Velvet Revolver

In 2008, just days before he was sacked by Velvet Revolver, Scott Weiland told the uncensored story of his deteriorating relationship with the band

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"Rock ain’t dead. To who?!" Duff McKagan talks Guns N' Roses, punk rock and how Velvet Revolver proved the haters wrong

From Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to his solo work, Duff McKagan is still a punk kid at heart - with big ambitions

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"I did a Mountain Dew commercial": Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner on making a living as a musician away from the limelight

"You have to be resourceful"

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Scott Weiland's widow Jamie says late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman doesn't get accolades, respect and recognition he deserves

Jamie Weiland insists Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer didn't die of overdose

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"A lot more fun than Chinese Democracy":Supergroup Velvet Revolver mostly live up to the hype on Contraband

Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?

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"Whether it has anything to do with being sober I don't know – but I needed a release": Slash tells the story of his star-studded debut solo album

Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade

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“This guitar has been with me since 1988”: Gibson unveils the Slash ‘Jessica’ Les Paul – a replica of the factory second that has become his go-to stage guitar for more than 30 years

The factory reject became Slash’s main on-stage instrument, and has been used extensively over the years with both Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver

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“I lived with this false hope that Weiland was one day gonna get it together. I kick myself because we let it go on for so long”: how Chester Bennington helped rebuild grunge icons Stone Temple Pilots

The story of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s brief but memorable stint with grunge legends Stone Temple Pilots

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Why I ❤️ Deep Purple's Burn, by Matt Sorum

Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum on the speed of Ian Paice, why drums fell out of fashion, and how Nirvana brought them back

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“I called Keith Richards about doing it. His manager said: ‘Keith has already got a band. They’re called the Rolling Stones’”: the epic story of Kings Of Chaos, rock’s billion dollar supergroup

Featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Alter Bridge and more, Kings Of Chaos are rock’s most high-profile covers band

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Slash teases a new signature Les Paul based on his main Guns N' Roses stage guitar – the “factory second” plain-top named Jessica

“Potential new model?” suggests Slash, but you might have to add your own cigarette burns to the top if you want to make it look exactly like the original Jessica

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