Velvet Revolver

I guess they found a new singer. Before I get into that, a bit of history ....

When Velvet Revolver began, they auditioned a lot of singers. Singers like Buckcherry's Josh Todd, who at the time was not with Buckcherry. Sebastian Bach formerly of Skid Row and Travis Meeks from Days of the New also got auditions, who have both proven are legitimate rock stars. There were a handful of others who either got invited to audiiton and didn't want to go ... or did show up and just weren't good enough. In the end, they ended up getting a very famous frontman in Scott Weiland shortly after STP broke up. Here's what they did right the first time: They didn't go with a no name singer ... they went with a guy that was already proven to be a great frontman.

A couple albums later, lots of animosity, and the departure of their lead singer ... Velvet Revolver is about to make a HUGE mistake.

The rumour as of late is that Slash, Duff, Matt, and Dave are going to hire a guy by the name of Royston Langdon ... he's the singer for Spacehog ... I know ... who is Spacehog? Well they did have that one song in 1995, "In the meantime".



Other than that, I guess his claim to fame was his marriage to Liv Tyler (daughter of Steven Tyler of Aerosmith ... now famous actress)that ended in May.

I'm sure they're going to make great music together if Velvet Revolver does decide to hire Langdon ... but they're going to go from selling a couple million records ... to maybe 100,000. The reason is ... their lead singer is not known well enough. If they would have gone with someone like Chris Cornell (which was rumoured at one point) or Chester Bennington from Linkin Park (who was also part of the rumour mill a couple months back) they would have been unstoppable!!

I do hope I'm wrong, I like Spacehog, I like Roy, but without that lead singer with a rockstar status .. Velvet Revolver might as well pack it up.